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Buying potions or shops from Gozag costs two thirds the price with faith.

And for Ice and Air Elementalist's sake; can we please get an (a)bility to disperse your own clouds? (Or a low level Air Spell to disperse them?) Hitting "5" to wait for your Freezing Cloud to clear so you can continue isn't fun. There's a god for that . Even better, just move out of thei...

Crawl 0.16 will be comprised of a single room containing the Orb of Zot and an invisible Orb Guardian.

You're welcome.

There's been some dev interest expressed in removing corpse sacrifice from most gods altogether (Fedhas, I believe, being the exception).

Even when it was around in game, it still capped at 27 skill.

Hi all!

As various parties work on getting cdo's automated trunk build system up and running again, I'm going to try to provide occasional trunk builds in the meantime. Look over here for the goodies.

The skill boost is no more; it was replaced by a chance to distract nearby creatures on their actions.

File200 wrote:Chei

Don't do this. It's extremely painful to play.

TheDefiniteArticle wrote:During design and implementation Glaciate's damage output was intentionally balanced to be less than that of Ice Storm

False.

See above.

cszo and cbro have it in trunk right now; other servers should follow shortly.

Go play some ranged characters.

Especially with throwing. I hear it might be good now.

You can only displace a cloud when you are not standing in a cloud.

You were standing in catlobe breath, and you were warned about entering the cloud...

Also, getting rid of the dazzling and confusing light show is part of the point of the exercise.

In other news, you now generate as much noise as you'd expect to make up for less thunder clouds.

The reasoning here is a bit complicated, so bear with me for a bit. You may have heard of the ranged_combat branch , currently playable on cszo and cbro , in which I'm working on rewriting the entire ranged combat system based partially on the melee combat formulas. One significant aspect of this is...

Clouds only ever generate 1 or 2 tiles away from you, and with increasing piety, the density of clouds increases and not their radius. This seems close enough to my original ideas that I think I'm going to give it a try; except for the small radius, this is already how it works anyway. EDIT: Now pl...

reaver is part of our Code Refactoring Brigade, basically.

DCSS is flawless right now. Any attempt at reform is therefore meaningless and should not exist.

"I don't like that this race can't do this one thing well, so change it."

Is that accurate?

What architecture is your system running on, and what are the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list right now ? 0.10.3 isn't even in our own repositories any longer (the latest 0.10 version is 0.10.4), so either it's not pulling from our repository or there's something preventing the relevant package ve...

We have a thread for this already.

A couple of adjustments I just made (you could be playing with this god on the gods branch of cbro right now, for the record): you can displace your own clouds, and clouds don't generate on firewood (this should solve some of the residual autoexplore / spamminess issues).

Have you seen this? It doesn't seem like you have.

Random idea: turn it into an active ability with some form of timeout (one at a time; if one dies it takes a while for another to be callable?).

No mention of kobolds yet?

I've just updated the Debian repository with 0.14.0 and the current version of trunk, for those paying attention to this thread.

giovform wrote:The idea is to allow some weapon brands (or all if possible) to be evocable and its power linked to evocations skill.

Why? Having evocations be a no-brainer for everyone is a terrible idea.

I first remember playing Crawl on a student club computer in 2006 or so, at the height of my NetHack mania. I never got very far with it (I think I played one character, a MDFi who made it far enough to worship Xom). Six years later, shortly after picking up NetHack again and winning every possible ...

That is grunt_ashenzari_visionary.

(You can thank |amethyst / neil for giving me the idea to have it display which Lair branches you get; it originally just showed you random things.)

Rare, but possible (they're on the Swamp spawn table and one of the rune vaults places one sometimes).

and into wrote:And more smoke bleed than usual

Correct; it triggers on every hit.

Shadow form sucks! It costs a lot of piety! It drains you! Reduces your damage output. And gives what exactly? Plain invisibility. It also gives you 50% damage reduction and immunity to hostile enchantments . This is clearly spelled out in the ability description. The invisibility is just icing on ...

you gain piety by exploration Ashenzari already does this, and I'm not sure it fits here. your movespeed is increased by 1 Boots of running, swiftness, etc. Gust (activated ability, costs 5-10 Breath timer) pushes monsters at least 1 tile Force Lance / fan of gales / the wind blast ability of some ...

Now with Elemental Force as an active ability.

I also nudged the name (rip "the"; thanks to roctavian for the suggestion).

I don't think we're looking for an either/or; we want ideas that have good and bad effects at the same time.

Ashenzari: AH-shen-ZAH-ree Beogh: BEE-augh Cheibriados: CHAY-BREE-ah-dose Dithmenos: DITH-men-us Elyvilon: ELL-ee-vill-un Fedhas: FED-hass Jiyva: JY-vah Kikubaaqudgha: KICK-oo-bah-COULD-gah Lugonu: loo-GO-nu Makhleb: MACK-leb Nemelex Xobeh: nem-ell-ex ZO-beh Okawaru: OH-kah-wah-ru Sif Muna: siff MOO...

Is it a haiku?
Well, no, it was not a haiku.
This, however, is.

It seems the major concern that basically everyone has pointed out about this is that piety gain based on elemental kills is problematic and possibly scummy as written. For the moment, here's an implementation with plain piety-on-(collateral-)kills pending a better method of piety gain. There are a ...

Bloax wrote:Merfolk javelineers could use being less overpowered.

I suspect this will come with the territory of my ranged combat rewrite.

DracheReborn wrote:Well, that's because it is based on Lava Orc.

No it isn't.

I've been tinkering with this since shortly before the tournament began, mainly to explore the species design space in a few ways that haven't sufficiently been explored before that I think have the potential to be an interesting game experience - namely, what can be done to balance an (initially) s...

What permasummons?

Let's rework staves of fire; we already have flaming brands.

Let's rework staves of cold; we already have freezing brands.

Let's rework staves of air; we already have an electrocution brand.

What makes this specific case so special?

Here's an alternate version of the god which grants Elemental Servants as a 3* ability - you're gifted up to four servants, one for each element, sort of similar to Yred's undead servants (complete with recall). It could probably use some further refinement re cloud interaction, and something to di...

Tiktacy wrote:Natures summoning

I can't picture this working - your storm clouds basically preclude having any significant degree of ally play without some degree of work to have them avoid clouds. I suppose it's possible, just tricky.

For those of you not overly distracted by the tournament, I'm in the process of implementing this . If a better *** idea comes forward, I'll probably use that, but for now it is Elemental Barrier more or less as written. Storm Shield is always active, but clouds are set up to try to spawn in such a ...

Rep Henry Clay wrote:How do I learn patience?

Wait for it.

dck wrote:haste

reasons:

zooom

At least until you turn into an ugly thing from all the glow.

TeshiAlair wrote:Aside about Android: I got JuicySSH on my phone. Crawl everywhar I go. Awwww yeaaaah.

I see I'm not the only one to have discovered this.

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