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I risk being ridiculous in the eyes of tealizard, and make my attempt at answering svendre seriously. In svendre's post there is a good argument for removing the XP penalty, but it is well hidden behind completely unrelated rant. I think the actually good argument is this: There are two cases: the X...

"assume no significant training in any spell schools" they won't cast anything past 1\2 level. I think by "assume no significant training" they mean no existing training. So they ask which spell would you train for. The requirement just tries to abstract aways from the fact that...

Wands stack in the inventory, but it would be a little strange ( and a small buff) to be able to buy charges individually. Not that I would mind it.

Magipi wrote:Ultraviolent4 has a video series about a 3-rune TSO game, check that out if you don't believe me.

Giving it a second thought it may just strengthen my point. After all, Ultraviolent4 is unlikely to make a video series about "here is how to win MiBe 3 runes" level things.

My problem was with Angels/Daevas that they seemed to require high invocation and even then they are expensive and TSO piety gain seemed to be too slow to be able to use them frequently. But maybe I should try TSO again one day.

Streak or not, taking a D2 TSO because you plan 15 runes is not a good strategy. TSO is a very weak god before extended. Switching later is way easier if you want TSO for extended than surviving till then without a good god, and this does not change just because both is relatively easy with a troll....

For a Troll it does not really matter to get a god early, so if you enjoy Oka you could easily get it even on a streak even if it only spawns on D9.

Thanks. Probably forgot to ask an important question: does *Rage triggers on riposte? (It have not triggered so far,but I have not played with it that much, things usually die before they reach me.)

p - the +8 demon blade "Leech" {vamp, *Rage +Rage rN+}. I found Leech. I do not have any weapon skill currently. How good is this weapon now? How do you use *Rage weapons? Simply avoid them? Only switch to them when you do not mind berserk? Seems really annoying to use. (By the way, do yo...

I personally hate damage brands everywhere else as well. I hate switching between weapons, it is not an interesting deceison, it just slows down combat for no meaningful reason.

I think that the number of items should be cut down for other reasons than inventory management: too many items cause a cognitive overload, and takes your focus away from the game. But that said, I think there is a relatively simple solution to the inventory problem. Similarly as spellbooks does not...

damerell: I do not really get this logic. How is dying more often makes it less likely to die in quick succession? That is, of course you can permanently die with two deaths or live with 8 evenly spaced deaths, but if you actually died earlier your chances to permanently die (by two quick deaths) ar...

Maybe I misunderstand something in the OP. I did not see that the required XP to restoring revive is necessarily tied to the character XP. A better solution would be to simply base it on the number of previous deaths: with 0 deaths it is cheap, with 8 deaths it is expensive. So it is clear that not ...

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I would never enchant a shield, AC is much better.

+4 flaming scimitar This is a weak weapon for Vaults. I do not like shields that much especially because it is hard to find a good one handed weapon, and if you are unwilling to enchant up an inferior one (so you will have your scrolls for a demon kind), then you got stuck with a very weak weapon f...

But for AC/EV the breakpoints are more often not at integer values.

I think your weapon speed example is not correct. When your attack speed is not rounded for your skill level, the attack speed seems to be randomized for every attack according to your skill - higher skill means higher chance for a lower speed. You do not get an extra max mana point 20% of the time ...

I think it can be ok if you constantly swap it according to the situation: archmagi is powerful, but -hp hurts. I never used it because I hate swapping.

It was fun, and appropriate for holidays, when I do not wish to play that seriously. Thank you! Actually, the challenge is not always easy. On my first try I did not start with fighting skill (big difference!), started with only spellcasting skills and no spells (but a wand of flame). I never found ...

My Secret Santa gave me the following challenge: Christmas draws near, but disaster looms! The elves have gone on strike, and corporate overlord Santa needs help. He's contracted you, for a fair wage of course. Play as Santa's Little Helper, a GnWn of Gozag. Break the strike and retrieve Santa's toy...

Could it be used to make streaks with only seeded games? Or the game at least records that this is a seeded game? How can I query only non-seeded games? (I guess few people play seeded games online, but just in case...) Or maybe seeded games are not recorded?

I do not talk about recent changes, I do not feel they changed the difficulty much. Long streaks were pretty common a long time ago. Most players struggle to win, but there are different kinds of difficulty. The game being opaque about key mechanics does not help beginners, as well as being very lar...

I think it is not just the players become better, the game also become easier, and I think mostly in a good way (although I personally do not like some ways in which it become easier).

That's because Naga has high AC and HP. Stair-dancing with Sp/Fe/Ko/Ha would not be a great idea, especially if they are slow due to taking the slow option and thus it takes more auts to use stairs. Also in my experience Na cannot rely on stair-dancing anyway, stairs are too far often. I think you ...

With naga I tend to stairdance more than with other races. I am not convinced that would help, although decreasing speed by 0.1 could make the game better in other ways.

Also I believe it is not off topic in this thread, shafts are trying to solve a problem which does not exist in games with explicit difficulty levels i.e. to make the game not-so-boring for experienced players. At the same time shafts create problems which are not present in games with explicit dif...

The problem with hailstorm does not hitting adjacent places is that it is already good to not let monsters next to you most of the time and you can avoid it at the same time with degenerate tactics. So it just leads to a lot of tedium for monsters that you could have let step next to you with throw ...

In this case, however, we're stuck with a "feature" that cannot be ignored. Yet the question remains what it does to make the game interesting. I reject the notion of a perfect player, unless google's secretly been doing machine learning on crawl no player is close. I honestly do not real...

Fundamentally, what do shafts do to "make the game more interesting" that you couldn't do by intentionally moving into bad situations? Whenever someone proposes to remove a bad feature like a broken spell or god or having upstairs, somebody proposes: why don't you simply ignore the featur...

Zhorgal wrote:In a place like Depths or Zot it could be the death of me.

A trap in a place where it could *not* be the death of you is quite pointless, isn't it.

Gnolls cannot use transfer knowledge. Transfer knowledge is not a strong ability - do not feel missing out on something, for many other Ash characters it is also compleletly useless, and it is very week even for those who actually benefit from using it. Ash's main powers are the skillboost, monster ...

From the point of view of this proposal the Vaults lock does not matter at all, so I did not want to address it: the proposal works with or without the Vault lock. It is a separate issue. I personally see absolutely no point in the Vault lock, since the only thing it accomplishes that it prevents so...

duvessa: I am not a speedrunner, but I always thought they distinguish 3-rune and 15-rune speedruns? Then this will just create a new category, 0 rune speedruns, which is way less interesting, yes. Shorter game yields better gameplay for long streaks but worse for speedruns, I think. Nekoatl: I do n...

Proposal: Start the game with the gates of Zot open, and only lock the gates of Zot if the player enters any branch other than Dungeon and Depths (or Zot itself). Then it can only be opened again with 3 runes exactly like now. If the player enters Zot without a rune, all other (except Dungeon, Dept...

Sorcerous: My main problem with your position is that you do not assess duvessa's proposal. You just talk about general game design philosophy. Maybe you are not aware that crawl has an explicit design philosophy written down, available in the game (?N) and your position seems to be in opposition to...

Well, I think the correct play would be to skip Orc and continue the dungeon. It is very unlikely to throw you anything similarly dangerous. Paralysis is very dangerous here, because you are an octopode relying on evasion, and because you are at a branch entrace, so there is only one stair and you h...

I personally would stop training spell schools. I may train a little bit of spellcasting later instead: you spread over many schools. I would train a lot of dodging and some fighting. The trident is indeed very good, so sooner or later I would train it to min delay. Later get a shield and train it a...

Random ideas: 1. Summons should disappear immediately (or very quickly) outside of your LOS. This would reduce kiting for stationary summons a lot and I think it would make summons better in general. 2. If you want some movement reduction (supporting ranged combat), you could create a new summoned p...

duvessa: I am really not an expert on these spells, but I believe your analysis. However, isn't a logical move would be to make the spell more dependent on spellpower? It does not sound hard to come up with a formula.

As a start, we could remove confusing touch's dependence on HD.

With melee octopodes I also suggest training (way more) dodging. Octopodes have good melee damage against most enemies because they can constrict. But they have bad defences. Fighting is useful, too, but they do not get enough HP from fighting skil, but get much better results from dodging. With a m...

I personally would wait for the crystal plate armour. I think that would be very good for this character (if it is not negatively enchanted). I would spend all enchant armour scrolls on it. It is strange that you have not found any plate mail, though - your chain mail is not very good, being only +1...

On most characters, I personally identify scrolls first, at least until I have blink, teleport and fear identified. I found those more useful to save me than most potions, and I also think that I have a smaller chance to find good potions than these three scrolls.

Or do not generate stat-sticks...

As an example, I think that resistances should only occur on items that are slow to change, so you do not need to swap them according to the enemy.

deaths's door > Revivification > Infestation >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Necromuation In my opinion, the strongest one is death's door. Invulnerability is good. You need to use it correctly though. Revivification is also strong. At this stage of the game (these ...

Learnig a second school of elemental magic is almost never worths it, as all of them has the same purpose: turn your mana to damage. It is especially pointless with earth, since it does good unresistible damage and has the best level 9 spell for 15 runes. Learn fighting/dodging, summoning, necromanc...

Uhm, it seems I forgot to register in time :-(

According to my initial attempts I would not have scored a single point though anyway...

Thanks for the cool challenges!

If anyone plans to do something like this then she should not implement max/average/min etc. functions separately for each expression. Instead, write a new type representing distributions that implements all operations you need to build distributions (like sum, multiplication, etc.), and all operati...

As long as the main idea of "HP is a strategic resource also instead of just a tactical resource" is maintained. I guess you know but this exactly is the assumption that simply does not work in DCSS, which is full of non-threatening monsters. If HP is a strategic resource, then there is a...

Another reason to remove spell hunger: if the reason for food is to be a clock that requires you going forward then food consumption really should not depend on your build type, that is, casters or warriors should need the same amount of food. While you may argue that melee also cost food or that ca...

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