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The only situations that really matter in dcss are the ones where you are about to die. ive found spellcasters to have more options in those situations. I also find killing things from range a lot safer in this game. Your mileage may vary tho.

Play a Deep Dwarf. It teaches you that all health loss is bad not just the one that kills you.

High winrate is more indicative of personality/priorities than experience imo. Winning dcss reliably is boring to a large percentage of the gaming population, because the safest strategies tend to be the most tedious and the game is already too long as is. Overcoming this requires either extreme ded...

This should really take you to a secret level.

Have !cmut or 1 shot them with chain lightning / iron rod

How can you implement this in a way that prevents the prompt from leaking information about the level? The only way I can think of is a message like "It doesn't seem like auto-explore can find anywhere else go visit on this level, are you sure you want to read your scroll of magic mapping?&quo...

No brainer FR here.

Edit: to clarify, 'explored' = hitting o does nothing.

You can do a more polished one in .20. I believe in you.

Daily reminder that food removal patch exists in the form of hellcrawl and has gotten unanimously positive reviews.

I tried proposing this and nothing happened. May you fare better than I.

Well I'm sold. Dunno bout the rest of you.

tabstorm wrote:just play on a server few people play on.

Already on this. But thanks for screwing it up by encouraging more people to pollute.... uhh.... berotato... yeah thats it.

Anyone ever try reverse psychology on the devs? They seem to really enjoy taking the best/most popular proposals in this forum and either not doing them, or doing the opposite... so maybe if we all just pretend to want food, traps and early game in general to be more difficult/convoluted/tedium indu...

Forget who said it but: Think of your character as 007. You're not a tank mowing down all the baddies in the dungeon, you're a slick assassin plotting 10 moves in advance, using different tools for different situations, and continually asking "how can this go south?" New DCSS players are c...

DeFE imo. Flame tongue gets you through the early levels, sticky flame + kite beats almost anything all the way through lair, and fireball has irresistible dmg, aoe and decent dps. You can also use steam clouds to break los and kill things with maximum safety. De's aptitudes let you branch into any ...

Actual strategic choice incoming:

Fedhas + Gozag. With Gozag you can use call merchant -> food shoppe to get potentially unlimited fruits, thus circumventing a crucial limitation on Fedhas abilities.

Lots of Oklob plants...

FR: Increase the number of traps by 10000% (maybe less, I dunno), so that literally only one narrow path is free on every level. Rename "dungeon" to "labyrinth". Also rename the minotaur's labyrinth to "small labyrinth within the large labyrinth", but this is obvious. ...

So does anyone actually have a reason OP's proposal shouldn't be implemented?

This seems like a complete no-brainer.

Mfw thread got bumped and I realize devs still did nothing about the problem

I dunno, but i did just vote trump for US prez.

Arrhythmia wrote:counter proposal: on halloween monsters get fun names like "jackogoblin" or "pumpkin fiend" and their tile gets changed and stuff.

And make every tile a bloody tile. DAY OF ALL THE BLOOD.

Nothing much to add at this point except I want to back up what others are saying about certain combos being really, really difficult. It's not so much the lack of XP (XP balance feels much better than vanilla now) as it is the lack of consumables and gear. I often reach depths with no blink scroll,...

Did they hire you to do anything other than troll the community?

So, anyone here play hellcrawl and feel that the lack of food/hunger made the game noticeably worse?

Anyone?

Anyone?

I imagine dragging a large pack of mobs around carries its own risks, garbage or no. Blocking off your escape route for one thing.

I don't like the idea of making charms permanent, personally. Feels like bad design, cramming a strategic advantage (such as that afforded by gear) into the spell system, which is specifically designed for tactical usage.

Cmon guys make up your minds

we can't keep allowing this spell to phase in and out of existence

Op can you change the rules of your post so you need to have played both games to respond at all, not just to make an initial comment

Should clear up some of the more ignorant responses Im seeing

No food alone makes it much, much better.

But yeah. Hellcrawl is crawl with 2x strategic/tactical interestingness, and 1/5th the amount of keypresses... what not to love?

Dankest Dungeon: Meme Soup

Give me the lua implementation to add to my rc file pl0x

I think it would be even kewler if it casts spectral weapon in its normal form

Time to take the enemy unawares!

this is a lot of dedication to a novelty account man

Been wondering this for a while. An option to always auto explore the nearest unexplored tile from a known stair would be swell...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:There is ~7 AC (13*12/22=7.09) difference for plate armour and cloak/gloves/boots between 15 skill and 27 skill . That's why it is better to train all 3 defensive skills (4 if you count Fighting too).

Armor training improves spell success rate much longer than shields training

im of the opinion Dg could use an "interestingness buff" moreso than an actual stats buff. Playing without a god removes an entire dimension from the game.

Golem race. Give it good ac/hp, unliving, large size, doesnt eat, rtorment and rmut.

Thats sad. Rods are the best late game weapon imo. Powerful upgradeable ranged/aoe attacks with no MP cost that recharge automatically between fights? Sign me up.

I feel shafted enough by this game, thanks

Yay! Clearing the cache fixed it =)

Just tried on a new account with default rc file... same issue >.o

http://i.imgur.com/AnomBwa.png

Just loaded my file on p357 and every monster has the wrong tile!

In late game, "kill stuff from a safe distance" starts to become noticably better than "disable some enemies on screen then move in to kill the non immune ones at close range while avoiding all the others or trying to abuse discord and hope it doesn't backfire and kill me"

Seeing red/yellow/white/black names is one of the best features for newbs. It's a, "if you died to this, don't say you weren't warned" type deal.

Of course, veteran players already know which monsters are dangerous and when. So maybe the names panel should be toggleable.

Yay, finally scored a win! High score on project 357 currently.

Gozag might need to be looked at btw. Not having to spend any money on permafood shoppes/items is a slight buff to an already strong god.

One of my best crawl memories is trying to escape sewer, a playerghost tengu EE peppering me with stone arrows as I slogged through shallow water.

So fun. Such fairness.

I dunno, but the last syllable should always be pronounced LOL.

Maybe its just me but i dont find conjurations based caster all that tedious. Hotkey a direct damage spell to tilde, cast battlesphere and spam until half mana, run to stair, repeat. Its a few more button presses but the concept is the same as pure melee: lure everything to stair, spam damage until ...

Hellmonk, any way you could change dragons to drop hides on death instead of requiring butchering? Its easy to forget skinning for hides now that you never have to butcher for meat

Really enjoying the fork as usual, btw.

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