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Webtiles does have a monster list. Maybe it's not displayed because of screen size, you can use the tile_layout_priority option to change this. See options_guide.txt . A good X mode for tiles is wanted for a long time, but so far nobody made one. It's one of those things that are nice to have, but n...

njvack wrote:oh my god is snakes to sticks a xom effect because it should be

It is.

The important thing is that the GDR percentage is actually a percentage of the maximum possible damage roll, not of the actual damage roll (actually it's more complicated, it seems to be the maximum base damage, not including weapon enchantment, berserk, and other such factors). And you got that wro...

Both descriptions are wrong. saved = random2(1 + ac); saved = max(saved, min(gdr * max_damage / 100, ac / 2)); return max(damage - saved, 0); So a GDR of x% means that the actually rolled damage will always be reduced by at least x% of the maximum possible damage, or AC/2, whichever is lower. So as ...

Octopodes lose a bunch of other slots, and you usually have more ring slots than useful rings for a pretty long time. So managing equipment is actually fairly painless for Octopodes at first, because you don't have to swap rings so much. As you find more universally useful rings such as slaying, eva...

It's really not that bad. If you have played a few roguelikes and like them, you probably already have the right expectations. There's a lot to discover, and unfortunately some important things are hard to discover by yourself. But other than that DCSS is pretty straightforward for an experienced ro...

Resistance is also a normal shield brand.

I'm pretty sure talking about it here would be fine.

Well... I /do/ have an excel spreadsheet that I've been tweaking around for a while to balance str, dex, and int for a roguelike that I hope to make as my comp sci project this year. My goal was to make it so that each of the 3 classes, ranger, warrior, and mage, have a main stat, but still make it...

It's not super powerful or anything, but power creep is not a good thing. Especially when there is no pressing reason.

That's exactly what I did, but sound messages are a bit weird and go through a few different channels. It would have been nice to unify this and have one central place for inserting the direction instead of adding the replacement to a bunch of different functions, but I didn't get around to it. I al...

Allowing dragon armors doesn't make much sense IMO.

I think the apts are too one-dimensional, and too close to Spriggans. Giving them invis for free at level 12 does not help in this regard.

Can they transmute? Because most undead cant.

I believe someone suggested that before, and I think it's a good idea. Actually showing people how much noise they make would be really good. But last time this was discussed it was brought up that not just the noise from last turn matters. Also monsters are noisy too, and that is also important. It...

Some really loud spells already mention noise in their messages, it's not really helping. It still took me way too long to learn the importance of noise.

Some sort of advanced tutorial about tactics could cover noise. It should be much more free-form than the regular tutorial, and with fewer message tiles. Something like a fairly easy sprint with some signposts stuck in. It would be hard to do well though, and might be a lot of work to maintain.

Volteccer_Jack wrote:On the other hand exploding and getting myself banned actually provided results.

Actually neil said he hadn't seen the reactions to his commit in this thread when he reverted it. So no it didn't.

I'm pretty sure the "new evokable flask" and the "existing phial of floods" are the same thing. It creates some shallow water.

Galefury: I am not so sure -- this is where the disagreements start :) For example, I think that jellies are good. Sorry for not being clear, I meant destruction of items in the inventory. Making me actually carry the things I want with me is a lot less annoying than making me not carry them. I'm n...

While a more sophisticated approach may be even better, I still think that crawl would be a better game if item destruction were simply removed, without a replacement or other changes. Further changes might further improve crawl, but even just getting rid of item destruction would already be a net p...

The forum etiquette is basically "don't be a huge jackass". I don't think making another thread about this would help.

To be fair, magic dart can be used at range, so you usually also do it in addition to swinging your weapon. And if the damage turns out to be bad and the enemy is still at some distance you can just start walking away until your mana is full and try again, or go up some stairs, which doesn't work so...

It wasn't so bad, and certainly had some interesting and useful information. But it shouldn't be styled as a guide IMO, because there was a lot of bad advice in it.

moop wrote:And most of all - that was a perfectly serviceable dick joke given the setup. You can't leave a softball like that hanging over the plate.

I think I missed it.

Does Crawl has hidden property of difficulty? Or does it scales monsters according to character's XL? No. Very few things that can be observed or changed by the player affect monster, item and terrain generation. The time you spend on a level influences the difficulty of newly spawning monsters on ...

I think he just posts less.

Volteccer_Jack wrote:A bunch of whining

You can probably get around most of your troubles by just inscribing clubs and spears. No need to inscribe all weapons in the game, most aren't snakeable anyway.

I'm pretty sure dpeg is not the jackass here.

IIRC only Mf can retrieve items from deep water.

-.-

Edit: okay, an actual response: There's no percentage in what you calculated. This should give you a clue that there may be something you have not taken into account.

Artifacts are immutable, so no golems can be made from those. Another (bigger) problem is that this lets you turn something useless (equipment you are never going to use) into something useful (a permanent ally). This already doesn't work very well for Nemelex & company, more interactions of thi...

Haha, excellent!

Lava does the same thing to items that it does to terminators.

Well, Spriggans get -3 move delay and are tiny, but suffer from huge equipment restrictions, and they get -30% HP, but they also have a lot of other stuff going on. So -20% would probably be more fair. It's probably better to ask a more experienced player.

Lasty wrote:Giant clubs are too strong but -3 move delay isn't? Seems to me like the small facet is now the best one by a lot.

This. Being small is already very good, especially when the usual equipment restrictions don't apply. -3 move delay on top of that is just crazy.

Shields are not bad, it's just that characters who kill things with weapons usually work better when they are better at what they do. It's really mostly about the rarity IMO. If you find something awesome like the shield of resistance it's probably worth using, and if you find a good 1H weapon early...

I think it might be cool, but it's not really obvious which race effects to convey and which not. This also applies to players using the item, so it's probably just going to end up being really weird, and I don't mean the good kind of weird. I mean the kind that makes people submit the same bug repo...

In games with a strict food clock backtracking for food is simply not feasible for various reasons, one of which is the strict food clock. Crawl cant have that because of the branching dungeon which requires occasional backtracking, so maybe it's going to be a problem. I think that problem can be ad...

Just look at MarvinPA's rcfile, it has a bunch of autopickup stuff in it.

Edit: corrected the link to point to the CDO version. Also, the options guide in the crawl documentation has a lot of information on options, so it may also be worth checking out.

It's good that you can pick strength on levelup then! Also, permafood wouldn't pile up as much as it currently does, because you would have to eat it.

I'm not sure more permafood spawning is even necessary. After all Spriggans currently work pretty well. One thing that should probably be done is start everyone with one or two rations (for example meat unless herbivorous). Other than that an easy first step would be to increase the nutritional valu...

players might not want the "best" creature according to the game's ranking (HD, XP, or whatever) Fuck them. :P More seriously, having to switch to a new stack of chunks for Sublimation is pretty annoying. OTOH sublimation from chunks could just be removed, because it's really not very int...

dpeg already mentioned he would like to remove chunk-eating for satiation purposes if it's possible, and some of the other devs seemed interested. There hasn't been a proper proposal as far as I remember, so it's interesting to read your thoughts on this. I haven't read the thread because it's very ...

I think it's because early unarmed is really bad? I'm not really sure though, it might be better than I think.

Or you could walk to a corner. Seems like a good approach strategy, right?

Even in the open, wielding and unwielding bread takes a turn, so it's probably not worth it.

Well, in that case you cant get rid of the claws. Obviously.

The biggest problem with your idea is that there is no issue that needs solving. The existing backgrounds are so many and so diverse that there always is one pretty close to what you want to do anyway (what minmay said). There's no need to agonize over a few "lost" skill points, because lo...

AFAIK they do not operate directly on morgue files, the data is entered into a database and accessed from there. Milestone fields for example are not in the morgue.

Ugh. If you want to improve these, you should register here and join the german translation team: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/dcss/
There are some spelling mistakes in the second one btw. Also the increase duration should probably be mentioned.

This is bordering on feature request, but could still be considered a bug. You might as well post it on mantis and see if anyone does something about it. It's not like all bugs get fixed.

Can we please not critique the game in this thread, I wanted to keep in focused on discussing god options for underrepresented play-styles. It's not that discourse about game design is a bad thing, but we're just getting really off-track here. I'm about to forecast the impending closure of this thr...

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