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Sunday, 26th September 2021, 09:17

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Hell Reform (Experimental Playable)

Replies: 25

Views: 15175

Re: Hell Reform (Experimental Playable)

Majang: Perhaps I explained my position badly, but I think you misunderstood it. You claim that "If we follow your or Nebbu's reasoning, any change to the Hells would be open to the criticism that they are either not challenging enough, or so challenging that they can only be beaten by tedium, ...

Saturday, 25th September 2021, 20:49

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Hell Reform (Experimental Playable)

Replies: 25

Views: 15175

Re: Hell Reform (Experimental Playable)

To get some brainstorming about the strategic effects: I do not get the point of "discouraging resting". To the best of my knowledge you can still reset by leaving Hells and grinding down the effects somewhere (like Abyss). 1.) If the intended effect of these strategic penalties to sometim...

Saturday, 25th September 2021, 20:41

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Hell Reform (Experimental Playable)

Replies: 25

Views: 15175

Re: Hell Reform (Experimental Playable)

Majang: maybe you missed that Nebukadnezar knows what (s)he is talking about, he played hells lot of times without a god. To get a good estimate of the effects, he showed that: - it is possible to win with relatively week characters (as (s)he mentioned it would not have been possible with a characte...

Tuesday, 14th September 2021, 12:11

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Ascend a Felid (CIP)

Replies: 7

Views: 3540

Re: Ascend a Felid (CIP)

Banishment needs LOF, so if you place the prism on the path between you and the creature that has banishment, she can not banish you. The prism gives you cover. You can also hide behind summons.

Tuesday, 17th August 2021, 17:17

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

Replies: 151

Views: 200460

Re: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

We only need to attempt more 15 runers to get those. I never went to extended, partially because it is contrary to my Nemelex Combo goals.

Tuesday, 17th August 2021, 12:38

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

Replies: 151

Views: 200460

Re: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

I was not aware that unique hunting is your thing, otherwise I surely would have created some chars to hunt down Ignacio and Dissolution. Next time I will focus on this category more! (I am a Nemelex Combo fun myself. Maybe next time we will win more of those!) I really like these separte categories...

Sunday, 15th August 2021, 23:19

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

Replies: 151

Views: 200460

Re: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

Yes, especially thanks to Moanerette! I am really happy someone setting up a team I can join.

Sunday, 15th August 2021, 20:22

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

Replies: 151

Views: 200460

Re: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

Thank you for being my teammates. It was a nice experience. I tripled my wins from the previous tournament! Unfortunately, after the good start I got some really terrible losses (including one really lame death in Zot), and that got my strength of will, I never won again. It was really good to see y...

Friday, 13th August 2021, 17:34

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Torment - revisited

Replies: 18

Views: 7224

Re: Torment - revisited

From these discussions one would think that berserkers never win with 15 runes, as they have no access to the spells you mention and Trog is not a god you consider against torment. Also, I do not think that most 15 runners push for rN+++ as hard as you seem to think. I personally think that it's jus...

Thursday, 5th August 2021, 22:19

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

Replies: 151

Views: 200460

Re: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

We stil have time - the hardest one to find is usually Ignacio - I think I have never met her! Later on the tournament I may try a 15 rune run if I get a strong character and hunt him down. Meanwhile I had another win: https://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/sanka/morgue-sanka-20210805-220133.txt A Ne...

Sunday, 1st August 2021, 19:23

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

Replies: 151

Views: 200460

Re: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

I would keep it and perhaps distort a whip (or demon whip if available). Antimagic is very good if you do not cast, and you may not want to blink ancient liches. I won an other Nemex combo, this time I think I was the first to win this combination: https://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/sanka/morgue-...

Saturday, 31st July 2021, 15:45

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

Replies: 151

Views: 200460

Re: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

First win, with a Nemelex choice (HuAm): https://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/sanka/morgue-sanka-20210731-153036.txt Highlights: 1. I found Rift in a shop in D5, but can only buy it a little after Orc (all gold from Orc was not enough, but close). Rift + silver javelines are a very good combo. 2. M...

Thursday, 29th July 2021, 18:40

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

Replies: 151

Views: 200460

Re: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

# TEAMCAPTAIN Moanerette I copied the first line of my RC file above. I must missing something stupid like editing the wrong file or something. Also, I used exactly the same line in the 0.26 tournament and it worked. EDIT: I copied the line from adrew's RC file just in case. No luck. Also, I checke...

Thursday, 29th July 2021, 14:19

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

Replies: 151

Views: 200460

Re: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

Yes, I play as sanka. I have no idea what's going on. I have tried to put it into my underhound RC file as well - how much time do we need to wait before I appear as a member?

Thursday, 29th July 2021, 08:41

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

Replies: 151

Views: 200460

Re: Return Of The Tavern Snacks (0.26 flavour)

I have added the line to my 0.27 RC file on Xtahua, but I am still not listed as member of the team on the team page. Am I missing something, or am I missing from your list of players?

Tuesday, 27th July 2021, 11:00

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: 3 acquirements on D1?

Replies: 7

Views: 4658

Re: 3 acquirements on D1?

I had found crystal plate armours and gold dragon armours in D1 before these changes. Acquirement is not so good that it makes startscumming issue worse.

Saturday, 24th July 2021, 17:28

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Nikola - chain lightning 110 dmg

Replies: 2

Views: 1370

Re: Nikola - chain lightning 110 dmg

My condolences. Nikola was always very dangerous. Altough many times he just blinks around aimlessly, sometimes he one-shots you. I frequently carried a staff of air just for the case I run into him.

Friday, 23rd July 2021, 09:47

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Draconian Transmutor

Replies: 10

Views: 7864

Re: Draconian Transmutor

I simply use spider form against hydras. Early hydras are either killed with wands or avoided (they are not fast). Later when you have about ~40 EV, the hydras start to get much less scary. You may need to have good estimate of their damage (watch the number of heads!).

Friday, 23rd July 2021, 09:34

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Spriggan Enchanter and Rune branches

Replies: 13

Views: 5943

Re: Spriggan Enchanter and Rune branches

A Spriggan starts with STR 4 and does armor at -3. Is it worth trying to get to the point of using shadowdragon armor or anything other than steam? I personally would never wear armour with encumbrance on a spriggan. The best armours for spriggan are robe of archmagi, steam dragon scales and robe o...

Wednesday, 21st July 2021, 08:46

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Spriggan Enchanter and Rune branches

Replies: 13

Views: 5943

Re: Spriggan Enchanter and Rune branches

Strangely enough, Majang left out the only effect of spellcasting that I usually train for. Spellcasting gives you spell slots: one slot per 0.5 levels (2 slots per skill level). You can only memoize spells if you have enough slots, each spell takes as much slot as many levels you have. You also get...

Wednesday, 30th June 2021, 20:20

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Do we really need levels like this one?

Replies: 5

Views: 6876

Re: Do we really need levels like this one?

I think there are safe-movements, meaning you only move if nothing is visible. Combining with forced more when something just goes invisible, they allow safe manual exploration if needed. I used to use it, but I am too lazy nowadays and die instead.

Wednesday, 30th June 2021, 20:12

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Dragon form idea

Replies: 25

Views: 10004

Re: Dragon form idea

It's still good when you are running away, though.

Wednesday, 30th June 2021, 17:25

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Dragon form idea

Replies: 25

Views: 10004

Re: Dragon form idea

This answer may have made sense when blade hands was in the starting book, but now? Why would you wear armour heavier than acid scales? Why would you be not in a form when fighting? (Of course seing the poster I should know the answer, but I guess most players do not go Chei. With chei armour is rea...

Tuesday, 22nd June 2021, 11:13

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Dragon form idea

Replies: 25

Views: 10004

Re: Dragon form idea

svendre wrote:dropping Absolute Zero and moving Tornado to ice


Wait, what? What changes are you talking about?

Monday, 14th June 2021, 21:55

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Deep Dwarf Mini-Rework Proposal

Replies: 14

Views: 4455

Re: Deep Dwarf Mini-Rework Proposal

I personally like your idea, it's better than the status quo. I would like the temporal hp version better though, the ui problem does not sounds so severe, in fact it would be much more transparent mechanic. It could work similarly to poison display. Note, however, that this may not fix the big prob...

Thursday, 27th May 2021, 17:34

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: 0.12 HOPr

Replies: 4

Views: 1981

Re: 0.12 HOPr

  Code:
25877 | Snake:4  | Gained Margrim as an ally
25879 | Snake:4  | Your ally Margrim died


  Code:
 34896 | Vaults:3 | Your ally Margrim died


  Code:
 43888 | Vaults:4 | Your ally Margrim died


An other explanation of Margrim's success: resurrection.

Wednesday, 26th May 2021, 16:35

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP: Djinni with Manifold Assault is OP as hell

Replies: 3

Views: 1610

Re: YAVP: Djinni with Manifold Assault is OP as hell

4Hooves2Appendages wrote:Do you get the whole starting book?


Yes.

Tasonir: How many times did you restart till you got statue form on a djinn ??

Tuesday, 6th April 2021, 14:12

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Set armour training min skill to avoid disadvantages

Replies: 6

Views: 2743

Re: Set armour training min skill to avoid disadvantages

There are often a lot of discussion about "breakpoints" in skills, and this always puzzles me. There were past attemtps to "smooth" the weapon skills by evading the current (and past) min delay breakpoints, and I did not understand the purpose. 1.) There are usually an optimum wh...

Friday, 26th March 2021, 21:01

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Questions I should know the answer to at this point

Replies: 4

Views: 4915

Re: Questions I should know the answer to at this point

I personally would not rebrand it - there are no strictly better brands to generate but there is a good chance to get a worse one. A scimitar is a little it week at Vault 3. As a gnoll you could use any demon weapon or eveningstar/double sword if you insist using a shield - none has generated so far?

Friday, 26th March 2021, 17:04

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Questions I should know the answer to at this point

Replies: 4

Views: 4915

Re: Questions I should know the answer to at this point

Aiming the best total of the three defences is not a good metric, regardless of the shield penalties. Shield also slows your attack speed until you have a certain level of skill, which is quite high for tower shields (for normal races). Towars shield slows you more than kite shield. Tower also gives...

Sunday, 21st March 2021, 15:07

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: The true power of Manifold Assault

Replies: 5

Views: 6346

Re: The true power of Manifold Assault

Does manifold assault takes 1 turn as spells or the speed of your weapon? In other words, is it useful for quickblade of distortion or for statue form with dark maul?

EDIT: Ok, I found out that it is supposed to be your weapon delay.

Monday, 8th March 2021, 21:14

Forum: Coding

Topic: C++ vs C headers? Visual Studio

Replies: 2

Views: 18324

Re: C++ vs C headers? Visual Studio

I think you are mistaken. C++ supports stddef.h etc., they are in the C++ standard. The cstdef version just puts the names in the std namespace, while the stddef.h puts names in the global namespace. You may tell us your visual studio and windows version, and maybe somebody could tell you where the ...

Monday, 8th March 2021, 10:35

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP: DsFi of Yred

Replies: 8

Views: 2549

Re: CIP: DsFi of Yred

One good offense is better than 3 week ones. I would not train maces&flails, fire magic and conjurations, and earth magic on the same character until I have one strong offensive option. (I would also focus on defenses for a long time before considering training spells.) Your shield not only gave...

Sunday, 7th March 2021, 21:04

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Can someone explain the 'magic link' mutation to me?

Replies: 10

Views: 5494

Re: Can someone explain the 'magic link' mutation to me?

Well, then I do not understand Siegurt's argument. If you have spirit shield, then 1 mana is always better than 1 Hp, no need to compare attack spells etc, since spirit shield lets your mana act as HP, but not vice versa (ignore poison). The best (for your character) would be to always regenerate ma...

Sunday, 7th March 2021, 20:14

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Can someone explain the 'magic link' mutation to me?

Replies: 10

Views: 5494

Re: Can someone explain the 'magic link' mutation to me?

Doesn't you get a spirit shield at level 1, before the mana link? That means that 1 MP is always strictly better than 1 HP, except when you are poisoned (which is rarely dangerous after D4, where you most likely do not have the mana link mutation yet). EDIT: oh, they changed this and you talk about ...

Sunday, 7th March 2021, 12:59

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP: DsFi of Yred

Replies: 8

Views: 2549

Re: CIP: DsFi of Yred

+ Level 3.8 Spellcasting * Level 9.5 Conjurations * Level 8.7 Fire Magic * Level 8.6 Earth Magic You don't know any spells. Your skill choices seems a little bit strange to me. Also, your acid dragon scales and the kite shield were very questionable equipment choices. A +6 flail is also not a good ...

Sunday, 21st February 2021, 13:05

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Undead Necromancers

Replies: 18

Views: 12879

Re: Undead Necromancers

I have a hard time understanding your position - it is a little bit unclear what would you think would be beneficial for the game. It seems that you have a special character in your mind (MuNe who kills most enemies by necromancy spells) and you could not build it? 1.) You says that there should be ...

Friday, 19th February 2021, 15:25

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: New EV function gameplay feedback/discussion

Replies: 33

Views: 10368

Re: New EV function gameplay feedback/discussion

I think you underestimate base damage: you need a pretty big difference for a halberd to catch up with a bardiche at 26 polearm skill (with reasonable strength/fighting skills). For example, at str/fighting 20 (polearms 26), an unbarnded +0 bardiche is just marginally worse than a +9 halberd of flam...

Tuesday, 16th February 2021, 21:27

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Some god nerf proposals

Replies: 9

Views: 2685

Re: Some god nerf proposals

Well, the -10% is flavored as powering the ancestor, so I guessed you do not get it till you do not get the ancestor.

Tuesday, 16th February 2021, 15:58

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Some god nerf proposals

Replies: 9

Views: 2685

Re: Some god nerf proposals

The fact that some characters are strong enough so they do not really need a god does not make the ability less strong. The problem is exactly that you get a strong ability immediately upon joining, compared to other gods who only give the ability at 1*. (And I am personally would move very strong 1...

Monday, 15th February 2021, 13:33

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: Speedrunning: looking for new ideas and an invitation for ev

Replies: 6

Views: 20562

Re: Speedrunning: looking for new ideas and an invitation fo

Thanks for the answers! I most likely do not really get the "great(er)player + polytheist" category: do you actually need to win every race/class just to take part (get a score)? This means an awful lot of time to get a score (even if you do speedruns), so my problem is that in this catego...

Monday, 15th February 2021, 13:23

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Some god nerf proposals

Replies: 9

Views: 2685

Re: Some god nerf proposals

I like your Gozag proposal, and thanks for letting me know of the Nemelex update, sorry for missing it. I disagree with you about Hep, -10% HP does not counteracts the ally on most races. A permanent ally lets you freely disengage from most opponents, this alone is very strong and worths more than -...

Sunday, 14th February 2021, 12:44

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Some god nerf proposals

Replies: 9

Views: 2685

Some god nerf proposals

I'd like to propose some minor nerfs to some gods (apologies if in the quick trunk development some of these become obsolete, please let me know!) 1. Hepliaklqana *immedietaly* gives you a permanent summon upon joining. This is too strong in the hardest part of the game. I propose to only give you t...

Sunday, 14th February 2021, 12:28

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: Speedrunning: looking for new ideas and an invitation for ev

Replies: 6

Views: 20562

Re: Speedrunning: looking for new ideas and an invitation fo

One more idea for speedruns:

DUHZ speedrun: do a DUHZ (Dungeon->Dpeths-> 3 Hells -> Zot) speedrun. You are not allowed to enter lair/orc.

Similarly you can create different "challenge" speedruns, but I think DUHZ has realtively straigthforward rules and can be interesting.

Sunday, 14th February 2021, 12:18

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: Speedrunning: looking for new ideas and an invitation for ev

Replies: 6

Views: 20562

Re: Speedrunning: looking for new ideas and an invitation fo

Hi Lici/EnegeticOcto, Your speedruns were really impressive, congratulations! 1.) I would like to ask you something I do not really get about real time speedruns. There are bots that can win crawl on its own, and then the realtime speed of the game just depends on the speed of the machine which runs...

Sunday, 14th February 2021, 09:45

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: New EV function gameplay feedback/discussion

Replies: 33

Views: 10368

Re: New EV function gameplay feedback/discussion

Spriggans and Felids definitely become much, much less annoying to play at high levels. Yes, they were strong before and they are even stronger now, but the gameplay at least become smoother. But how this change affects other EV relying characters? Merfolk, Kobold, Halfling, Deep Elf? Is a dex-focus...

Saturday, 13th February 2021, 14:08

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Undead Necromancers

Replies: 18

Views: 12879

Re: Undead Necromancers

I am not convinced that MP recovery is a real issue outside of ziggurats. Even if sublimation of blood would be some kind of requirement, the fact that undeads are not able to cast it then would be an actually interesting limitation and differentiation between undead and non-undeaad, similarly to fo...

Saturday, 6th February 2021, 16:09

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: EV stepdown got removed!

Replies: 8

Views: 7578

Re: EV stepdown got removed!

What I would be a little bit more interested in is are there any visible difference between such high EVs? I mean, I can feel a difference going from 20 to 30, and also when going from 30 to 40, but not that much when going from 40 to 50. Is it because almost all monsters has around 5% chance to hit...

Thursday, 28th January 2021, 16:28

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: spells with "interesting" targeting

Replies: 12

Views: 4452

Re: spells with "interesting" targeting

The most relevant comment from that thread is the analysis of the new fire magic spells by bt: 1. Foxfire and starting FE book in general While Foxfire is fairly interesting to use and deals good damage for a lvl 1 spell, the drawbacks make it really awkward to start a run with. You can't use it in ...

Wednesday, 27th January 2021, 10:54

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Tomb seems somewhat extreme currently

Replies: 7

Views: 6941

Re: Tomb seems somewhat extreme currently

I think 0.16 was the only version with shadow traps? I am not 100% sure.
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