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I think |amethyst summed up pretty well how most formulas in crawl are decided upon:

|amethyst[24/24]: <|amethyst> but also the general Crawl principle of "we'll do some weird hard-to-tweak shit for our probability distribution, then figure out the math later"

cerealjynx wrote:MfGl

You can't riposte with a polearm.

I guess it depends whether you'd like your attack to (a) add a bunch of elec damage, or (b) berserk your enemies.

Shard1697 wrote:[...a bunch of images...]

They say a picture speaks a thousand words, but these five pictures were worth about four words to me. What am I supposed to be figuring out from all this?

I still have not figured out how to use ?fog :/ I read ?fog when there's something dangerous with a ranged attack several steps away and I don't want to be hit by that ranged attack. Most often I then run away and/or read ?tele. This, particularly if they can smite you. I also use ?fog when I'm bei...

PleasingFungus wrote:Piercer.

Please keep your comments in this thread topical. I don't see what Piercer has to do with time travel.

Floor Items (',' to select) But why? Edit: the commit ( link ) references "easy_floor_use" option, I set it to true but it doesn't seem to work? Unless the effect is to make me eat immediately after pressing ','. https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=10464 [The previous interface] h...

njvack wrote:
genericpseudonym wrote:can bind your o key to it.

Would rebinding 'o' potentially have Bad Effects?

Depends what you bind it to. If you bind it to ^qyes that probably will reduce your winrate, but in general it's not dangerous to rebind o if you've got a better idea.

For curiosity, where are the normal (not OOD) monster generation rules defined? I know that monsters get a range of something like d:7 to d:13, and there's different ways it can be distrubuted (peak at the start, middle, or end?) but I've never actually seen the rules for it. What's a tengu warrior...

Rast wrote:FR all spellbooks and manuals preidentified at start of game.

Sorry, you can't judge a book by its cover.

At the moment I believe the best win rates among players who play a variety of characters (sometimes chosen at random) is around 70%. Optimal play isn't going to get you much more than that because sometimes the early dungeon just kills you. <amalloy> !streak zxc <Sequell> zxc has 33 consecutive wi...

The thing in this morgue that screams out to me is that you have iron shot at 1% fail and a reasonable spellpower at XL14, and you're still pouring more than half of your experience into magical offenses. Iron shot is a spell powerful enough to win the game with; if you have it castable this early, ...

7 potions of cure mutation is a great overabundance. Don't even consider "saving" them all. You should feel totally free to use one if you get a mutation you don't like. And as you say, blurry vision is pretty bad, making this choice even more clear. But I'd cure out of Int-2 too, with 7 c...

ydeve wrote:
koboldina wrote:神々の末裔放浪者

Is this a reference to a show or something?

It's ??dgwn[2], and Google translate suggests "Gods of descendant wanderer", so I assume it is just Japanese for DgWn.

Just wait, the "There are no unavoidable deaths after you reach Lair" camp will soon arrive, and they'll explain everything. There were actually several chances to avoid this death. The first opportunity would be not choosing to killdudes Zot:5. Since the nastiest monsters in the game are...

Also amalloy, who doesn't always play perfectly but is a greaterplayer and usually does pretty well.

Shard1697 wrote:I've always wanted a RL that was that short, to be honest.

I've been playing a fair bit of 868-HACK recently (you can watch me play if you want). It's quite short, with even a slow/careful player like me typically getting through a game, while narrating, in 30-45 minutes.

Maybe to compensate, we could add, say, a 1 in 121 chance to wrest one last charge out of an otherwise-depleted wand that you're no longer eligible to recharge.

Pakellas gave me a lightning rod in my one game, and I didn't supercharge it because the first blast costs 2 MP and the next three 5 MP, so 18 vs 17 didn't do me any good. It would have given me an extra 1 MP blast I could spend the aut better some other way. Lightinig Rod also doesn't play well wi...

ydeve wrote:
amalloy wrote:Robin's probly just mad you can't even tell she's a fancy lady.

Robin's a lady? I always thought it was a guy.

Fight her sometime and pay attention to the pronouns used, or to her xv description.

Yes, a whole bunch of reasons. Long swords are often branded and favor dexterity. Good for low strength races. Pole arms can one hit a lot of weak things. Top pole arms favor high strength. Axes are simply ideal for high strength. And a lot of brands work very well with cleave. Strength weighting d...

Robin's probly just mad you can't even tell she's a fancy lady.

If you're in an area so dangerous you need to save every last chunk for possible healing, it's probably a good idea to not be using autoexplore anyway. In abyss I never autoexplore, in hell rarely, and I guess sometimes in pan.

PleasingFungus wrote:local tiles has a doll editor

FR let console players set their glyph to anything, not just their current species's glyph, so I can finally live my dream of cosplaying as Gastronok.

Also note that there is an in-game tutorial that could answer most (all?) of these questions, as well as a hints-mode gameplay, that's like an ordinary game of crawl but with extra guidance for new players, which might address some of the questions also. There's nothing wrong with just diving in and...

Any beam-targeted spell that does not cause an explosion when it hits. So yes to dispel undead, but no to stuff like smiting, airstrike, or damnation.

Honestly you should just not bother fighting mnoleg, it's not worthwhile. Is this a tactic, or a strategy? Seriously though, don't fight Mnoleg. I generally only fight one or two of the pan lords when I go for 15 runes (whichever ones make it too hard to sneak by them). Last time I was in Mnoleg's ...

tasonir wrote:Am I the victim of repeatedly consistent energy randomization?

You are the victim of occasional energy random and probably confirmation bias, or the clustering illusion or something.

+0 dagger (elec). A weapon so good it will get you through the hardest part of the game (early game), with a minimal xp investment, and common enough that you can actually find one fairly often. Second choice +0 hunting sling: at XL2 the ability to deal damage to, and often kill, monsters without be...

ajon wrote:Hmm corona and yara's could be a decent tactic for enemies? Is the damage on it decent? Oh, is the explosion fire or would it cause anything to catch fire if one is using Dith?

This is a fireball that takes 2 turns to cast and can be resisted by MR. Not very exciting.

all of this, but also we'd probably change the name If the dev team has the option of changing the names of proposed gods, how did we end up with a name like Hepliaklqana on an experimental branch? The only explanation I can think of for a name so hard to pronounce or spell is that the dev team lac...

ydeve wrote:Isn't this on the will not do list?

It is now. It's been proposed and rejected literally trillions of times, but apparently nobody had put it on the official list.

wizlabs (cloud mage would be ok if the air elementals didn't submerge and it didn't have water in the playable part) Actually they don't submerge anymore. I believe no monsters ever submerge anymore once they've moved, although a few monsters place submerged, like swamp worms? I dunno, it's a relat...

...Dragon form absolutely rocked for this [...] The EV malus was counteracted by Felid dodging, and the rC- was counteracted by Felids' natural rC+ Your rC+ mutation, like many bodily-shape mutations, is suppressed in most forms. A felid in dragon form with no jewelry equipped has rC-, just like an...

Airwolf wrote:Does anybody ever decide to just take a death as a Felid to conserve consumables?

Not that I think you should have. Just curious.

Lives are the most precious consumable of all. But yeah, if it's going to cost me 6 heal wounds to maybe survive, I'd probably rather just die.

Any Djinn unrands would have to convert all your HP to MP and give you Spirit Shield.

Thanks for introducing me to tavern, gammafunk. What a waste of time.

Casual? This is the hardest challenge ever invented! How am I supposed to win if I'm not allowed to enter Zot?

!comborobinchar lists, for all combos that have not yet been won and are not in progress anywhere, how many recent wins of that combo there have been, globally. It's a reasonable approximator of difficulty; this mattered more when there were hundreds of combos left, but now you might as well just pi...

Personally I think it would be nice if people would check either !comborobinchar or !locateall comborobin on IRC, which is guaranteed up-to-date without fiddling with a spreadsheet, and knows about in-progress chars as well as won chars. My KoWz was started before this other guy's, not after.

Who ^qyes'd my KoWz on CAO trunk, only to start a GhFE and take 0 turns with it? I thought comborobin's policy was to not ^q a character anyone else has played, unless that combo has already been won by somebody else. Isn't an incident like this exactly what caused us to restrict access to the accou...

Whose is the HaFE on cao trunk? Normally I am happy to take over someone else's game, but this guy's skill training is so confusing I'm pretty sure I'd just kill him, and I don't want to do that to a game someone started with the intent to win. But it looks like HaFE has been won in the mean time, s...

Greater Spriggan! Great Gladiator! Why did you start another SpGl when there was already a SpGl sitting around on CAO trunk with two runes? Anyway I 15-runed the SpGl so that game wouldn't be a total waste given the duplicate win. Edit: oh hey, got the SpGl high score, as well. comborobin's third h...

Greater Spriggan! Great Gladiator! Why did you start another SpGl when there was already a SpGl sitting around on CAO trunk with two runes? Anyway I 15-runed the SpGl so that game wouldn't be a total waste given the duplicate win. Edit: oh hey, got the SpGl high score, as well. comborobin's third hs.

I ran across the +10 mace of chiebriados (antimagic, STR+4, INT+2, DEX+4). Clearly an endgame or at least lategame weapon, so I immediately started training maces. I fight a generic orc warrior with a regular halberd in melee to test the thing out. My HP is more than his, my AC in that case was def...

duvessa wrote:
Hopeless wrote:I don't think it is a bug (how often do we find bugs once a version is stable?
Pretty often, actually.

Certainly more often than we discover that "put the player under penance for no reason" was an intentional change in a stable version.

CeCK --> 291 | D:1 | XOM: god gift: runed naga barding {god gift} Xom actually does this on purpose. If Xom chooses to gift "boots", they are always (or maybe just often?) of a type that won't fit your character. Centaurs get naga bardings, nagas get centaur bardings, and everyone else ge...

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/e30ccbe4b1740cd89accc5b87c28816340782271 Revert "Mark the Elf:3 vault enemies as patrolling." Observation suggests this doesn't serve its intended purpose, and may in fact make it *easier* to killhole - you can lure off individual elves significantly ...

Like I'm gonna believe the guy who can edit old CDO posts. You're trying to steal my joke like you steal twelve's game-design ideas.

Now that hammers don't exist anymore, CYC's charter is sadly out of date: nobody can come here to get hammered. I demand that it be renamed appropriately, and we can start macing anyone who wanders in.

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