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Monday, 16th September 2013, 19:09

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: The TRULY Lazy Person's Guide to a 15 Runer

Replies: 21

Views: 4389

Re: The TRULY Lazy Person's Guide to a 15 Runer

The game.
Spoiler: show
You just lost.

Monday, 16th September 2013, 18:22

Forum: Coding

Topic: Enemies following you on stairs

Replies: 19

Views: 6100

Re: Enemies following you on stairs

Anyhow, I want to make it clear that I'm not advocating for any change in behavior (other than perhaps allowing the player to dodge and soak attacks if it doesn't currently work that way), just noting the oddity that the player and all his/her allies are barred from action when traversing stairs whe...

Monday, 16th September 2013, 18:08

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: oh lol, yeah ur right, thanks man

Replies: 41

Views: 10696

Re: oh lol, yeah ur right, thanks man

At the same time, it's highly unlikely that people are thanking unhelpful posts. Well, except for the case that people intended to quote to rebut but instead accidentally thanked.

Monday, 16th September 2013, 18:06

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: The Lazy Person's Guide to a 15 Runer

Replies: 43

Views: 13993

Re: The Lazy Person's Guide to a 15 Runer

Hellfire is always a problem no matter how much HP you have unless you are undead/lich. Early game was not hard because of Trog. How is hellfire not a problem for undeads? How does having more health against an unresistable attack that, unlike torment, can directly kill you is irrelevant? Also have...

Monday, 16th September 2013, 17:59

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Using Conjure Ball Lightning

Replies: 24

Views: 7551

Re: Using Conjure Ball Lightning

I've had two ideas to try to improve CBL. 1) Make it so you can "aim" them by weighting the direction the CBL should go. This isn't guaranteed to get them exactly where you want them but only in the vicinity. For example, in your picture you'd aim NE and get a better than random chance the...

Monday, 16th September 2013, 17:46

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: oh lol, yeah ur right, thanks man

Replies: 41

Views: 10696

Re: oh lol, yeah ur right, thanks man

I can't tell if it's in my best interests to thank this post.

Nevermind, I'm gonna go for it!

And twelwe, I have no connection to NOPE and while it's a gimmick account, it's not like it goes around NOPEing random posts. It's sitting at the intersection of valuable criticism and gimmick.

Monday, 16th September 2013, 17:34

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: The Lazy Person's Guide to a 15 Runer

Replies: 43

Views: 13993

Re: The Lazy Person's Guide to a 15 Runer


I couldn't remember if ranged mosnter being more accurate was true or not, had it in my post and then removed it so as to not conflate something I knew to be true with something I didn't.
Thanks.

Monday, 16th September 2013, 17:31

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Make stashes useless

Replies: 46

Views: 11741

Re: Make stashes useless

Part of what is broken is inventory management. Three nets take up one slot, but if one is torn and one is falling apart, they take up three slots. One grape takes the same room as fifteen rambutan or one gold dragon armour. But it's a really, really good grape. It's so good thatFedhas would trade ...

Monday, 16th September 2013, 17:30

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Make stashes useless

Replies: 46

Views: 11741

Re: Make stashes useless

IIRC only Mf can retrieve items from deep water. Octopodes and grey draconians, too. And Fedhas worshipers, although it would be annoying to sunlight dry out everything when you wanted it and then rain it again to put it back under deep water. I don't know if the game would keep track of it on the ...

Monday, 16th September 2013, 17:25

Forum: Coding

Topic: Enemies following you on stairs

Replies: 19

Views: 6100

Re: Enemies following you on stairs

Correct. @ is on the stairs. Everything else is a step away, no?

Monday, 16th September 2013, 17:25

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Pre-identify all non-artefact armor and weapons

Replies: 16

Views: 4568

Re: Pre-identify all non-artefact armor and weapons

TL:DR of the OP: Give me all the benefits of worshiping Ash without any of the restrictions. Kthxbye.

Monday, 16th September 2013, 16:55

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: The Lazy Person's Guide to a 15 Runer

Replies: 43

Views: 13993

Re: The Lazy Person's Guide to a 15 Runer

Ranged attackers however tend to be way dangerous from afar. And not just centaurs and yactaurs, I always have the feeling that even Stone Giants' large rocks are more dangerous than their melee. That's mostly due to the lack of GDR getting applied on AC characters. One of the few cases where GDR a...

Monday, 16th September 2013, 16:48

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: The TRULY Lazy Person's Guide to a 15 Runer

Replies: 21

Views: 4389

The TRULY Lazy Person's Guide to a 15 Runer

I'll tell you later, it's too long to type.

Friday, 13th September 2013, 12:15

Forum: Coding

Topic: Enemies following you on stairs

Replies: 19

Views: 6100

Re: Enemies following you on stairs

Well, it takes over 2 turns to climb or decend stairs (2.3 to be specific) so if I was an enemy I'd certainly whack you for free :) Because it only takes them 1 turn to go up the stairs. Makes perfect sense... Actually the more I think about this, the less logical in game terms it actually is. A mo...

Thursday, 12th September 2013, 15:47

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: I don't mean to be crude, but. . . .

Replies: 56

Views: 17165

Re: I don't mean to be crude, but. . . .

The book that got me into Stephenson was "Cryptonomicon." It's a parallel story about the birth of modern encryption and code breaking in WWII by Turing and a search for a vast trove of gold to set up a virtual currency and data haven in "modern" times. Personally, I think his be...

Thursday, 12th September 2013, 15:09

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: I don't mean to be crude, but. . . .

Replies: 56

Views: 17165

Re: I don't mean to be crude, but. . . .

http://crawl.develz.org/learndb/index.html#fuk_da_sac Stop trying to take our off-topic digression back on topic! For sci-fi that's a lot science, you can do far worse than Stephenson. He's definitely one of my favorites. William Gibson is in a similar vein and I've read all his books too, but I pr...

Thursday, 12th September 2013, 14:58

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: My pet fire crab

Replies: 6

Views: 2250

Re: My pet fire crab

At first I thought this topic was going to be about how someone enslaved a fire crab or used enslave soul or something and was waiting for the YASD information. This is far, far better :D

Thursday, 12th September 2013, 14:46

Forum: Coding

Topic: Enemies following you on stairs

Replies: 19

Views: 6100

Re: Enemies following you on stairs

Hm, I once got paralyzed by a sphinx right after opening a door, then shot to death by the yaktaur captain next to it before I could react. I was even wearing a MR ring. Granted, it was a vault, so OOD enemies were to be expected, and I was with Ash so I knew for sure there was a very dangerous ene...

Thursday, 12th September 2013, 14:32

Forum: Coding

Topic: Enemies following you on stairs

Replies: 19

Views: 6100

Re: Enemies following you on stairs

Siegurt wrote:Well, it takes over 2 turns to climb or decend stairs (2.3 to be specific) so if I was an enemy I'd certainly whack you for free :)

Because it only takes them 1 turn to go up the stairs. Makes perfect sense...

Thursday, 12th September 2013, 14:24

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: enchanted vorpal

Replies: 16

Views: 3277

Re: enchanted vorpal

While I agree that vorpal is boring, straight up damage boost is kind of boring too. Like Azrael, I wonder if in your idea does it mean it won't be possible to enchant vorpal weapons normally anymore? A more interesting aspect of vorpal to me is the beheading ability (SNICKER SNACK!). I was surpris...

Wednesday, 11th September 2013, 20:59

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Lair Branch Loot Balancing

Replies: 38

Views: 11376

Re: Lair Branch Loot Balancing

snake is only high because people are bad though When this time this came up on reddit, I mentioned and others agreed that we felt that snake wasn't so dangerous because we were used to old snake where you could literally do snake:1-4 as soon as you came upon it if you had rPois. This led to at lea...

Wednesday, 11th September 2013, 14:32

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Iskenderun's Mystic Blast & Armor

Replies: 6

Views: 3059

Re: Iskenderun's Mystic Blast & Armor

Thanks for the info. I'll get rid of stone arrow with scroll of amnesia. I suppose armour is applied to Orb of Destruction and Lehudib's Crystal Spear too. With those spells it must be less of a problem due to higher base damage though... Yes, as well as pretty much every other conjurations. AC is ...

Tuesday, 10th September 2013, 19:51

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: What stuff to use and how to proceed?

Replies: 70

Views: 14652

Re: What stuff to use and how to proceed?

Link wrote:should I wear any plate armour over +N chain mail or something else?

Yes. There are edge cases of course (like +14 chain vs. vanilla plate), but ask for them.

Tuesday, 10th September 2013, 18:09

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: List your favourite builds

Replies: 212

Views: 94861

Re: List your favourite builds

Nobody knows what a Ga is.

Tuesday, 10th September 2013, 16:19

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Extended?

Replies: 11

Views: 3191

Re: Extended?

1.) Don't pick up the orb unless you are ready to walk out with it. Certain areas are cut off completely once you pick up the orb, and certain other effects make it a very, very bad idea to dilly dally once you are holding it. Or you could be hardcore and do an orb tomb run. This is generally a ban...

Tuesday, 10th September 2013, 15:50

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Species Mergers Discussion

Replies: 46

Views: 14446

Re: Species Mergers Discussion

I think that new players have a little more conceptual trouble understanding that on a blasty char like FE or Cj very early on, having no MP is remarkably similar to having no HP. The red bar going down, they may understand that they need to run away for a bit. The blue one, not so much.

Tuesday, 10th September 2013, 15:32

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Discussion about Mara

Replies: 57

Views: 12754

Re: Discussion about Mara

It can be bad if he doesn't duplicate you quickly, but he generally does, and I'm not going to be able to melee him from 6 tiles away, so I might as well wield a ration while walking towards him/casting buff spells. If he doesn't duplicate me and I manage to lose too much health from fire I'd just ...

Tuesday, 10th September 2013, 15:17

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: I don't mean to be crude, but. . . .

Replies: 56

Views: 17165

Re: I don't mean to be crude, but. . . .

I've posted this before.
You pound Duvessa like an anvil!!

Wednesday, 4th September 2013, 19:11

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Starting with Unarmed

Replies: 55

Views: 16038

Re: Proposal: Hero Background

Here is how to start an unarmed character with a shield, without having claws: 1. start Fi 2. press d, then a, then enter Even if it's a troll? face.jpg But you know what? I've always thought how cool it would be to be able to do it like in some other RPGs - a DE with 3str, 35int and 3dex, or a Ha ...

Wednesday, 4th September 2013, 18:44

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Species Mergers Discussion

Replies: 46

Views: 14446

Re: Species Mergers Discussion

Remove everything but humans - why bother? Remove every background - they all turn out the same way anyway. Remove all branches - they all play the same anyway. Remove D - 27 branches of exactly the same thing. Clearly Crawl needs to be one room with the Orb and a few monsters between it, you, and ...

Wednesday, 4th September 2013, 18:11

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Fedhas Improved

Replies: 25

Views: 6501

Re: Fedhas Improved

Fedhas is probably the strongest or at least top 3 strongest god in the game. Wandering mushrooms literally trivialize everything until they start getting one-shot. Considering the game generally gets easier as you go on, that's a huge benefit. The only other gods that are remotely as powerful for a...

Wednesday, 21st August 2013, 20:51

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Labyrinth

Replies: 73

Views: 21421

Re: Labyrinth

Of those who dislike the labyrinth now, how many disliked it their first time, and how many only started disliking it after they did a bunch of them? I've only done a half dozen or dozen labyrinths so far, and I still find them somewhat enjoyable (except for my second labyrinth when the hot/cold si...

Wednesday, 21st August 2013, 18:57

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Favourite character type!

Replies: 20

Views: 4235

Re: Favourite character type!

I like necromancers. You see that thread over there? Now look what happens when someone posts in it.

Wednesday, 21st August 2013, 18:32

Forum: Suggestions & Criticism

Topic: Moderation of useless posts in GDD

Replies: 28

Views: 9732

Re: Moderation of useless posts in GDD

As one of the main offenders, I apologize for derailing threads in GDD. I'll try to be more careful and I think this idea is a good one.

Wednesday, 21st August 2013, 18:27

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: In Defense of the Holy Tree

Replies: 9

Views: 2516

Re: In Defense of the Holy Tree

minmay wrote:
minmay wrote:good god, it really is impossible to remove something without tavern complaining about it

They could remove lots of stuff and I wouldn't complain about it.

Wednesday, 21st August 2013, 16:49

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Lava Orcs and Dragon Form

Replies: 16

Views: 3346

Re: Lava Orcs and Dragon Form

DracheReborn wrote:What's more, Ice Form with Ozo's Armour gets bonus AC, so if you have Ozo's and no dragon armour, Ice Form + Ozo's will be better defensively than Blade Hands + Ozo's well past Lair, I think.

Because the Tm book has Ozo's in it and there's so little decent armour anywhere in the dungeon.

Wednesday, 21st August 2013, 16:48

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Lava Orcs and Dragon Form

Replies: 16

Views: 3346

Re: Lava Orcs and Dragon Form

Try to pummel spiny frogs or black mambas (who are among the most dangerous foes in Lair) with ice form instead of blade hands next time, you should see why the former is *far* better than the latter. And generally speaking, in Lair a character has usually better defences in ice form than with blad...

Wednesday, 21st August 2013, 15:21

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Forest redux monster balancing (or other Forest matters)

Replies: 78

Views: 21568

Re: Forest redux monster balancing (or other Forest matters)

Re: Summons. I agree that mass summoning is not a really good idea. Please note that while the forest introduced a bunch of summoning (and I'm sure there will be tweaks), previous annoying summoners have been dealt with. I am thinking of the rat-spamming vampires, and I really like new curse toes. ...

Wednesday, 21st August 2013, 15:00

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Lava Orcs and Dragon Form

Replies: 16

Views: 3346

Re: Lava Orcs and Dragon Form

I think you just answered your own question. For almost every Tm once you get past lair, you can pretend that the only forms that exist are spider form and blade hands. What. Ice form is extremely strong and new DF is good for plenty of characters since it doesn't demand ridiculous amounts of inves...

Wednesday, 21st August 2013, 13:44

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Lava Orcs and Dragon Form

Replies: 16

Views: 3346

Re: Lava Orcs and Dragon Form

Amnesiac wrote:IDA is probably the best choice for that combo, then

IDA doesn't help in dragon form.

Wednesday, 21st August 2013, 13:44

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Lava Orcs and Dragon Form

Replies: 16

Views: 3346

Re: Lava Orcs and Dragon Form

I think you just answered your own question. For almost every Tm once you get past lair, you can pretend that the only forms that exist are spider form and blade hands.

Tuesday, 20th August 2013, 18:20

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP- CeHu of Okawaru

Replies: 18

Views: 3835

Re: YAVP- CeHu of Okawaru

Amnesiac wrote:with a bow you get 0.2 attack delay with haste and finesse

No, you don't get the benefits of both.

??okawaru <snipped>
Finesse (*****) halves attack delay but does not stack with haste or berserk and is blocked by stasis.

Tuesday, 20th August 2013, 14:46

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Labyrinth

Replies: 73

Views: 21421

Re: Labyrinth

I think I'm a decent player and I know I've died to the minotaur at least once and probably a few times. So yeah, it's generally a pushover but not always, depending on your build.

Tuesday, 20th August 2013, 14:31

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP: Gargoyle EE with 3 runes

Replies: 31

Views: 6734

Re: CIP: Gargoyle EE opting for 3-rune

I like just Shattering everything in the middle, it's pretty fun. If you want to win there are probably better ways, like running/teleporting away and then slowly killing everything with LRD and Iron Shot while moving around the perimeter. If you do use Shatter, remember that dragons fly, so you ca...

Tuesday, 20th August 2013, 14:24

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Spriggan COOK?

Replies: 52

Views: 13242

Re: Spriggan COOK?

Confidence Interval wrote:New item proposal: Amulet of resist pubic exposure.

FTFY, that way there are no incriminating photos in the first place.

Monday, 19th August 2013, 20:45

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Odd things sighted in dungeon.

Replies: 963

Views: 278110

Re: Odd things sighted in dungeon.

BlackSheep wrote:Imagine having to hack through plants instead of weakened toadstools!

Obligatory "when I was your age..."

Monday, 19th August 2013, 18:18

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YASDx6 aka failed FeBe

Replies: 0

Views: 892

YASDx6 aka failed FeBe

Full morgue Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.12.2-18-gb8c16a5 (console) character file. 351950 rebthor the Slayer (level 21, -9/106 HPs) Began as a Felid Berserker on Aug 7, 2013. Was a High Priest of Trog. Killed from afar by a necromancer (34 damage) ... with a bolt of negative energy ... on Le...

Monday, 19th August 2013, 16:04

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Range display

Replies: 56

Views: 14932

Re: Range display

BlackSheep wrote:I am *SO* proud that my thread turned into this.

One could even say you fathered it.

Monday, 19th August 2013, 14:18

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Range display

Replies: 56

Views: 14932

Re: Range display

Heck, you could be clever and substitute the number for the @: 8-------> Hm, I'm not so sure if I'm fond of the greater-than sign as an arrowhead anymore. Maybe we should try something else, like a big capital D? What about something like this to show that you've only reached 5 out of the total ran...

Friday, 16th August 2013, 20:50

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Merge Short and Long Blades?

Replies: 39

Views: 8627

Re: Merge Short and Long Blades?

Anyhow, we already have knobby rods.
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