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technically those other names (ashen valley &c) are just the names of the entrances, not the actual names of the branches. in-game they're capitalized differently: gateway to the ashen valley of Gehenna, vs gateway to the Iron City of Dis. the entrances are the only place those descriptions are ...

Sprucery wrote:But you already have your huge dev salary!

ya can't convert player deaths into thanks, pal!

duvessa wrote:i would be a lot happier with giant eyeballs if they at least had the pretense of doing something, though

i honestly haven't seen them since they went in, but some kind of buff there would be plausible. does anyone else have opinions on modern giant eyeballs?

people should be thanking me instead

you should get the full set bonus for wearing all three of them at once

and into wrote:5.) Uniques give much more experience and/or drop better equipment
9.) MP not soft-capped at ~50 or w/e

these happened a while ago

you wouldn't be happy with orb spiders regardless, though

both of these things were done, several months ago. you can see charge status for orb spiders & giant eyeballs on x, and salamander stormcallers no longer channel, since they were removed.

mission accomplished. good job, everyone.

Different intelligence levels would mean different understanding of orders. High sound = high chance of orders being misheard. Different chances for orders to be ignored. Why? If an ally helps, the remaining XP is shared between you and your ally according to the percentage of damage dealt by each ...

De Serpent uf Hell breaddes metal schplinters at hyu. De schpray uf metal schplinters hits hyu! * * * LOV HITPOINT VARNINK * * * De Serpent uf Hell breaddes energy at hyu. De bolt uf dispellink energy hits hyu! You magical effects are onravellink. * * * LOV HITPOINT VARNINK * * * De Serpent uf Hell ...

arandomperson12 wrote:Does it actually only do 3d6 damage? Once, on my SpEn, I had good enough skills to cast it, but was scared away by the low damage.

Varies by spellpower. At max power (100), it does 3d13 damage per shot. 3d6 is its damage at 30 power.

bcadren wrote:If you want a weird one. the 3 MP to fly...with your own wings.

but the flight keeps working even if you're paralysed, turned to stone, or porkalated, so really it all balances out.

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/dac414d021f6

Aliches are IIRC the highest-HD monster with an actual hex other than randlords, and their paralyse is 72 power. Unless other spells have much higher power, 172 MR (just barely above 4 pips) should be enough for immunity to everything. For some reason the knowledge bots don't show monsters' enchant...

MPA removed these this morning.

i'm glad that someone appreciates my work.

Maybe this is connected to what things used to be "dirty" meat, maybe there's a special "bloodless" tag-but many things vampires can't drink from seem like they would have blood(like right away in the earlygame, you can't drink blood from worms or slugs, even though they leave a...

Personally, I think it would make a lot more sense to just let Jiyva be a temple god (or make early Jiyva overflow altars much, much more common) than to add Slime Knights. Lugonu at least has a very strong flavor reason for not being a Temple god, and for having very few overflow vaults. Jiyva kin...

personally, i recommend making fun of him on cyc

but sludge dwarves are in.

njvack wrote:Wait, were derived undead *not* affected by spectral fireball before?

afaik they were not. i think that's why josephine's pack of zombies was replaced with wraiths?

ydeve wrote:FR: derived undead can use stairs.

wouldn't fix much. ref: jorgrun

i'm very confused about where scrolls of random uselessness come into this.

Not that the original post implying that appreciating forks reveals a conspiracy by the Developer Illuminati was anything but trolling, but of course the devs behind a fork could take the time to implement something useful for DCSS that we don't have the time/expertise to implement ourselves. The v...

OK, they have health bars now. Will let you know if this gets reverted.

i love player ghosts

idk that there's a real problem of players being encouraged to reset fights against derived undead these days, though i could be wrong. the removal of undead-creating spells from monsters & of slow zombies from d were both huge helps there. not much reason to not display health bars, beyond a va...

OK, done.

i like a lot of the stuff in dcss-ca but 95% of it is never making its way into vanilla (conservative estimate)

like, look at this list of scroll ideas. nuts, but very cool in its own way

just a different design philosophy

those are called layouts

is this about that argument you had with gammafunk over the proper random distribution to use for monster placement?

since i'm not convinced that's critical to this discussion

It's the opposite of an improvement, specifically because of that issue. When blink other and blink allies encircling exist, is there any compelling reason to have monster teleport other at all? monster teleport other was almost completely removed about a year ago, because, yeah, it's not very comp...

in principle i'd be fine with that; in practice i worry about something like tomb, where the place is totally filled with zot traps probably trap detection shouldn't scale with level (though you could give some fixed trap detection chance, idk), but you'd want to rethink how generation works so char...

now that's a lair entrance

Trap detection is entirely based on your XL, which means characters less prepared to face traps are more likely to step on them, which for me is a way to aknowledge that traps are meant to end the game of unprepared characters rather than put prepared characters into interesting situations. i think...

xposting: 08:05:06 < MarvinPA > re: adamant, i sort of feel like "shields blocking things that shields don't normally block" is better just kept in unrand territory, it seems like a quite substantial difference in type of effect compared to other egos Wow, I wonder if this seriously affect...

imo make another thread wrt overspecialized spells/backgrounds; i'm very curious about this.

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/6622a18fe0be here's a branch that removes book amnesia. will probably push it in a few days if no one objects.

this is a tangent, but which hyper-specialized niche spells are you thinking of?

this would be colouring spells in books in disconnected levels? would anyone be able to guess what that meant?

⋅ it's a fiddly little ability whose tactical application requires inventorying books and often goes underutilized for being so annoying ⋅ deciding between an immediate piety gain and landmine on one hand, and saving books in case one abandons Trog on the other, is poor flavor (...

Book amnesia is also not terribly important because there are so many amnesia scrolls around. Of course, that could easily be changed: imagine Crawl with only 50% as many amnesia scrolls, or 25%, or 0%. i think reducing the number of amnesia sources is a pretty bad idea; without sif amnesia, i've c...

The only problem I see with (1) and (2) is with books found in the abyss/zot/other portaled levels. Can spells from them still be memorized? you'd be able to memorize from them as long as you were in the level, or if you carried them out. this would be most obvious in version (2), I think, since it...

this is getting off-topic, but: if it were better communicated, would you still object to it? or is it just the awful UI that's the problem?

yeah, he's more about quitting

Im pretty sure most players consider death's door a bad effect Really, why? (of course its not why on earth did you even bring it up, then? also, of course i wasn't talking about kiting the unique, i was just considering the difficulty of winning a fight against an enemy who starts off by making yo...

yeah, they should be +3

the basic problem you're describing, being unable to easily tell what spells you can memorize, is real & something i've seen people (justifiably) complain about before. two alternate thoughts for fixing it: (1) allow (M)emorizing from any book that exists anywhere in the dungeon; destroying a bo...

I implemented this. It's not in trunk yet, though.

This sounds like it would produce quite a lot of message spam, and give players something to keep track of that the game doesn't currently expect them to.

i do like cats, and also, dogs... maybe this tavern place isn't so bad after all?

Shard1697 wrote:why is this in CYC

i feel like minmay would have something to say about a unique whose first move is to make you literally invulnerable

death's door is level 8 dual-school for a reason

very high 'cool factor' here ofc, but...

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