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Playing a needlestabber just now, and it occured to me that if you hit a mummy when he's sleeping, and he dies, it doesn't make sense that he could curse you. How does his spirit know you're there?

So... Stabbing is the "do damage on surprise" skill, right? It works well with Short Blades, OK with Long Blades but doesn't work as great with other attacks. Are Claws and/or Blade Hands given any consideration? Should they be given consideration (I'm of the opinion, yes)? I'm of the opi...

"Falling rocks traps can add flavor to the trap list." Adding stuff just for flavour isn't the crawl way. How would this be functionally different from, say, a spear trap? "why would the player in a typical natural environment of identical condition not be able to rest and recover?&qu...

I always figured making you "slow" and preventing recast for a while after the spell is over, like berserk, would be easy and pretty balanced.

Fighting should be at max soon anyway. I don't understand why you seem to think fighting is more important than axes right now. At level 18 axes a decent battleaxe will be much better than the exec axe. At level 26 axes the exec axe will be much better. Heroism shouldn't really be a factor in this ...

- Level 18.3 Axes a - a +4,+1 executioner's axe of venom (weapon) {god gift} If this is your primary weapon, I think that you should be training nothing besides axes until you reach minimum delay, which is at 26 (with possible exceptions of Invo for finesse and Traps if you're paranoid). I've been ...

I don't normally do these but I am getting really frustrated at the RNG... no rpos yet It giveth and it taketh away... The cloak is pretty sweet tho, and the boots Also the new ammo system is far far better than the old. Not as much juggling crap. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11-a0-2198-g9c43b...

Personally, I don't like the items like Faith, Vampiric, distortion etc. that impose a huge one-time cost. I may use them for a bit early on but later in the game I'll invariably have a number of other things I want to swap in that same slot. It's pretty rare that I'll find an item so good that it'...

I'm not seeing the big deal about being able to use arrows on rats instead of using a random floor trash melee weapon that you've invested no skill into. You have to pick Oka or Trog as a god to get ammo gifts if you don't feel like doing something slightly annoying all game like swapping weapons f...

Removing things is work (monsters use clubs too). Such a change would just be an utter waste of time. Not to mention dealing with the fallout from whichever minority of players absolutely loved clubs and suddenly become extremely vocal at their removal! Nobody seemed to give a damn about that when ...

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actually, knives are around, you use them every few hundred turns in most games.

Anyway I didn't realize that people would get so bent out of shape about this, I just wanted to start a conversation about reducing floor trash.

I was wrong about the glow thing, but the point stands that all good potions are 95% good and the Mut potions can be good OR bad, it is counter-intuitive.

I think clubs should be removed. Has anyone ever actually used a club, ever? Let goblins n such use knives.

EDIT: Clubs are really really awesome, let's never remove them. They are so great.

one wierd thing about Cure Mut potions that always bothers me - every other "good" potion has 100 percent positive results (heal, cure, +foo, etc) even Invis which doesn't add glow like a spell would.

whereas Cure Mut can definately have a bad result (removing a beneficial mutation)

Please don't add things in which cause mutation to become much more common; boots and helmets popping off is really annoying.

And I have no idea what the impacts of new potions is on the reasonable potion id scheme. I don't think this change would affect potion identification much, beyond having two fewer potion types to identify. It wouldn't be nearly as valuable as speed, or as hazardous as random mutation. Identificati...

Right now, players very rarely use the "middle" armors - the 'mails'. Even with good branding, the AC and GDR reduction isn't a good trade. I think that the problem is having tiers of armor which only differ by str required, AC, and EV. Typically, players choose to maximize either AC (wear...

For what its worth, Spider is super duper hard and annoying This comment (and the few similar ones above) isn't worth anything. Back it up with some arguments if you want it to be considered. Too much web spam too A bug was fixed , and the formula adjusted . Hard means "difficult" "D...

In my experience running out of ammo has never been the problem. The problems are the tedious methods of conserving ammo... which often involve swapping to a melee weapon you have no skill in on popcorn enemies. The constant weapon swapping and stashing of 100s of unbranded arrows are some of the r...

For what its worth, Spider is super duper hard and annoying

The only problem I have with randomness in Crawl is dice rolls. In board games, they add to the excitement and player involvement. Not so in computer games where RNG rolls all dices and in Crawl you won't even see the numbers unless you're playing a wizard mode... For instance, 1d8 (and dices like ...

rchandra wrote:got it - macro should be =iYZPY. this will equip Z and swap Z with Y so next time you equip the former Y. just tried it in wizmode.

edited to not mess up the turn display

Thank you very much!

here's a quick way, not quite what you asked for: use =i to put the two amulets into slots Y and Z. then use ~ (or ctrl-D) to create a macro, press F1, set it to PY. ~ again, macro F2 to PZ. This isn't ideal but you have a key for each. Thanks very much for your help, but I am really looking for a ...

How good can it be? How big exactly is the bonus to hit? I assume there's no +Dam bonus. At reasonably high power, Sure Blade provides a +10 to accuracy. Compare that to the EV scores of typical high-EV monsters, like orc casters which have EV scores of… 10. Enemy spriggans tend to have EV scores i...

I've got a couple situational amulets. Want to make a macro where I can hit one key to switch between the two. Is this possible? Please teach me. I'm not so good with the computers and such.

Look, guys, it's way too easy to save in crawl. You can save every floor or even every other turn. This has to stop.

We need to create a Scroll of Saving. When read, it automatically creates a save and quits the game for you.

No more tedious saving!

There are a few interesting implications actually. One, quaff-IDing a cure mut potion wouldn't waste it. This would be a small but useful perk. Two, blocking only bad mutations and allowing good mutations would force an interesting choice - do you use it now and protect from a bad (but maybe minor) ...

There's been talk about making cure mutation potion become non-destructible. Instead, how about a mechanic change? If you quaff a cure mutation potion with no bad mutations, you get a mutation "shield" which will automatically trigger when you get a bad mutation, and remove it. If you alre...

One-Eyed Jack wrote:So stashing non-tactical consumables is desired, interesting, strategic gameplay?

Absolutely. "Do I spend the time/food stashing these non-tactical consumables, use a cloak/amulet slot to protect them, drop my scrolls before I engage this firething....."

So sure, it's interesting.

speed being the number one most powerful stat in crawl, i dont think its wise to make a common amulet start messing with it. Given how many creatures move at "normal" speed, a buff of 1 to player speed would be tremendous. There are also already evade rings, and besides, no one would ever ...

Maybe this is off topic but how in the hell can a company get away with not allowing you to install programs on your own device? I understand an "app store" and selling programs... Is a computer that cannot compile and execute code really a computer?

if youre ever in this situation you can burn a teleport scroll.. Read it then go downstairs.

second and extend this advice. Every melee character should keep the best antimagic weapon they find. It can be a lifesaver.

There should totally be a way to cast curare as a high-level poison spell. Considering how powerful Tornado and the "Storms" are, a smite-targeted, level 9 curare spell that at least partially ignores resistances would be appropriate. It's not as if you could spam it, and it would add a lo...

I would never, ever quaff this potion, ever ever. What if it's Mut? The potential benefit of a Heal is not worth risking a Mut. Or curing a really good Mut like blinking.

I actually did a series of runs recently with a beserker mino, holding down tab when an enemy entered LOS and not stopping till death or the HP warning.

Got one of them all the way to Lair:8

XuaXua wrote:I think it would be amusing for tab to transform into autoexplore 'o' when there are no enemies visible.

Making "holding down tab" even more fun and interesting!

I would prefer <ctrl><alt>Tab to go through the entire dungeon level, killing any monsters until HP is low, butchering them for food if "very hungry," and resting when no enemy is in LOS.

of course but I had no idea about any of that

Wait they actually have computers where you have to pay fees and get permission to install programmes on them?

Patashu wrote:I heard on the IRC that apple would forbid crawl being ported to the iOS (it has LUA embedded in it, which allows turing complete programming)

wut?

of course full speed is mindelay...

for sprigg casters specifically, you want to focus more on getting spells hungerless, becuase you cant eat the corpses your magic leaves behind. Its a lot harder to have a "second level" damage before lair with a sprigg than a deep elf

Most of the time, I get by without relec, thats the only thing resist potions are for anyway

Good. Edit: That is, it's fine if you feel intuitively some way or another about a certain element of gameplay, but if you recognize that this has nothing to do with crawl itself then you shouldn't use that feeling as evidence for changing anything. Well, I don't agree with that at all. Why shouldn...

One of the 4 'guaranteed' shops (and the only one that might have been worth a shit might I add) turned out to be a mimic. Is this intentional behavior? Seems pretty gimped to me... And before the e-peeners jump in and say that losing one shop ins't a huge deal... It is... to me... and to many folk...

Seems more like a CY forum post at this point

now that ranged is changing so much, I think we should stop discussing RMsl/Dmsl for monsters until things are settled.

I just keep my saves and morgue file in the home directory and don't need to change anything ever.

Look I dunno why they don't replace the "weapon delay" thing with something like "You need <skill level n> with <weapon skill class> to use this weapon at full speed normally"

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