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but eventually they find themselves crippled because they spend much more experience on getting high level spells castable. The whole point of mutations is that you have to adapt your strategy. So, maybe you wanted to get OOD, LCS for foostorm as soon as possible. So, you adapt and postpone that go...

The weak point of the proposal is that every long blade character will always use the claymore and never use anything else because outside of pain/elec brands there is no compelling reason to ever use any other long blade. Assuming for the sake of simplicity availability of both weapons (which are ...

Why would you explore (auto or not) the temple in a speed run? If your concerned about wasting turns, don't explore the temple. There is absolutely no issue with varying temple size.

I've updated the spreadsheet and the wiki with a new formula. Speed is linear, and there is a (delay+2)/delay introduced to make slower weapon gain more speed from skill. Seems like it's getting closer. Demon blade is more competitive, claymore only catches up at level 15. However, damage difference...

No. He is The 1.

What is making Lamia and Polyphemus spoilery is that they have stats which don't match their base type. Lamia's were way off and I think that was the main reason for its removal. Polyphemus has indeed mostly the stats of a stone giant. Maybe the description could be more precise about the fact that ...

Siegurt wrote:Come up with a list and I'll submit a patch for it. (No guarantees it'll get in

I think it would. Sounds like a good idea to me.

high scores are not pulled from morgue files. Surprisingly, they come from a file named "scores" in your save folder

Please take away xp gain from training dummies. Actually, I'm pretty sure the whole point of the 1XP is to make autofight target them. Of course, training dummies have been designed for tutorial. I'm not sure what's the point of putting them in normal crawl vaults. If they are there just for decora...

How about Devs finally cave in and simply add meaningful traps? How about you come up with a great design? Also, we did. In the last few versions, cloud traps were added (although, they have been disappointing) and pressure plates too (better). We've almost completely removed the meaningless ones a...

Nope, he's not there. Better report it. He's been buffed recently, so that's probably related.

duvessa wrote:I still think sticky flame should prevent scroll reading for its duration, instead of destroying them.

Good idea. Although I do wonder if it should also keep an on hit destruction. Well, it's probably not the right place to ask that, anyway

XuaXua wrote:Unfortunately, it seems the skill descriptions do not.

You can submit changes to skill descriptions (or any other description) through transifex.

Somehow, the GDD sticky was missing a rule against multi-topic threads, so I added one: Don't make a single thread for discussing several unrelated topics. Such threads usually degenerate quickly into several discussions and are very hard to keep on-topic (since there are several topics). If you wan...

I don't think it's at all obvious that better fighting skill mean more hp. True, which is why it's explained in the manual and the skill descriptions. And the fact that stuff's explained in the manual is irrelevant. Nobody reads manuals. Crawl is a roguelike. People can be expected to read descript...

Most of those things are also stated in the skill descriptions. Although some more explanations in the skill menu of tutorial and hint modes would be good.

duvessa wrote:how did this train wreck of a thread reach page 2

I did my best to provide constructive criticism and explain the design process. Obviously, it's been a waste of time. Locked.

Concentrating on flaws is not going to be any productive at sorting proposals. Absolute shit on balance point of view, but good in philosophy, can be a good proposal. Then reworking numbers will make it solid. Shooting down a proposal for non-philosophic reasons is not going to improve philosophy o...

Since repeated damage reduction will absorb more, and since chance of being taken down off adds in each weak attack in the current system , it is very similar if not equivalent, I'm sorry No it doesn't, where did you get that? I've taken the time to explain why this little detail is actually import...

Do you know what is good randomness vs what is simply frustrating ? Play Brogue, play DoomRL, this is what a good game design look like. Randomness isn't spammed everywhere. It has to serve a purpose. I've played both and I have no idea what you are talking about. In what way are those games less r...

After some more experimentation, I am not satisfied with the stepdown. Starting from the linear speed formula (speed = 10/delay + k * skill), I replaced skill by stepdown(skill, base_delay * alpha) to give a steeper slope to slow weapons speed (so that they can catch up). It also had the side effect...

Ultimately I just prefer having big, easily understood decisions when it comes to my character's offensive capabilities (like with spell success/slots) but if that's not a design goal then I guess it's moot. The weapon choice is not always obvious in the current system, and the new one doesn't real...

I've played enough of it to see that it has a completely opposite design to crawl's. In TOME4, your constantly juggling with your buffs and their countdown in every single fight. It's even partially automated. I don't think we want crawl's buffs to be designed this way.

ok, I think introducing beta in the formula might have been a bad idea. I'll try setting it to 1 and see how it turns out. This should lower the difference between fast and slow weapons. Thanks all for your feedback.

Imho, you should stop to see suggestions as thing you must shoot down unless they are exactly what you were currently looking for to improve the game. when I've read the mechanism of Golubria thing, I almost puked, because I found it unelegant, overly complex and giving unclear feedback, very disap...

Dagger: a little better at skill 0, but takes 16 SB skill to get to the point where it matches old daggers at skill 10. Quickblade: also start better, but doesn't beat old quickblade at min delay (skill 8) until it hits skill 17. Short sword: same pattern, but doesn't beat old short swords at min d...

From You Must Read This Before Posting in GDD : Give your thread a clear, appropriate title. Write clearly and concisely. I was thinking there isn't a mechanism in crawl that grant temporary health berserk or "shields" but shield that dissipates after absorbing damage. Shroud of golubria. ...

Yet another attempt at a melee attack delay formula. Details on the wiki.

Tenaya wrote:Could it be added to the initial autopickup selection to pickup rods for non-felids?

Done.

duvessa wrote:Also runes, please.

Done.

2.) Your allies' speed will slow down or speed up to match your own (passive). Sorry if you already know that, but you can already pace your speed to match that of your slowest ally by pressing Ctrl+e. It was recently even fixed to actually work! To be precise, it set your travel/explore speed to y...

dpeg wrote:Vaults are created with a text editor

If you use vim (as you should!), don't forget to install levdes.vim (found in dat/vim/syntax) for some nice syntax highlighting.

Just to clarify, the reason I removed the counsellor status from duvessa isn't because he was being harsh or mean. It is because his posts are extremely concise and have to be taken very literally. They are often misunderstood and create pointless discussions because of those misunderstanding. Couns...

twelwe wrote:This is the time to plea for a detailed walkthrough on making vaults/maps.

Vault Design Reference Guide

The OP has backed from his suggestion, so those arguments are pointless. Locked.

BBQSauce: next time, try to be more clear and concise. Notice how many of the first posts were about trying to decipher your proposal and reasoning until Siegurt reworded it clearly.

There is also temple_of_Zot_ovaries and circular_temple_6

Anyway, increasing the overflow altars could be done by simply adding more 6 god temples or tweaking weights instead of just removing temple. And I find the current distribution to be fine personally.

If you are a fan of more overflow altars, just make some Temple maps with few gods (three as a minimum, I'd say). The existing temple.des says to try to stick to a minimum of six, but if even less gods are considered acceptable these days I can take a whack at it. Note that this policy has been set...

I personally find the ever-increasing number of d:1 to d:9 vaults to be more flavorful, and have interesting combinations of gods. Because something is nice and flavourful doesn't mean that we should spam it. If you remove temple, you'll have much more overflow altar vaults and we'll get sick of th...

King_jelly wrote:Im not talking specifically about this thread

This rant is completely offtopic and I've PM'd the author.

If I read the code correctly, it ranges from 0 to 1000. Currently my preference is for 200. It's hard to say anything really helpful though, as the behaviour can seem strange/unexpected until you get a handle on it. I'm still playing around with different numbers and it's all rather unscientific be...

Potential problem : Fighter/spellcasters generally can't affoard to get high spellcasting. Transmuters are a fine example of this. How is that a problem? Suggestion None of those things actually address the problem you stated. But, probably I misunderstood the problem to begin with. You need to exp...

onton wrote:djinn exist and aren't super gamebreaking?

Dj has a contamination cost to replace the food cost (like in crawl light). It was designed to test out the idea and I don't think it's an improvement.

King_jelly wrote:Nope. Should I?

Yes

Pubby is working on a patch for deterministic poison damage. Looks promising.

claws has a similar proposal on the devwiki to ( here ) to take the monsters from Forest and put them in other branches, possibly including making more current Forest ends into encompass/smaller vaults in Depths Note that claws has just been welcomed in the devteam, and he already submitted his pro...

This thread wasn't about you to begin with, I just used your post as an example. But you are so full of yourself, you had to take it personally. Thanks for otherwise proving my point and welcome to the GDD banned group. This thread begins with his name . It's at the top of the very first post. You ...

That's enough. Solve your stuff in private. twelwe, if you have something to complain about, write down a report and push the button.

I also think that you Galehar are not very aware that sometimes your comments seem to have an "aggressive tone" for others as well. I plead guilty. I know that sometimes I'm harsh when turning down ideas, but I really try to not be insulting or demeaning. Often, I'm concise and don't take...

DracheReborn wrote:Is the counsellor nomination thing still open?

It always is.

I disagree with that ban. Well, you can disagree, but it turns out that moderation is done by moderators, not by user vote. While VJ obviously doesn't like you and dpeg at all and keeps showing that, his posts actually are, as he said, consistently contentful. Huh, well I doubt that, but maybe his ...

It was set to a default value of 10 when introduced, before being disabled. So I'd say it's a good start.

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