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iirc the devs are working on more tomb maps, so proj noise won't be quite so 'needed' there anymore anyways.

It's important to warn newcomers of miscast dangers, and evilmike's idea does it much better than 'failing to memorize'. Let's do that.

Just posting to voice my support of this. I'd like to see it put in .12 for testing, as a new extended game rune branch.

I may have already mentioned this in several GDD threads.

Greys get +5 AC and earth apts in the very latest builds of crawl. if your grey has +2 stealth/stab, it's the old useless version that many would complain about. It doesn't have bonus AC.

Or you could play ascii and use your imagination

I actually like player tile drac heads...

Going from .7 to .6 delay doesn't make up for the 5 less base damage. Especially on a multiplicative brand like holy wrath.

Crypt is really easy. Blade should also be straightforward for your dude. Drain Life with 20 invo should clear elf by itself. Weapon - surely you've found a battleaxe of freezing by now? Every frost giant carries one. One thing you need to learn is that shields in general are not as good as killing ...

I am emphatically opposed to adding any more sources of paralysis into this game.

So you're saying that the enchanted forest branch (that will be taking one of the pan runes fr) will have fedhas worshipping spriggan priests? Hmmmmmmmm

Getting an OgBe to reliably cast level 6 spells in GDA requires int on every 3rd level, wizardry, and training some bad apt skills very high (wizmode with 15 int, wizardry ring, 20 armour, 17 charms, 20 spellcasting is still 7% failure for haste, and silence requires another 2 spell schools). Gettin...

I used to think the Abyss and Pan were fun, then I started all-runing more consistently. After having gotten these 6 runes ~20 times (not that many compared to some but) I can safely say that they are the low points of crawl. Abyss being much more offensive than Pan. I understand that Abyss is cool ...

Yeah my phone isn't rooted. I've had some bad experiences with trying to mod these things so I'd rather not have to go there again. A built in text editor or import/export option would be great. There's a lot of rc options I have different from standard, but the biggest ones that (should) help game ...

I'm pretty wary of the speed and attributes suggestions, but I do like the weapon special effects section.

First off, you can play DCSS on your phone already: download IRSSI Connectbot and telnet to crawl.akrasiac.org. Done. I've been doing this for nearly a year. However, you're dead in the water when reception is out, so a local ascii port would be great. I've played one floor and... 1. Yeah, the color...

I like that - remove the three curse scrolls in favor of a general 'scroll of cursing'. It could work like a mummy death curse when read, and could target anything in your inventory when under Ash. This change makes both Ash and the ID game better, IMO.

Or how about instead of creating a cursed scroll, praying to ash burns a remove curse scroll in your inventory/on the ground to curse something of your choosing. I mean the way ash works now isn't terrible, it just has the potential to create frustrating early-mid game situations like the one in thi...

why can't we just let ash worshippers choose which scroll they want

It's true that the food clock has a small presence in crawl. You can lose 15 rations to harpies and still be fine, and if you keep on the move in pan/abyss you find as much nutrition as you burn. My question is: do you actually WANT the food clock to matter more? Would you have more fun if you were ...

I also think they should have decent ranged weapon apts (-1 or better) because they have no way to close gaps.

I'd recommend just giving FD's good tmut and earth apts (+2, +3). Removing a school from a handful of spells or having a hidden wizardry bonus isn't intuitive or easily communicated to the player. I'll admit I find this race proposal interesting. I hate paralysis with a passion and permanent, slotle...

free shafting makes for some interesting, or perhaps broken, speed running.

In my experience, the higher end summons are pretty lackluster without any channeling to keep up critical mass, and too strong if channeling is free. Wucad is strong but rare and double-edged. Staff of channeling requires significant evo investment for so-so returns, and still has to be found. I thi...

I can't remember the last game where I didn't clear D before touching the lair branches. It's just easier to keep going down after vaults+crypt than to head back up to lair.

Demon weapons aren't rare, find a pack or two of hell knights and a single balrug and you'll have them all.

crysknife was pretty buff in slash'em iirc. my flame mages would dual wield them with excalibur.

Cleave (and weapon differentiation in general) sounds good to me.

I don't have a problem with the status quo, but double swords could be renamed as katanas. Everything's better when you add more (bring back) ninja swords. you could even have tso blessed katanas called masamune!

triple swords are a little harder to replace.

Hm, it looks like when I create a berserker, wizmode will acquire nothing but manuals. But if I create another char (HEHu, DDWr), and convert then acquire, it creates spellbooks. This may be an unrelated bug? But I think my original points still stand.

Are you in trunk or .10? Trunk is acquiring spellbooks under trog.

I brought this up in ##crawl-dev and I feel like it should be discussed more. (If I understand the code correctly) acquirement as it now stands attempts to give a useable item, weighted towards something good. This means it will never generate something greyed out for your character, e.g. body armou...

That would be awesome if you did post a patch, man. I've been trying to figure out the code myself but I'm no good at this stuff.

Yes and yes.

I'd like to see GDR removed in favor of making AC rolls slightly more reliable, but there's no way this hasn't been thought of before, so there must be some downside that I'm not seeing.

Monsters picking up nearly every item in v8/elf$/tomb/whatever and scattering them about is really frustrating, particularly when you really need a certain piece of jewelry. Is marking these places no_pickup still in the cards for .11? Please say yes.

Note that GDR only applies to physical melee attacks; it does exactly nothing against large rock/bolt/arrow/magic/breath hail that makes up so much of the damage dealt to you over the course of a game. Which means that GDR only ever matters when you're continuously tanking hard hitting dudes, i.e. p...

GDR is about as useful as SH. That is to say, AC/EV/HP/certain resists/speed/smart play are all several magnitudes more important to any players' survival.

shining eye*, mnoleg, I think pulsating lumps have a mutation attack, but they've never pulled it off against me. do you have clarity? that'll neutralize your berserkitis. blurry vision is bad but 1 level won't end your game. nothing else you have is particularly worrisome. (of course i'd recommend ...

E. Contam Ego Flat out ruins anything it touches. I've hear it justified as making a good swap option, but after 1000 games I have never seen randart jewelry with just the right properties to see myself doing this. Well I have to eat my words here - in my current game I was swapping in a contam rag...

I'm sure Deep Dwarves would really enjoy this new development.

I think I, and others, have brought this up before, and I'd still really like to see it changed.

worship oka for the boots of running etc etc, get all pertinent skills to 22

then swap to ash and have him finish the job

this is how I play every game that I don't go TSO

iirc Dragon Form suppresses most or all mutations, so Jiyva wouldn't help at all. Jiyva also doesn't give any of TSO's awesome benefits. Pale drac breath rules: it's cheap, rapid recovery, never misses, blocks LOS, decent damage. Use it often. All drac colors play pretty similarly however, a +2 here...

a few reasons for the DrHe:
1. I hadn't won a healer yet
2. healers don't waste as many starting stats on dex as monks or transmuters do
3. it sounded like a good idea at the time

"The point of this build is to make (dragon form) work." "Ely is no fun" I think you missed the point of the build, which is to kill everything with dragon form. I didn't (and don't) want to play a Healer. edit of course playing Ely is one way to do this (there's a hundred ways),...

This would make sense in NetHack, not in Crawl.

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/eeviac/morgue-eeviac-20120628-160937.txt the plan: All-rune killdudesing with Dragon Form. + Dragons are cool. HOLY DRAGON WARRIORs are even cooler. + Dragon Form has no casting penalty. Blade Hands does. Statue Form is for cowards and Cheibros. + Your very own them...

The biggest problem with warding is that the things it protects from, you don't need protection from. Warding doesn't stop the summoned demons from tormenting/hellfiring/mutating you. It might stop that ice fiend from hitting you, but what in the world are you doing right next to a summoned ice fiend?

I hadn't thought of Fedhas and food shops (I never worship him). That makes sense. I must stress that I'm not complaining or even requesting change here, and that 'linley did it' and 'not enough manpower' are acceptable answers. I might try my hand at coding the LOS prayer thing (I am an oka superfa...

There's a lot of small bits of DCSS that I don't understand or appreciate, but I don't want to make 12 different threads. I'm not complaining here. I'm not asking for them to be changed or removed - for now - I'd like (dev) input on what/how/why these things are the way they are: A. Sickness All thi...

I play Oka practically every game (#1 best god) and the change is so minor that you may not even notice. New Oka gives less piety for killing weak dudes, and more for killing strong dudes. In a typical game's progression (D > Lair > Orc > D > Vaults/Crypt > D > Rune Branches / Elf > Zot) the only pl...

1. What troves and ziggs ask for has no bearing on what they'll contain; it's completely random. If you can't live without whatever the trove wants, 9 times out of 10 it won't be worth it. If I were you I'd dump all my enchant scrolls on the armor you have. 2. If you had trained your bow skill more,...

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