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Sandman25 wrote:"best designed" does not necessarily mean fun

so you like playing poorly designed races?

(this must be why people argue with you all the time...)

Who needs gimmicks and funny mutations when the randomized dungeon is already fun enough as it is?

Viashino_wizard wrote:
TeshiAlair wrote:Isn't there a spell now that induces moshing?

You mean Discord?

which god approves this? (i heard trog digs trash metal)

Something I think hasn't been said around here (forgive me if it has been): Melee is simple. Magic and ranged combat are more complex. Moving from a simple mechanic to a more complex one is tiresome. Moving from a complex mechanic to a simpler one is not. Deliberately tiring the players of your game...

If I can carry around a mace so I can kill those, I see no reason melee fighters can't learn magic dart or something. Learning combat spells as a melee fighter is usually much more obnoxious than using (please note that the word here isn't "learning") a big club or something to support yo...

Yes. Likewise, you are dumb for fighting one of the monsters you aren't allowed to melee, so all your points are invalid too. Sorry, but what is that line supposed to mean? EDIT: Fighting Mennas (according to dck, at least) with magic is perfectly doable, as long as you're strong enough. If you're ...

of all the members of the tavern...

Hirsch I wrote:it is pretty boring. that's why I keep crawling.

can't we make it more interesting, though?

Grimm wrote:
dpeg wrote:Hirsch: That's a really good idea. I have lots of content that's Not Suitable For Whippersnappers.

A bunch of really sexy letters?

sexy ASCII arts of naked sexy elves?

ontoclasm wrote:You must look within, and realize that it is not Mara you must defeat, but yourself.

cracked me up big time

You didn't find any book with haste?

Congrats!

So you basically found a maxed-out-for-free CPA (which is arguably the armour that makes you feel invincible) with several nice and useful bonuses. And you are pondering on whether you should wear it. You are wasting your time, really. :P You want to get your strength to at least 24. Well, just choo...

Vaults are harder now (the new Vaults:5 is ridiculous). Shoals are harder too. Depths are hard. Swamp is harder, also. Snake pits are harder. The new Pandemonium might be harder (and might be more annoying too, since we get demonspawns who can mess up your position, summon monsters that aren't meant...

Permadeath being the most important feature is highly subjective. We can argue about it all day long but it would likely be unproductive. Without permadeath, Crawl would still work. We have high-score system, after all! Players could still aim for higher scores. Even if there's no built-in scoring s...

This gave me an idea for a useless misc item:

Orb of Zot

Description: An almost nondescript round stone with the word "Zot" carved on the surface.

Weights like a stone of tremor. Xom may gifts it to you as a joke.

Alternatively, it can be a throwing weapon that deals decent damage.

Hirsch I wrote:yeah... I kinda polymorphed an hydra.

why

Okay, yeah, wrong term.

Hardcore roguelike qualities aren't popular at all, no matter how fancy the interface is. Crawl will never be the next Angry Birds or Call of Duty or Bioshock or Farmville. Setting up easy-normal-hard-insane versions would help keep everyone happy in my opinion. Easy Mode fork Here's the thing: if ...

nicolae wrote:Hardcore roguelike qualities aren't popular at all, no matter how fancy the interface is. Crawl will never be the next Angry Birds or Call of Duty or Bioshock or Farmville.

Klown wrote:Setting up easy-normal-hard-insane versions would help keep everyone happy in my opinion.

OP wrote:Easy Mode fork

@BountyHunterSAx: I know that feel, bro. :lol: And I think your points hold water. Gaining more players is never a bad thing, as long as you aren't forced to make any compromise. With the right touch, we can really turn Crawl into the next worldwide sensation since Angry Bird or Flappy Bird or somet...

this is the best thread ever in CYC, feel free to raise it from the dead anytime

The funny thing about Crawl is stated rather clearly by the OP: There are many things in Crawl that casual/ordinary gamers would find to be very cool (races, gods, spells, etc), and thus Crawl is not far off from gaining more popularity by reaching for a wider audience, yet the devs intentionally or...

Why wouldn't loading her up to the eyeballs with curare work? Or more frugally 1 shot of curare and if she takes that a sustained volley of poison arrows. If the mechanics are really sound curare's breathlessness will stop her singing too, unless it's the bikini that's meant to be causing Mesm. Ple...

It's one thing to die from orc priests' smiting, it's another to get locked out of winning because you don't know how sirens work.

Goddammit, read the frickin' 1st post, please. My point is, the new Shoals are a stupid newbie trap.

And can't you see how many times I have posted in the Tavern? Of course I know how to deal with sirens.

By all means, sirens should never position themselves on a deep water tile like that while mesmerizing the player. It (drawing the player towards deep water) makes sense and it could be fun in a game where you could FRICKIN' SWIM, but this is Crawl where deep waters are frickin' deadly. @Piginabag: ...

Here's a story: There was a n00b called John Doe, who had absolutely no clue what kind of watery hell Shoals are, especially the new ones. If John Doe bravely entered Shoals without stocking up on these things: 1. flight source; 2. MR (loads of it); 3. tele source; 4. fog source; 5. ranged weaponry;...

wtf is dis

go screw yourself, kid

EDIT: Goddamn you, hirsch II! That wasn't me!

Congrats, man! First win is like first kiss or something.

The One Shield

The Shield

You know what CYC needs right now?

A taste of Dolan.

Spoiler: show

dun dun dun dun

(best thread ever)

Now we can get back to reading MyO's record-breakingly-long posts again. (Where are you anyway, MyO? Enjoying your post-thesis life?)

Eh...

MiBe

HOBe

CeHu (it's much harder to die if you can easily run from most creatures and attack them from afar)

TrHu

SpEn

TrMo

TrHe (so basically Trolls are strong and their claws are really good)

I think so. It's been quite surreal around here lately. If the Tavern was Pokemon, I'm sure CYC were close to evolving now.

(let's see if this thread turns/snowballs into another weirdness)

and stop misspelling my name!

Shield of the Green Ninja Turtle. (because it's green in Tiles)

EDIT:
A more serious idea: Shield of the Spartans. (because they were badass and they used bronze shields (the shield of resistance is described as "a bronze shield"))

Hirsch I wrote:We Who are One, and The Other.

You remind me of MyO, only without the inhumanly-long posts.

Oh WAIT... :shock:

Hirsch II is still an asshole. Where's he? Don't tell me he logs in after you logs out... (the same with Grimm and CI, even though in this case we know they are the same guy) pramatajawea, why pramatajawea no... http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/WiryaGreat/horrifiedemoticonforblog_smalleditz.g...

man...

i need to wake up, but how...

njvack aka galehar wrote:surreal

yeah

(uuh... what have i done

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Roderic wrote:Crawl is hard then you die

This has to be the be all and end all Crawl quote.

WalkerBoh wrote: I don't see any problems with a group marked as proven good advice-givers.

This. I think it's a part of the fun of internet forums, that we can easily create different groups of people (counsellors, moderators, etc), easier than if we'd do it in real life.

I thought I'd mention it here, too, but I think it's not right that Dith boosts spell damage(and enchantments chance to affect) output so much. Even Veh doesn't give you damage boost, being a god of destruction. ATM, taking dith seems to be more benefitial for a pure caster than any other god. I pe...

Wait till you realise that you're Tiktacy: All of your memories, all of your dreams, your entire sense of self and identity all fabricated for the sake of a single, more baroque than it is funny joke... i'm in the office now, working my butt out chasing the deadline, watching my self-esteem and dig...

okay, this is creeping me out...

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