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Idea #48 then. How ghosts were implemented in another single player roguelike - Demon. You find a grave and you have choice: investigate it or not. If you choose to investigate, you always find something useful but there is a high chance that the grave belonged to a ghost of another player who died...

The bigger problem, however, is with the implementation . The debate is quite polarised at the moment. On one side are defenders of the status quo, who like the idea, but end up defending the implimentation. I can't speak for any other defender of the status quo, but no - I am pretty content with t...

I know opting out of receiving ghosts has been specifically rejected I really suggest it should be reconsidered, with the same option also opting out of leaving ghosts. Yes, I know, it leads to players playing two different games. That's already happened, both with shaftrobin and given that (especi...

Is there a page with a list of pages by version to which they are updated? It would be useful. You can pull a list of all pages (supposedly) for a given version by looking at categories of the form http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Category:0.20_articles - hope this is some help. 0.15 seems to be the ear...

damerell: I've forwarded your suggestion on the c-r-d mailing list. There was a very good reply: it might be better to revert the change (going back to darkgrey) *and* having the two-colour text you suggested, with a hint about what to do if darkgrey is invisible. I notice this has implications for...

What's wrong with stabbing with 2handers? Well, I think of it as sneakily inserting a blade into a vital spot [1], which is probably quite hard to do if the point is two metres from your hands. If stabbing with claymores, why not stabbing with great maces or tridents? (You do, after all, still get ...

My take on the whole thing is that the riposte concept would work a lot better as an interaction with SH than EV. Then it won't work with two-handers at all, to a first approximation. [1] Mind you, the conceptual division of swords into Short Blades including rapiers that don't riposte and Long Bla...

OK, how about this: Remove starvation death and fainting, keep the other penalties for starving, and also inflict Slow Healing 2 when starving. On the flip side, grant a regen bonus when satiated or above. This is more or less what POWDER does, but additionally one of the gods disapproves of eating...

Question re. Drain Life, not specific to this character: must you be wounded to drain life, or can you use it as a LOS nuke even if you are at full health? You can use it as a LOS nuke. It's pretty effective on nasty but fragile stuff, like the meaner deep elves. I ended up spamming it quite a bit ...

All saying ID is good amounts to is saying that acquainting yourself with how to soft-id scrolls and potions via stack size is an intrinsic good that outweighs the gameflow interruption that IDing causes. I don't think that's remotely true, and I say ID is no bad thing - that doesn't mean I think t...

While I don't agree with this assertion, I do think that flavor is the main reason we still have the ID minigame, just like food and curses. They're a part of the "roguelike flavor" the dev team is unwilling to dispense with. For that reason, I've come to believe that there's no argument ...

There is the other problem of communication: if a console player starts a fresh 0.20 and is annoyed about the colour swap -- what's the best way to communicate the way out? Until you set the option saying "don't ask me this", starting a game displays (ideally without meaning an extra dial...

TeshiAlair: You can swap blue and darkgrey! I understand the colour swap (the old defaults made the game unplayable for some, the new ones look ugly for everyone but always work) but we should really tell players how to go back. Set bold_brightens_foreground = true Could the tutorial mention this? ...

4Hooves2Appendages wrote:The obvious question is of course: Why?

Well, that's evident - at the moment if you have the misfortune to get Abyssed early it's the kiss of death, and the proposed change reduces that - but you'd still need clever play to get away with it.

I'm not sure I would recommend Vehumet either, but it seemed worth giving it a bash. I try to be fairly flexible about trying out whatever gods turn up first, if they aren't an obviously ghastly choice. I've read that the book starts are easier for Fe but TBH I've got pretty good at FeMo, at least b...

Right, that's interesting. I've previously been going Dex because I've mostly been getting places with Heplie (odd god for a Fe, I know) and doing quite a bit of very careful melee. I tried Vehumet for conjurations a couple of times but skills seemed too widely spread in the early game. However, if ...

The particular death here was avoidable, I know, but partly down to despair over the strategic situation. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19.5 (console) character file. 230825 Damerell the Imperceptible (level 18, -12/88 HPs) Began as a Felid Monk on Apr 26, 2017. Was a High Priest of Yredelemnul...

My phrasing was sloppy. You will be able to "choose between different scrolls/potions", but as long as you have at least two unknown types you have fewer choices than in the identificationless variant. That's certainly true, but I'm not convinced having a limited choice that varies more f...

Item identification adds a different kind of choice to the game [you have to determine that when and how do you want to identify your items] but disallows other kinds of choices in the early game [you cannot choose between different scrolls/potions]. I don't think that's very true. There is a very ...

If Riposte granted a weapon delay bonus when attacking a monster whose last action was to miss you, it would still be an opaque source of extra damage (bad) but would eliminate the conjurer's passive riposting and the poor-man's-cleaving effects.

Another INCREDIBLY stupid thing about item identification: antique shops. Goes for all consumables, but especially wands. If you want to buy an unID'd-item for cheap from the shop, you need to check each consumable you want to use before using it, lest your price might jump up by a couple hundred g...

If you haven't noticed this already, it says that the info for Cigotuvi's Fleshworks is "Obsolete." I have encountered this WizLab in Trunk, with the same enemies that the page mentions. Updated that page. Mostly removed references to the amulet of resist mutation, which I assume you stil...

I think it was less "Shouldn't rPois prevent hornet paralysis, since the wiki says it does?", and more "shouldn't rPois prevent hornet paralysis, because poison resistance should protect me from poison?" It's hard to tell what someone meant when they couldn't even take the time ...

No. The wiki is not a specification for the game, so one cannot say that something should or should not happen based on the wiki. Massive oversimplification imo. I have used the wiki an awful lot in the past. While some of it is getting outdated until tasonir/others get around to catching up with t...

Shouldn't rpois prevent hornet paralysis? No. The wiki is not a specification for the game, so one cannot say that something should or should not happen based on the wiki. As you have discovered, it also doesn't prevent it. Only immunity (eg as a gargoyle) prevents it. It does reduce the chance to ...

Rast wrote:FR: re-save surviving ghosts at game end.

Ghosts that have scored a kill (or been an accessory after the fact) could be removed to compensate for this but still to cut shaftrobin off at the knees. (Disclaimer: I like player ghosts).

I like player ghosts...

I have added a line to it about how you get frail 1 when you worship, but aside from that I'm not really sure what's wrong - I have only tried hep a few times, and haven't won a hep character. In the big picture, it seems to be pushing hexer ancestors pretty heavily - is that still accurate? How is...

So, ah, does anyone know if anything is being done about this?

There are at least four solutions to stairdancing that are easy to implement (I guess): I've got a fifth; rather than being wailed on for several turns by monsters next to the stairs and completely free from monsters not next to the stairs, stairs take one turn but every monster in LOS that can pat...

rosier wrote:33. Felids can now wear boots.

Not boots but hats. If it's good enough for Dr Seuss it's good enough for Crawl.

I agree with "Evolution first", but other than that, surely at random (except logically also rMut should be last)? Zin hates all mutations, so would never admit that some of yours might be preferable to others.

This seems like a good answer to the question I raised outthread. I like it better than my idea of making remove mutations repeatable, since you can't then cheese it by keeping a good mutation set locked in, as luckless points out.

I notice one side effect of the new mutation potions is that a Zinnie who get a malmutation isn't now allowed to cure it, so slightly oddly Zinnies are more likely to get stuck with mutations than anyone else even though Zin hates mutations. Perhaps Zin's "cure all mutations" could work mo...

Strategically, it's pretty bad in the same way that Trove Of You Must Currently Have rC+ Or Better To Enter would be. If there is an item on the other side of water, and the character doesn't have a flight source in inventory, it would be best to allow him to slowly "swim" over to get the...

Firstly, a short (circa 10 moves) grace period after flight would normally run out where flight ends immediately if it can, but otherwise it continues. This is the same thing as buffing flight by adding 10 moves to the duration, and changing how long before expiration you get the warning. Not quite...

From an IRC conversation (I don't mean to imply that eb endorses or indeed has ever seen this idea, but it was their remarks that got me thinking): <eb> tbh I don't like newdrain or at least how it is used for everything <eb> more things that try to kill the player directly pls <eb> it makes sense f...

My first win was DD; after a very few miscellanous games I played 11 DD in a row and won. So, yes, I'm pretty biased, but I like them. They're much more interesting than the humanoid species with varying degrees of talent for spellcasting and monster-whacking. They're not stupidly good (OK, they're ...

Four races down, four gods down, and - uh, several to go. Another win! And a bit of a change of strategy this time, although not to the point of casting spells or anything crazy like that. In theory the idea was that I'd use the centaur's superior speed and polearms' reach attacks to poke monsters f...

I started this guy up using short blades, mostly because I won an an unarmed user before and doing it again would be boring, and because people said it was good at triggering the bite attack. It was mostly okay up until vaults 1-4 and depths where I kept getting my ass destroyed. Luckily, an artifa...

galehar wrote:Looks like there is:
http://crawl.develz.org/other/manual.html

I appreciate this is a pretty heroic necro, but this is now a broken link and is still pointed to by https://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/documentation

Sprucery wrote:Congrats! W.r.t your annotations, are you aware of that you can place items in a shopping list (in a shop, select item then '$') which you can then view with '$'?

Yes, but generally I find it easier to !-annotate the level - I look at the relevant screen often and that keeps it in my mind.

A third win! Yes, I am still just playing monster-whackers. I did V:5 rather than Abyssal this time because I was hoping to find some loot there to get into a trove (which I did) or improve on my body armour (which I didn't). Spellbinder was very useful against casters, but it is a bit of a mixed bl...

minstrel wrote:"You are no longer not the speed you were before"

That's not much good because it does not tell you if you got faster or slower.

No, but even newer Ubuntus still install "xterm", which is still perfectly usable.

VeryAngryFelid wrote:what I said about gda applies to cpa even more.

You didn't see the god-gifted CPA. (You also seem to persistently labour under the impression that I've asked for advice.)

you generaly want at least STR=ER in the new systems as STR=ER is a breakpoint in the ER penalty formula. Generaly you will want STR to be a few points higher than ER though. I'm still in 0.18 where as I understand it the breakpoint is a bit lower... but really, since I got a CPA early-ish, I shoul...

BabyRage wrote:Congrats on your win. Man, I love VS. One of the best designed species IMO. And pretty strong too.

They're certainly a novel way to play, and very different to my previous deep dwarf win. In spite of having about 100 fewer HP, I didn't really ever find myself in danger in Zot.

Gratz on the win. Btw we can't see your skills/spells - your dump is truncated. That's intentional. I floundered about a bit on skills in a way I know is bad but don't really need to be told is bad. :-) I used no spells. Mesmerise was not such an issue on Shoals; I already had extremely high magic ...

1726610 Damerell the Warrior (level 27, 158/158 HPs) Began as a Vine Stalker Fighter on Sept 21, 2016. Was the Champion of Okawaru. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on Sept 30, 2016! The game lasted 11:34:57 (65014 turns). Damerell the Warrior (Vine Stalker Fighter) Turns: 65014, Time: 11:34:58...

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