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I would like the Xom rainbow with no documentation at all please. (Not serious about no documentation)

I think the corridor thing got a lot better in recent versions. Partially through addition of monsters that make you want to avoid corridors, like LRD users such as deep troll earth mages and cloud creating monsters such as catoblepae. Partially through introduction of the spider branch and layouts ...

On a completely different issue, is there any hope of traction on the possibility of removing the SH penalty for blocking multiple attacks per turn? SH should be substantially different from EV in some way. The penalty for blocking multiple attacks is one difference. I think the only other one is t...

If shields use the same penalty system as body armor, wearing a shield would have to improve your defense by more than upgrading your body armor to one of higher encumbrance rating (with the encumbrance difference between current body armor and upgraded body armor equivalent to the encumbrance ratin...

One thing I kind of like (as somebody who plays Nagas a lot) is the lowered requirements for big races. Those races also often have a malus to traditional defences. which plays nicely with shields. I'd like that to be preserved, though I do think the spoilerness of that is bad. I agree, shields bei...

Khufu spawns in Crypt, so you don't have to do Tomb to find him. He doesn't spawn frequently, but I have seen him far more often than Tiamat. Fighting him and his band is extremely dangerous for a typical character in Crypt. In Tomb it's just a few extra greater mummies, which is still bad but somet...

I think Chei is actually pretty good at teaching you some things. You only see how super important some stuff, for example moving around, is when it gets taken away from you. Also using Chei is a nice way to see all the effects of stats, because you get to play with super high stats. Okay, maybe not...

PleasingFungus wrote:I don't suppose there's a mantis ticket?

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=5781

There already is a kind of scaling built in. Since you gain levels more quickly early on, and wrath lasts for a few levels, wrath is a lot more compressed if you switch early. You still get just as much wrath, but faster.

Tornado and DDoor are both really good in Zigs. But DDoor doesn't last very long and has a short cooldown after use, and Tornado also has a cooldown. So you might want Makhleb to keep your HP up while you do the Tornado thing. Only cast DDoor if your HP actually get low. And you probably want CBlink...

Well, constriction used to be the fucking touch of death. People really weren't too happy with that either.

Really trample should probably go away because like Lasty says it pretty much does nothing. Crawl has too many different monster gimmicks as-is imo--especially since several of them effectively just serve to make crawl complicated for the sake of being complicated, which is pretty much directly in ...

A blood god in crawl would be a little over the top in my opinion, and not in a good way. Trying too hard, in a way. Fits decently well into something like Warhammer 40k, but I don't like it for crawl at all. I have no comments on the gameplay because I dislike the theme so much that I didn't want t...

Patashu wrote:You don't even get experience for monsters killed by the inner flame explosion, IIRC, so it's not like it's that overpowered.

I think that was changed some time ago. Not 100% sure though.

Emphasis mine. for instance, you will also need to know how much more expensive skill B gets when you train skill A (because all skills get more expensive as your total character xp increases) (note I am not intending to use the appropriate technical terms here like "skill points" or whate...

making torment more common in the parts of the game where it doesn't exist would be a good move imo! (i've suggested this in other topics here) One thing about torment is that it damages all living things in los, and most monsters in the parts of the game where torment doesn't exist are alive, so t...

It was buffed from 20% to 40% recently because it was deemed underwhelming. Also, what you are observing is an effect of higher skill levels becoming much much more expensive. The bonus is 40% of what you invested, and if you invested a lot less in the skill giving the crosstraining bonus than in th...

You slightly overstated the damage increase from weapon skill. The most important thing you get from training weapon skill actually is lower delay. Yes, as you said this is because attacking faster means you deal more damage in the same time. Talking about delay and damage increasing effects separat...

Search tags have been listed in the item descriptions for some time, so if you have a similar item you can check the description to find out what to search for. Not all tags are listed in the search help, and misc is one of the unlisted ones, but that help screen is quite long without that already.

twelwe?

(Sorry, couldn't resist)

I meant any distinction regarding things specific to Quazlal, so cloud immunity and affinity of summoned elementals. Edit: cloud immunity should probably be limited to clouds Quazlal can make. No need to include mutagenic clouds, petrify clouds, miasma and the weird new crypt stuff. Drawing a distin...

My only Quazlal game was a while ago and the problem I'm going to talk about didn't actually manifest because I died somewhat early. But making a distinction (any distinction) between friendly and hostile clouds seems bad to me. Just treating all clouds the same seems like a big boost to usability a...

A lower duration for the haste spell sounds pretty good, and could also help balance the wand. I think level 6 is good for haste, adjustments should be to its power, not its level IMO.

I don't know the exact numbers, but here are some rough guidelines: If you cast them while not contaminated at all, haste and invis will never take you into yellow contamination on their own (I think invis being able to take you into yellow was fixed a while ago). But I think both can take you very ...

I like the current forum theme very much, I actually prefer bright backgrounds, and this one is not even pure white. But enabling one additional theme for people who prefer darker backgrounds would be nice.

Maybe if someone looked for a nice theme and asked a forum admin to install it, they would.

tasonir wrote:Have you ever been encircled by Lamia's tail? Felt her scales slither around your flesh, her...

err, wait, nevermind.

Can we get back that other guy?

evilmike: This is about Ru, who does not have corpse sacrifices but stuff like sacrificing one of your hands. Also Ru's piety does not decay and cant be spent. It just counts how much you have sacrificed, basically.

Well, yes. Same for dual school spells. And picking up the cheapest defensive skill levels quite early also is usually a very good idea. Breakpoints mess with this though. For example when you want to learn a new spell and don't have enough slots for it. You want to train spellcasting either 100% or...

Well at least it's immune to corrosion! Oh, wait...

Warnings for this used to exist, but not in a very consistent fashion. Maybe it had something to do with going barehanded for butchering with a blunt weapon, which is no longer necessary.

Yes, but only while the charges last.

Your HP is very low, and your damage without allies probably is too. So you might want to get some more Fighting and UC. Also probably Dodging depending on how much you use dragon form.

Different gods are different. Wooo.

Not as shitty as a game where you didn't find those blinking scrolls at all. Crawl can be random like that.

AFAIK it would require some major behind the scenes changes to how player and monster actions are handled.

Why reroll at all? It could just be a property of the potion type, possibly randomized each game (like the unided appearance of a potion type), possibly fixed.

Still not convinced it's a good idea at all btw.

OK, great, now get rid of item destruction.

So happy.

Wohoo nausea is gone. It still feels good.

Well, I think variety is interesting. And positioning sometimes being not so important means variety.

Edit: but yeah, I don't really like octagon either.

There are some mismatched code tags in the last post. Also some layouts are missing their name. It was very interesting to see all the layouts laid out next to each other like this, thanks! I mostly agree about the open space thing, I think really open levels are interesting to have occasionally, bu...

Actually, since branches do have background noise, what about just making Q increase it, maybe even passively? Or is it another stated-for-removal obscure mechanic? I think the worst excesses of background noise have been toned down a bit at some point, but I'm not really sure. I'm not aware of any...

That "solution" does literally nothing to address the problem of being good at low success rates. The problem is "i can cast the spell outside combat" and your suggestion is something that only matters in combat; it is totally unrelated. I think it might help a little, because a...

I'll just say the current version of rmsl is very awful and I am disgusted by the fact that I now learn it on literally every character who finds it and I really really really don't want any more spells like that. So it's too good at low success rate? Maybe just mentioning that would be more produc...

Letting people only sometimes get items that are in deep water would lead to pretty silly crap. Stashing in water is good, and letting people perform an elaborate dance of fly and apport for slightly safer item storage would be bad.

Mana facet is fun.

Don't use a shield with a bow. I'm not sure what the penalties are, but they are huge, something like halved firing speed. As a Ce you can easily and reliably run away from most things. So choose your battles well, fight in safe areas, and kite when you need to. Of course when you are new you don't ...

I just use it for 1 (+1) and 2 (thank you). 2 is usually not about effort for me, but about making me laugh. I appreciate funny jokes. It's usually pretty obvious which one it is.

So what even is the problem with MP regeneration? Bloax complains that having to rest is so boring that he killed a character because of it. Bart complains that characters that try to damage monsters using only spells get a higher turncount. Did I get that right? Is there anything else? If I did und...

It's down. Nobody knows why, hopefully it's not going to take very long to be fixed. Also see http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/cszo-broken

Oh, and if you want you can write a macro to rest to full MP and then autoexplore, and map that macro to 'o'. It may not be as simple as 5o, you only want to rest before exploring if you're not at full MP already, and you might want to check if enemies are in sight before trying to rest. But it's do...

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