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That's kind of problematic when the benefit of range is so powerful. If you nerfed the damage output of ranged weapons enough to try and balance that aspect, you would end up making them very unsatisfying to use. Hence the damage reduced by range suggestion. You set launcher damage to be just a lit...

I'm not sure how anything changes from a UI perspective,The squares closer to you that aren't targetable are just like the squares that are too far away, and if something is in the way but too close, your shot just doesn't hit anything (I guess 'shooting past' something at something else might be i...

My suggestion would be a minimum attack distance, which doesn't exist in spells and melee presently, and would serve to distinguish ranged and be uncomplicated and have tactical implications. For example, is it that you can't attack the enemy right next to you? This sounds pretty good. This sounds ...

There are many ways to distinguish ranged from melee attacks. For instance: 1) damage scales from zero to max as distance to target increases 2) you cannot shoot at the same target twice in a row, encourages you to fight several monsters at the same time 3) you get bonus for shooting in the same di...

Honest to god that amulet is probably better than anything you can expect to find in the trove Not really. Str-3 Dex+4 is a wash. So you have an amulet of spirit shield that gets a little better in Zot. That's still better than anything you can expect to find in the trove It's common to find better...

Reaching + cleaving scythe when?

PseudoLoneWolf wrote:Honest to god that amulet is probably better than anything you can expect to find in the trove

Not really. Str-3 Dex+4 is a wash. So you have an amulet of spirit shield that gets a little better in Zot.

pedritolo wrote:Just a reminder that there's already a pot that gives rN+++

I had to think about that for a sec.

That potion is really the ultimate in "rewards system mastery", which seems to go against crawl philosophy. Personally I like being rewarded for such things, but I thought I'd point it out.

FR give some/most/all spells 100% success rate, but have the old fail rate formula impact spell power.

The concept and some of the suggestions sound neat. I'd like to see this more than once per game, if it's well executed. Even as often as 10% of all levels.

Especially the ones which change only monsters and level generation, as opposed to those which temporarily change the rules of the game.

sdynet wrote:https://github.com/crawl/crawl/wiki/Sif-Muna-Brainstorm

Where is the "spend piety to cast from spellbook" activated ability?

I'm also guessing the last line: "And dont forget your present !" is a reference to taking the rune. Hmm that makes things a bit trickier. I suppose I'll grab and tele. At XL 18, I've now found everything I need. The fail rates on the spells will improve with xp and brilliance. ⋅&nbs...

I questioned the oracle and was told, "much like the scriptures, a DCSSSSAT challenge is open to interpretation" So I'll interpret it as you suggested, RoGGa, except that the plusses are minimums, and "magic Santa hat" means any ego or artifact. And I can use whatever items I wan...

I'm having trouble understanding my task: Antaeus feels lonely and he needs some help ! With you +2 magic Santa hat and you +0 candycane of chaos (that you took from Santa Yuif), you need to bring him happiness and light a christmas tree for him (you can use summon forest). And dont forget your pres...

Is this the results thread?

I warn you, my challenge will be gozag-themed and involve the most exciting part of gozag gameplay.

Shout all the monsters out and kill them one at a time. Then walk through, collect the rune, and drink curing afterwards.

If a bunch of nasty ones appear at once, read tele, heal up, and try again.

"Power spiral" is the tendency for strong characters to improve at a faster rate than weaker characters. This results in an increasingly large gap between characters' power levels. This is bad because it makes balancing the game increasingly difficult. I was with you until this part. It's...

I think ya'll are missing part of the point of nemelex: It's OK for a card effect to be useless in some situations. The player is supposed to manage this by using various draw/stack/pick abilities, or simply by not waiting until he is one turn from death before blind drawing from decks.

You could make any manual work for all skills, but have the same capped amount of skill XP so it expires in the same time and raises each skill less than a manual normally would raise one skill. Reading a manual of axes and getting a new perspective on summoning seems pretty gnoll-ish. So a delayed...

CanOfWorms wrote:Treeform UC is 12 base damage at 1.0 base delay with a +10 STR bonus.

Damn.

In other words, always go unarmed during treeform? By the time my weapon and skills are better than that, I'm going to have better defenses in my normal form.

FR: Bribe branch shouldn't work on Orb run spawns. It trivializes most or all of the orb run for a relatively low price. This is separate from the discussions of "should bribe branch even exist?" and "should orb run even exist in its current form?". As long as they do exist, it's...

Potion of magic - Doesn't work with necromutation. Generally very rare. Potion of ambrosia - Doesn't work with necromutation. Not something you can use in a fight. Staff of Wucad Mu - I've found one; Ever. Sublimination of blood - doesn't work with necromutation Half the gods...I suppose, but is ve...

Temporary spell success boosts are bad. They make it optimal to memorize spells that you can't cast without the temporary success boost, but can cast with the boost. Your guy casts fireball normally, but in a tough fight he can quaff down brilliance to throw out some fire storms. Limited by the num...

For the low low price of eight potions of haste:

Code:: v - a manual of Air Magic F - a manual of Axes n - a manual of Charms T - a manual of Shields j - a manual of Spellcasting

Why does CBOE still exist in 2018?

duvessa wrote:people who continue using their awful weapon in tree form, not realizing that it has a huge unarmed bonus.

Suppose I have 15 STR and a decent early weapon like flail or war axe or Qstaff. How far do I have to train my weapon for it to be better than treeform UC?

duvessa wrote:
Rast wrote:
duvessa wrote:This has the problem that gnolls may prefer to avoid a manual to a useless skill in order to manipulate acquirements.

Nobody will do this
I would do it.

And would it affect your win chance, at all?

- Goldify manuals so that they don't take up an inventory slot. This is the simplest. This has the problem that gnolls may prefer to avoid a manual to a useless skill in order to manipulate acquirements. Nobody will do this and it's not a problem. And if someone does want to do this, they will just...

nago wrote:In the 2nd case the manual isn't interesting .

By that reasoning, you might as well remove potions of experience too.

inb4 duvessa unironically thanks.

sleepykitsune wrote:Update: I had two scrolls of acquirement. First one got me an Ice RN+ Int +6 Slay -5 ring. Is that slaying penalty worth it? Second one should be jewlery too, right?

That first ring is garbage.

Acquire armor.

Eventually it will become permanent. Until then, more mutation could drop you back down to scales 2.

Nekoatl wrote:Option 4: Remove manuals from the game entirely. If you're training a skill, you carry the manual... if not, you don't. This is a complete no-brainer decision.

The decision is: should i train the skill I wasn't going to train, now that I have a manual which will make it train twice as fast?

Goratrix wrote:
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the +16 plate armour of Niam (worn) {+Blink rC- Int+2} (You found it on level 10 of the Dungeon)

That's seriously boring. Pretty strong, though.

Thanks. Based on the wiki, there are very few acid resistance monsters outside of Slime. Electricity resistance seems to be a good deal more common. Also, a guaranteed 5 damage every hit is more valuable than 14 damage 1 out of three hits. Furthermore, I think duvessa underestimates how good it is t...

duvessa wrote:2d4 extra, AC-ignoring damage

slightly better version of electrocution

Does electrocution ignore AC too?

Then how about taking the orc inventory completely out of the player's control ? For instance a fixed inventory for each orc archetype (polearms of course, for sanity), where promotion automatically changes the orc's equipment. Then you lose the fun of equipping your guys with cool artifacts from t...

The end result would be boundless micromanagement. There's a reason that's on the won't do list. I disagree. Your orcs would do a good job with item management on their own, and every so often you could check in to make sure they hadn't made any mistakes. Like a good boss does. There could be a sub...

Here's how I think orc follower item use could work. Would require a fair bit of coding, but the end result would be nice for the player. 1) Followers pick up and use weapons&armour they find lying around the dungeon 2) Followers use their own AI (varies from orc to orc) to decide which items th...

Besides what delarado said, you could have dug a kill hole

summoned some bros

used wands, especially wand of enslavement

minmay_hollow_rounded_squares doesn't have no_tele_into

https://underhound.eu/crawl/morgue/Ge0f ... 133057.txt

Resistances are important before Zot, but that's not why you are dying.

Post the morgue of your snake:2 death and we'll tell you what you did wrong. Most likely it was fighting too many monsters at once and not using your consumables.

Magipi wrote:To be fair, GnBe have some advantages too (compared to HuBe):
1. Even better early game (due to high skills)
2. Fangs
3. The ability to freely switch weapon types (if Trog or the dungeon trolls you).

4. Throwing
5. Evocations

VeryAngryFelid wrote:Because it is easier to distinguish 1 from nothing than 1 from 0.

It also makes clear the difference between "haven't earned this yet" and "can't earn this at all now".

Here is an alphabetic list of 100,000 players who have completed at least one game online. http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/all-players.html It has the dates of each player's first and last online games, so that might help to narrow it down. Crawl is a single player game that can be downloaded for ...

That vault with the merfolk avatar and miasma clouds is obnoxious (but behind a blue door). I did it recently completely painlessly with a scroll of blinking from the door to a spot adjacent to the merfolk, avoiding all of the miasma. This is not a defense of bad vaults, but I'd prefer to waste a c...

Eyesburn wrote:but really theres no reason to give monsters free turns while you are picking up gold coins

Yeah, this is something nobody wants. Gozag in abyss is annoying, but dying while picking up gold is worse.

duvessa wrote:why do we even have a guaranteed food vault?

It's relevant with Gozag.

Feature request for the weekly scoreboard: For active games, don't display a zero under: Unique Kill, Branch Enter, Branch End, Collect a Rune, Collect 3 Runes, Win. If the player hasn't scored it yet, just leave it blank.

I was wondering why you had gnolls in your list of bad berserkers, but then I saw you were playing the old trunk version of gnoll.

In the released version, there isn't any such thing as a bad gnoll. You've probably figured that out by now.

FR remove blowguns, rename needles to darts, remove about half the dart brands.

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