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I want tier lists for species and backgrounds DrKe. Don't care whether the idea makes sense or not.

I have already successfully negotiated rights for commit access to the Vagante project, and when it is finally granted I shall begin making REMOVALS.

Note: Anyone who implies that Haunt does poor damage or is otherwise bad at killing enemies will receive a warning. Discussing how it may be a poor XP investment compared to pure summons spells is acceptable. Anyone who insinuates that Monstrous Menagerie is in any way a weak spell or even that it'...

And now there's this commit. I did it to buff casters (they can use dmsl/rmsl).

dev note: (to no one in particular) yes I do collect some garbage like all the duvessa posts in the trash forum, but the trace ownage detected was only on the cherished roguelike and roguelikelike[-lite] community when certain griefers promised a pizza tornado branch in april but delivered only on b...

dev note: this thread will be moved to the trash forum in 24 hours depending on the time zone.

Potions of cancellation do affect tree form, just like they do all other forms where you can drink. This is the case in 0.16 and trunk. Forms take 10 aut to dispell after the cancellation, but you should see the Tree indicator go from light green to green after the turn you drink it.

Picking two reasons to reject it at random: 6 shouldn't resist torment and you don't know how octopode crusher throwing works. Moving to CYC in the hope that others can improve on the design space.

Mod note: Moved this into technical support from GDD, since it definitely doesn't belong in the latter.

dowan knows this one trick to tell which is which. devs hate him!

Disaster area doesn't hit the player, and I don't understand "Why is disaster area even allowed to damage you at all? I don't know." at all as a rhetorical question. That's precisely what it doesn't do. It uses upheaval explosions which are radius 1 or 2, depending on invocations, and for ...

killratio uses ikiller, which includes kills by the members of a monster's band, so that 14% does count kills by Robin's allies.

I have a MiBe that's about to do Spider. Sapher was saying it's a pretty good char. He and I are bros and like to strategize about speedruns and just hang out talk about cool things.

I think those keen on suggesting how qw should be modified should check out the repository and submit a patch:

https://github.com/elliptic/qw

Contributions from others have been incorporated in the past.

I dunno, quitting seems pretty easy to implement to me. But in all seriousness I'm guessing that elliptic would rather just fix the behavior when he has time and not worry about a very small number of quits that result until he does. Working random teleport with the ring into qw's "stuck" ...

The correct thing for qw to do would be to simply go back up the stairs and then go down a new set of stairs, not to use a ring of teleportation, so dropping the ring wasn't a mistake. qw just needs to be programmed to handle the situation correctly. I'm told that it's harder to fix this aspect of q...

I spoke with elliptic about this, and it turns out that this is an issue with qw not having a great understanding of dungeon topology. Sometimes levels have multiple connected components, each component being a contiguous region or section the player can fully autoexplore within, but with no direct ...

You guys talk about wanting to vote for removal should vote for removal! Do I have to explain to you what democracy is...

We did a 0.16.1 bugfix release. Users not busy playing the DC:PT beta (that version was a way bigger disaster imo) are encouraged to upgrade from 0.16.0.

We did a 0.16.1 bugfix release, and for this version I build against ubuntu trusty instead of utopic, so the library dependencies should be less restrictive than they were for 0.16.0. Anyone who had trouble installing the 0.16.0 debs is encouraged to update their repository (the apt url is the same)...

The fact that beogh appears on-average relatively more often than any single god is irrelevant, what matters is does beogh occur more often than any other better god, and I'm afraid the latter is an embarrassingly large list of gods. Also, and it probably goes without saying at this point, but just ...

50/50 chance that you see an orc priest before your first altar is way off. orc priests can't even place as natural level gen monsters until D:4, prior to this they place only in vaults or as OOD spawns, and there aren't any recent game orc priest kills in Sequell before D:3 at all. You're highly li...

No, that's a silly way to describe "my own account", since that CRD thread was to describe a problem where we needed to make a decision, not give testimony as to who said what when, which is irrelevant to making said decision. I do recall people mentioning player damage around the time tha...

Yes, I think I neglected to mention that in the CRD post, but lots of people were talking about it. wheals says he noticed it when using axe melee that felt overly strong, and another player ##crawl soon asked if people felt like they were doing more damage in melee, so that's when he decided to che...

Yes, CXC has been updated, and we're working on getting the rest updated ASAP. We debated leaving the bug in place for the rest of the tournament out of fairness to games played from now on, but it was decided that playing a broken crawl is ultimately less fun and would drive many away from playing....

The Philosophy section is written for a broad audience and is not terribly precise because it's meant to be accessible. I think the development team just disagree's with the notion that Crawl's philosophy means randomness must be introduced in a specific way or at all cost, over better gameplay. We ...

I would add "a design goal of making things random, whether doing so makes sense or not" to my list of things that are neither crawl design goals nor described as such in the manual. There are god abilities in crawl that are almost completely predictable (Hero, Finesse, Pain Mirror, Trog's...

There's no design goal that "gives people nowhere to stand in saying that such and such a thing is overly random." If you're referring to the philosophy section of the manual, then it states "However, this does not mean that wins are an arbitrary matter of luck: the skill of players w...

No, I actually just checked the summons spells specifically because I was curious which he'd like to remove. I suspect he'd like to remove XXX as well, rather than just have it make large abominations (since he removes tmons), but I could be wrong. Leaving in abjuration but not taking out aura of ab...

Never mind the crawl binary, he's trying to make crawl fail to compile! He cut lightning spires without removing the spell summon lightning spire!

Just can't get over me telling you that it wasn't minmay you beat in online chess, can you? I guess that must really hurt, but try to take some comfort from the fact that I really enjoyed crushing your dream.

Do you want vaults with "spectral holy swine", Sar?

BECAUSE HOLY PIGS THAT LEAVE CORPSES ARE HOW YOU GET VAULTS WITH SPECTRAL HOLY SWINE, SAR

Silly things even caused a crash. The holy swine pen is clearly because the red devil likes torturing angelic things.

That's funny because I tend to find that, when Berder argues against many others giving advice, his arguments are rather surreal, looking more like they're just being outright contrary rather than trying to be good advice. The OP was asking about a Ds, which is a neutral-aptitude species that has mo...

Whether people say they disagree with Berder just to give him a hard time, it is obvious that people go out of their way to give him a hard time and they do so in a way that is obviously not helpful to new players or anyone else. That's not to say late in the thread that people arguing against his ...

Note that in DrKe's game where 186 fireball was used in xl10-15, it was the damaging spell cast in that range about 12.4% of the time. DrKe cast damaging spells that weren't fireball 1316 times in that same range: Action | 10-12 | 13-15 |Total (10-15) -------------------------+-------+-------+------...

Just to be clear, I thanked Sandman25's post even though Sif is the best god and Sar's post because I meant to click report.

If we consider games where players might actually choose Trog as their first god outside of some kind of challenge or high score attempt, which would be for Fighter and Adventurer class groups (Fi Gl Mo Hu As Ar Wn) !lm tenpercenters recent !boring !experimental cls=ar|fi|gl|as|hu|mo|wn god!= god!=b...

Corpses are under items because corpses (and skeletons) are immobile and have to be at the bottom of a stack of items. We don't show information about items under the top item in item piles that the player hasn't visited because it basically would encourage xv or ctrl-X every time an enemy died. Wit...

I'm not talking about the version issue, I'm talking about how you counted milestones instead of counting games with x=cdist(gid), which you can see in the query I did (which gives very different results).

Even assuming that Op query would support any assertion about the quality of axes versus other weapon types (which it generally doesn't), as I mentioned in my post above the query you did is simply incorrect.

It's probably not accurate to use lm to argue about the importance of axe cleaving versus other weapon types but then include games from crawl versions where axes didn't have cleaving. Of course it's already not a very good idea to favor Sequell queries over reasoning about the game for something li...

Yes I don't think we can take what the OP meant to be speedrunning over just winning the game, or at least that's not how I read it. Most situations are 1v1, after all.

I'm not going to continue a potentially endless argument from a premise like "axes are the best modulo apts because pack enemies exist". I do think it's pretty funny to say something like "Don't put words in my mouth, you aren't being honest" when someone takes something describe...

No I would by no means equate "melee situations that count the most" with "unintentionally surrounded by multiple monsters", since my next action is very likely to not be melee in that situation even if I'm not low on HP. The greatsword has higher: accuracy, base damage, and prob...

Talking about what the weapon does when you're simultaneously low on hp and surrounded by monsters is a terrible way to argue that axes are the "best" weapon class. In those situations you're to be using one of your many, many escape options, preferably well below you're in a "I have ...

It's me, I'm the ultimate speedrunner <gammafunk> !lm * HE-- rune min=turns <Sequell> 12679. [2015-02-28 17:23:50] gammafunk the Summoner (L12 HESu of Sif Muna) found a barnacled rune of Zot on turn 7735. (Shoals:5) but srsly that z13 win was outstanding. Some of the best speedrunners who've won a l...

That's not right. It generates two high quality items, and these are not as if from acquirement (which would mean based on the player), just high quality. It's guarded by two monsters, each of which have equal chance to be a daeva or an angel, and each with a 10/11 chance that it will be generated a...

Maaaaaaan I won the first DrMo I ever played 15 runes w/TSO never once cast statue but dragon form erry teim way 2ez get good

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