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On Arch, is there any reason not to use the packages "stone-soup", "stone-soup-git" or a PKGBUILD derived from one of them? They both work fine for me installing straight from yaourt (or, presumably, your AUR manager of choice), no extra steps involved. Just to be sure, I tested ...

Personally, I prefer to ID items immediately. But in the early game (where currently curses have the most serious, and dangerous, effect), there usually isn't enough resources to ID things immediately, so lugging it around often is the only option. It's pretty normal to pick up an armour that you wa...

It's not mere annoyance. Current curses are a mild annoyance, that's fine, oklobs are a bigger annoyance, that's fine too, they are both avoidable. However, DCSS is very good at not suddenly going "oh and btw you are totally screwed now, haha" -- it tries hard to make your character's deat...

Re: items that refuse to be dropped: I have seen this in MANY games, including ToME2, and it's just incredibly annoying. Whenever it happened, I was like 'FUCK THIS GAME, whoever developed that deserves to be punched in the face.' Even in strongly inventory-focused games (which DCSS is not), and gam...

My PC just died trying to install GIT. Anyone willing to supply the trunk formulas to describe how the following are calculated: Weapon Speed Attack Chance to Hit Damage If you're trying to source dive using the online repositories are better. The Cheibriados clone even let's you search the entire ...

Bloax: Perhaps you should try doing some background tiles. Your preferred style would work great there. For sprites, I totally agree with BlackSheep: Character and enemy sprites, (and in general 'foreground elements'), need to be contrasty and relatively vivid, and no good game deviates much from th...

Of course you shouldn't use auto skilling. I always use manual.

Edit: Actually not. When I upgraded, I thought I transfered all my init.txt settings successfully, but default_manual_training was not transferred correctly.

The skills setup in trunk seems to be FUBAR. For example, I just toggled Dodging training (g) off on my MfCK, and Stealth mysteriously appeared as an option (h; stealth wasn't shown at all until then.) I went into the skills screen because it said my Stabbing had leveled up -- but I never turned sta...

Congratulations! The value of speed is dependent on enemy AC. Speed reduces damage per hit to 90%. Secondary hits (cleaving) are always reduced to 75%, meaning that a cleaving hit on an axe of speed only inflicts (.9 * .75 ) = 67% of the non-cleaving damage of a normal or otherwise branded axe, befo...

BTW, Lua is spelt "Lua", explicitly not "LUA". It's not an acronym but a portuguese word meaning 'Moon'.

To put it more mathematically: the set of randomly generated games/sequences of games includes strictly all possible 'themed' games/sequences of games . If this was not true (-> the RNG wouldn't generate themed games/sequences of games), THEN there would be serious grounds for thinking the RNG was n...

I must confess that all my criticism has been made with the 'undead warrior' image in mind; after specifically looking over the others, I think they're fine. The combination of over-detailing and over-contrast really only afflicts the undead warrior image. While it is certainly true that there are e...

Anyway as I said art is highly subjective and there are no absolute principles that make it "work". It just is :) The artist has a meaning structure and the consumers have a meaning structure, and it's inside that difficult-to-predict interaction between meaning structures that particular...

Oddly, I cannot seem to get monsters to quaff potions of experience, despite being of types (eg orcs) that normally will use potions. So the principle you mention, Lasty, seems to be particularly reliable for exp potions.

That is basically Denzi's art style, pixel art is usually very crisp and personally I think it looks great. Actually that's just a particular type of rendering where everything is detailed and sharp even when it logically must be out of focus or faded. Pixel art is still art, it doesn't get an exce...

No worries about PNGs, it's probably the format I use the most. The problem is that I'm a bit torn on the technique/finished aesthetics as I do pixel art too, so I'm not sure which way to go, the Denzi way or the transmuter octopus way. I guess I'll decide when I have them scanned. Personally I fee...

source/potion.cc:359 indicates that you get enough exp to boost you to the next level if your current exp completion were 0*, and (750 * your_new_experience_level) skill points. * ie. if your current level is 20, you receive enough experience to get you to 21 if you had only just reached 20 and had ...

Wizard mode, use it. Make a throwaway character, create the necessary books and set the necessary skill/ XP levels, learn, and cast away.

BlackSheep wrote:
Lair: D:8-13

This means you've reached the range of the dungeon where Lair can appear. When you've found the entrance, that will change to D:9, or whatever level the entrance is actually on.

Doh, thanks. Posting when half asleep can have silly results

I've been lucky this time round.. at XL8 having 19 AC (part being +5 from a trident of protection) and boots of stealth. Except for food. Food has been more 'hellish'. I've just recovered from a bout with starvation, still have no permafood. As a consequence got into penance by accidentally killing ...

Also definitely true. I should probably worry more about the passive side of being less squishy (IDing scrolls and potions in good time, so I don't pointlessly die with unused unknown life-saving items). Currently my character is consistently raising piety quickly, but still regularly dying due to t...

True. I just tend to be more worried about becoming less squishy than gaining piety. I'm pleased when I find one but I'd rather use it

Thanks

How ironically useful.

Recently my MfHe has been finding vampiric weapons on the floor in DL1 :roll: Naturally this is useless to them aside from piety, but the odd thing is that they're always already IDed as vampiric before I pick them up (ie. I don't use them or see any monster using them, but still they are IDed). Is ...

All the links are broken except the Windows one.
Could you update them?

Thanks, I'd actually gotten most of the way through Lair by the time I read your message but I've switched now. Probably don't need my current L11 in polearms, but only need 1.3 levels in invocations to achieve L20. Just got a spear of freezing so I should be able to get those levels in the Mines. M...

I've finally reached Lair! (oh, and 4th piety level. I didn't even notice until now.) The gloves of +3 dexterity helped me hugely -- and then I found a +4 dex ring as well. I could actually hit things reliably! For a change, I could wipe out stray orc wizard in 6 or so turns, instead of missing half...

Now you may get why I said I'm being too conservative in using piety: I haven't used Greater Healing once yet. From everything people are saying, it seems I need to start using almost everything earlier (run earlier, heal earlier and more aggressively, use wands, scrolls, and even potions in some ca...

It's more a situation where I meet an orc warrior and friends, go down the stairs and immediately meet an orc warrior and friends. Maybe I just need to get better at finding the nearest stairs with minimum damage.

Divine protection is guaranteed if you have enough piety (high-5* range). If Ely saves your life with guaranteed protection it is a huge piety cost. At lower piety it is not guaranteed (and doesn't cost nearly as much piety if Ely saves you), but still much more likely than any other divine lifesav...

Melee brutes like orc warriors, ogres, and hill giants you run away from. They are exactly as fast as you. If they appear as early as normal, the first few will take all day to pacify if you bother trying and they will mash you to a pulp if you attempt to fight them. You need to descend carefully, ...

Yeah :) Previous character (and several iterations after that) have died now. I just haven't figured out a way to deal with Orc Warriors. I can't pacify them with any reliability, it's rare that I get the chance to trap them in a corridor behind a weak monster, they have too much armour for me to do...

Here's where I'm at currently. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12-a0-1225-gd30e116 (tiles) character file. ticfiplir the Purifying Merfolk (Merfolk Healer) Turns: 8608, Time: 01:31:50 HP 62/62 AC 10 Str 14 XL: 9 Next: 9% MP 22/22 EV 11 Int 17 God: Elyvilon [****..] Gold 475 SH 8 Dex 16 Spells: 0 ...

Aha. In other news, my latest MfHe strolled into a vault on DL3 and... http://i.imgur.com/WF7X0.png ... What The Fuck. http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/31048708.jpg I'm rather concerned that if I start wading into them, the occasional one will wade into me. It just seems too good to be tr...

Why would you raise fighting and not polearms? If you're attacking a non trivial amount, it definitely makes more sense to raise weapon skill over fighting. Basically because I thought all the winning healers I've seen have some Fighting skill and some dodging skill (this is not actually the case!)...

My latest run has been a good one -- about double the previous high score. I found Sigmund on DL2, came back later, froggified and then pacified him, and collected his excellent scythe of Venom (probably +0,+3 at the time). This made things SO much easier, being able to poison from a distance. Espec...

Wow, yes, that would have been smart

. That's one of the most challenging aspects of Crawl for me -- remembering to keep up with the current status of everything, instead of just getting stuck into whatever's happening right now.

Keeping your advice in mind, crate, I've managed to reach Inv10 / CL7. Going to try to keep going with Invocations as far as I can in the main branch and go for either Fighting or Armour. Ironically, this run, I haven't even found any Teleport scrolls, let alone needed to use them. Dungeon Crawl Sto...

When did Duvessa change species? Since Wand of Polymorph, 30 or so turns ago. :lol: @crate : that's a good point. I think my inclination to explore the dungeon was getting in the way of me seeing that I should just find the nearest stairs when something beyond my abilities appears, and come back el...

Allow me to clarify: The phrase is there -because- I know it's ambiguous. IOW, it's there because trololo. There's always someone who takes meaning far too seriously. Back on topic, I keep on getting to the point where I have 3 pips of piety, am at DL6, and get trapped and killed by either an orc wa...

More recently, I switched to the git version, which currently has a hilariously difficult idea of what monsters to generate -- but also generates significantly better items (and is way prettier) - hence "Hard Mode". I know some people frown upon this but others will certainly agree the on...

Ah, true. I wish I could say that was why I didn't do it :) Currently going pretty well -- CL5 on DL4, a large stock (35) of poisoned needles but no blowgun, just got access to Greater Healing, Inv @ 6.8 EDIT: ... aaand, dead. Killed by a necrophage on DL5; got trapped between it and a horde of jack...

Rebounds, of course! Thanks for the advice, I'll keep it in mind for the current iteration. In case it's not clear in the above post, that iteration of the character semi-successfully escaped Menkaure, only to be flattened by an ogre in a single hit. (should have used Divine Protection and then the ...

I've been running through many iterations of MfHe lately.. My best IIRC had a trident of venom and died on DL7 to overconservatism ;) (I tend to spend too long trying to find something to chop up rather than eat permafood, and occasionally end up starving to death.). More recently, I switched to the...

Specifically, I search with anything including "healer" and am informed that "healer" was ignored because it's too common. for example, "healer strategy" is the same as searching 'strategy'. Needless to say, the results are not remotely relevant. Could some exceptions b...

Ah, it's nice to be able to play with tiles at a merely slow, instead of glacial, speed :) (glacial being the speed that offline tiles plays at: about 1 turn per 3 seconds, while eating up all spare cpu, and with extremely spasmodic responsiveness to keyboard. Online is more like 4-6 turns per 1 sec...

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