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In the tournament, about 4% of god worships used a faded altar. 06:16 <chequers> !lm * t god.ecumenical 06:17 <Sequell> 1187. [2018-08-26 18:43:53] snuffy the Sneak (L3 DsAs of Wu Jian) prayed at an ecumenical altar on turn 1605. (D:2) 06:17 <chequers> !lm * t god.worship 06:17 <Sequell> 27846. [201...

Currently, Gozag is a very dominant god for mummies, 50% (121/242) mummy games won this year are with Gozag. For all wins this year Gozag is the fourth most popular god, which is high but nowhere near dominant. In some ways Gozag's dominance is expected because potion petition and the piety system s...

The logic is that gods are powerful enough to provide the boons they want to their followers. The gods may still decline worship from various species.

Of course, if your streak breaks on the 10th game, then you just give up and don't play for the rest of the tournament since it is now literally impossible for you to win, so that would save some playtime...

Or perhaps the point system for streaking could also be changed, if this idea is adopted...

Mechanically speaking, I think the game would be better with a cleaner definition of how divine abilities and species restrictions work. In general, I think god abilities should override species restrictions. At the moment, some god abilities do and some do not. My proposed rule would be simply: &qu...

I thought about this and even coded up a commit to restrict Mummies from using Potion Petition. But after thinking about it, I think Crawl should go the other way. God abilities should ignore racial restrictions. Almost all god abilities work this way already. The only exception I know of is Trog's ...

Spell hunger is still relatively significant, especially for newer players.

Why would anyone choose to play this species? Where is the fun part?

Mummy has the "terrible species" gimmick already, so don't say that. And even mummy has some cool unique benefits.

I originally had a table in the OP of my own selections but I removed it because it's not important. The species categories were endlessly bikeshedded and everybody has their pet "major error", but the result is nevertheless fantastic. The species screen rework benefits newbies, who got a ...

Species have been grouped into something vaguely similar to "difficulty". I think the same should happen to backgrounds. Potentially, keep the layout of background screen the same and use colour to distinguish the three difficulties. I think this would help steer newbies to stronger backgr...

Some gods give piety for exploring, this sounds similar.

It would open up the (theoretical) ability to win the game without killing anything, which is a nice advanced conduct.

Why don't you want to return from the function? Is it because you are trying to store state across multiple turns?

Even if you get one plain orc, it's still one early-D monster showing up when you are XL15+. I think a lot of those band monsters are totally unthreatening. It might be better for bands to include just one or two orc sorcerers/high priests and nothing else. Or maybe Orcs can be removed entirely from...

This turned out to be very easy to code a prototype of: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/pull/838

The MP could scale with the base damage of the monster, which would also reduce the incentive to drag popcorn around.

Great work! New forks are always exciting :) Do you plan to continue work on it or is this more a once off code drop? In terms of feedback, your manifesto is about keeping a steady level of challenge. But I think there is a huge difficulty spike from D:15 to U:1. Do you plan to smooth this by tweaki...

One or two skill levels are practically free, so yes, might as well.

That's a randart weapon so it wouldn't have been generated cursed. Are you sure it was cursed? Maybe you just mistook the bright white of artifact. Was the game played online? You could watch the tty to see what happened

But what if the DES file contains randomness? For example, you might get either a fire dragon or an ice dragon. If the response is "but you still learn SOMETHING from reading the file", then we've had this conversation up-thread and I agree, but don't think the problem outweighs the benefi...

Tier 3 challenge: DUHZ

Playing Hellcrawl Xom as a non-magic user is quite good, since you get a lot of manuals it seems. I do agree that Xom feels like Okawaru + Jiyva though, the effects plus random gifts aren't interesting enough. I don't think Xom is in a bad enough spot to remove though. Just maybe needs someone to co...

But opaque transporter vaults aren't the only vaults which give DES-readers an advantage. I agree these new vaults probably give the biggest advantage relative to other vaults. My thinking differs in that I don't feel that is a problem. There will always be a "most DES-reader advantageous"...

A faded altar tells you "you will get a random god". It does not say "this faded altar will give you Makhleb". In the same way, an opaque transporter vault tells you "there will be tough monsters and good loot", not "there will be two titans and an ice dragon, and ...

1. I don't think this change would make the game more fun. An opaque transporter vault is a gamble. I don't feel cheated when I enter one and die, I think "dang! Next time I'll buff up before entering / read teleport earlier / ...". And when I win, I feel great! I beat the odds and got som...

Currently, good god penance does nothing unless you worship an evil god. You'll also need to change that to "good god penance does nothing unless you are a bad species or worship an evil god".

"dude puncher" and "distance fella" are both very default male. I'm afraid the political correctness cops have no choice but to execute you.

I initially hated the doom counter on vaults:$ too, but now I sorta like it. You need to approach the level with the goal of *not* clearing everything. It's much more of a hit and run strategy.

I picked up a manual of crossbows, which was marked useless.

I can do this next week, sorry for the delay

No link for CPO? I can't believe it

Yes, in trunk the player has a spell library.

Neither are very good, to be honest. I would prefer faith, regeneration, rage or guardian spirit.

How about sleeping the player when you put on amulet of the acrobat

Hello Barry!

It's just lack of development effort. All those improvements could be made if someone dedicated time to building them.

The instructions in INSTALL.txt are pretty easy to follow if you install Ubuntu in a VM. But sure, it would be great to have a one command Dockerfile that could build a Windows image

bel wrote:That's mostly a result of having upstairs; it's not really a problem with summons per se.

Upstairs are waaay more core to DCSS than summons are. And also that's not true, since you can swap places with a summon, you can infinitely pillar dance with them without needing to use stairs.

Summons allow effectively unlimited fight resets, which is very bad.

It uses loss aversion to discourage players from using summons for every fight. This encourages hybridisation, which makes Crawl a more enjoyable experience.

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/pull/774

There are lots of examples of LRD digging leading to degenerate gameplay in this forum's recent past. For example, use of it to create a tomb:3 killhole. There have been past examples where players have pre-dug routes between every stair from Z:5 to D:0 for their orb run.

I think spells should be auto memerised.

It's good fun!

People quitscum Ds a lot, and Dr a moderate amount, so having a few passives that cause many people to insta-quit isn't a problem. If there are active unlocks that cause quitting that might be a problem though.

There might be reasons to dislike this species taking an existing name, but the technical capabilities of sequell/scoring are a non-issue. As someone who worked quite heavily on scoring, dealing with "legacy" of old species names is not really a problem. A simple species rename is very eas...

FD is live on CPO too https://crawl.project357.org/

Your demigod branch is now playable on CPO! https://crawl.project357.org/

Great idea! It's very intriguing. I am keen to play it.

Have you pushed the source code? I only see a single commit for the skeleton implementation. If you could push the code (ideally to a separate branch from FD to simplify testing, but it's not a big deal) that would be great.

This would render useless my most valuable patch, so I vote no.

Species with random components are extremely fun to play. Demonspawn's randomness is what makes it by far the most liked species. Therefore I +1 the idea that not all spells are unlocked, but only a random subset (or at least in a random order that takes >15runes to "complete"). The proble...

Please include people beyond just #1 in each category. Even if it's just their names linking to morgues for #2-10. IMHO this would encourage more competition.

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