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Tuesday, 5th May 2015, 19:33

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Make allied Royal Jelly summons allied as well.

Replies: 4

Views: 1825

Re: Make allied Royal Jelly summons allied as well.

Friendly TRJs don't create spawns at all, are you sure you weren't just seeing the spawns from the original?

Monday, 4th May 2015, 13:11

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Make silence aura stop autoexplore

Replies: 2

Views: 1353

Re: Make silence aura stop autoexplore

Yes, this is a long-known issue. Patches welcome!

Thursday, 30th April 2015, 11:00

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Let players throw a pebble from the ground to attract mon

Replies: 11

Views: 3123

Re: Let players throw a pebble from the ground to attract mo

Personally I still use stone throwing after the nerf (despite the difference being very noticeable, making stone-throwing pretty much useless) because it's the only way I know to make autofight to stay still instead of rushing towards the enemy (and unexplored areas). autofight_wait does this. auto...

Wednesday, 29th April 2015, 09:25

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Teleport other on sharks?

Replies: 5

Views: 1755

Re: Teleport other on sharks?

If you Teleport Other on a shark, will it Tport only into water or anywhere on the map? I think it would be awesome/hilarious to find a flopping shark in a hallway somewhere. Seafaring creatures can indeed be teleported to non-water squares, typically to die after a little while. Neither monsters n...

Tuesday, 28th April 2015, 23:35

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: The Inevitable Useless Information Topic

Replies: 19

Views: 5187

Re: The Inevitable Useless Information Topic

Well this is a terrible thread too I guess, huh.

Tuesday, 28th April 2015, 23:30

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: SquareLOS experimental branch on CBRO

Replies: 81

Views: 23050

Re: SquareLOS experimental branch on CBRO

The commit also has a good explanation.

Tuesday, 28th April 2015, 19:53

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: How would you sex the gods?

Replies: 51

Views: 17649

Re: How would you sex the gods?

And that's quite enough of that I think.

Monday, 20th April 2015, 16:43

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Unique proposal: Myrmecia, Champion of Formicids

Replies: 82

Views: 47200

Re: Unique proposal: Myrmecia, Champion of Formicids

I judge simplicity by how easy it is to understand something. "Stasis other" is simpler than "Dimensional Anchor" because the former does not require looking it up to figure out what the hell it does. Personally I have trouble believing that it's difficult to figure out that a s...

Sunday, 19th April 2015, 16:19

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Bring back poisonous chunks

Replies: 88

Views: 23311

Re: Bring back poisonous chunks

This thread stopped being useful to anyone a long, long time ago.

Thursday, 9th April 2015, 13:09

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Beginner opinion: Melee too easy, Casters too hard

Replies: 43

Views: 12669

Re: Beginner opinion: Melee too easy, Casters too hard

Split off the character-in-progress discussion to here.

Thursday, 9th April 2015, 07:45

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Autopickup by misc evokable type

Replies: 4

Views: 1454

Re: Autopickup by misc evokable type

Sprucery wrote:Even better, picking up one should automatically switch autopickup off for that type (not for sacks or boxes).

This is already the case, if you put them on autopickup in your config then it's automatically turned off when you've picked up one.

Wednesday, 8th April 2015, 22:02

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: #0009613

Replies: 24

Views: 5810

Re: #0009613

Hi, welcome to the Tavern where showing up, wildly throwing insults and abuse and repeatedly comparing people to the Gestapo in order to make a complaint isn't acceptable behaviour. Thanks, good thread all.

Monday, 30th March 2015, 17:35

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Rage: Evoke or Invoke?

Replies: 15

Views: 4467

Re: Rage: Evoke or Invoke?

The necklace of Bloodlust extends berserk a bit on 50% of kills. Other sources of evocable rage don't do anything special other than be evoked for rage (amulets of rage did used to have a chance to extend berserking but it was a tiny chance for a tiny extension).

Monday, 30th March 2015, 12:28

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Harder to get Okawaru piety?

Replies: 10

Views: 2866

Re: Harder to get Okawaru piety?

There were already plans to reduce the rate of piety gain for most gods with corpse sacrifices before corpse sacrifice removal happened, so reducing the rate of piety gain was a desirable side-effect. (Or rather: I have no idea whether the actual change as committed was intended to reduce the overal...

Sunday, 29th March 2015, 17:55

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Autopickup stackable items even when not selected

Replies: 8

Views: 2522

Re: Autopickup stackable items even when not selected

This is already built in for potions and scrolls (except it wasn't working, but now it is), extending it to branded ammo sounds good too.

Tuesday, 24th March 2015, 21:57

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: qw bot

Replies: 9

Views: 2692

Re: qw bot

I assume for Nemelex's Choice banners.

Tuesday, 24th March 2015, 12:15

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Diversify Poison/VM Start

Replies: 32

Views: 8411

Re: Diversify Poison/VM Start

Duvessa:You were successful in trolling this thread out of GDD. Yes Charms don't directly kill enemies; but your Song of Slaying helps you kill things faster, yes? Haha. Your thread doesn't have any actual proposal other than "diversify poison in some unspecified way, maybe give VM a weapon fo...

Monday, 23rd March 2015, 23:49

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Buff Beogh

Replies: 40

Views: 10352

Re: Buff Beogh

Friday, 20th March 2015, 17:01

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Unrand: Deck of Ancient Wonders

Replies: 15

Views: 3626

Re: Unrand: Deck of Ancient Wonders

Nemelex was deliberately shifted away from the problematic and uninteresting strategic freebies towards offering a better selection of tactical effects. I'm not really seeing any reasoning in this thread to make Nemelex start gifting strategic bonuses with a load of fiddly requirements again, other ...

Thursday, 19th March 2015, 13:49

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Proposal: Yet another equipment god

Replies: 14

Views: 3909

Re: Proposal: Yet another equipment god

I don't think allowing a god to alter artefacts would necessarily be out of the question (but agree that this particular proposal of "all your items are passively better, and also you can make them actively better" looks really uninteresting).

Monday, 16th March 2015, 14:27

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Possible ways to 100% block LOF

Replies: 13

Views: 3872

Re: Possible ways to 100% block LOS

Fog definitely isn't 100% guaranteed.

Wednesday, 11th March 2015, 14:57

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Is this a bug ?

Replies: 2

Views: 926

Re: Is this a bug ?

If you had killed it on another level then the door wouldn't have opened, yeah. The bug is about to celebrate its 5-year anniversary in fact, good reminder to remove that vault I guess!

Tuesday, 24th February 2015, 22:16

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Major Background Trimming

Replies: 90

Views: 23339

Re: Major Background Trimming

This thread is pretty much just repeating itself at this point, I think it is past the point of going anywhere new and productive.

Thursday, 19th February 2015, 20:39

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: How much regeneration can you stack?

Replies: 17

Views: 5766

Re: How much regeneration can you stack?

xentronium wrote:Can drink ambrosia now.

Ambrosia (and the Elixir card, as of whichever version it changed in) don't increase your regen rate, they just heal you for a set amount each turn.

Tuesday, 17th February 2015, 14:37

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Do unrandarts generate in pandemonium?

Replies: 14

Views: 3517

Re: Do unrandarts generate in pandemonium?

  Code:
static bool _try_make_item_unrand(item_def& item, int force_type)
{
    if (player_in_branch(BRANCH_PANDEMONIUM))
        return false;
[...]
}

Thursday, 12th February 2015, 15:30

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Shadow Traps

Replies: 104

Views: 43987

Re: Shadow Traps

It is that, yeah (they're disabled for 2-4 turns apparently).

Sunday, 8th February 2015, 19:14

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: God Proposal: Euquanauque, God of Symmetry

Replies: 18

Views: 6363

Re: God Proposal: Euquanauque, God of Symmetry

Uh, encumbrance also doesn't exist in the current (5-month-old) stable version of Crawl. Nor does permanent corrosion. It might be worth getting a bit more up-to-date with what's changed in 0.15 and what is changing in 0.16.

Sunday, 8th February 2015, 16:20

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Wisdom from a multiple HS holder

Replies: 9

Views: 3191

Re: Wisdom from a multiple HS holder

(cyc is over here)

Friday, 6th February 2015, 17:21

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Monster Evo skill

Replies: 8

Views: 2014

Re: Monster Evo skill

Monster Evo skill is equal to HD (as long as they have intelligence >= I_NORMAL, otherwise it's zero), but they have an 100% success rate with jewellery evocation if they decide to try and do so. The skill is probably just used for elemental staff damage.

Friday, 6th February 2015, 10:10

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Make jewellery technically a type of armor

Replies: 3

Views: 1279

Re: Make jewellery technically a type of armor

Here's one of many similar threads.

Thursday, 5th February 2015, 13:55

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Elyvilon Reform

Replies: 62

Views: 19680

Re: Elyvilon Reform

There's some more discussion on the technical details of changing Pacification so that its success rate could be displayed in the comments of #8472 on Mantis, and a patch implementing some such change would be likely to be accepted - I'd tend towards suggesting just fuzzing the maxHP value that paci...

Saturday, 31st January 2015, 23:48

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Elyvilon Reform

Replies: 62

Views: 19680

Re: Elyvilon Reform

For those curious about what actually changed: Change Elyvilon's piety gain to only be from exploration Removes Elyvilon's weapon destruction prayer and piety from pacification, and gives piety for exploration, at the same speed as Nemelex. Evil weapons are no longer identified on the floor, since t...

Saturday, 31st January 2015, 13:51

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Small FR: Kobolds, Trolls, and Ghouls autotravel to corpses

Replies: 6

Views: 2335

Re: Small FR: Kobolds, Trolls, and Ghouls autotravel to corp

A patch for this would be very welcome. There is a very old one lying around that implements it as explore_stop += greedy_butcherable, which is probably the right way to do it. Unfortunately it's from before a bunch of refactorings so it'd be less work to write a new patch than to update and merge t...

Wednesday, 28th January 2015, 22:06

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Three +8 broad axes, which ones to use when?

Replies: 12

Views: 3566

Re: Three +8 broad axes, which ones to use when?

Stealing kills to get XP from your allies isn't a thing, and nor is XP loss from the draining brand.

Tuesday, 27th January 2015, 00:57

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Running a DCSS SERIES on my youtube channel

Replies: 1

Views: 994

Re: Running a DCSS SERIES on my youtube channel

Your earlier thread was removed because 1) it was posted in the news forum 2) your only contribution to this forum has been self-advertisement. We don't need a new thread on the topic every week, thanks - I think at this point people are aware of your channel and will visit it if they feel so inclin...

Saturday, 17th January 2015, 22:12

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Hex Success Chance Doesn't Take Holiness Into Account

Replies: 2

Views: 1044

Re: Hex Success Chance Doesn't Take Holiness Into Account

This is known and on Mantis already.

Saturday, 10th January 2015, 22:53

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Same MR with/without MR gears?

Replies: 9

Views: 2576

Re: Same MR with/without MR gears?

No, the body armour check is for types of armour that provide MR directly (that is, quicksilver dragon armour).

Saturday, 10th January 2015, 13:06

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Same MR with/without MR gears?

Replies: 9

Views: 2576

Re: Same MR with/without MR gears?

I think it' still missing cloaks. The you.wearing_ego() check looks at all types of armour for the "of magic resistance" ego. Thanks for the help, but is there any way to apply this code into the game I'm currently playing? It should apply as soon as the server updates if you're playing o...

Friday, 9th January 2015, 20:13

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Stabbing damage

Replies: 8

Views: 2398

Re: Stabbing damage

Don't think so. I missed a couple of modifiers though, statue form, cleaving and weakness also aren't multiplied (but they all used to be in 0.12 except for weakness which didn't exist, I would guess that this was changed around at the time that shadow form was added). Probably worth looking at atta...

Friday, 9th January 2015, 17:20

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Stabbing damage

Replies: 8

Views: 2398

Re: Stabbing damage

The stab bonus happens after every other damage modifier except for shadow form's 1/2 damage (edit: and the statue form, cleaving and weakness modifiers).

Wednesday, 24th December 2014, 01:38

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Buff scrolls of acquirement

Replies: 73

Views: 19441

Re: Buff scrolls of acquirement

Moved to advice since the thread is mostly that at the moment.

Sunday, 14th December 2014, 17:25

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Remember Me?

Replies: 67

Views: 19914

Re: Remember Me?

MarvinPA summed that thread up nicely. I'd argue that Marvin's post better summed up THIS thread. Which is to say he used his powers to edit the posts of someone he disliked, then (falsely) quoted that change in an attempt to discredit the poster instead of providing any actual counterpoints. so th...

Saturday, 9th August 2014, 22:22

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: High Level Poison Spells

Replies: 15

Views: 3123

Re: High Level Poison Spells

Moved to advice since this is mostly stuff about XP and aptitudes and spell skills or something and not any kind of actual GDD suggestion.

Thursday, 7th August 2014, 16:55

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Draconians

Replies: 20

Views: 5380

Re: Draconians

I don't really think a 4-year-old comment that's just referring to not allowing colour selection is particularly indicative of Draconians being a failure to achieve whatever their intended design might be. As multiple people have said, in practice they're flexible hybrids with a unique slot restrict...

Wednesday, 6th August 2014, 15:54

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Proposal: modify mummies self-restoration

Replies: 5

Views: 1699

Re: Proposal: modify mummies self-restoration

Stat loss is likely to be changed to not recover over time (possibly recovering with XP gain instead) so as to actually fix the problem of being able to wait it out somewhere safe, yes.

Monday, 4th August 2014, 17:49

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Make Sublimation of Blood targetable.

Replies: 14

Views: 3199

Re: Make Sublimation of Blood targetable.

This is not a good idea, and conveniently also comes with no reasoning at all as to why it should be changed ("there is no player mechanic that does this" does not qualify for that, if it was supposed to). See the readme.

Friday, 1st August 2014, 22:22

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Slouch power

Replies: 7

Views: 2490

Re: Slouch power

The 1000 there is divided by a bunch of things, so it won't end up negative unless the monster is faster than you (standard movement and action speed is 10).

Tuesday, 29th July 2014, 18:37

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Rod of Shadows question

Replies: 9

Views: 3097

Re: Rod of Shadows question

It always draws from the Dungeon monster list (which still extends down to 27 for out-of-depth purposes). Depths monsters are a similar but separate list to Dungeon oods, including things like spriggans and liches and titans which you can't get from the rod of shadows.
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