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For a while recently I had this in my rc file: force_more_message += distortion This was effective at notifying me when I first encountered a distortion-wielder, but it got really spammy during actual combat with that monster. So I changed it to flash_screen_message += distortion and now I still get...

I think you're right. It also happens in corridors that have a dog-leg in them.

I have found that occasionally when aiming broadside at a wall, it will bounce like I'm aiming at a corner. I don't recall exactly, I think it's something like this: #### ...# ##.# ##M# ##@# In which I expect that aiming upward will broadside off the horizontal surface and come back down for a bizap...

So what would it take to write ghosts out of non-Hellcrawl Crawl? Do their tentacles weave their way throughout the code in hard-to-extract ways, or can commenting out a couple of strategic lines in the level-generation function poof them out of gameplay even if there's zombie code in a few places? ...

Killed by another player ghost. I know the creature is a ghost but it should have a chance at least of dropping some of the loot it had when alive:( Player ghosts should be either a) removed, b) made optional (because they already are in a way) or c) have randomized equipment, spells and abilities....

Fighting gives max HP that's a function of your XL and your racial modifiers. Armor skill gives AC that's a function of the base AC of your armors. But the amount of damage that AC prevents is a die roll up to your AC value, whereas your maxHP is always fully in effect. In addition, Fighting gives y...

This character’s imminent and spectacular demise has already been predicted in CYC’s “Best/Worst Artifacts” because of these two items: +5 helmet of Kikubaaqudgha's Hope {MR+++ MP+9 Slay+3 Stlth+, !T} +9 lajatang {elec, +Inv rN+ Str+8 Dex-3 Stlth+} I would very much like to not splat this character....

What I'm trying to nudge at here is that asking questions like "what's bad about this sort of consumable?", or explaining why the consumable wouldn't be bad or out of place, is not a sufficient rationale for adding a new consumable. The standard for adding a new feature should be higher t...

duvessa wrote:Why would you add a potion for piety/invocations?

Good question. I see that I wrote above about why I would use one, but that is indeed different from why I would add one. I guess I'd say that since might and brilliance exist, this seems similar enough to those to include as well.

This is not a request for an item but rather seeking an explanation for why such an obvious item was rejected previously, to help me understand game design better. The two sorts of situations I can see where a potion that improved your god abilities would apply are: I'd like to use this emergency ab...

That helps a great deal. In particular, learning that follower ammo comes only from Beogh.

I succumbed once to the temptation to write a guide. And I learned a lot and it was a profitable if embarrassing experience. I learned enough that I've been thinking of writing another, not because it wold help others as much as the act of writing things down and the feedback helps me.

actionable advice: give all warrior orcs polearms, only train a small amount of orcs at a time, preferably give orcs spears or tridents because they attack faster with them and beogh can gift them shields because those are one-handed But let's say they already have a polearm, and you can gift them ...

I played a HOGl^Beogh lately and unexpectedly enjoyed it a great deal. I did win after an extended dry spell, and that helped, but I found myself actually liking the grooming and shepherding of my little army. I have a few questions, some prompted by finding various tavern articles widely separated ...

Ought ambush vaults like this have a down-hatch? If so, where is it? Are any monsters standing on one, is it around the north wall out of sight?

I'd like to solicit discussion of when a spell's failure rate is "good enough" to stop training it. There is of course no one answer. Here are some of my thoughts to get things started. I'm confident these are mostly correct but feel much less confident that I could evaluate them in a give...

We are so overdue for a Trunk Update on the blog. I jusr scanned the shortlog at git/commit and didn't find anything abut !Mut.

Just make all wands MP-powered, with or without the mutation's spellpower boost. Evo builds MP, doesn't it? So heavy-armor characters still have a way to build MP. But reduce the overlap between wands and spells: get rid of lightning and extend acid's range; get rid of flame; etc.

I did not think of using mutagenic chunks once one has insurance potions on hand! :oops:

Some of you will recall that I'm on an awful streak of 48 Hu splats trying to win a human for the first time. I have a HuVM in progress that has gotten really good gear and has finished Orc, and frankly I was scared to continue so I set it aside and said, "I need a break from Crawl." Well ...

Price: 5 potions of resistance. HOGl^Beo had rF++, rC+++, rElec, and rPois from armor and jewelry in Zot and six such potions when I remembered the trove. phial of floods randart scimitar crystal ball of energy meat ration glowing trident glowing battleaxe glowing halberd wand of iceblast amulet {Sp...

early potion of experience is the BEST

One thing is that this will definitely be affected by mutation interactions , and I'm not sure how much (though my intuition based on running lots of trials says substantially). The lua interface already accounts for those, but it sounds like you didn't go that route? There's also some interactions...

Online: press '#', a link will appear in the message pane to the lower left.
Offline: look in 'morgue' directory. Look for [current_character_name].txt

If your character is strong enough, you can use this technique to scum Abyss for gold for a Bazaar.

Several days ago I asked on CYC how to do a Monte Carlo simulation of the potion of mutation in fsim, and was directed towards calculating probabilities directly instead. Once I realized that not all "bad" mutations are actually bad, and that which are "bad" and which are "h...

Monsterracer wrote:

Xom roars with laughter!

Please tell me you were a Formicid

Shtopit wrote:Something which I find negative is that I forgot to do Orcs before doing the lair branches, and I didn't notice any difference. Nowadays it doesn't give enough XP to raise a single level, if done after Lair.

Lately I'm doing Orc for the loot and any little bit of XP is a bonus.

Here's pseudocode for an addition to Xom code that prevents the OP without stopping deaths like a summoned deep troll on D:3. When Xom acts: player_actions_since_Xom_acted = 0 When player acts: player_actions_since_Xom_acted += 1 When player HP <=0: if player_actions_since_Xom_acted == 0: player_HP ...

What is the relative value between Stick To Snakes and Spider Form for early-character survival?

A bit later in the game the drain becomes much easier to deal with and more consumables make it possible to deal with bad fights. Thank you. I know it's obvious, but I hadn't actually realized that having ID'd consumables makes "Harm or its *Drain less dangerous. I'll not wear-ID amulets anymo...

Just make a new "elemental" only for Qaz summons that has cloud immunity and changes flavor randomly between the four elements like killer klowns. Well you'll need to do something about stupid stuff like flying over lava as an air elemental and turning into a water elemental etc., but even...

But you would have traded half your army for an enslaved Mennas, that would count for something.

What I'm trying to get at is 1) I don't see how to get to AC + EV + SH = 60 without quite heavy armor and 2) I don't see how in a three-rune game one can cast 6+ level spells in such heavy armor. So high-level spells and the sum=60 benchmark feel mutually exclusive.

60 defenses is my 3rune ready for endgame threshhold. I typically have characters end between 60-80. Also, the reason dex characters aren't in the meta right now is because dex is in a bad spot right now. How does one do that with a caster who's in light armor for spell success? Is the moral of the...

Why not just make enhancer amulets, with a spellpower malus on the appropriate school when removed? Enhancers fit best IMO the design space that amulets are in now, that of a strategic choice with opportunity cost instead of swappable boosts.

Noise is something that I've only gradually learned to appreciate. The noise meter helps a lot, even if only by overtly telling the player, "noise matters"! There's a reason top players call Qazlal a "bad god."

Personally I just sum all 3 defenses together. If you have a sum of 60 you are generally pretty good. 80 is endgame good and 120 is incredibly hard to kill (I generaly only get 120 on a deck out statuepode). Looking back at some of my winning morgues, it was only GrBe's and a minotaur with a lucky ...

Sprucery wrote:
MainiacJoe wrote:Um, wow. Found on D:5.
Code:
the +5 helmet of Kikubaaqudgha's Hope {MR+++ MP+9 Slay+3 Stlth+}

Be sure to report how you died

Even more ominously, that character has since found this, too:

Code:: the +9 lajatang "Hixtyruv" (weapon) {elec, +Inv rN+ Str+8 Dex-3 Stlth+}

Airwolf wrote:
MainiacJoe wrote:Yes, I'll try more HuVM. I feel like I'm getting used to them, and I've discovered that Hepl is great for them.

Which flavor ancestor do you like for HuVM?

I did Hexer. Hydras are a big problem and I know I won't get a bladed weapon with Hexer. Plus the Slow helps me to run away if I have to.

Um, wow. Found on D:5.

Code:: the +5 helmet of Kikubaaqudgha's Hope {MR+++ MP+9 Slay+3 Stlth+}

Yes, I'll try more HuVM. I feel like I'm getting used to them, and I've discovered that Hepl is great for them.

What about an active that increases the effectiveness of elemental damage? Spells in the four elemental schools get a spellpower bonus, elemental brands (incl vorpal as earth) get a damage bonus and the Qaz clouds become more damaging.

LOL thanks

It never occurred to me to give an orc a ranged weapon. Does that work? Do they pick up themselves a melee weapon for close combat?

VeryAngryFelid wrote:https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?t=12121
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Thank you. But please explain the "But be careful, it can kill you" part, In context, that refers to berserk?

I've also recalled that I had throwing nets. But yes, I was wary of it because of the distortion, but I was thinking banishment and not straight-out death.

Looking back, I did have the scattershot wand.

VEF/Sandman, IIRC you have some init.txt magic that autosaves after certain criteria are met. I poked around at the link from SAndman's signature but didn't find them. Can you share them with me please? They would have helped me this time, since the halberd did the big slug of damage, and then 10 mo...

Well I died again. I had no solution for a dancing halberd of distortion that was apparently a random spawn on O:2. At the end of the second attempt of swarming it with allies, I was running away and would reluctantly forego the O:2 shops for a while, but it surprised me with the amount of damage an...

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