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I see two solutions to the interface issue. One I know has been suggested before, the other may be new: * Make rocky and sandy blasts two separate spells, which overlap in slots like Fireball/Delayed Fireball. The stones can either fire from inventory (slight balance change - I don't know how signif...

A common objection, seen in this thread and elsewhere, to a holy branch is that it'd be too arbitrarily cruel to undead/demonic characters. So here's a question: why not just make holy monsters less arbitrarily cruel to undead/demonic characters? Holy wrath and cleansing flame being particularly pun...

A god of limited carrying capacity (like 26 slots) sounds fairly interesting, and I think actually has been suggested before. It also might make for an interesting species feature. I can't see how a god that encourages filling up your inventory would be at all fun - that's just what players do norma...

Again, I agree in principle -- but what you're suggesting does require some degree of re-balancing, since I'm pretty sure the proportion of XP in a typical game from after-generation spawns isn't trivial. Making the super-OOD spawns into durable summons shouldn't: Siegurt's right that they do occasi...

Just remove OOD spawns. And remove/drastically reduce the other spawns. Running into OOD monsters that you don't even get any XP for killing would be just beyond frustrating. Again, the point is why punish a player for going slowly by giving him unwanted fights. It just makes a slow game even slowe...

Why are the anti-scumming OOD spawns real monsters, and not durable summons? As mps said, there is indeed a tension inherent when the thing that's meant to punish scumming also rewards it. But this at least can be trivially solved. I may be wrong, but it's actually quite possible that the reason tho...

Umm, first of all you need to be killing actual monsters to get experience. You can't just sit there casting the same spells over and over again, you need to wait for the dungeon to generate monsters for you or your summons to kill. Even if you try to do that though, you'll pretty quickly suffer a p...

Well what Sandman25 is saying is that, if you have an empty non-weapon slot and no way to ID the item or remove the curse yourself, you *would* just try on every item you find - you'd risk having a cursed item for some time, but the guaranteed risk of leaving the slot permanently empty would be wors...

This idea sounds ridiculously nasty to unarmed fighters.

Here's a simpler suggestion, combining things already said: remove or massively reduce the occurrence of remove curse scrolls (yes this requires adjustments to Ash), and make non-Ash sticky curses expire on an XP or exploration timer - personally I think a proportional XP timer is fine, i.e. it cost...

so then why give them the wand instead of potions? healer doesn't start with a wand of heal wounds I suspect two reasons: * Item destruction: When this existed, it would have meant that your average orc wizard could knock off something like 1/5 of your healing ability in one shot, frequently. * The...

Well, distortion can be calculated - it's only a few cases, and it's the same for all weapons. As for sometimes-triggering brands, I edited my post for what to do about that - show the average damage per swing. Chaos could also be calculated, though admittedly its non-damage effects wouldn't be cons...

Regarding showing the damage of brands: why not just display the average brand damage (against non-resistant monsters) in a different color of + on the same line? That should be pretty intuitive, showing that this damage is of a different type, and therefore may work differently (for resistance, AC,...

Or you just ignore the details and move on. It's not like the exact percentages matter. This is exactly the problem. People are doing this. But 'ignoring the details' is leading to them imagining that a -1 aptitude is a lot worse than it actually is. Another option would be to get rid of the number...

IIRC part of the reason for the original change was to force aptitudes to be more discrete. I gather that's correct, but personally I don't get why the display has to be changed for that. The devs can definitely just say "These are the aptitudes we're using, deal with it" to anyone who st...

Let's make it really confusing and set an aptitude to be 100 for 'normal' with lower numbers meaning better aptitudes and higher worse. In all seriousness, when the old system was being replaced, was the option of inverting it and getting rid of the factor of 100 ever considered? Then a 'normal' ap...

That sounds like a godawful set of special cases. Well, there a lot of different monster types/movement patterns that can in fact make these traps much more dangerous. How about a depth-dependent summon cap for shadow traps? That wouldn't entirely get around the issue of early bats but it'd help a ...

If reflected projectiles are marked as such (and if not, they should) then they should be excluded from your conduct restrictions, since you have no responsibility for what the hell the thing you reflected is or what it does after it is reflected. I don't think anyone disagrees with this statement,...

I'd say that stat regeneration should just be XP-dependent, instead of turn-dependent, for all species.

I'd recommend just sorting by file size. While it is true that shorter wins may get higher scores, wins and near-wins are almost always readily distinguishable. Automatically deleting morgue files that aren't in the high scores sounds like a bad idea. There are plenty of reasons one might want to ta...

Try toggling Number Lock.

Obligatory plug for using the vi-keys.

I'm guessing the reason randart weapons don't get protection is that, back when randarts could have AC as a random property (0.7-), protection would have been redundant with that. There isn't a comment in the source code to that effect, but that's not surprising since protection isn't specifically e...

Bikeshedding issue here: A serger (called an overlocker outside of North America) is a type of sewing machine. Admittedly I know a lot of people who sew, but reading the name just makes me think of the machine, not a powerful god of arcane might.

What is to be done about double prompts at XL 6/12/18/24? Asking the player twice what stat to boost is inelegant. Choose one stat, get +2 to it? One solution would just be to move around what levels they get stat boosts on. Or perhaps better, just give them stat boosts every level and slightly ner...

I would point out that golems are usually non-living (and always are in Crawl), so renaming demigods to golems is going to generate a lot of questions as to why they don't have the all resistances that the few remaining golems have. So renaming them to that is probably a bad idea - player/monster sy...

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Re: remove stone usage from sandblast...

Re: A New Angelic Branch

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Re: End monster spawning

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Re: Learning Spellcasting - Mummy

Re: Making Curses Interesting

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Re: Changes to make Crawl harder

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Re: Remove mummies' stat regeneration

Re: Auto-purge morgue of chars files not in highscore list

Re: An annoying 'movement' feature?

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Re: Serger, Chaos God of Spellcasting

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