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If the clock is tuned as intended, the chances of a player knowing and caring about the it before having any more useful information about the floors in question seems highly remote, if providing such information is even undesirable, which I don't see why it would be (no spoilers). I mean, if a play...

It seems like the zymes no longer cause sickness. Was sickness removed when rotting was? If so, how should we salvage the zyme concept?

Yes, the 0 minimum cap is the final step in the function, after all other calculations.

There's a hard lower cap of 0 stealth, so if all your stealth bonuses don't total to exceed your armour penalty, then it makes no difference whether you have the bonuses or not.

Okay, there are some characters who don't benefit from stealth boosts (Qazlal, heavily armoured). And, I forgot about rings of flight, for obvious reasons. So, I admittedly somewhat overstated my case earlier. But, if stealth+ buys even a single extra turn before the enemy notices you, that complete...

Is that comment meant to be in support of my proposal? If not, then I suspect you've completely misunderstood something.

Quick ring swapping itself isn't really a problem, in fact it's kinda necessary as long as you have specialized resistances because otherwise you'd be incentivized to run from everything that you have an unequipped resistance to, swap gear once in safety, then reengage, which would be painfully tedi...

It's tedious but advantageous for many characters to equip 2 rings of stealth while exploring but switch to combat-oriented rings on spotting any sufficiently dangerous monster. Both the stealth bonus and the quick nature of ring swapping make this a very safe strategy. As such, rings of stealth sho...

As quite the fan of octopode transmuters myself, I have to object to idea that Wereblood is a bad spell. You definitely don't want to be using it often, but in the right situations, it's quite good. If used wisely, the noise can actually be helpful rather than a drawback. Like, how many times have y...

If UI complexity is a concern, a modified approach is possible. Set skill targets they way we do now, but stop twice: once when the modified value reaches the target, and again when the base value reaches the target.

I didn't realize that Abjuration is now more widely available (the wiki has not updated all, or perhaps any, of the relevant monster pages to indicate this). What I had in mind was a bit stronger, though, outright banishing summons rather than accelerating their expiration. I agree that with current...

Even with infinite ammo, I would still prefer to train melee combat over ranged combat on most of my characters, for a variety of reasons. But, they can be broadly categorized as weapon type bonuses, wider variety of brands, god synergies, and damage. Although, to be fair, my perception that melee a...

After seeing a report of a Naga Chei worshipper being killed by Zot for backtracking through the dungeon once, I checked the Zot cost of movement for such characters, and at full piety, it's almost 3 Zot points per tile moved, on average. This is enough to scare me off of playing Naga Chei worshippe...

I think the limit exists because there are only 26 letters in the alphabet, or 52 if you count both cases... not because a designer thought the game would be less fun if players could hold more than 52 items. Personally I think a single turn to retrieve items is plenty, and frankly wouldn't mind if ...

Yes, there would be a 1 turn delay according to my proposal, but if that's considered too much of an advantage, it could of course be increased. Maybe 6 turns to retrieve a batch of items, regardless of quantity, to make it more similar to equipping/removing a piece of armour or an amulet, as an exa...

I think I've come up with a method of inventory management that would significantly reduce the need to backtrack without burdening the player with any new inconvenience. This design is built on and around the assumption that it is always better for an item to be in the player's stash than on the flo...

Last I heard was if your summon gets the kill, you get at least 50%, and potentially more based on damage you dealt direct, but if you get the kill, you get full XP. My recent gameplay in Trunk seems to reflect this, but that could be coincidence. And, if there was a note in the simplified commit no...

My biggest problem with the summoner XP penalty is that it doesn't apply if you land the final blow. This is a problem because it incentivizes players to do tedious things like ordering summons to stop attacking when the enemy is almost dead and finish it off to avoid the XP penalty. This is not onl...

Maybe the devs are worried about extreme edge cases like Octopodes wearing the Ring of Phasing on the macabre finger necklace and 8 rings of evasion on its tentacles with maxed Dodging and Jiyva-adjusted stats heavily in favor of DEX? Though I think that even in the extremely rare case where that's ...

There has never been a better time for this change, now that Deep Elf aptitude for Bows has been improved. Deep Elf's aptitudes make Arcane Marksman look like a viable choice, but it's still terrible because of it's low damage per arrow meaning they burn through arrows too quickly and typically run ...

There seems to be a similar issue with Trog worshipers setting training targets for Spellcasting, which they may eventually wish to do if they're using guardian spirit. Edit: Nevermind, there apparently is a penalty for training Spellcasting, although it's easy to miss the warning message for this, ...

Trog worshipers are hardcoded to not pick up spellbooks to learn spells, but apparently doing so doesn't actually anger Trog, in which case Trog worshipers should always manually pick up spellbooks so that if they later abandon Trog, they won't have to backtrack to pick up all the spellbooks they le...

I think I'm probably going to have to just figure out how to make my own personal branch to solve this problem and the inventory clutter problem.

I know people around here generally prefer Demonspawn mutations and Draconian colors to be generated randomly, but for players like me, it just means that we quit and restart characters over and over again until we get the desired characteristics. This is particularly bad with Demonspawn, because it...

Recently removed largely for not having an evocation on-hit effect, but it would be much more interesting to add an effect instead. I'm thinking summon a copy of the victim, similar to a Phantom Mirror effect, but instead of setting its HD to 2/3, set it to Summoning/27, of course with chance of act...

Excluding Uskayaw's unique approach, my understanding is that piety decay exists to discourage players from entering a new floor and just camping the staircase for thousands of turns waiting for monsters to wander into view, but from my perspective as a non-competitive player, it feels like what it ...

The skill training UI is the best it's ever been, and handles most use cases perfectly, but there's still one that's tedious and wasteful but could be easily improved. This is when you have some bonus to a skill that you want to stop training when its experience point cost increases. Training stops ...

Spells aren't part of the problem; if you examine the detailed info on a monster, it will tell you what spells it might know based on what you've seen it cast.

Exactly, and adding an extra keypress to every scroll use is less convenient than optionally moving rarely used items out of inventory and into a stash.

Create a menu, similar to spells and abilities, for wands and miscellaneous evokables, accessed via the V key. V? could allow players to check bindings, timers, cooldowns, and descriptions, and aV could allow adjustment of bindings. Charged items (wands and miscellaneous evokables, specifically) don...

I mentioned that before, yes, but currently, potions and scrolls can be targeted by identify scrolls, which would be awkward/difficult if they weren't in the inventory.

That's basically what I'm trying to address here. Let's look at potions of mutation, for example. If a player wants to be able to undo bad mutations, and for whatever reason is unwilling/unable to worship Zin, Jiyva, or Xom, and is not a mummy, they'll want to save potions of mutation they find just...

No, seriously, if your proposal were implemented, I'd probably just never download a version of Crawl that included it unless you also removed shaft traps and timed portals at a minimum, and even then if I gave it a try, I'd probably quickly delete it in disgust. It's bad enough to worry about which...

Why stop there? Why not randomly delete items and equipment from the player's inventory over time, so those duplicate equipment lying all over the floor could be used to replace what was lost? The more items the player collected, the more quickly their collection would be annihilated, so they'd neve...

I'm worried about how this would interact with banishment to the abyss, especially considering any characters that find a distortion weapon can voluntarily banish themselves with a bit of patience. Maybe a flag in the options file would be better than waiting for players to reach Zot? Also, would th...

Aside from the choice of name ("Stash"), how does flavor play any part in this proposal? The motivation here is to get desired items that are not immediately on hand off the ground into a more convenient and reasonable location. That's a mechanical change, not a thematic one. You can name ...

There's no need to have any items at all, and if the premise that "items are bad" were true, then they should all be removed. But, useful items give players options to play different ways, and variety improves replay value. Certainly, the number of items in Crawl could be reduced (why do s...

This idea has been proposed and discussed before, but from what I found, not sufficiently. The idea: A stash (functionally a Nethack-style bag of holding) as a UI element rather than an item (similar to the spell library) that can be accessed by spending 10 turns, interruptible by a monster entering...

In my original concept, it was Fragile, but I thought that was too severe for an unrandart.

unrandart amulet Curse binding (while equipping amulet, curses itself and all equipped items; equipping items while wearing amulet curses them) Notice more treasure (small chance to generate a random item in each tile explored) The idea here is to offer players the choice to accept tactical disadvan...

My proposal would not change the fact that you'd get mutations at random, and I outlined the reasons for it in my OP.

I get that you want to play a strictly worse human and the mutations are getting in the way of that, but at some point it's gotta be easier to just play kobold... LMAO. Why would I ever want to play a human or a kobold when there's nothing interesting about either? Sorry, but an innate amulet of th...

I guess that would work if done well, but it seems way more difficult. In terms of creating strategic decisions by forcing players to adapt to random mutations, the current implementation does very little, so you're basically talking about a complete overhaul of the system. Even so, I generally find...

Aean wrote:If people want to reroll until they get just the ones they want

No one is suggesting that this should happen.

To add some strategic choice to leveling a demonspawn and make them generally more fun to play (and to reduce the hundreds of wasted hours quitting demonspawn characters with awkward combinations), I propose allowing players a limited number of rerolls. Before a rank 1 demonspawn mutation would be g...

I like bcrawl as an occasional change of pace, and it has features that I'd like ported into crawl, but there are just as many that I'd rather do without. I won't list all of them, but... I agree with the Deflect Missiles change. I'm generally in favor of changes that make spell power more relevant ...

Honestly, having to fight enemies you've already killed seems very weird. More practically, an Act I encounter would serve as a warning that the other acts will follow, which feels like a reduction in randomness / unpredictability / replay value. I know recurring villains work well in TV series, so ...

If this were a large shield, I would be more inclined to use it on a fighter or berserker with guardian spirit than on a wizard, not only because of the skill XP required but also because large shields scale primarily with STR which is typically a dump stat for pure caster types. Note also that bigg...

I tried to use explore_wall_bias to get the auto-explore to stop ignoring the nooks and crannies on the edges of cavern-type levels because the default behavior wastes a lot of turns by leaving them to the end and then going all the way around the level in a final pass. Sadly, I didn't find a value ...

Necromutation is the best for otherwise mutation-vulnerable characters spending excessive time in the Abyss, but generally speaking, Death's Door is best. Borg is strong, but I won't touch it because I hate the idea of permanent stat loss and would rather just let my character die.

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