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duvessa wrote:I literally listed them in the third post in this thread?!?

arandomperson12 wrote:
duvessa wrote:There are 4 implemented "won't do" features so far:
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- Commands for individual monsters

How do you command individual monsters?

Hellmonk wrote:Feature request: give full xp for summons/ally kills because it is neither a "necessary balance tool" nor an effective balance tool, and summons/allies should probably be balanced by actually balancing summons and allies.

i agree. patches welcome

How do people manage to die to pearl dragon? He doesn't even do anything. And when you meet him in Pan your char is usually near max level, at that time any dragon is harmless anyway. 38 games for * (killer='pearl dragon' recent): 29x Zig, 6x Depths, 3x Pan http://i.imgur.com/dbZnkHB.png

anyway, the facts are clear 16986 games for * (killer~~dragon recentish): 6997x a komodo dragon, 2075x a steam dragon, 1848x an ice dragon, 1488x a fire dragon, 830x a bone dragon, 704x a mottled dragon, 500x a storm dragon, 350x a swamp dragon, 302x a shadow dragon, 283x a player ghost, 276x a gold...

duvessa wrote:oh man I forgot about lemurescumming

!?!?!?!?

BabyRage wrote:Spriggan's knife wasn't removed.

I believe the knife of accuracy is the artefact being referred to.

i think you'll find that carnivore 3 and shaggy fur 1 are the defining traits of felids, actually.

'sigmund the human zombie', but otherwise dead-on. (so to speak.)

I always assumed that berserker rage isn't magic but some sort of metabolic activity surge, and that undead are excluded because their metabolism either doesn't exist or works in a radically different way compared to the living. Yara doesn't delete rage, so I assume it isn't magic. on the other han...

the suggestion also seems like it makes ring of flames have all the traditional charm problems of basically being good to have on all the time. current ring of flame is at least (a) high level and (b) gives rc--, which mitigates those issues to some extent; lowering the level and removing the drawba...

I think the 'good games' have easier beginning parts, and harder later parts. This assumption is fundamentally wrong for roguelikes. In games where you proceed from beginning to end without ever restarting, it makes sense to have the end be more challenging than the beginning, to match player skill...

If the increase of god numbers has made the Temple less relevant, why not to redesign the Temple to hold 30%-50% more altars than it does right now? there was a big Temple rebalance about two months ago , in fact. You're right, these guys have been unfailingly polite and I have been nothing but rud...

david_glass_crypt, probably. (The glass was turned into grates years ago.)

Here's something to chew on: Maybe the reason speedrunning is "aberrant" play in crawl is deliberate design decisions made by guys like dpeg, not the perverseness of players or some fundamental truth of game design. If you wanted speedrunning to be a common playstyle in crawl, you would h...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:I intentionally tried to avoid unique effects to save devs from doing difficult work...

It's appreciated, but I think you erred too conservative here. Better to think big, at least at first - even if you're overambitious, maybe something interesting can be scavenged!

- where are the bathrooms

Yred already has plenty of abilities to play with, and my personal experience is that control undead is quite useful for necromancers. it doesn't really compete with summons, since it's primarily a hex, focused on removing enemies (at least temporarily) from the field.

as someone else noted in a thread a few weeks back, gods are sometimes an in-game choice, sometimes an out-of-game choice, sometimes a choice you make to win, sometimes a choice you make for variety. their design is in a confused place, and it's natural for people to be thrown off by that. going bac...

Shard1697 wrote:A 3 rune game does not normally take 10+ hours, even if you're new.

i don't think 10+ hour games are that uncommon. i had quite a few when i was newer to the game: a, b, c, d...

i am very far from the slowest player i know, too.

I agree that the noise system is rather opaque, but it also produces a lot of interesting situations. I'd rather improve the UI for it than remove the system.

Crawl actually does have a DEMON_AXE already. It's just an unrand.

Why does no one ever ask for demon rapiers?

i think 'noob trap' is too strong. they're generally a bit weaker than 2h axes, but it's sometimes the right choice to use them, depending on apts and what equipment you've found. there are about 11 broad axes in the average 3-rune game (per objstat), versus about one eveningstar, 0.75 executioner's...

of course.

It might be more productive to make your own thread about how insanely overpowered Hep is, though I think the original topic of this thread has probably run its course in any case.

extremely good flavor.

paging minmay to the thread to post that "crawl of the future" picture

There's space between Type and Failure for everything except like, triple school spells. e: Thanks Doesn't. If there were to be a short, 3 character, form for each spell schol (Conjurations -> Cnj, Necromancy -> Ncr, etc) you could cut down the longest strings to 11 characters which should be enoug...

jwoodward48ss wrote:Were two gods from this thread seriously implemented? Mind-blowing. Uskayaw and Ru!

lasty has specifically said in the past that he was unaware of the various 'god of sacrifice' suggestions when he designed Ru, and zyrnak's suggestion is only like Usk in the vaguest outline.

FWIW.

I don't see any empty columns?

there's an inscription like {=R} or something that has the same effect.

right now, you're encouraged to use different spells situationally depending on noise, enemy positioning, resistances, mp costs, whatever. if you had one spell that cost 0 mp, you would be very strongly encouraged to just cast that spell almost all the time, rather than bothering with any of the oth...

dowan wrote:Convokers still have channeling right? Do they show their progress?

convokers use a completely different mechanic

felid ancestors should be unable to use weapons or armour

What does the Spell Mastery system accomplish?

what's your plan for hell effects?

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life on the edge

the secret is that i don't actually have the power to ban anyone.

i'm the worst. if anyone argues with this i will ban them

Sandman25 wrote:Current damage reduction for rF+/rF++/rF+++ is 50%/67%/80%, that makes first pip extremely important (ring of Robustness is often less valuable vs corresponding attack) while second pip does not help much and third pip is almost insignificant even vs the scariest attacks.

Why is this bad?

it was also proposed as a 'stoppage' shield ego a few months back (and i implemented it in a branch), but mpa argued that it would be better as an unrand... which leaves us back at the first post.

thanking

this doesn't sound like it's a combinatorial thing, which is the main problem of dr/ds

agreed that the numbers sound very very high for depths (and also redundant with spriggans there), though. not sure there's space for them anywhere in current crawl, really - maybe in a portal vault?

i think you actually want to use fake_lang = butt. if you want to customize the butt rate, you can say "fake_lang = butt:1" or "fake_lang = butt:100" or anything in between

lethediver wrote:Better a one dimensional game whose difficulty only decreases by 80% by the end game than a multi dimensional game whose "difficulty" quickly reduces itself to near 0 and the only challenge is not killing yourself out of sheer boredom or inertia

this seems slightly hyperbolic, to me.

Where is it on those planes, exactly?

moocowmoocow wrote:We should introduce more currency into crawl besides just "gold".

very early versions of crawl had an enum for "OBJ_GEMS" (never implemented...)

Arrhythmia wrote:Except D:1 is also the biggest per-capita killer; not just the biggest absolute value killer.

i vaguely remember d:2 or d:3 having the highest kill rate, when i was looking it up a while back

A lot of people (incl. me) pick up items for only a moment, so they can turn on the skill associated with the item. You can drop the item and continue training. While I would hardly call this "broken", and I like it, I have to admit it doesn't make much sense. How do you practice Conjurat...

necromancy is an evil act

worth noting that it's mathematically impossible for monsters to have the same speed as most nonstandard-move-speed player races. you can have them be slightly faster or slightly slower, but not the same speed, because of the way that monsters work differently from players. my feeling is that it's a...

reasons crawl does not need more options (an incomplete list) 1- Starting Screen. name, remember_name, weapon, species, background, combo, random_pick, good_random, restart_after_game, restart_after_save, default_manual_training, autopickup_starting_ammo 2- File System and Sound. crawl_dir, morgue_d...

Is 'encourages hybridizing' a euphemism for being an xp tax that requires training of two skills that are unlikely to be otherwise useful, rather than a skill that a VM hybrid is actually likely to use, e.g. a weapon skill? I'll admit handing out Ignite Poison in the VM starting spellbook fixes the...

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