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Rather than tying Lugonu to translocations (it's not very thematic), I'd quite like to see the god get some of the shiny new things suggested here, in particular being rewarded for altar desecration (although it requires god wrath to be reworked first).

Monsters don't pilfer your loot while you're not on the floor.

What's wrong with allowing the player to put stuff in it? No container interface and more places to stash. Seems good to me. You can already safely stash pretty much anywhere you like, adding chests as a way to guarantee your items are safe from monsters seems unnecessary (and players would then wa...

I'd say stick with simple messages ("You see/hear/smell a something-or-other. The entrance to a <portal> is nearby!"), the really cryptic ones just result in players getting confused and/or looking up spoilers.

Marvin: Is that an argument for or against marking chests implementable? Also, when we're that close to having the feature, we should find some good places where to use them. Neither really, just noting that the desired chest-like behaviour can nearly be achieved already - I think the existing shop...

This seems like it'd be quite close to possible already just using the shop specification that due recently added. For example: NAME: treasure_chest PLACE: D:1 KFEAT: s = general shop name:MarvinPA suffix:chest type:treasure \ use_all greed:0 ; orb of zot | demonic rune of zot | scroll of acquiremen...

You don't really need to worry about the Staves apt (it only really factors in for attack speed, which is obviously useful but you only need 12 skill). A good way to train Evocations to 14 is the main thing. I think the first time I got enhancer staff combat up and running properly was with SpEE of ...

Hellfire completely ignores rF (and AC, and EV). Glad you survived it, anyway.

Teleportitis and berserkitis is worse than teleportitis.
Teleportitis and slow movement is worse than teleportitis.
Teleportitis and slow healing is worse than teleportitis.

etc etc

I have no idea what all those tiles monsters are, but Balrugs don't have hellfire. It could smite you, though. I'd suggest healing too, anyway. Assuming you're wearing fully ponderous gear, don't take a step anywhere if there are still monsters on screen, unless you fancy getting hit 5 times in a si...

There's some discussion on the wiki here as to how chests could maybe be implemented.

kipponium wrote:Halflings are small and so cant wear plate-mail, and even if they could i'd stick to robes as they have a much better dodging aptitude than armour.

They can wear plate mail just fine, it's just large shields and weapons that they can't use. But yes, they should stick to robes.

The ammo brand always takes priority over the launcher brand.

Also double posting is probably fine since this forum doesn't let you edit your posts for long (or something, I don't know exactly how it's set up).

minmay wrote:Graying out challenge/bizarre species on the selection screen is a great idea. It's immediately obvious to new players what it means.

I've heard a lot of people say that when they were new, they thought grey items on the species/background selection screen were banned entirely.

Also, "you sense the presence of a powerful magical force warping space" should appear on every character, not just those with Translocations skill. It does, now. Agree that maybe a -cTele status light would be good (at the very least it should show up on the % screen, I can't count the n...

Nope.

I was planning on removing them at some point soon if nobody else does, yeah.

There's a wiki page with some discussion on this idea, too.

There's some really early vaults that contain Guardian Serpents. I think they're patrolling, though, so if you teleport away they'll go back to their position rather than hunt you down and kill you horribly.

Elven weapons are up to +2 acc, dwarven weapons are up to +1 acc, +1 dam (and +1 AC on armours).

[15:34:15] <Henzell> encumbered[2/2]: Encumbered: Bad. Don't be that ghost.

TSO's abbreviation is "1", supposedly, with A-Z for the other gods. Just DGHIPQRUW to go!

Oh okay, I was thinking of the Mu vault. I'll look into randomising the others, perhaps.

"Your opinion is wrong."
"No, your opinion is wrong."

This is a silly argument. Wizards are good and Ice Elementalists are good and the caster gods are good and can't we all just get along.

The Tar ones are probably the only really worthwhile usage of secret doors in the game, since they're randomised and you can't just search for free because of hell effects.

They don't generate anywhere yet, it's just the armour that does. It's rN+.

If you look up the branch descriptions with ?/B it tells you which ones have runes.

It did something ridiculous like make you completely invincible but drop all your inventory, I believe. Something along those lines at least.

I like the ideas on that page, but I read one thing that disturbed me - magic mapping is being changed to no longer show areas behind secret doors? It hasn't shown secret areas for a while, I think. I like the idea of having it reveal secret doors but not the area behind them (especially since it's...

szanth wrote:...? Does it?

It makes you less likely to pass out. Doesn't affect the food cost though.

I got an elephant end vault in Lair:8 - I thought the elephant statues were supposed to turn into live elephants? Did I miss something? I burned my way in to one dagger that was locked in by trees - it was a dagger of draining, whoopee. I magic mapped the area but nothing extra showed up. Now I rea...

Silence has a lot of special cases - the basic guideline is that demons and other things that cast spells as an innate ability (rather than being an actual spellcaster) can cast just fine through silence.

No. The current formula is: If d(damage) > 2 + 3*mutlevel (or dam >= hp/2), you regain 3d(2 + 3*mutlevel) MP.

Removing Archmagi's wizardry effect sounds sensible (but have it boost power for all spells, since it's sort of arbitrary that some are unaffected currently). I also agree with reducing Tornado damage (but restoring it to pure air, hopefully). We talked about making HP from fighting depend on specie...

You found Lehudib's Crystal Spear? Let me know if it's actually any use, I have a feeling it's still probably weak (was tempted to boost it to +8, +8 just to match the spell's level).

The fact that Trog is powerful and has a huge effect on your game is really one of the reasons to keep him as a starting god. Makhleb is also powerful but doesn't define your game in the same way at all - anyone can pick up Makhleb and benefit from him, whereas Trog completely defines your game from...

XuaXua wrote:Heck, I just found a treasure trove on level 10 which requires a Horn of Geryon to enter. Is that portal going to disappear? Not sure. Am I going to get that horn before it does, if it does? Very unlikely.

It won't disappear.

In theory it's useful to reduce your LOS so that you'll have less enemies in sight chasing you, smiting you and generally being nasty. It also means you're less likely to spot the exit though (unless you worship Ash).

Poisonous Cloud is great for ages and ages, definitely pick it up (don't bother with Venom Bolt). Probably wait for Poison Arrow rather than Iron Shot, and don't bother with Mass Confusion (generally there's not much point investing in Hexes unless you're a stabber or want to abuse Tukima's Dance - ...

TwilightPhoenix wrote:I've also had Sigmund on D1 on a couple of occasions, though that hasn't happened in a very long time. Maybe it was a bug since I've never seen uniques generate on that floor?

Uniques don't spawn on D:1, so that'd be a bug.

yeah, kill Dowan, teleport, come back when she has cool down. That's cheap. We should fix this and give Duvessa the berserk spell when Dowan dies. I think when the twins were added she was deliberately only given a one-shot berserk to avoid being too mean. I am almost tempted to agree that she coul...

You get huge unarmed damage output (claws boost to base damage + hooves/talons aux attacks + horns aux attacks/antennae), and still get the same number of tier 2 and 3 mutations. Think of it as your Demonspawn turning into a Troll except with good apts and mutations.

It was a hacky fix to the bug where autoexploring while berserk let you stay berserk the whole time you explored, I think.

I don't see that there's any particular need to have a race with a high staves apt just for the sake of it. Most races have a -1 or better apt with staves, which is perfectly fine if you find a good staff (which just means a lajatang of speed, really, but that's a separate issue).

Angels/Daevas cost more piety in trunk, so you can't get away with just spamming them and having them do all the work (hopefully). As long as you have decent power abjuration and a way of doing lots of damage (dispel undead, holy wrath weapon) then Tomb's not too bad if you're (very) careful. Altern...

DemonOfWrath: You should check out the changes in trunk, a lot of the facets you mentioned were tweaked. Breath weapons were removed. Horns and Antennae correctly remove your headgear slot when they hit level 3 (they were supposed to do this all along). Iridescent scales now give less AC compared to...

I'm not sure where this myth that every class starts with the same amount of XP distributed between their skills comes from. Each class just has an arbitrary number of skill levels (based on Human aptitudes). For example, fighters get 3 fighting, 2 weapon skill, 3 armour (or 3 dodging if they're a r...

I'm not even sure what I was wrong about and what I was right about any more. What is a war axe? We just don't know...

Flight card does transform you too at high power sometimes, actually.

But yeah, there'd be no prompt, so that could be the reason as galehar mentioned.

War Axe: +0 accuracy/11 damage/160% delay/1.5 hands
Broad Axe: -2 accuracy/14 damage/160% delay/1.5 hands
Obsidian Axe: -2 accuracy/14 damage/160% delay/1.5 hands

Code:: NAME: obsidian axe APPEAR: bloodied obsidian axe OBJ: OBJ_WEAPONS/WPN_BROAD_AXE PLUS: +12/+15

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