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I have had ice focused characters that use a few fire spells, and vice versa. There is even a synergy between conjure flame and freezing cloud. However, it's usually a bad idea to train both skills. Aside from the XP penalties, the spells are designed so there's a lot of overlap. Air/Earth are diffe...

There were not as many spiders around in general as I feared there might be - could be more? Thanks for the feedback. I've experimented a fair amount with the numbers, and am fairly happy with how they are right now (I did increase it a while ago). The number of enemies you get is of course highly ...

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mumra gives good advice. The behaviour described in the OP sounds strange to me. Post the whole vault and someone can figure out what the problem is if it's an obvious one.

Stormfox wrote:I'm just imagining how much steam would be generated by starting a forest fire on such a map.

Forest fires only affect a small region. You can't burn down an entire map with just one. (but in any case - the answer is a hell of a lot of steam)

Let me mention just once more that instead of reducing a branch to one level, or two, we could keep five (say) levels but have them all pretty smaller, e.g. 1/4 of the current size. Good idea. Swamp is definitely a good candidate for that. 1/4 might be a lot though. Also just reducing the size isn'...

Halflings and kobolds are pretty similar yeah. The main difference I see is that halflings are more fun. I think this is because I don't like low HP races, and the slow metabolism makes food a less annoying issue (kobolds also have an easy time with food, but you have to eat more often than halfling...

Going a bit back to the original topic: My opinion is that if you want to make the midgame harder, you should cut from the midgame and leave the parts before it relatively intact. If there's less safe XP/loot to be gained in the midgame, people might do lair branches earlier for XP and loot. And saf...

Is Vehumet going to receive some other buff then? I think he'd fall to the wayside even more if he lost the ability to support summoners. I recall reading a proposal to change Vehumet in such a way that he gifted individual spells, I think that's a great idea and enhances him thematically, but I'd ...

... Generally when I do enjoy science fiction ..., it tends to have a more philosophical ... angle to it. I'm not really into "straight" scifi ... stuff, although I read it sometimes. Sounds like you could have fun reading Stanislaw Lem. Yeah, although I wish I could find decent translati...

Spider branch makes me think of somebody getting dragged off into the darkness by a gigantic spider, clawing at the ground as littler spiders swarm all over them. But there isn't really a "drag kicking and screaming" mechanic in the game. Also, this might just be me and my spectacularly d...

If you want some non-cliche fantasy, try David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus . There's no book like it. William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land is written in a very clumsy way but has some wild ideas. It was a major influence on Lovecraft. Again, utterly uncliched. Thank you for the recommendation. ...

It works with any monster that has the "web sense" flag.

mumra wrote: - Strategic placement of web traps which of course trigger nearby spiders to rush in

This already happens, in fact. Nearby spiders can sense when you're caught in a web.

Just thought I'd post an update here: Yesterday I pushed an experimental change which increases the number of dangerous spiders (ie not vanilla spiders). HP is lowered a bit but overall things are harder. Numbers are up by about 25%. "Experimental" is the key here - the numbers were tested...

One thing that there could be more of is minivaults - there are currently a lot of "normal" vaults (ones with ORIENT line) but not a lot of minivaults. Last fall I put up a bunch of little vaults, including 3 spider minis. They've been left to wither it seems like and I could revisit them...

Maybe a bit small for a branch ending. Keeping the difficulty high is good too, since this is guarding a rune. Compare other lair branch endings when it comes to difficulty (and don't be afraid to make it harder than the currently existing Spider ending, if you feel like it). I'd suggest using ston...

I don't have a TV and never have had one, but if I had I would be watching this series. I hope I'm not missing out on too much by just reading the books? In my opinion the tv series is a lot better than the books. This is not something I say often. Usually adaptations leave something out, but I thi...

Does it even need more rune vaults? Snake had just one vault for a very long time. It's not super high priority but I'd like to have at least two. One is enough for the time being though (especially when the overall threat for the branch end is still being worked on). how's dis NAME: nicolae_spider...

minmay wrote:Does it even need more rune vaults? Snake had just one vault for a very long time.

It's not super high priority but I'd like to have at least two. One is enough for the time being though (especially when the overall threat for the branch end is still being worked on).

stuff Could you tell me which server you were playing on? (Even better, go ingame and press ?V, then tell me which version it is) Lots of small changes have been made to the branch recently and I think cao is still out of date. Knowing which state of the branch your feedback applies to will be help...

I also think there is room for another ranged/"caster" enemy, but I currently have no ideas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitting_spider Interesting animal, although I don't think poison spit would be good. Nagas do this already. The new moth enemy should change things up a bit, although...

I like the Spider's Nest too, I think it has a lot of potential. Right now, it's kind of easy, and also kind of same-y, since it's mostly "get trapped in a web, get poisoned, bitten, repeat". Hopefully that'll improve with more varied creatures, stuff like orb spiders and ghost moths put ...

Hell Effects do not care about you. They happen when they feel like happening, and you cannot delay them for your convenience or provoke them for your masochism. After the last Hell Effect, the next one could take place next turn, or it could take place a few hundred turns from now. This is wrong. ...

Also two things that haven't been mentioned: 1. Blowgun enchantment (NOT needle enchantment) works like throwing skill (in that it increases the chance of needles having an effect). A +9 blowgun is a good thing to have. 2. Needles like sleep and paralysis are an HD check. Monsters with low HD are ea...

HO already has lower penalties for metal armour (it has to be orcish but there's more orcish plate around than regular plate). I like the "reverse ogre" idea, but I doubt it's enough for a new species, and would rather give it to an existing species. Not HO because they're already biased ...

If you use abilities a lot you will get fewer decks (except for the first ability, which only costs mp). It's better to draw normally from decks. Even better if you're doing it blind. Triple draw is pretty expensive and also wastes 2/3 of the cards, so that's a lot less towards your piety and gift t...

Something to keep in mind is that you can max out armour and shields a lot easier than you used to. Armour especially was difficult to train to 27 in the days of victory dancing. Nowadays it's easier for everyone, so I'd argue high apts aren't as important. 0 and +1 are both good, and +2 is better.

- Dungeon 27 -> 14 - Lair, Vaults 8 -> 4 - Orc 4 -> 3 - Slime 6 -> 3 - Shoals, Snake, Swamp, Elf, Crypt, Zot 5 -> 3 - Hells 7 -> 4 (not sure this is a good idea, unless I also increased the Hell effects potency) - Vestibule 1 -> 1 - Tomb 3 -> 3 - Abyss and Pan are NaNs - There a few others as well ...

But still you undercovered an important point, should Crawl have (easy access) options to help people with medical conditions? Like a default big font/gui option for myopics or color enhanced for colorblind and brightness/gamma correction. For cases of bad vision, your monitor and operating system ...

They already do that pretty effectively (killing Cerebov with freezing cloud is hard if you don't have a bolt trap). How does a bolt trap fit in with freeze clouding Cerebov? There was an AI bug where cerebov would refuse to step over a bolt trap, and just stand there (even while dying to a cloud)....

No mention of Kiku? I used to devote DD casters to Kiku a lot. DD are winnable with kiku. Makhleb just makes things much easier, because he gives the best "healing on kills" boost, of all the gods that heal you. With kiku, you'll need to watch your HP carefully and if you do get damaged, ...

AS someone who is not on the mailing list nor can check his mail or access IRC until the evenings, can you reiterate evilmike's post here, or is that not an option? I want to send these to a single source, and I picked the mailing list for a reason. I'm not going to post these anywhere else. If you...

Grimm wrote:I haven't looked at the code so that's my impression based on my experience. Abyss used to be a death sentence for me and I saw maybe two exits total out of twenty or thirty trips; now I almost always escape. Something's changed for the better.

You're probably just better at crawl now.

absolutego wrote:but is it really as terrible as minmay suggests? or were you talking exclusively about the spell there? (because yeah that would be terrible.)

He was talking about the spell.

Increasing the damage is probably unnecessary though... draining does reasonable damage if you don't have any rN. What about damage to monsters? It's considered a weak brand, even when dismissing the XP penalty. Increasing the HD reduction might be enough to boost it and in a more interesting way t...

Counter proposal. Make draining temporary, both for monsters and players. Increase the damage and/or the HD reduction but HD is recovered (less scummy). The XP penalty could be completely removed (have the XP value based on initial HD, not current HD). For the player, 1d3 skills are drained for a t...

njvack wrote:Well... the top-tier Necro spells could, in principle, keep working for lichformers.

Yes, but it would be a major inconsistency with ghouls, mummies, and bloodless vampires (with ghouls being a slight exception, being allowed to use regeneration).

so to be clear evilmike you'd be more of a fan of necromutation being more of a toggle spell? As for the proposed idea.....what gameplay effect does the phylactery have? I mean basically what i'm reading this as is- Make lich form permanent but require randart to cast. Not saying i'm completely aga...

I've heard this idea before. Can't say I'm very fond of it. Necromutation, as it currently exists, is an interesting spell. You gain some nice temporary resists and immunities, in exchange for being shut off from the some of the most powerful emergency spells (which you will have access to if you ha...

I would really like it if the damage output for spells was known. While the wiki tells me that Iskenderun's Mystic Blast does "up to 2d28 ", and Throw Icicle does "3d20 damage at max", the entries for Lightning Bolt and Poison Arrow and Conjure Ball Lightning don't tell me jack....

Most the crawl tiles are public domain (according to license.txt).

I've linked to threads on wiki pages I've wrote, and it works well. All the discussion happens in the thread, keeping comments on the wiki page limited. People are still free to post them but they tend to be important stuff, rather than small points. I didn't tag them with [WIKI], because there wasn...

I almost always train spell schools over spellcasting. When I need more spell levels, I'll pick up a bit of spellcasting. I'll also train it a bit if I have food issues, and stop whenever my food consumption rate feels managable. However, this all tends to mean that my spellcasting skill is usually ...

Definitely worth having a listen. It sounds like Crawl dev comms disorganization is a growing problem. It's a problem but I don't see it as a growing one. It's just part of how things change and progress. Each time a new medium of discussion is added, communication gets a little more... fragmented,...

It would seem the early stages of the dungeon have become a great deal harder in .1, am I crazy? Some of it may be because of increased medium armour AC, but I will also see ogres on floor 1, and other crazy stuff. It's 0.10.0, not .1. (unless you're playing a version of DCSS from 5+ years ago) As ...

Crawl had a map rot mutation once and it was awful. It's not coming back. Same goes with amensia traps, and scrolls of forgetfullness, and orange crystal statues that make you forget the map. These were all bad features, and crawl is a better game without them. Randomly forgetting spells is also a b...

evilmike: All good points. Can you estimate how many tiers the Glow indicator would have to have? Using "Glow" in various colours and perhaps *, ** and *** suffixes would go a long way. It depends on how important glow becomes, really. My main worry is this: Lets say grey glow is still th...

An easier solution might be to use glow for buffs, and change some of the glow thresholds/penalties (so that hitting the first danger threshold has some more minor negative effects like stat drain, and then the second danger threshold would be where mutations can start happening, for example). I th...

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