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How is that different from HP? Getting HP and MP back by resting might not be a great game mechanic, but it's deeply integrated into DCSS, and I don't think it's going anywhere. Also, higher MP regen is actually very useful in combat, I had a Ds with the MP facet once and it was pretty strong. So ju...

AFAIK you wont get exp.

Real time slow, because thinking about every turn takes time.

It sounds pretty fiddly. It probably wouldn't be as bad as it sounds, because if you use beams to trigger the comet the tail would cover a pretty large area and you would probably hit the things you want to hit without thinking about it much. But since it's not actually hitting the thing you are att...

Baldu3 wrote:Isn't the benefit of energy randomization that it makes it possible to escape from adjacent enemies and get to some stairs without using consumables/spells/evokes, even if it takes a while and some hits need to be taken?

No, that's what weapon swapping is for.

Or Boris could just stay the way he is?

If you like a challenge and exp, and don't mind him showing up later again, you kill him. If you do mind you just go away. There's nothing wrong with that IMO. I really like the way Boris currently works.

Sounds interesting. The current gods are Crawl's single haven of reliability in a random dungeon, but this god seems extremely random, with the random choice of artifacts when forging and the huge reliance on enchant scrolls. So I think the player should at least get a choice for the brand abilities...

I don't think so.

MarvinPA wrote:Squashed (minus the corrosion change) and pushed, thanks!

Aaaaand they're gone.

FWIW I don't think xenophobia has anything to do with this. To take inspiration from the Qur'an you first have to know at least parts of it, and that requires being interested and being open to learning about it. I assume it's just an innocent joke about religion taken a little too far.

I agree that spriggan monsters don't play very well, mostly due to the low HP + high EV combination. In theory it could be an interesting way to change the value of attacks, like resistances. But unlike resistances it's more like an extremely specific vulnerability, which in addition is hidden. EV a...

nago wrote:Btw, I kinda prefer crate's solution - it still put the player in an uneasy situation but leave him with more options to approach the level.

crate wrote:http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a=commitdiff;h=8827e6af11f4

The description is clearly intended to poke fun at religion and religious people, and to offend fundamentalists of all varieties. Considering who wrote it there can be very little doubt about that. I think poking fun is fine, but it goes a little too far in this case.

There actually was a survey. From the draft of the 2012 crawl survey report: C6. Do you play "trunk" (the beta version of the upcoming release)? The majority of participants doesn’t bother with trunk and only ever plays officially released versions. Count Percent Playing trunk? 2707 48.0% ...

Anything wrong with making V5 extradimensional and allow Pac-man-esque wrap-throughs at the edges /ends of the new corridors? Haha, nice idea. This would be pretty cool, but probably not feasible to do properly (would probably require a lot of work to implement and especially to fix all the bugs). ...

Removing your EV and SH and also preventing you from moving could be an interesting effect to replace paralysis for some monsters. Preventing actions and movement without affecting defenses is another similar but weaker effect that could be interesting. Unfortunately neither of these makes as much s...

Yes, there is an option for this. Put "tile_skip_title = true" in your (local) init.txt or (online) rcfile.

Among several other extremely unpleasant experiences with paralysation I have been instakilled by it while wearing MR after opening a door (by a Sphinx, so not related to presence in random spell sets). In random spell sets (which are listed in monster descriptions now), as a wand and as a Hell effe...

I don't like the skill restrictions. They are almost always irrelevant when playing well and in my opinion they do only one useful thing: they prevent bad players from training things they shouldn't. In return for this one good effect, people occasionally have to work around the restrictions and hav...

It's not always bad. It's usually not bad if you cast a lot of spells, because spellpower is usually really good for those kinds of characters. And if you only cast spells rarely you can probably afford slightly lower success rates. So no, it does not belong with the bad mutations.

Wooo, bikeshedding. Awesome.

Edit: Oh right, content and not derailing the thread and all that. I think the flavor is fine. It's okay to be original. One might even say it's good to have some original content!

It doesn't give claws because it's supposed to be equally useful with weapons and unarmed.

I think sometimes it makes sense to do Slime instead of V:$. It's much more predictable, but of course still a hellhole. But V:$ is a really good level, so usually you should just get the Vaults rune because it's more fun.

neil wrote:Demons haven't been immune to umbra since 0.11.

Oh, shouldn't trust learndb I guess. Sorry for the confusion.

Undead and demons are immune. Yred and Dith worshipers too.

galehar wrote:Well, you can disagree, but it turns out that moderation is done by moderators, not by user vote.

Of course, but users can and should give moderators feedback.

I disagree with that ban. While VJ obviously doesn't like you and dpeg at all and keeps showing that, his posts actually are, as he said, consistently contentful. Sure he's full of himself, and this and his dislike of you often prevents useful dialogue. I completely understand that you don't want to...

But thinking about it what the restriction does is just letting you use a less wide selection of damage dealing wands, spells and brands. In short, it lowers your potential offense while offering you a big set of tools to use instead. Hm, yes, sounds like it could be pretty interesting after all, e...

I haven't played with Dith yet, so I can only theorize. While the no light conduct fits with the shadow flavor, from a purely gameplay point of view it seems inconsistent and arbitrary. Banning lots of completely different things because hey, why not, does not sound like a good idea to me. Some exam...

A case where this has bothered me is with books containing spells hated by your god. The book is red, but you cant easily see which spell is responsible. It is also not really clear that not the whole book is problematic but just a single spell. The information that the book contains a spell that yo...

I'm pretty sure you don't want to get stabbed with a claymore. Besides, stabbing makes no sense already, it's just as easy to kill someone unaware or otherwise defenseless with most large weapons as with a dagger. Probably easier. Cf executioners. In a hellhole where everyone hates you anyway there ...

I'd prefer a more inclusive approach (remove item destruction, period), but sure, removing it from just Harpies would be a good start.

duvessa wrote:The fire vortex stumbles backwards!

It's magic.

Also, marvin, just leave, please. I feel like I should expect better from a developer than to come into a thread for no purpose other than spite. I'm pretty sure he wasn't posting out of spite, and unlike a lot of other people he actually had something useful to say. There are nicer ways to say it,...

Probably just the usual stuff people eventually regret saying on public record. Of course people should not use public communications channels for things that don't belong in public. But oh well, kids will be kids. Also, stupid adults will be stupid adults. There definitely should be some kind of wa...

I think having a minimum does not sound good. It means you probably don't want to try to counteract that stat malus by using your levelup stat gains on it, because if you just let it go down it will stop at 6 and you can put all your stats into something else.

I would like to remind people that not so long ago long blades were considered a very strong choice. Buffing them is power creep. You mean like buffing maces to be better than long blades was power creep? Sure. But two wrongs don't make a right. Anyway, it was just something that seemed to need men...

Only ticking buff timers down when enemies are in sight is a new and interesting idea. But it would work much better without automatic recasting. Also, I think there are already ideas that are better. For forms I would prefer not having expiration with time at all. For defensive spells I would prefe...

All form effects should be either permanent while the form is used, or be caused directly by some player or monster action. Hell effects have their place in the hells, there's no reason to add them to form spells.

Ah, your proposal is pretty much the same as the best thing on that wiki page. One thing to keep in mind: when proposing to change something, it's okay to change things. Your proposal already removes miscast effects and the time cost of recasting. Now why not change more to actually turn it into a g...

Maybe read the dev wiki page on permabuffs, and keep in mind that all of the things on it are not in crawl, for very good reasons.

I didn't actually read it, but I saw things like "warning when a hunger cost is supposed to be auto-paid". It's bad. Any auto-recast thingy that has things happening at specific times without any player or monster action causing these events is bad. And anything that doesn't shouldn't be c...

By the way, auto recast is bad. Please lets not talk about it. If you think it's good, think about it until you see the light.

Isn't dig is also used by trolls to cut corners? Sometimes using it out of view is interesting. Random digging while wandering of course isn't.

Generally I like the idea, but: It is true that you could just simply use it once at 90% success rate and never look back, but we could think of something to balance this off I'm sure. Potions of brilliance and wizardry items exist, so you could cast it once at 10% natural success rate. Duration cou...

I think all of the spells that do things like this were removed over the last few versions.

The picture looks awesome btw.

Boring beetles can dig too, and they do it even when the player is not around.

Still I think monsters digging themselves out of vaults is a bigger problem.

I would like to remind people that not so long ago long blades were considered a very strong choice. Buffing them is power creep.

Oh, you're the guy with the dwarf picture! I always remembered the picture, but now finally the question "where did that Psiweapon guy suddenly come from" is answered!

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