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At some point I proposed to get of fruits and pizzas and earned an overwhelming No. Consider it as impossible. (I then went on to support the plant god, so that the fruits are now good for something.) There won't be containers of any type. https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:planning:wont...

I've noticed in recent versions that there are a lot of new items in the game - scrolls of curse jewellery and amnesia, more kinds of branded ammunition, etc. If you actually use a missile weapon, and esp. if you worship Trog or Okawaru, you can end up with a lot of slots filled with projectiles, f...

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=373 Something on butcher: You don't have to carry corpses, you carry chunks instead. You butcher tactically in order to deny someone zombies or skeletons. Choice of edged vs unedged weapon matters. I believe the interface proposal above will do fine.

Hello all (yes that's ToME's darkgod) Congratulations to the win! It's very good to see active roguelike development. I have very little experience outside Nethack and Crawl; is it true that ToME continues along the Angband branch of the genre? (Which is very good in its own right, of course.) I'd ...

I've never liked labyrinths. Usually they are easy, and when they aren't easy I just feel like I got unlucky with the layout. I've never felt like my own skill was being challenged when doing a labyrinth. Labyrinths have recently been limited to one per game. If you have ideas how to make them more...

Searching for the abyssal rune. The abyss itself isn't so bad, but finding the rune is entirely a matter of luck or tedium, for any character powerful enough to actually want to look for it. There are ideas about making it better, but they don't address how the abyss is entirely monotonous, and how...

Fedhas is also fun, but he has his own kinds of sustainability issues. Wandering Mushrooms are amazing when you first get them--even better than Yredelemnul's zombies, probably--but you eventually reach a point where they die so often that you lose piety faster than you can regain it (especially si...

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Oh, the one off effects (weapon blessing by TSO, Lugonu, Kikubaaqudgha) are not problematic.

Grimm wrote:Funny thing was I had 5 lev potions.

You always get four potions of levitation before you encounter the siren.

Could someone explain how god gifts are currently problematic? I don't see what's wrong with them and I get the feeling I'm missing something obvious. Apart from what acvar mentions, there is also this feeling of grinding "one more gift". This is most pronounced with Okawaru, who has this...

Never blindly hold down the 5 key to let a rat train your dodging in the lair. There is always a nine headed hydra just waiting around that corner. Always. Never. Hold down. Any key. Ever ! Someday, I'll implement that . The real issue is already with training Dodging by not fighting rats. There is...

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This is a thread in an ancient forum, for an ancient version of Crawl.

I'd also like to note that further experiments have shown that Portal Projectile now does seem to let you portal a projectile anywhere within line of sight, regardless of your strength, which wasn't possible the last time I tried. I'm not sure if this is the intended behaviour or if it should be ch...

I like it, including the numbers (factors 3 and 2). If we get a patch, I'll lobby for pushing it into trunk.

Sigh... Posts like this make me not want to be a moderator. Should I warn / delete / reply / ignore? Each option is fraught with peril... No idea. If there are too many folks like angrykoopa around, I'll leave. My time is limited and I won't waste it on rubbish talk. Although I think it is possible...

In my opinion gifts are always problematic. You can see this with Okawaru and Trog. The books of Sif and Vehumet aren't much better (although I believe that the addition of random books has helped). Instead of adding gifting gods, I'd rather remove gifts, or at least change them.

I think the main problem seems to be that some builds are so much better than others, and the choices you make with them are going to be about the same (if you're going for winning) for instance, MdFi is going to choose Oka most of the time, same as conjurer is going to pick Vehumet. I'd say that's...

#1 is not an issue. Dual-schooling has been done (Ice/Fire more than Air/Earth, I guess). The point is that dual-schooling shouldn't be the no-brainer! #2 is somewhat problematic, but weapons can be switched (easier now that cross-training is clearly explained in the m screen). Sure, merfolk are hea...

Perhaps at some time blood will have some role. But in any case, the effect should be small (and not really about battle). We don't want players to lure monsters across the map to (or away from) some type of floor.

I know lots of people have had ideas like this in the past. If they do a stealth god, they should combine it with the ranged weapon god that people have also been wanting for a while. A hunter god that's all about stalking your prey and waiting until just the right moment to strike; it would make s...

Congratulations! Did you have trouble with the orbs of fire, or other Zot:5 denizens? Could you clear that level slowly? (My fighers always have trouble with this, and your AC isn't that high... although the weapon is very good!) Did you actually cast? The armour should have allowed it, but maybe yo...

I'm bringing this up because it came up tangentially in another thread. I think the comment was that it can be somewhat "grindy" having your character try on every runed / glowing item in the dungeon in search of enchanted items. First of all, I have found items that had no special descri...

Thanks for the report! Tell us more about the ziggurat: were the first levels okay, did you get any decent loot? Have you been using those rocks? Your Throwing was only at 5. Did you ever pray? Does weapon destruction in the ziggurat yield piety? It is true that the enchantment cap on armours hurts ...

I've tried to like Vampires without much success. I think there are two main problems that I have with them. One is that they have a crippling 150 experience aptitude and I can't figure out what they did to deserve it. Their melee aptitudes aren't very good. Their magic aptitudes aren't very good. ...

I mean that most everything about them is mindless (current labyrinths are rather analogous to nethack's sokoban): ⋅ the food cost is usually negligible (and entirely meaningless for mummies) ⋅ the maze is mostly wallhugging until finding a good passage into the next layer (whil...

Regarding labyrinths: We have added glass, blood, monsters (at the moment only hungry ghosts) and vaults in order to make labyrinths more interesting. If you want more vaults, draw some! It is easy, just look at them in dat/des/portal/lab.des. Do you mean by "grindy" that labyrinths are to...

What the OP does not show is the two potions of porridge handed out next to the door. Yes, the map is evil (which is why it only has a WEIGHT of 1), but it is just practical humour. You didn't expect me to change anything after "mind-numbing", "stupid secret-door labyrinth" and &...

On troves, while I understand that they aim to offer a good chance at good loot for a meaningful price, the price is usually (though not always) more impractical than meaningful, turning it into a grinding festival (need a robe of resistance? try on every robe. need a bunch of potions of brilliance...

Point being, if someone wants to scum and grind, they'll find a way to do it, selling or no selling. It's the player's choice whether they want to make the game "boring" or not, not the developer's. Maybe for your games. But not for ours. If the forum keeps being stupid like this, I'll wi...

troves are bad enough Do you think troves should just go? They're one more step towards power creep, we may have gone overboard. Everyone else: I don't think you tried to understand what I wrote. I assume that's the diffence between designer and player. The fact that some of you (claim to) not grin...

I am not sure the point will come across but the fact is that just being able to sell stuff (even if at 1/20th of the price) will tempt some players to do so. This reasoning is not academic; many of us have played Nethack and experienced it first hand. The reason why Crawl will never have selling is...

I've done all four hells with Sif Muna and no Necromutation, and in one game. People overestimate the importance of those. I don't know how I could have done it without regeneration, though. I can think of exactly two problems with the extended endgame: it's horribly biased towards certain builds, ...

Please remember that not everyone is an expert at this game. The game should have a few crutches, and not every decision needs to be as complex as a chess move. I know I'm not a dev, and I'm not well versed in game design, but it seems to me that whatever I consider reliable / useful gets tagged as...

horribly overpowered spells: abjuration (trivializes summoning monsters) blink (ridiculously good with teleport control and still great without) mephitic cloud (trivializes anything with less than 15 HD and no rPois) sticky flame (stupid kiting spell that should die painfully) summon butterflies (l...

Spellcasting is overpowered. It is mostly a result of the progressive experience system, but even on a flat system it would be too powerful. Almost every character no matter how they start ends up dabbling in spellcasting. This should not be the case. High level casters can demolish whole rooms ful...

Well, it is obviously cheap to vote more than once. I'd be unhappy if Crawl won that way.

I've played Stone Soup for several years, and over the time I've noticed that there is a bit of "power creep" that is happening in development. There definitely is power creep. In my opinion (I am a developer), it is most plain to see with new spells and new monsters. However, I believe t...

If races based on different aptitudes are desired more than races with unique gimmicks, why not create a race or two that uses the skill system uniquely? Sure, why not. Unfortunately, neither of the two ideas will work well. For example, a cursed race whose aptitudes are randomly rolled at creation...

Thanks for the wiki page. I took care of the formatting.

The long term goal is 27 races and 27 backgrounds! But I agree with you that there's already a lot of work with the current content and we shouldn't rush new one. And 27 gods, of course. However, that's a whimsical way of stating that we're open to adding content. As the history of DCSS shows, we h...

- Ridiculous XP boost. I heard it was a total of 40% extra experience (5% per cursed item). My troll ended up getting so much XP per floor that I had to victory dance constantly due to maxing out. I agree. And I want to get rid of that, see above. - Cursed piety boost. x6 for complete bondage is ex...

I believe people are raging about Ash because of the xp gain boost. I also believe that this mechanic, while strong, is opaque and too meta-gamey. People have told me that Ash without xp gain boost would be underpowered but I don't believe that and rather see it as a lack of fantasy :) Since this is...

What about asking adding the map to trunk asap and then having a small, informal tournament around it?

Like galehar, I like that it's not as one-sided as it used to be. Here is what I never play: Humans (don't ask) Mummies (a scumming species for scumming players :) Demigods (not until they have worshippers) I've seen many complaints about Vampires, which is sad. We got a patch from Jarmo and tried t...

This is a modified re-post of my message on the former forum: The annual Crawl tournament is a lot of fun, and will continue to exist. However, there are cool ideas for additional, less formal tournaments out there. Some examples: ⋅ open-ended tournament to achieve first victory (of a str...

That last screen proposal by danr might actually lead to something.

Getting rid of modality in the m screen is worth showing two numbers for each skill (aptitude and progress) for each skill.

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