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Learn a translocation spell and deliberately miscast it until you get banished to the abyss

My favourite statistic: <Patashu> !lg * recent place=crypt s=ikiller <Sequell> 430 games for * (recent place=crypt): 53x the fury of Okawaru, 31x an ancient lich, 24x a lich, 24x a curse skull, 22x an ancient champion, 19x a jiangshi, 19x, 19x Khufu, 17x a vampire knight, 17x the rage of Trog, 14x a...

Sar wrote:pls do not remove it

It got removed recently and a dev added it back almost immediately, so it is safe :')

Is there a reason why you couldn't have just taken the stairs and left hell? (Taking the stairs costs 1.0 turns on the leaving side, and 1.333 on the arriving side, so you'd only give everything one more turn to hit you, 0.666... if hasted, which is about as long as any other action you could make w...

But I cannot find where to find a list of what it cancels or doesn't cancel.

http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a= ... =HEAD#l344
(It's the same effect as quicksilver dragon breath BTW)

nicolae wrote:
Wahaha wrote:Should bad status effects like slow and confuse have the same color as good status effects? Not a good idea because of visibility.

Why not use the light version of a color for good effects and the darker version for bad ones?

Because we already use light/dark to indicate 'this is about to run out'

Should it also remove Mesm? DCurse (when mummy death curses become a status effect removable by killing the monster)? I don't see the logic extending very well.

dwest wrote:I was training Spellcasting to get Shatter online ASAP.

Spellcasting only gives 1/4 the benefit of training Earth for Shatter's fail rate/spellpower. (As a rule of thumb: Don't train spellcasting for success/power unless it's below half the level of your main spell school.)

partial wrote:enemies that pierce armor are bad

Because...

Aule wrote:That's beyond evil.

There is no way that should be allowed to happen.

Sadistic and malevolent, it is.

Mimics in Crawl are basically a tech demo for infinite human sadness and cruelty

force_more_message any time anything comes into view, then?
I used to have this in my rc.

Have you tried HilariousDeathArtist 's .rc? It force-save-and-exits the game when you get hit very hard, so you don't fumble your next move.

When experience is divided evenly 3 ways its 33% in each selected skill. What happens to the missing 1% experience? Even worse - what if you have an odd number of 'skill points' and have to divide it evenly between two skills??? (Without source diving, I suspect the left over 'skill points' are all...

Mind you qw is really bad at Crawl, I'm still waiting for the bot that can get 10% win rate

Eyesburn wrote:Heh, and I thought there is some kind of mechanism or lever that opens the gate. ^_^

This isn't Brogue

Huh.
So, what's the reason why shooting a needle never wakes up the monster then?

Hellion island is non-mandatory. If you see it just set some exclusions and move on.

Bargoyles: If you line up 3 in a row you get a jackpot.

You can shoot the monster with a blowgun and it won't shout. I heard about someone else saying this before, too. I wonder why it is? Does being hit by a blowgun run different code to being hit by other stuff? (Is it to do with it not causing damage?) If you throw the needle instead of shooting it, ...

It's worth noting that 0.15 potion of resistance provides rCorr. Enjoy!

Bump! This is still necessary.
Here is another death to someone who misunderstood the meaning of 'You cannot teleport right now.':
!lg fearthechris xl=25 1 -tv

With a hack piece of code that will delete (or replace) jackal packs within, say, 20 tiles if where you first spawn at the start of the game.

Are there any major downsides to this?

The whole point of Crawl combat is that it's insanely swingy and no combat is ever definitively decided in one or the other's favour until it's over. Proposals like this are equivalent to 'reduce damage variance' proposals.

Merlin wrote:You can shoot the monster with a blowgun and it won't shout.

I heard about someone else saying this before, too. I wonder why it is? Does being hit by a blowgun run different code to being hit by other stuff? (Is it to do with it not causing damage?)

My 2 gold pieces: You are training skills that aren't spell schools in early game. You shouldn't do that yet.

Toss a stone to the tile orthogonally adjacent to the monster you want to wake up. Monster in question doesn't need to be in your LoS itself. Magic dart works with this too (wherever it lands it creates a 'ball of noise radius 1' that wakes up things adjacent to it and attracts them to the noise at...

stickyfingers wrote:Doesn't qw win at that sometimes?

Exhibit A:

Code:: 40453 | Depths:1 | 40453 ||| INVOKING BIA.

Exhibit B:

Code:: zermako[17/27]: <Zermako> nothing i could do <cptwinky> bros in arms? <Zermako> i keep forgetting about it

I rest my case, Your Honour

How has no one brought up 'by playing Zermakocrawl' yet?

this actually works in DoomRL

TeshiAlair wrote:What if it confused/briefly disoriented/1 turn stunned enemies right next to you, at the cost of attracting enemies from farther away?

It sounds like holy word except it effect everything instead of just demons/undead.

Make sure to show us how big your consumable inventory is getting at some point!

Another idea: Highlight the tiles that the searing ray will hit if you wait (.)

Imo it shouldn't have all 3 of perfect returning, better accuracy and better damage all simultaneously otherwise it would make all other big rocks irrelevant.

He could have done a max of 75 damage since you were flying. That's almost more damage than you have HP!

starless wrote:I spent 18 potions of curing on a trove, which only had a few useful scrolls and a wand of healing.

And now you know not to do that :mrgreen:

crate wrote:Well, then you need to know that that doesn't actually change anything (which was not mentioned in Patashu's post).

I didn't mention it specifically because it doesn't influence your decisions at all.

Make Zot:5 regenerate monsters infinitely every time you uncover or re-uncover (after it has moved out of LoS) every tile in it. You can't lure and kill things one by one from the vault anymore - but it's so jam packed in normal play that the player might not even notice for some time that it's goin...

Preferred GDA to Maxwell Why? The main disadvantages of Maxwell are -Tele and -Cast, and neither of those matter as a spell-less Formicid. Mainly because of the greater GDR of the dragon armour and I also needed the rPois at the time. The higher GDR of GDA doesn't make up for the fact that it's as ...

That storm dragon armour is amazing. Feel free to keep using it.
GDA in particular offers no advantages over it since you have rF rC rPois in your current setup anyway.
And CPA would only be better if you enchanted it really high, and it sounds like you can't.

Preferred GDA to Maxwell

Why? The main disadvantages of Maxwell are -Tele and -Cast, and neither of those matter as a spell-less Formicid.

My problem with lava is it generates smoke clouds, which is bad for gameplay in a few ways imo. Easy example is it really messes up autoexplore (it's actually not too uncommon for autoexplore to be able to take you at least a step or two past where it should stop when it sees hellion island, and in...

I thought your OP title was a typo, that you forgot to exit when you had already decided to, and accidentally went deeper then got killed. Forgot to exist. That's really quite hilarious, like when a mephed ogre one-hit kills himself with his own club. I lol'd the first time I read that one. Anyway,...

So that would make the constant 1.19. right?

I hope you find a spellbook or evokable of Blink to go with that q - ring of teleport control

1) The most important rule: If it takes 1 arbitrary unit of skill (aus) to train from 0.0 to 1.0, it takes 3 to train from 1.0 to 2.0, then 6, then 10, 15, 21, 28... or the triangular number (x^2+x)/2. This also means that to go from 0 to x in a skill costs the tetrahedral number, (x^3 + 3x^2 + 2x)...

I don't have simulations or source code to back me up, but my intuition is that every EV point is marginally less important than the point before it, same as for AC. So when considering 'what AC + EV do I want', maximize AC and EV and in the case of ties and near ties the more balanced option is sli...

I don't like any of these proposals and I like it as it is. It's a scroll of 'huh, this sounds really ill-advised' until you think of some cool place to use it (slime:6, vaults:5) and then you get to have fun for once in your crawl adventurer's life. (You don't even get experience for monsters kille...

dck wrote:Of course when people talk about banishing trj they mean with disto weapons.
Could with vulnerability I guess.

?Vuln and invo banish should work fine, about 50% odds if the learndb is correct and it caps at 100 spell power vs ~100 MR.

So in the case of fireball, for example, tracers could also be fired to the squares surrounding the target monster. Then the balrug could select a target spot which wouldn't hurt it's allies, if possible. Of course we can just say that it's a demon after all and not shy about hurting allies. I don'...

it's actually really useful as a guide to tavern. if one of my posts doesn't use capital letters, it's not worth reading

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