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You are a dedicated adventurer and dungeon explorer, seeking through many reincarnations for new experiences, new creatures, new treasures. But you have dreams - such strange, frightening dreams! - of an alternative world where you lead a weird other life: a hideous life of computers, relationships...

I second this. I can never figure out how stealthy or resistant I am based on the descriptor and end up tabbing out of the game to look it up. For that matter I have the same issue with spell success. Is Great better than Good? At least with spells I can look at the spell power and get a somewhat i...

but I thought mummies dont produce ghosts (being undead) so at least you haven't added to the problem.

if you dropped a large stack of chunks would they rot by the time you got to them? or would the rotting process only start once you reached the new level?

I think so - at least the games that I play on webtiles also show up on the related pages (but I'm not good enough to have a high score)

As for the main tournament the timings were on the main page, further details of scoring etc at

http://crawl.seleniac.org/t11/

A bunch of Populous type spells (anyone remember that classic game?) like Raise Land and Create Wall would be awesome. (I know entomb was removed as a spell for being hax, but I think creating single wall tiles one at a time should be ok). Similarly, might be a Fire Utility to be able to melt walls...

Progress update - 2 new best scores for Deep dwarf (1,525,690) by hyperbolic and Troll by DrkPaladin (153,360).

I have also just noticed AK is the only class that 78291 has never won with!

wasn't aware of doing it - is there an XP potion? 3594 | D:4 | Gained mutation: Your vision is a little blurry. 3594 | D:4 | Gained mutation: You are clumsy (Dex -1). 3595 | D:4 | Reached XP level 6. HP: 44/53 MP: 2/2 that looks like use Iding potions - with a potion of mutation followed by a potion...

At one point in this game I had over 8000 unallocated experience - where did it come from? The dancing weapon was a hostile summon from a deck - but it went down too quickly to be worth 8k+ Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.8.0 character file. 3372 Claw I the Grappler (level 9, 0/71 HPs) Began as a...

Morgue file now included - so you can tell me in detail what I should have done!

XuaXua wrote: use-id scrolls; always point an item-targeting scroll at the wand of healing.

It this to ensure you don't waste a recharge scroll?

Use iding potions is not too bad, if you focus on the ones you have most of - i will rarely Use Id it unless I have 3 or more.

A simple rule would be to allow allies to follow you as long as they are within a certain radius; and there is no enemy in sight. An alternative would be as long as they are next to someone going up/down stairs they go up/downstairs, (and no enemies in sight). Of course you might want to think abou...

I have seen a Jiyva altar on D1 - gave me heart failure.

I have been thinking of a bit of a warm up for the tournament, and come up with the following challenge. this is the list of best scores by character class I have found http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/top-combo-scores.html I hope this covers all the online sources! Some of the best character score...

as an inexperienced player, with a fondness for TrMo of nem, stashing isn't a problem for me - when inventory space is an issue its time to use id scrolls or potions, much of the stuff gets sacrificed, and if I have too many decks I will just use some of them up on the next monster I see. Thanks eha...

The correct tactical choice is to have a plan in place before you encounter a hydra, and then implement that planWhen you decide to enter the Lair, you know that you will have to face hydras. A four headed hydra is the easiest one you will encounter. Hydras are scary, the first few times you run in...

I didn't attack directly as I was worried about giving it more heads - how worried should I be about that?

Being a newbie, I would say A, but only with two brothers in arms. F might be Way Too Dangerous. Was your wand of fire throwing great bolts or small puffs? If it was throwing only small puffs, then using it against a hydra is a Desperate Step. not sure but i managed to knock it into the yellow afte...

The only way that i could see dual wielding working is if the secondary weapon didn't provide additional atacks, but simply provided resistances, stat effects and protection. you might go as far as making swapping between the two held weapons as a quicker action than a normal switch. That gives the ...

A level 11 troll berserker fell through a shaft from lair 4 to lair 7. On the way back up he met a 4 headed hydra. What is the correct tactical choice a) BiA*3 then berserk b) use wand of fire (13 charges) (was actually a wand of flame) c) BiA twice then run for the stairs d) run for the stairs e) s...

Whoever put an altar of Jiyva on d1 behind a door - it had the desired effect.

Find somewhere safe - put it on and see what it does to your spells and evasion. -3 will be slow to get but not too bad, particularly as you found it this early so not too much is wasted. - what is the EV penalty on it?

Grimm wrote:I only found out by blasting wands in desperation at an invis horror that was chewing me to pieces.

Desperation is the mother of discovery (or YASD)

http://crawl.develz.org/info/inline.php?q=milestone use irc to log onto chat.freenode.net and /msg sequell, which is a bot that answers these kinds of questions. If you join crawl and issue the milestone commands to the channel, the whole channel sees the response. Some of the score lists at http:/...

f(x) = log10(1 + x/50) * 200/log10(1 + 750/50) where x = [0,750], as 750 is the value where the function flats out. i plotted scaling_factor*log10(1+x/k) and scaled k until i got something close to the stepdown function. i suffer from acute lack of mathematical OCD: if it works, it works! the squar...

MyOtheHedgeFox wrote:_The Singing Sword makes a painfully high-pitched squeak.
_You are feeling hungry.

_ you butcher the rat

like the log 10 function - what is it? there seems to be some discussion I have seen around using "X^0.something" or "Y^1.somthing else" functions which kind of do a similar job. The biggest gripe is the community. It's just not big enough! The people are mostly friendly, but it ...

so the first 50 points of formula give you 50 points of results but it takes 100 points of formula give you the next 50 (at 0.5 per point) then 200 points to give you the next 50 (at 0.25 per point) then 400 points to give you the last 50 (at 0.125 per point) because with the hard cap you can't go a...

A case of being too cool for school?

galehar wrote:
absolutego wrote:(2) from the bots: "it will take (12 to 25) * (10 / int) * (2^(-apt/4)) scrolls, more if you don't have a full enough xp pool"

Divide that by 2 if you're playing trunk.

OK will wait until v9 go live (or until I accumulate 40 scrolls) before worrying about it for my troll monks!

Summoning: I don't like how monster summoners are able to spam summons so much. Monsters should only be allowed to summon one demon at a time. Vampires should not be able to fill the screen with rats. And so on. Basically I think all monster summoners should be nerfed hard, preferably so their summ...

1) does int affect the amount of MP? - need a few MP for abilities by not interested in spell casting.

2) if you start off as a non spell caster roughly how many scrolls does it take to learn spellcasting 1.

which is why i like TrMo of Nem! cant wear armour, don't need weapons and you can carry anything you need and sacrifice the rest. Hunger! Sacrificing permafood is what gets you decks of wonder. :( You don't have to get decks of wonder, decks of destruction are good as it gives you some range capabi...

TrMo of Nem
MDDK
KoAK (because it had the lowest best score on the web, and was therefore the only one I thought I stood a chance of beating!)
Trwz
decj

What about a slow moving monster with lots of hit points, that has a very noisy (but very weak) attack that slows or freezes. Could actually be a whole series of separate monsters (shrieker spider, glue spiders, frozen spiders) fine to deal with separately, but once you start to go down.... That giv...

MonorailCat wrote:Don't spam a deck of wonders with a Spriggan Wizard. Having 5 Int thanks to shuffle is unawesome.

Do spam a deck of wonders as a trMo after finding 3 useful spell books.

XuaXua wrote:
Grimm wrote:I've narrowed down HUBRIS.

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This is a cause of death.

Fixed that for you.

harsh - but its actually an example of good roleplaying of a dwarf

which is why i like TrMo of Nem!
cant wear armour, don't need weapons and you can carry anything you need and sacrifice the rest.

per the knowledge bots - looks like a whole bunch of useful and semi useful stuff - could be useful as a panic button

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/bots

and enter deck of war and follow the link.

I'm sure I read that apple had to make the shuffle function less random to get it to seem random - I think that was principally to remove clusters of songs from the same artist or album. It is a standard technique for recognising "random" numbers that have been selected by a human - fewer ...

QTQuazar wrote: like fighters, have an alternative caster shutdown strategy.

e.g. a large axe of anti magic?

robotdinosaur wrote:drinking one of 5 potions because you think it is a healing pot in a fight and having it be a potion of paralasis sucks.
that is all.

To paraphrase - the most frequent potion you have picked up is usually health or healing, except of course when you need it to be.

I like the ink idea - fog cloud with range 1 (9 squares big) short duration (perhaps as little as 2 or 3 turns perhaps increasing with levels) on the breath timer - just enough to get a bit of distance from a melee, or to duck round a corner from a ranged. You could argue for a one turn conf or slow...

what is the maximum useful level for throwing skill.

troll wizard is basically a decent hybrid. Troll needs some range/crowd control - wizard is one way of giving it.

Troll wizard is fun - sure the magic develops slower (-3 aps) - but you do have claws as a back up plan, cant wear armour anyway can carry the kitchen sink, and only need to spend points in unarmed and fighting, and can eat anything.

Given some of the scoring stats that appear for the online versions there must be a way to analyse the morgue files into a more useful table of stats. does anyone have some tips as to how to convert the text files into something more useful/tabular. It would be good to have a high score table that s...

1) player ghost summoners will not only summon imps, but also the other low level demons. 2) when faced with a player ghost or unique and down to half your HP is a good time to check for a wand that you didn't realise that you picked up during auto explore. It could be a strong fire wand with 9 char...

from another thread

slowcar wrote:i second the notion, don't leave trog unless you know what you do - which does mean not with this character, most likely.

tele and shout may actually be fun if you are a trbe, (all the monsters come to you, and you may get rescued by a tele) but less so as a spriggan

It would be good to prioritise those that wouldn't see an unexplored tile. I like "auto loot" or "seach loot" or "auto explore loot" where loot is more clearly a noun rather than a verb - and it makes the relationship with auto explore clear.

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