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I think a problem with Polymorph is that it shuts down enemies with equipped weapons (and particularly ranged weapons) a bit easily; as a Centaur earlier today I ran into an Orc Warrior who had a bow. I polymorphed it over and over, stepping away every other turn. It became a dwarf, a centaur, a hum...

Scrotar wrote:Does anyone want to actually listen to constructive criticism?

No-one has said anything that should discourage you from offering constructive criticism.

Also since we're adding merit to a pointless topic, why do orc sorcerers have staffs in tiles if all they ever carry are maces, axes, and hammers? Would it be too deadly to allow them to carry quaterstaffs after some point? Both to bring the tile a little more in line with reality and to allow anot...

This comes up a lot, and it occupies the strange space of being a good idea and a bad idea at the same time. The main problem is that it's a net negative for the player. Knocking an enemy back is fine sometimes, but stepping toward an enemy will give it a free hit on you. This is worse in group situ...

XuaXua wrote:Spriggan's Shield

Either made by spriggans or made for spriggans or made with spriggans or made for someone named Spriggan, this shield is too large for Spriggans.

Only a baked baker could come up with an idea like this.

What about armor ego types that could be evoked to turn you into different forms? Statue, dragon, and lich forms are all a bit overpowered; ice form would be a little too much like wearing a ring of ice. But I think it would be awesome if you put on a cloak and whoops! It was a cursed cloak of the b...

Another alternate to the "magic dampening" concept is something that simply absorbs miscast effects (be they from miscast, zot trap, glow, whatever) and bestows temporary -Cast or saps MP at the same time. I would really, really love to see ricocheting sling bullets. This is an existing br...

I forget which thread someone mentioned it in, but the game could definitely handle some more brand/ego diversification. One thing I thought of was something like "magic dampening" as an armor ego, which would protect against "Glow" status somewhat: it would "absorb" ne...

When people say they've played Crawl some finite number of times (thirty, a hundred, etc) it makes me pause for a minute. I feel like I can play about a hundred games per hour. That's not playing seriously, and it's obviously not a way to succeed at the game, but it's entertaining to fly through the...

The confusing part if tentacle tiles is that they curve around many more ways than you need to worry about for angled/connected bolts. But if you use them for a guide, and stay within the dimensions and connect in the right places (respectively the red box and green lines in the following example im...

Is that small electric tile being used for both shock and lightning bolt? I submitted it intending that lightning bolt keep the old, larger tile. Oh well.

I heard the survey had about 5000 respondents, which is what led me to ask the question.

I started playing in '08 on and off, but I can't remember what version it was. I lived in a house with a lot of people then, and we had our computer hooked up to a projector; I didn't read spoilers and I splatted countless MDFi and SpVM around D:5 or so. Most of my roommates couldn't understand what...

This is on CYC because I have no idea where else to put it, and also because I don't know if this information can be found somewhere already. I also realize that there are a lot of ways to define the "crawl community" but I'm not not looking for anything specific, I'm just curious. How man...

I feel like some of the older gods should have some creation myths themselves. Not all of them. I doubt Trog ever made anything.

Besides all that, I'm excited to see this one get some work, though the flavor of contentious abilities definitely needs more consideration.

XuaXua wrote:Reaching on whips, which should be a new weapon called a Long Whip, instead

XuaXua, generally I like to be supportive of any and all ideas here on the Tavern, but this is a really dumb idea.

I like the addition of the pickaxe to the Orcish Mines entrance quite a bit! I'm also glad you have that custom tile for Elf stairs. I plan to make new wall/floor tiles for Elf at some point in the future, and those stairs could really set the scene for the new tileset.

I don't know about that message log tile, if at the very least because it's centered kind of strangely. I kind of feel like it should look like some sort of list or otherwise resemble the in-game message log. Like, lines of pixels as faux-writing on black, most of them white or perhaps light gray. T...

Currently I'm running a DsCj of Vehumet with hooves, slimy green scales, powerful demonic guardian, powered by death, and robustness. I always like hooves, and slimy green scales aren't necessarily bad. I think they should confer rPois earlier in the stages of mutation, as I didn't gain rPois until ...

I love player-monster symmetry. "The octopode shouts!" is my new favorite bit of Crawl text.

In that case, it'll only be a problem if the player is color-blind and also illiterate.

The teleport icon confuses me because it resembles the old staff of enchantment too much. Not really a huge issue, but I feel it could resemble the teleport trap more. IMO, the teleport trap should be made to resemble the new teleport icon -- I will probably make one that does. We're moving toward ...

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crate wrote:Wait brilliance gives a power boost that is not the same as the int boost? I never knew that.

Sometimes the wiki is right.

Even a broken clock...

I know little on the coding side of things, but I think that should be possible. Weapons can be displayed in different positions on the tile, which is why you sometimes see Yaktaurs holding axes in front of their faces -- the weapon wouldn't fit within the tile otherwise. Multiple items can be shown...

Generally, monsters that use player doll tiles are undesirable. If we were to replace PC tiles with any other shape, we'd run into the same issue of re-drawing every piece of equipment in the game as comes up every time someone suggests differently-shaped halfling or troll or whatever tiles. Re-draw...

From the veto list, I think it actually could be fun to have a unique rod with Sticks to Snakes that turns back into rod form after it's done being a snake for a while.

I disagree with the idea that players who spend time hauling items back to the lair gain any in-game advantage. Items are as safe as they ever need to be if you leave them on the floor right above you, unless you're worshiping Jiyva. Stashing shit on Lair:2 wastes food and turns, which isn't a huge ...

I have to say, I love to make tiles, but just thinking about trying to do this makes my head hurt.

(I still might make better-looking player draconian heads someday).

We could re-color the existing reflection icon?

I started to write the suggestion to mess with the levels/contrast to make the shape of the spider legs more apparent, but then I just did it. I like your work! I recently suggested making new tiles for Cocytus to another contributor; the ones I submitted a little while ago leave something to be des...

I was going to come in and say that the inventory shares its tiles with certain floor tiles, and that any graphical edit to the inventory will also affect certain floors. But then I looked more closely at the inventory tiles and I don't know any floor in the game that uses that graphic -- if not in ...

how about calling them Sludge Dwarves? Seems like that's a flavor that works with a lot of the mechanics proposed here.

Because it's the most intuitive way to tell the player "we do not intend you to go rushing down other branches immediately." It works well because it shows up early, frequently drops the player into a room full of enemies, and often has a threatening entrance vault in D -- thematically, no...

I think I'd personally like to see lava that is mostly black with only a hint of brightness -- more like this than like what it is currently, but that aesthetic might be hard to express in Crawl. I'd suggest shifting all the lava tiles more toward the red/orange end of the spectrum, with lava monste...

I don't necessarily think they look too bad, here's another sloppy mockup to show. That said, different colors might not be a bad idea. What color are ants in console, anyways?

I also realize that I just posted a picture of a honeypot ant and not some kind of queen ant, but you should all read about honeypot ants because they're cool anyways.

Kinda, it's the queen tile and I was going for that egg sac bottomed look. I'm actually not that happy with the tile, if you think you can do anything with it, please do.

I actually made a new ant tile a little while ago myself, was waiting to batch it with some other monster tiles I've been working on.

I think things are as consistent as they need to be -- currently, most tile submissions are by dd, myself, and ontoclasm, and all our work is compatible. That's incredible! I didn't expect dd to adopt my dwarf-style equipment and didn't think he even needed to, but there it is. I saw ontoclasm incor...

I quite like those as well!

I think that's a pretty good outline of what to go for! I think it's better to aim for darker floors/lighter walls because that's often more pleasing to the eye, but that's certainly no rule.

What about maprot? It's a heavy suggestion that the region is not worth the time exploring in detail. It would also keep player attention/memory on the location of the stairs more, making the hunt for them more interesting.

I've got a couple things in the works on that front.

Catbread, here's a suggestion for something to try: new wall and floor tiles for Cocytus. I made the ones that are currently in the game , and I'm not so crazy about them anymore -- these are relics from before I learned to make mock-up models myself. The topmost row of tiles (for harder stone walls...

This is typically where the pizza argument comes up, but knowing how many people hate the presence of pizza in the game, I don't think it's useful. Oh well.

Is Leda's Liquefaction destined for a unique? In any case, Naga mages might make good use of it, especially in open layouts. I was thinking something like this the other day: I'd love to see a sludge elf unique with Leda's show up at some point. In terms of how vaults work, is it possible to make v...

I preferred that puffed/muffin-like shape to the bread, there's nothing anachronistic about it. Bread puffs up over the edge if you bake it in a pan, and I think it gives the tile a distinct shape. It did need to be lightened, though.

Whoa but what happened to my challenge race with only a 5% chance to win? We need that d20 roll in there.

I definitely know how hard it is to introduce depth when you're working with really tiny images, it's always trial-and-error. The tweaked version looks great, and I thought that perhaps I'd illustrate a couple of things that work for me: 1) Zooming out and look at your tile at native resolution, fre...

I like it quite a bit! One thing to experiment with is adding depth by making some parts of the tile much darker, and then adding more mid-tones between the dark portions and the lighter ones. As far as making shapes goes, that robe is all aces.

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