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For anyone else who runs into this, I solved this problem by using ~k to set a key's binding back to itself, and then ~m to clear the macro attached to that key. Don't ask me why this works.

Ugh, my sympathies bro. Must've felt bad to see it get quit like that. DId you get any details on the player, like did they screw around before quitting, or was it a ninja thing?

It's not just 12 hours blown here - DgEE had 72 previous attempts before this character finally made it to XL27. Only to be control-q'd by a miserable griefer. Whatta world... It would be a shame to turn a round-robin account into an invite-only deal, but if this griefing is allowed to continue, it ...

Aethrus wrote:What would be fun is a God who uses piety like a fighting game style super meter. Piety decays rapidly outside of combat, builds up during fights, spend it for secret techniques and super moves.

What a hot concept

Yeah I agree it might be confusing to have a rechargeable equipped item, I was kind of just spitballing ideas to balance it... The ideal gameplay use I have in mind for an item like this would be as a non-escape panic button during a fight that's not going your way, say a powerful unique or Depths v...

We don't need to use analogies to Nethack to see how this mechanic would work - the Illusion card already does it. It's just that most players don't bother with cards or Nemelex because inventory management. One thing I'm not clear on is how Evocations skill affects the strength of the Illusion card...

I really like the mechanics of illusions in crawl. On the enemy side, we have Rakshasas, Mara, and Mara's hostile illusions. On the player's side, there are Phantom Mirrors which allow copying enemies, and the Illusion card which copies the player character using ghost code. However, both of these a...

Let the games begin

I only recently got my longblades skill up to a decent level, until that happened I was using the bow more than would be optimal for ammo conservation.

The more Heroism I use, the slower I get Okawaru gifts. Plus in my mind this was a fight that "shouldn't be too hard." And it wasn't hard. Just irritating.

I captured a screenshot that sums up my thoughts about ranged combat. -Multiple shots have caused no damage (this is normal for crawl, but ranged combat makes it so much more obvious than normal) -monster has closed to melee distance with 9/10ths of its starting health -High ammo mulch rate (I took ...

You're right. Old learndb (crawled 29 Aug 2014) claims... Fighting without a weapon. Base damage is 3 + UC skill (+2 per claws level (so +6 Tr, +2 Gh), +X for forms); delay 10 - UC/5.4; +2 to hit (+4 Tr/Gh). This delay is increased to max(10, 1d10+2dAEVP) - UC/5.4 if wearing heavy armour, plus the u...

According to learndb, max(0, 1d10+2dAEVP-10) was added to your attack delay.

Can you please link me to where you found this? I can't find it in current learndb.

The simplest way to check the speed of an attack, at current skill level, is just to use control + direction to swing at an empty square and view the time it just took to do it, in parentheses after the Time field on the game screen. But of course you want to know how it all works. So here we go... ...

That's possible. (The muts were my fault. I doubled down on purple to try to get rid of bad muts and made them much much worse.) Maybe they weren't aware that zerk only triggers when you make melee attacks. However, this does make two conjurers in one day that were either quit or gimped by a mysteri...

Obviously on a robin account some people will play better than others. But I'm having a hard time imagining the thought process of the player who converted my DECj to Trog while in Lair, completely gimping it. http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/comborobin/morgue-comborobin-20150901-111338.txt I'm inclined ...

Berserk is really, really good. Maybe a little too good. Slow and exhaustion and hunger aren't enough of a cost if you know how to use it carefully. Similarly, clarity is really, really good. Maybe a little too good. Unintentional berserk from enemies like moths of wrath is already blocked. Yet some...

Slightly off topic, but I wonder also if searching "armor" could be special-cased to return results for "armour." I know Crawl is standardized to Australian English, but it's a very common search term, and a possible source of confusion for new players.

I definitely won't play any stupid mummies (or octopodes, felids, formicids). I can see your reasoning for avoiding these races, but if you want to win with Xom, you might give Formicid another look. Their innate stasis blocks Xom's most irritating trick, his habit of teleporting you at the worst p...

I've won three Jiyva characters, all of them troll monks. Not very imaginative, I know, but it works. I don't screw around with worshipping other gods first. Trolls are strong enough in earlygame that I can just play as an atheist till I find the Slime Pits entrance and hope the altar spawns there. ...

I took a felid into a treasure trove and got a manual of throwing, totally useless for my cute stubby paws.

I thought troves weren't supposed to generate unusable items?

I've often wished that the game had a skill you could train to marginally increase MR+. Just like high Dex helps evasion, maybe higher Int could be the determining stat for the skill. No idea what it could be called though.

I really, really love the idea of making the dungeon destabilize upon the Orb being seized. Right now the only thing that happens is that new monsters spawn. IMO there should be a chance of seeing lots of other "fun" effects as well. Here are a few suggestions. -Holding the orb causes incr...

These are certainly mistakes. Encouraging a player who just died to not panic, take a step back, evaluate things, possibly make some changes and not try to overcome what just killed them is better play. Of course it's better to not panic, step back and evaluate the situation. This is exactly what I...

The best change I ever made to my rcfile was to include

Code:: autofight_stop = 60

to disable the tab key when my hp is less than 60%. The default value of 30% feels way too late to start wondering whether mindlessly tabbing is really a good idea. I would recommend this change to just about everyone.

This is an interesting proposal. Seems like certain Felid builds could find it pretty useful for ditching gods like Xom, Nem or Sif, and retaining their gifts of useful muts, evokables and books. I have some questions about the implementation though. You've called this a straight buff to felids, but...

Yeah I concur. The difference in XP barely registers. I think it would be much more of an issue if the length was reduced in Vaults or Depths, where XP is much richer.

On the other hand, new players might expect enemy undead to rot and expire in the same way.

Thanks for this new chart. I understand you're trying to get a sense of which races/backgrounds are better for streaking, assuming high player skill. But I'm not convinced that limiting it to streaks >= 4 really limits the sample to "optimal play." Sure, weaker players are going to be less...

I think you may be in deep trouble regardless, but my plan would be: walk W, dig SW, walk SE. From here you can take on enemies one at a time. Quaff might, get Heroism going, and fight.

This information is interesting and I like the visualization. But I wonder why you limited the data to streaks of 4 or more. There are about as many 3-streaks as 4,5,6... etc- streaks combined. And 2-streaks add up to more than all the rest of the others. What is your reason for not examining the re...

I can envision some awful situations coming up with a heal-on-exploration mechanic. Imagine you've cleared Lair, Orc, and up to D12, but the last fight on D12 has taken you down to 20% of your max HP. No way to heal without dropping down to D13 and exposing more tiles. You descend, and are one-shott...

If Ely piety generates fast enough to sustain that all game, it's no longer meaningfully limited for characters who don't need to spam minor healing in/after most fights, unless minor healing is effectively free. Yes, but you could say the same for old Ely. Under the previous rules, a Deep Dwarf wh...

It seems to me like the changes to Elyvilon make it extremely difficult for Deep Dwarves to worship her effectively. In my current game, I started out a DDEE and began worshipping Ely in Temple. I was doing OK at first and by mid-lair I was at *****. Never again would I see piety that high. As I beg...

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