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The answer is nowhere. I don't think you're suppose to do this. I assumed this thread would get locked as soon as a mod saw it- like this one or this one. It would be better if it was moved to a correct place, and the Report button is there if you see a thread in the wrong place. However I would sa...

High Elves' long blades apt does at least give them something of a niche, but I'd be in favour of reflavouring them as something more unique. However with the amount of species and background changes going on in trunk at the moment the priority is certainly getting all the existing stuff balanced an...

Mac builds are in a bit of a shambles at the moment. Blame Apple for having such a horrid dev ecosystem ;) Actually the bigger problem with the builds is that we currently don't have a maintainer who can arrange nightly builds. If Macs weren't so goddamn overpriced it would be much more likely that ...

If you want easy cross-platform I advise HTML. ftfy It's not a programming language, duh. My advice was actually HTML+Javascript, you would struggle to make a HTML game without any Javascript, basically I have no idea what giygas was talking about but I suspect he wasn't paying attention to the res...

They introduce so many new unique mechanics that you have to either read up on to fully understand how to use them or die several times in a row trying to figure out how it works. Remember the first time you played Crawl? Wasn't everything like this back then? That's right, new things might kill yo...

If you want easy cross-platform I advise Javascript. It's already used in huge numbers of web and phone games, and a HTML/Javascript app can be packaged as a desktop app very easily for most platforms if you really needed to.

I also agree that giving good and accurate information is an important quality in someone who is officially labelled as a source of good and accurate information. Unfortunately it is a quality that is often lacking in at least one current counsellor, for example here is a recent post that is factua...

new idea, semi-serious as it could spark more ideas, BoB releases a chimera when evoked from the inventory, but if wielded and evoked it can capture weak a monster using a beam and then checking for capture putting evo skill against monster HD and remaining health. it's quite tedious and a bit stol...

One suggestion, it's nice if some flavour is included with a species proposal. All you've done is given a big checklist of what they can and can't do, I have no idea what they are . I did then look up Abarimon and discovered they're a real (well, legendary) thing; but I fail to see how the themes a...

Regarding your original problem; if you just refresh the browser it will fix it. It's a known problem.

Well, would it be inappropriate to up it to 0 or +1? They are creatures of magic, made to design and assist in the casting of spells. -1 simply doesn't make sense (and they're already a challenge race; the boost would hardly be damaging to balance) From the manual: Felids are a breed of cats that h...

One suggestion, it's nice if some flavour is included with a species proposal. All you've done is given a big checklist of what they can and can't do, I have no idea what they are . I did then look up Abarimon and discovered they're a real (well, legendary) thing; but I fail to see how the themes an...

I've always liked the idea of evocable items charging up based on what creatures are killed. Maybe the BoB recharge based on how many animal/beast genome monsters are killed (scaled for things like rats)? Admittedly, there is the problem that players could not clear the lair, and just keep going ba...

The problem (ok well, one problem but a major one) is that spells which were removed or heavily nerfed for being broken were, well, broken; and any amount of Xom attention they cause isn't actually going to stop them being broken.

tasonir wrote:Alternatively, just do mass blink.

By the way this already exists and it's called Disjunction

There are some ideas in this thread that might simply make cool Xom effects. I'm just not a fan of the original artefact book idea though. There is generally a pretty high bar set for new spell designs; throwing in a bunch of junk spells that are either broken as designed, nigh on useless, or just r...

can this thread be gone yet (There seem to be no attempts to actually come up with the OP's promised non-"dumb and terrible" spells). Not to mention how very unlikely it is that someone is seriously going to implement half-a-dozen complex sounding spells for the purposes of a single joke ...

Maybe the item should just be an actual wand - at the very least, scaling with spell power is probably better than a bunch of items having their own formulas for the effect of skill. My main argument against this would be that wands are very consistent in that they are all targetted. The Box is mor...

Awesome! I'm glad to hear that my chimera idea got used. Or, alternately, that an idea a lot like my chimera idea got used. :) Yes, it's actually implemented in a very similar way to your proposal, although I wasn't specifically basing it on that. I think your thread certainly played a part in form...

With travel_delay = -1 the running back and forth isn't really that bad. Although I do find it very convenient to mark a waypoint on my stash so it's very quick to just go there and have everything available to me, particularly for spellbooks, and also for curse / remove scrolls with Ash. But in ter...

Let's decide this once and for all. You forgott to put some options also there like [*] 'I don't care.' and/or [*] 'I'm dumb.' Can't really decide. Also can you please add an option for "I refuse to participate in forum polls, it's a violation of my human rights to demand I pigeonhole my deep ...

Awesome! I'm glad to hear that my chimera idea got used. Or, alternately, that an idea a lot like my chimera idea got used. :) Yes, it's actually implemented in a very similar way to your proposal, although I wasn't specifically basing it on that. I think your thread certainly played a part in form...

I'm entirely self-taught. I started learning from ZX Spectrum magazines when I was 7 (back then most computer magazines regularly featured simple programs you could type in and run). By the time I was taking computer science at school I knew things the teachers didn't. I have no formal qualification...

please please use 'chimaera' even if you can't/shouldn't use the ae glyph. Well apparently that's a completely different thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimaera The canonical mythical spelling seems correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_%28mythology%29 Of course, that depends how muc...

I would propose an evokable item which have a percentage chance of increasing in charge when a non friendly, low intelligence monster dies while in lie of sight of the user. This probability is dependent of the monster's HD and players Evo skill the monster leaves no corpse. although the box will d...

See https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=7205

crate wrote:well elemental evoker charges are finite in the same sense that wand charges are, since you can generate as many ?recharge as you want in a game just as you can generate as much xp as you want in a game

You mean in the sense that they are infinite?

I wouldn't be surprised if you meet it again in another game...

twelwe wrote:what about achievements. i love cheevos

Is a special forum colour not enough of an achievement for you

njvack wrote:Sounds neat! Do they time out?

Yes but their duration is still longer than the old ones. You can sometimes keep your beast around for a few fights.

Yeah, those are both problems. I did briefly consider a non-boots misc evokable item but I feel it'd be nothing like as interesting as other misc items (though still a good Artificer starting item, the problem I'm having right now is that most evokables are way too good to be starting items).

Crazy idea: give the boots an XP recharge like the new elemental evokables. Then the effect could be much stronger, you could even give it splash damage, since you have to be much more picky about when to use it. It would also differentiate the mutation from the item (assuming we actually want the m...

This idea has come up before and it's generally pointed out that quests don't really fit this kind of roguelike very well in general (other than the overarching quest of Find The Orb of course). Features like Troves have been added as a way to support quest-like mechanics but in a less forced way. T...

I've actually been implementing an improved Box of Beasts, it's on a branch right now but I hope to merge it into trunk soon. If you want to test it out it's on the "evoker-playstyle" branch in the main Crawl repository. The reworked item works as follows: * Set number of charges before it...

In other news since I have your attention and a slightly related note: as of the v.13 build I am using, antennae detect monsters in deep water, but do not show the typical "invisible monster outline" on the appropriate deep water tile. Is this intentional? This could be an accident relate...

There are some obvious cases already in existence; a +6 ring of slaying is obviously better than a +4 ring of slaying, a +1 robe is better than +0, etc. etc. But yeah, that doesn't mean we need to make every single item have multiple enchantment levels, it would be a complete mess.

In any case I think special-casing a god's attitude to a particular background would be a very very bad idea (at least beyond the very limited way that religious backgrounds are handled).

Gold is a good choice if you've seen things in shops that will definitely help you but you can't afford yet. [heh, ninja'd, frighteningly accurately...] Otherwise I'd run the risk with armour - it could easily give you something useful, and possibly give you something very good. Jewellery isn't even...

I've thought a lot about portal projectile - in a way it's the most "arcane marksman" spell you could possibly hope to have. What I'm not sure about is whether it synergises with ranged combat in quite the way I imagine for AM. It can work quite well with Inner Flame, however.

I agree mumra. I think something that would make more sense for my idea of "Arcane Marksman" would be to give them the branding spells out of war chants along with the Spirit Ammo and Inner Flame and maybe one other thematically appropriate spell. As it stands they seem like ranged Enchan...

So, spirit arrow is like magic dart except it uses the bow skill instead of the conjuration skill. Doesn't sound very interesting to me. And I don't see the issue with having to melee to save ammo. Conjurers do the same to save MP. Well, when I was testing AM I found I was often running very low on...

I think enchanters and AM are very different. One is more of a stabber with magic, the other uses hexes to debilitate foes and attack from afar. I would not support merging them. I agree that enslavement doesn't thematically fit with AM (though the inner flame -> enslavement combo is oh so fun), bu...

The discussion is getting slightly diverted onto AM here; I do have further ideas about how to change the background but I didn't feel like I had a complete proposal yet so I haven't written it up anywhere yet. These are actually ideas I was thinking about pre-tourament and they got slightly sidelin...

Sorry, I firmly believe that it should never be better than real ammo. Otherwise all ranged characters will want this spell throughout the entire game, and it creates an annoying situation of MP management instead of ammo management. By the time you have high hexes skill there should be better thing...

aegis wrote:I just found a room full of snakes. With a human skeleton and whip. I see what you did there.

If it's the vault I designed, there ought to be a boulder trap somewhere nearby too...

The idea was a replacement for Corona, when I played AM it seemed kind of fiddly and annoying that you want to cast Corona on literally every target up until the point when you know you have enough ammo. So now you would be casting "Spirit ammo" multiple times (especially because it's muc...

The idea was a replacement for Corona, when I played AM it seemed kind of fiddly and annoying that you want to cast Corona on literally every target up until the point when you know you have enough ammo. So now you would be casting "Spirit ammo" multiple times (especially because it's muc...

Well, the point was for it to be weak vs. standard ammo, otherwise it's a low-level spell that you'd still being want to be using in Zot. And bumping up the level would mean it doesn't really achieve the aim of giving you a way to conserve ammo in the early game ... The idea was a replacement for Co...

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This is the famous Picasso smiley. I'm amazed none of you recognised this at first glance.

autopickup already picks up your starting launcher's ammo now Yes, I don't think there is any interface problem with ammo management, also a Hunter's melee and ranged weapons start on a and b respectively so you can just press ' to swap between them. Additionally, I think it's entirely appropriate ...

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