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It's probably a shop that generated with a bottled efreet in it before their removal , since existing bottles got turned into empty flasks (I think there was actually a server update between those two commits, but the same thing would have also happened in any older game that already had efreets in ...

Tiktacy/Sandman25/anyone else responding to off-topic stuff: take your discussion on the viability of CK stabbing to a different thread, thanks.

Probably it could just work more like a lightning rod (but without spreading damage over the full arc).

This is true, and I was kind of expecting a response like this, and I agree that 1v1 doesn't always mean a whole lot, but don't you think maybe sun demons are a little spoilery? I mean, if you are new to the game and you fight a smoke demon, most people will just be like "Oh crap, these guys a...

Bugs being old isn't a very good reason to not report them. Two of these are already reported though. There is also a parent issue for targeting bugs in general, patches welcome etc.

It refers to fire and cold beams/explosions/clouds (and shatter, and giant spore explosions), not jellies.

It looks like you're playing an old build, that bug has since been fixed. (Also, use the code tag for dumps rather than spoiler tag, I edited the post).

If you started the game when Vaults still generated in Depths and then transferred it, they're probably still in Depths.

(Edit: Removed the poll, "some race feels gimmicky" does not look like a particularly worthwhile thread though).

I have no clue how all the Transifex stuff works but if I can figure it out I'd also be happy to push improvements and removals of the second-person stuff and so on.

As far as description style goes, there's a link to a guideline in the very first post of this thread that I mostly agree with: Descriptions should be roughly 1-3 sentences long. They should be flavourful and informative, with an encyclopaedic tone. They can be witty, though jokes need to be high qu...

It's code that will be removed when save compatibility is broken. This hasn't happened for a while, since lots of changes can be made without breaking compatibility by using minor version tags - the last major version increase was in August 2012. There's a good blog post that talks about tags and sa...

Making a whole thread for each proposal is, in fact, better than including two completely unrelated proposals in one thread. As far as blood magic goes, there's already a DS mutation that boosts spellpower so a different effect would probably be better.

All that said, I'm no programmer and I have no idea how squirrely the ghost code is. "it's pretty squirrely" If someone were to write a patch to display player ghost spells in the same way as regular monster spells, I imagine it would be pushed! But yeah, the person to write that patch is...

The 7drl prototype of this was definitely cool, yeah. A PC port is apparently in progress, hopefully it's done sometime soon since I've heard a bunch of people say how the iOS version is so much better.

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9498&p=130544#p130544 (I might get around to this at some point, haven't gotten around to bringing it up in -dev yet).

Early implementations of jump attack required targeting twice for each usage (once for target, once for landing location or possibly the other way round, I forget) and this was pretty problematic. Certainly it gives more control and lets you make more decisions, but this isn't always an unambiguousl...

And here's the ancient blog post detailing it, for reference!

There was a bug causing flame clouds to generate on Volcano entrances that was fixed 2 years ago. If there are any maps that can still generate flames on the entrance as soon as you enter then please report them on Mantis.

This was a bug that has since been fixed (presumably the OP is aware of that since they posted the bug report

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There are instructions for compiling in Visual Studio 2012 in INSTALL.txt. I'm not sure if older versions of Visual Studio will work, but you can just grab the free version of 2012 for Windows 7 I think.

Sounds reasonable.

Storm and Gold dragon hides appear to be the only ones without the same encumbrance rating as the dragon armour itself, so changing that seems simplest.

If you think you can't kill those uniques with Fedhas and those items I'm not really sure what to suggest.

I am not sure why monstrous mutations are considered good, since they all are situational at best. They're not considered "good". Mutations are split into "mostly bad" and "not mostly bad", and potions of beneficial mutation give out "not mostly bad" mutation...

Split off a bunch of off-topic stuff, feel free to start a new thread about magic resistance in the advice forum.

One-way gates don't work very well, since if you wanted to take it, you would have to drag as much of your stash as possible through the shaft. It also seems fine to leave the lock as a hard lock for a little while and let it be tested in that form, before adding ways to bypass it (as has probably a...

Surprisingly enough, minmay is completely wrong and hasn't tested how monster vulnerability actually works before claiming that the way it works causes instant deaths. A slowed Naga of Chei and a hasted Spriggan both get the same amount of Flight duration after being hit by purple draconian breath (...

The description also does mention that their attack is soundless. Possibly it could be made clearer that it's a telepathic attack but I can't think of any better wording off-hand. The message for when there's only one mass is "The starcursed mass shrieks in your mind." which seems pretty c...

And that seems like a pretty good place to leave it. If an implementation does end up being pushed then feedback based on actual gameplay will be welcome.

Well, he and Psyche weren't the *reason* for the meph cloud, I did the meph cloud to confuse the orc warriors that were standing there between the uniques and me, those two just got hit with some stray happy gas. I don't actually think Gastronok was confused at all (I was firing venom bolts through...

auto_drop_chunks = true needs a bug fix to handle cases where autoexplore will drop and pick up parts of a large stack of chunks in a loop until they rot. I looked into it, and thought I'd hit on the fix, but it doesn't seem to work perfectly. How complicated would it be to adapt the autosacrifice ...

git commit, not commit.

An even simpler version would just be to reduce their AC (if a change is necessary).

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And you actually have no choice but to clear them if you want the demonic rune. Actually you get a warning now whenever you enter a level with a rune (including demonic) so you don't have to clear any non-rune levels if you don't want to. I was slightly mistaken (just a case of misremembering), you...

Eh, Advice seems fine for that to me? For stuff that's closely related to Crawl but too vague to be based on a specific character (YAVP) or to turn into a specific proposal (GDD).

At a glance I don't see any examples of attempts at "serious" threads in CYC that have been derailed by nonsense, if there are some then maybe that should just be discouraged instead of creating a whole new subforum?

Implojin wrote:This entire post is offtopic and I apologize, maybe a thread split is called for.

Done (and moved here since it's not really a specific proposal).

Probably a better change would be to just remove the curse foo scrolls (with Ashenzari either being the only source of them, or getting some kind of curse-at-will invocation).

OK well this doesn't seem to be going anywhere productive.

Also I'm pretty sure the removal of items is part of level generation - i.e. it only happens when you first step onto a floor. It's a mechanism to prevent levels from spawning with too many items, not a limit on how many items you can take there. No, it's a limit on how many items can be on a level...

################################### # # minmay's troves # # A severe exaggeration of the "game-changing or junk" aspect of treasure # troves. Three items, very likely to be unrandarts, and generally either # extremely useful or extremely useless. # NAME: trove_artefacts TAGS: no_item_gen ...

Split out the boots of running vs swiftness stuff. And yeah this is overcomplicated/not a good idea.

Usually trunk builds aren't made available on that page when there's a release imminent, so that the release version can get more testing (although at the moment I think automatic rebuilds are just broken or something). The servers still often have multiple versions available, but some of them switc...

Uh, talking about how the game works "under the hood" in the game design forum is not something that should be "frowned upon". Certainly it would be bad if someone were to post a bunch of unhelpful formulae in an advice thread but I'm pretty sure this is not one of those. (Not th...

No, and yes.

I agree. Also there should be Shadow spiders that are immune to the rockets.

Apparently this was always a weapon noise message, and sewers just ended up duplicating it coincidentally when they had timeout messages added. Fixed.

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