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Wednesday, 28th June 2017, 22:51

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: duvessa's unironic tier lists

Replies: 128

Views: 68816

Re: duvessa's unironic tier lists

Also no ratings for Sword of Cerebov, Sceptre of Asmodeus, Staff of Dispater, or Horn of Geryon. Staff of Dispater is so amazingly good that merely finding it means that you're incredibly likely to win. Sure, that may be 100% due to the fact that you found the last rune you could possibly get, but w...

Wednesday, 28th June 2017, 21:48

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: jorgrun you absolute jobber

Replies: 10

Views: 3503

Re: jorgrun you absolute jobber

What the hell is a jobber?

Monday, 26th June 2017, 22:05

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: duvessa's unironic tier lists

Replies: 128

Views: 68816

Re: duvessa's unironic tier lists

Remember that you don't have to play to maximize probability of winning every game. In fact, most excellent players do not do that because it's not much fun. On the other hand, it's unreasonable to suggest duvessa's (or any) tier list should ignore best practices because most people can't be bother...

Wednesday, 21st June 2017, 18:02

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: 0.20 is so hard that crawl is no fun any longer

Replies: 152

Views: 57297

Re: 0.20 is so hard that crawl is no fun any longer

"spell haste and wands of hasting should exist"
"why"
"because they should be spammable"
"why"
"because"

and so on

Tuesday, 13th June 2017, 04:20

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Mibe's guide on scoring lots of points in DCSS tournaments!

Replies: 34

Views: 16215

Re: Mibe's guide on scoring lots of points in DCSS tournamen

I'm not trying to "justify" anything lol, it was a bad mistake followed by more bad mistakes, like most lategame deaths. My point is that the situation that actually killed me was 100% avoidable if I had responded correctly to an earlier situation, not unlucky or due to 0.20 being more di...

Tuesday, 13th June 2017, 04:01

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Mibe's guide on scoring lots of points in DCSS tournaments!

Replies: 34

Views: 16215

Re: Mibe's guide on scoring lots of points in DCSS tournamen

lol that orb splat justification is more convoluted than crawl's damage formula for airstrike

Tuesday, 30th May 2017, 01:59

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Running multiple versions online.

Replies: 2

Views: 1422

Re: Running multiple versions online.

Yes, game saves are stored independently by version and can even be played at the same time. You can see this happening with robin accounts that have a shared login, where multiple players are playing using one account on the same server, just playing different versions. Your games saved in one vers...

Saturday, 27th May 2017, 04:56

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Spoilery Stuff

Replies: 10

Views: 4061

Re: Spoilery Stuff

The meaning or interpretation of minmay's dreams. I've been getting descriptions of these off-and-on in PM on irc for months now, but I have no clue what they mean or why I get them.

Wednesday, 17th May 2017, 21:57

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Fast Food Opinions

Replies: 42

Views: 16675

Re: Fast Food Opinions

Have you ever made a breakfast burrito with chorizo? Good imo.

Tuesday, 16th May 2017, 12:09

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: 0.20 release and tournament

Replies: 45

Views: 40316

0.20 release and tournament

Some details in this post . The 0.20 rules page will be available hopefully sometime this week, and I'll update this thread with a link. Feel free to coordinate teams in this thread or discuss any rule changes you'd like to see. Update: The 0.20 tournament page is online. Also see a few notes in thi...

Sunday, 7th May 2017, 11:23

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Remove trunk

Replies: 40

Views: 14423

Re: Remove trunk

Tallying up a single sample of online games at one timepoint is an awful way to try to prove that people aren't playing trunk. But I can save you the time, since people are playing trunk. If you look historically at the proportion of games that are trunk between after the stable tournament until the...

Thursday, 20th April 2017, 06:36

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Real-world references

Replies: 101

Views: 42821

Re: Real-world references

Mod note: This thread was re-opened because it was felt that there could still be some substantive discussion about the topic in the OP. So if you're interested in that aim yet read something you disagree with in the thread that's at written in a reasonably polite way, please try to respond in-kind ...

Thursday, 13th April 2017, 22:37

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Real-world references

Replies: 101

Views: 42821

Re: Real-world references

I think Lasty's approach of "in good faith" classification of those references for purpose of consideration is fine. Our aim is not to call people out, but rather make a game with lore that's not trying to offend the community.

Thursday, 13th April 2017, 00:37

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: just a reminder

Replies: 3

Views: 1723

Re: just a reminder

My only regret is that the message didn't have a timestamp of exactly two hours earlier.

Saturday, 8th April 2017, 22:55

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Real-world references

Replies: 101

Views: 42821

Re: Real-world references

To me it's not a double-standard to say that in a Eurocentric fiction, Christianity and the Abrahamic tradition in general don't need to be treated with the same care as Islam. Historically and up to the present day, Muslims have been represented in Europe as the barbarous Oriental other: irrationa...

Sunday, 26th March 2017, 23:46

Forum: Bulletin Board

Topic: Welcome advil to the dev team

Replies: 5

Views: 4999

Welcome advil to the dev team

advil, otherwise known as Kyle Rawlins, had been remedying our bug headaches before we asked him to join at the end of February and has continued to do so since. Additionally he's implemented our excellent new Noise display and has recently been working to remove unwanted information from stash sear...

Wednesday, 15th March 2017, 03:41

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Remove Webpage Security Certificates

Replies: 14

Views: 4384

Re: Remove Webpage Security Certificates

I would have thanked if you'd posted in the style of my High Elf removal commit.

Monday, 13th March 2017, 19:53

Forum: Suggestions & Criticism

Topic: Expired certificate

Replies: 10

Views: 11401

Re: Expired certificate

Napkin is aware of this problem and will be setting up a new cert in the next couple weeks.

Monday, 13th March 2017, 18:36

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Skill locked chests (a more palatable Archaeologist)

Replies: 31

Views: 10464

Re: Skill locked chests (a more palatable Archaeologist)

Beogh doesn't provide any of quests, towns, selling, or crafting, so the god doesn't provide "exactly that" experience. Beogh gives you permanent allies and a very limited means of giving some of them a piece of equipment. This is not an aspect of game management that we wish to expand, ge...

Sunday, 12th March 2017, 02:01

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Skill locked chests (a more palatable Archaeologist)

Replies: 31

Views: 10464

Re: Skill locked chests (a more palatable Archaeologist)

Well, the game is designed around the notion that the player is trying to "get runes, get orb, get out". We don't have quests, towns, selling, crafting, or many other notions from role-playing games that try to provide those experiences. So unless the challenge that a new feature or item a...

Saturday, 4th February 2017, 05:49

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Metroidvanias

Replies: 30

Views: 10465

Re: Metroidvanias

major props on figuring out exactly the game i meant from that awful bullshit definition i gave Yeah, but really, what is the definition of a roguelike? When you think about it, it's not really well-defined. Like we could talk about the Berlin definition and of course the now-ubiquitous "rogue...

Monday, 23rd January 2017, 03:01

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: What should I do for my 500 Twitch Follower Special

Replies: 37

Views: 13780

Re: What should I do for my 500 Twitch Follower Special

Ok I don't like how the only workable suggestions came from "TrumpTrain". Seriously we need to do better than this. You only get to 500 Twitch followers once and it has to be a special time for one and all. A DCSS stream allowing song requests is possible, or I could just allow song reques...

Sunday, 22nd January 2017, 22:24

Forum: Technical Support

Topic: Trouble running game in OS X

Replies: 5

Views: 2193

Re: Trouble running game in OS X

Yes, I've been told by the person who does our OS X builds that they should support versions going back to 10.7, but you only have 10.6.8. So I think you're out of luck for 0.19 and future versions. You could try version more recent than 0.15; I'm not sure if 0.16 or 0.17 will work, but I doubt 0.18...

Sunday, 22nd January 2017, 22:21

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Remove Beogh

Replies: 104

Views: 40927

Re: Remove Beogh

I very much agree with point 1. Direct parody of specific religions doesn't have a place in this game imo, and certainly not with exceptions for some religions. For point 2, I think there's a key game-play differences between Yred and Beogh (ignoring any theme/flavor). Beogh gives you allies with re...

Friday, 20th January 2017, 20:17

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: ITT we remove races

Replies: 26

Views: 8359

Re: ITT we remove races

Sounds like people want to read more of my greatest commit messages. The high elf one is nice, but by no means my finest. I'll post a few later today.

Friday, 20th January 2017, 01:45

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: thank if you have better music taste than me

Replies: 25

Views: 7857

Re: thank if you have better music taste than me

wow, Arrhythmia saying he'll give free thanks. This is very shocking news.

Thursday, 19th January 2017, 09:46

Forum: Technical Support

Topic: Mouse lag in debian testing

Replies: 11

Views: 5011

Re: Mouse lag in debian testing

For anyone following this, I pushed a fix in 0.20-a0-502-g555d78b. Hopefully this fixes the mouse lag issue due those event loop changes way back in 0.16. If anyone can test this version on their system, either by compiling it or using the windows trunk build when that updates tomorrow, that would b...

Wednesday, 18th January 2017, 23:38

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: ITT we remove races

Replies: 26

Views: 8359

Re: ITT we remove races

For reference: High elves were a relatively uninteresting species in terms of gameplay, feeling somewhat like tengu but with weapon specialization like merfolk. Their theme originates from Tolkien, a source of lore that crawl is trying to borrow less from these days. Their gorgeous blonde hair not w...

Monday, 16th January 2017, 09:05

Forum: Technical Support

Topic: Trouble compiling crawl

Replies: 5

Views: 2559

Re: Trouble compiling crawl

It looks like you have make, so you have the dev toolchain probably, but you don't have a compiler. Maybe you didn't follow the instructions from here : pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain Verify that you've run this pacman command to install the compiler toolchain. If so you should be able to simp...

Monday, 16th January 2017, 04:26

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Why phase out races at all?

Replies: 60

Views: 24597

Re: Why phase out races at all?

Alright, this thread has ceased to be a productive discussion, and I'm locking the thread. The dev team is a group of volunteers that have agreed to share commit access to the project. The terms under which we collaborate are not open for democratic vote, nor is the method we use for communication, ...

Sunday, 15th January 2017, 07:17

Forum: Technical Support

Topic: Unreliability of akrasiac

Replies: 1

Views: 1411

Re: Unreliability of akrasiac

CAO had some issues recently due some technical issues and the owner/admin not having a lot of free time to maintain it. However those major issues have hopefully been addressed. The only other recent down-times were the relocation at the end of the year, where it was down for a few days, and then t...

Saturday, 14th January 2017, 23:40

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Which Build Was Your First Win?

Replies: 51

Views: 18884

Re: Which Build Was Your First Win?

HEFi^Oka->TSO, 15 runes, 0.11. I asked tiles chat to join and watch my ascension. So a bunch did, and timbw just started insulting my vestibule stash. Later I almost died a couple times on the orb run.

Saturday, 14th January 2017, 19:25

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: What should I do for my 500 Twitch Follower Special

Replies: 37

Views: 13780

What should I do for my 500 Twitch Follower Special

It's gonna be a little longer before 500 followers, maybe a month or two, but of course I want to hear what the fans want so I can plan accordingly. And yeah, I could wait until 1000 followers, but it's good to celebrate the early goals when you're still starting out, and we're also closing in on 10...

Monday, 26th December 2016, 16:53

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Somewhere, on a cloud in crawl heaven...

Replies: 2

Views: 1422

Re: Somewhere, on a cloud in crawl heaven...

If not-rabbits-not-ever-rabbits get hosted on CBRO and I do a stream of them, I'll use this image as my stream intro art.

Monday, 26th December 2016, 15:52

Forum: Technical Support

Topic: Help with IRC channel

Replies: 1

Views: 1978

Re: Help with IRC channel

You can use the Freenode web client to connect to ##crawl from your browser, or use one of the many IRC clients out there for your OS (mIRC and HexChat are popular for Windows OSes). For live chat there's also the DCSS channel on the roguelikes discord server and WebTiles chat. If you check out the ...

Sunday, 25th December 2016, 20:18

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: music for the gods

Replies: 16

Views: 5284

Re: music for the gods

Sunday, 25th December 2016, 00:54

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: What's the reasoning behind Frogs?

Replies: 66

Views: 23535

Re: What's the reasoning behind Frogs?

If PleasingFungus feels they're at a playable state, I'm sure he'll ask johnstein about hosting on CBRO. We'll have to go with "maybe soon".

Saturday, 24th December 2016, 20:36

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: What's the reasoning behind Frogs?

Replies: 66

Views: 23535

Re:

Cat leap wasn't removed, it was reworked into Dith's Shadow Step. This isn't true. Shadow step was something that mikee put in his original proposal . Grunt took the jump attack targetter and generalized the code to implement a version of shadow step similar to that proposal, but it didn't replace ...

Friday, 16th December 2016, 19:44

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Dynast's Current DCSS Analysis

Replies: 10

Views: 3442

Re: Dynast's Current DCSS Analysis

This is kind of like when you made those overly complicated graphs. People weren't really sure what you were getting at, but we appreciated the effort. Just don't prioritize these memes over cool draconian (or naga wanderer) art, please.

Friday, 16th December 2016, 19:40

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: I created the biggest tavern meme of 2016, AMA

Replies: 46

Views: 13845

Re: I created the biggest tavern meme of 2016, AMA

Work is ongoing to improve the slot system by consolidating food types and handling strategic consumables in a different way. So, how is the work going? And the great removals were great. Yeah, strategic inventory was something we've wanted, but it is tricky due to the code involved and getting the...

Friday, 16th December 2016, 19:37

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: I created the biggest tavern meme of 2016, AMA

Replies: 46

Views: 13845

Re: I created the biggest tavern meme of 2016, AMA

Could, but no one would agree on those kw. Like your query is wrong, since there are lots of good duvessa posts that aren't sarcastic. See? Right from your example, we have a problem. Also it'd probably just end up being used for harassment (which learnDB already has a problem with). And let's keep ...

Friday, 16th December 2016, 15:05

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: I created the biggest tavern meme of 2016, AMA

Replies: 46

Views: 13845

Re: I created the biggest tavern meme of 2016, AMA

GF, I'm not sure if you understand the context in which that particular meme has been used lately. You're just new to the Tavern posting experience. It's all about reading all the rants, the snarky replies to rants, the crazy non-sequiturs, the bizarre consipiracy theories etc; that's half of the f...

Friday, 16th December 2016, 14:23

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: I created the biggest tavern meme of 2016, AMA

Replies: 46

Views: 13845

Re: I created the biggest tavern meme of 2016, AMA

Can you speedrun a DESu with new Sif Muna? I haven't tried but from the looks of it I'd say "lol, no". And he's the author of the commit that changed Sif, so, in a sense... Of course you can. Although I wouldn't claim you could necessarily beat Sapher's old NaWz, less than 30k turns for 1...

Friday, 16th December 2016, 01:53

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: I created the biggest tavern meme of 2016, AMA

Replies: 46

Views: 13845

I created the biggest tavern meme of 2016, AMA

lol i wouldnt talk 2 u, just read my commit message again High elves were a relatively uninteresting species in terms of gameplay, feeling somewhat like tengu but with weapon specialization like merfolk. Their theme originates from Tolkien, a source of lore that crawl is trying to borrow less from t...

Wednesday, 14th December 2016, 14:36

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: What? Your removed High elves?

Replies: 33

Views: 10044

Re: What? Your removed High elves?

Claiming that they're the "only feasible" species for AM is outright ridiculous. Species that have good apts for a launcher + hexes: DE, Dr, Fo, Hu, Ko. And there are of course many more species that work just fine for AM (and are much stronger than HE were). HE weren''t even popular for A...

Monday, 28th November 2016, 09:19

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Suggestion for Wanderer: start with the Book of Cantrips

Replies: 2

Views: 1764

Re: Suggestion for Wanderer: start with the Book of Cantrips

Mod note: Moved from Suggestions and Criticisms, which is for discussion about Tavern itself, not game design issues, and post title edited to reflect the request. OP, this is generally the right forum for discussing game design issues, but please see the GDD guidelines before making further posts.

Sunday, 27th November 2016, 10:58

Forum: Technical Support

Topic: 0.19.1 for Win32, please?

Replies: 2

Views: 2752

Re: 0.19.1 for Win32, please?

Others complained about not being able to run DCSS on their 32-bit windows tablet, so I redid the builds as 32-bit instead of 64-bit. You can find these on the download page. We'll probably just keep doing them as 32-bit until we can get a better setup.

Thursday, 24th November 2016, 10:25

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Developing Ieoh Jian Council (Latest version inside)

Replies: 69

Views: 45002

Re: Developing Ieoh Jian Council (Latest version inside)

Locking this thread, use the thread about the hosted branch for further discussion about the god.

Tuesday, 22nd November 2016, 00:58

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: How to create a monster: Headless Horseman

Replies: 19

Views: 5700

Re: How to create a monster: Headless Horseman

Bullshit. Devs wouldn't even rate the proposal, they'd just reject it outright because OP implied that MiBe is the best combo.

Thursday, 17th November 2016, 09:04

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: A Few Days

Replies: 7

Views: 2974

Re: A Few Days

Courtesy of agolden, we have packages for Tiles and console for 0.19 that should work on 10.10 and above! You can get these from the download page . These are unsigned packages, and you may get a security warning. I'm told that on 10.12, to open it you have to control-click, select Open from the con...
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