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I'm so glad you actually got to record that game. Thanks!

Edit: Damn you started midway, what a pity

I'd really like to see a change that'd fix this problem. I simply can't offer the insane level of commitment, day after day, that it takes to get a good score on the tourney, and this thread shows I'm not the only one. I'd even be happy with there being two leagues, one with no time constraint, and ...

Excellent, ty

From another thread, the player got "Lugonu forbids your reflecting this monster" while trying to use a mirror on mennas. I've also had this msg myself a few times from different gods, can't remember exactly. Now, this seems a bit gratuitous and spoilery to me. But maybe I'm missing someth...

Agamentium wrote:Yep, going up the stairs and shafting myself got me away quite easily. Still interested in skilling advice though.

That was a inventive way to get out of trouble, well done!

you could shaft yourself (probably a bad idea, you lack lots of tools for v5), go to the abys and get your evo high enough to kill mennas with those 2 mirrors, or get near stairs and use a fog scroll combined with swiftness and lugo's blink to reach the stairs before mennas gets you (takes some prac...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:Also abyss would be basically free XP.

Isn't it already?

interesting thread Do you guys suppose that the correct amount of skill assignment (shield/armour/dodge/fighting) from a fixed exp pool, in terms of maximizing # turns survived vs, say, a stone giant, can be easily determined, like solving a linear optimization problem, or is it better to monte-carl...

What a shitty thing to do

Here's my MuCK No spell casting. Iron+silver+glod, then remaining hell runes. Got the abyss rune near the end of the game because I was tired of being banished, but only after I got the initial 3 runes. Definitely not my 1st attempt, and took more than 8 hours. https://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/...

wow that was a lot less than I imagined

Grats man, that's an awesome TC!

I'd say 80%, perhaps more

Edit: no wait, misunderstood what you meant by harmless. In that case maybe 40%?

> Berserk Induction – ability that makes one target enemy going berserk; Regardless of the present context, this seems very interesting to me as a god ability or spell Exists Via frenzy needle (also mass frenzy induction by way of the discord spell) true but in those cases the target aggroes everyt...

> Berserk Induction – ability that makes one target enemy going berserk;

Regardless of the present context, this seems very interesting to me as a god ability or spell

Vehumet's pretty good, given the reduced miscast odds. Still, with the trog start and 3 runes, there may not be enough exp in a 3 rune game to counter the very low starting int without ash's boost. Chei probably won't be enough either. But I may be mistaken; it'd definitely be a near-tie with these ...

Interesting challenge, with the 3-rune limitation. I'd probably go with a troll of trog, work on my ua and some defenses. Once melee is ok-ish, switch to ash after finding a few cblink and tele scrolls and having blink castable. Hopefully find statue and train earth all the way, relying on a mix of ...

The OP has been messing around with an LSTM NN, maybe?

Edit: And no, that's not the same as LSD, but in this case, who knows?

* grabs popcorn *

Oh I know how this works, I'm just saying it's exciting and well communicated to the player. It's certainly very exciting. This is probably a lot of work, but a possible fix would be to switch the start and end coordinates in the code whenever tracing a path between the player and a tile in los (fo...

I don't see how that pan lord could have been more aptly named

Gj man, well done

Corpse Rot is most likely the most powerful spell early Necromancer can get. You do get the warning if you're casting Corpse Rot under some other corpse not to get engulfed by miasma. If a game-breaking spell does not make you happy when playing a necromancer, I'd suggest play something else. Corps...

better be careful with that int 2, it can kill you

But maybe tighten those numbers, 90k turns for a 3-runner is just too much, no? Quiz question: how many 3-rune wins did you have that lasted more than 90 k turns? I think the answer is 22, although I may have miscounted. Fair enough, but in those games I was probably not trying in the least to be f...

Could there not be a real clock? I mean a simple rule like the game is lost after 60.000 turns. Each rune in your pack adds another 10,000 turns to your clock. Worshipping Chei gets some special case treatment, like it does for current scoring. Spriggans and Centaurs will have a significant advanta...

Shtopit wrote:There are some wall tiles that show a slit at the height of your knees, from which the red eyes of an unknown creature spy your actions. I think that the player should be able to pee into these slits.

Better not taunt the clowns

The dark maul isn't a very good weapon, it's slow and doesn't deal more damage per time than other weapons. This is completely wrong, and is terrible advice. Could you elaborate further? It would be interesting to know your line of reasoning. If this learnd entry is up to date, then I can't see how...

I am not sure. I am terribly scared by extended with most characters (I don't play TSO/Zin/Ely). There are ziggurats if you need a challenge. It's weird to see people using the most powerful combos and at the same time complaining about game being too easy. You can always limit your options like do...

I know this is a bit late, but here it is, done all except for the "no magic" conduct.
http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/pe ... 205601.txt

I really enjoyed this challenge, Vaj, thanks for suggesting it.

I see mummies as a challenge species, which I enjoy.
While I wouldn't mind if they're changed, at least lets try to keep them hardcore

Can we please stop the sexualization of nagas? I mean, we removed high elves for a reason.

Shard1697 wrote:No one would ever fall through them if they were always visible.

It's like an escape hatch that doesn't bring adjacent monsters when you use it. I'd certainly make sure that dangerous battles were fought on top of one. I could either shaft myself or the monster.

I'm ok with them, but i'd like them better if they were more common and always visible to the player.

I like the transporter vaults, with the exception of the one that just has a few electric eels and a wand of flame. Part of this is because I died there after getting teleport trapped into the middle, but it would be pointless to ever go through it intentionally for such meager loot. I thought thos...

Could you have found this book on one of those shops that sometimes show up in gozag altar vaults, where every item is extremely expensive by design?

Try MuSu, it's even more enjoyable than VpSu IMHO because you don't need to think about food or batform. Also it is more challenging because you cannot just run away from everything. Edit. I don't see why you would want to stay bloodless as VpEn in Lair, the stealth difference is not that great wit...

Shtopit wrote:You can take a trapdoor and be dropped into a cloud of fire representing a campfire in a kobold vault. A bad feature, if you ask me.

From the viewpoint of the kobolds, it's a great feature.

How does Yara's make discord safer? Haven't heard about that yet? Do you blast guys after you cast it? It lets you de-berserk anything that is dangerous and headed your way. Yes. Ideally, you cast discord when you see 1 monster (2 at the most) at the edge of your LoS. If he heads off screaming into...

I'd say, if you're using spells to kill enemies, but melee as a pop-corn killer(or if you have 0 mp) then that is enough melee for the conduct. A Troll who only uses utility spells like blink,regen,PoG etc. doesn't count, but a Troll who uses bolt spells until 0 mp and then switching to melee to fi...

Vajrapani wrote:Any Crawl version is accepted, any divine abilities can be used. I'll update the OP to reflect this as well.

I've had a stab at this as well with a TrFE, died to a bunch of meliali but Sticky flame + a little claw melee is very strong.

So how much melee is enough melee?

Good man

Btw, getting 15 runes and skipping lair are mutually exclusive
Also, any restriction on divine abilities? Which crawl versions are allowed?

Devs must hate you!

Streak chaos knights, without abandoning xom. Start with the hardest species, like Op, Fe, Mu

The last few contributions to this discussion I found most fascinating. I am quick to say that I certainly enjoyed not having to make any skilling decisions in my recent Gn win. Now I started a new game, and have similar fun trying out new things, but somehow the novelty has worn off My thought exa...

Sure for statue form i admit it may be weird. It was mostly an afterthought. As for lichform, - Some people may find the sacrifice is worth the innate resistances. If the consensus is that it becomes too weak, then buff it a bit to compensate. - Once cast, you'd become undead, therefore unable to m...

Sure for statue form i admit it may be weird. It was mostly an afterthought. As for lichform, - Some people may find the sacrifice is worth the innate resistances. If the consensus is that it becomes too weak, then buff it a bit to compensate. - Once cast, you'd become undead, therefore unable to mu...

Leszczynek wrote:Without reading the comments above, the new gnolls are stronger than even the first iteration. This also means two things: they're fun to play as and they should be moved to "Easy" column in race selection.

That may not suffice - I think they're in a category all of their own.

I dislike current lichform: you have to keep recasting it, and its disadvantages (except confusion) are trivially fixed by canceling the form. I also think it trivializes some interesting threats, while being a newbie trap. If it's made permanent, it becomes a lot more interesting, imo, giving that ...

At that level anyone can die in the abyss, no matter how well you play. That's not the same as saying it's unavoidable. What I think was avoidable here was probably being banished in the 1st place. Yes, you could have blinked. Then you would have time to set up some defenses: You had sticks to snake...

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