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The main thing I like about crawl (and the thing which keeps me playing) is its tactical depth. It's a lot harder to be good at crawl than it is to be good at most other major roguelikes. Most games don't result in an uber unkillable character (while such characters are possible in crawl, its pretty...

Perhaps in first instance would be good to remember how and why the class was created and why it was called crusader... To detractors, I'm telling you, I had no idea what a skald was and I had to look it up. On the other hand, I still have no idea what a reaver is, even after looking it up. And it ...

i would have thought norway is as norse a country as you can get

Wands of polymorph will make ugly things change colour and always succeeds on them (ignores MR). Use it on brown ones to stop them from corroding your things. It also ignores MR on shapeshifters, so if one turns into a quicksilver dragon or something, just zap it.

curare, draining, distortion - the terrible three that belong at the bottom of lava lakes Keep the curare and a blowgun, it's useful. Use it on nasty things that you want to slow, even works on things like titans and orb guardians. And if you have spare enchant weapon scrolls, enchant the curare so...

People actually starve in this entry vault, because they can't kill the plants/fungi fast enough (and they don't think to take the stairs). Other entry vaults also have starvation deaths, but this one has more than twice as many as the next highest one, if I remember correctly. Yeah, but come on.. ...

Another odd starting vault today. Three corridors of deep water of the left, three corridors of lava in the middle, a whole bunch of plants in the center and no way through except a stairwell down. This is an old one of mine (the layout can differ a lot). You should have been able to get to the res...

I gotta agree with galehar, necromutation is a fairly balanced spell, and the way it works right now shouldn't be changed. It's powerful if used right, but can get you killed if used wrong (and I speak from experience, here). Oh, and I should mention, with extension removed, necromutation did get ne...

Changing the way the ring interacts with teleportitis might be a bad thing, actually. Right now, the mutation is bad (more annoying than harmful, but still worse than most), and a ring of control teleport is one way to manage the effect. You'll get prompted for a teleport every once and a while, but...

It's not new behaviour, but it's not really a bad thing either. As galehar notes it's always good to have some melee ability, and besides that, getting a couple of levels in fighting is pretty hard *not* to do by just playing normally. And if you really want to play a pure caster, you can get away w...

In wizard mode you can also get a mossy rune, a gossamer rune, or an elven rune.

Yeah, it would be pretty neat if you could spectate console games via the webtiles interface. Although, webtiles should add a way to send in-game messages in that case, since console players won't be able to see the little chat box that you get when spectating webtiles.

Real bracers are only used for archery. If anything, the in-game item should just lose the "of archery" ego, with the base item inheriting the effects of the ego. Calling them "bracers of archery" is redundant, basically.

I think it would be better to just revamp god wrath, so certain wraths aren't as annoyoing/deadly. Especially with some wraths (ie trog), players are encouraged to scum because it can get you killed if you try to play normally. There are some decent ideas out there to fix god wrath though. Personall...

I keep getting this too.

I think the type you implement should depend on mouse support. If you plan on adding the monster list before you add mouse support, you should (at least for now) use the console style with names. This is because the tiles style requires you to use the mouse to see the names of monsters. Obviously I ...

Yeah, it has the panel, but I prefer the list with names that you get in the console version. The tiles one only shows names if you mouse over them.

I just have two small comments. First: a day or two ago I spectated someone, and noticed someone deliberately scrolling the spectator chat. It seems all you need to do is hold down enter and it will send dozens of blank lines to the chat box. Second: Is there any plan on adding a monster list to web...

I was able to reproduce this with 0.8 tiles as well. This seems pretty serious... you can use it to kill anything in the game with no risk.

galehar wrote:See this chart.

You have this set so its private.

As far as bots go -- isn't it just as easy to simply use wizmode? The idea with bots is basically to play (and ideally win) crawl without any human intervention. So, wizmode has nothing to do with it. A combination of bot + human control was recently able to win crawl in a little over an hour, whic...

I don't like the way extra lives work. They remove a lot of the tension from the game, and promote careless play. They might have other effects too but those are the only two I've experienced directly. Felids are easy enough without extra lives. Felids would work a bit better if dying actually had p...

I don't really like that some skills have a different base cost. I'd rather fix it than make it worse. You're right that it's bad to have things inconsistent here... but it's also very bad how useless traps & doors is. Training it to high levels is absolutely *insane* right now and only done wh...

I made an almost straight run for the exit, stopping in Hive:2 and Lair:2 to grab some artefacts on the way... You should make sure to grab your runes next time too. I notice you died with 0 runes in your inventory, and they are really what matters for score. The value of your inventory makes up on...

I love the new octagon levels. Then again, I realise that most of you have never seen the old ones: they were a pure octagon and nothing else (they could get vaults like every level). Enne has randomised them (and also the cross levels) beautifully. The special challenge of the octagon levels is th...

A couple of the game's layouts do tend to be pretty repetitive. A good example of this is layout_big_octagon. layout_cross can also have this problem, although it at least has a number of variations.

Other open layouts (eg layout_city) aren't as problematic though.

The SpBe role is well-known enough that there is even a "spriggan berserker" monster. It's definitely "supported", and acknowledged by the devs. The reason it's not highlighted as a recommended combo is completely arbitrary... the game only does that to give new players some sugg...

It would be kind of nice if vehumet gifted tornado and shatter, though. Right now he is a bit more appealing to fire/ice casters, although still good for earth/air.

I agree completely with casmith789 here when it comes to slaying, so I won't repeat any of his points. I'd like to respond directly to the following comment, in particular: Rewarding player investment (stats and skills) is more interesting than rewarding pure luck (finding a powerful slaying ring). ...

It's in 0.8, which is scheduled to be released in a few days. Trunk is 0.9 now.

I am all for stave artificers, but would that mean rods should be treated as staves instead of maces and flails? Probably not needed, since most of the artificer starts are with 2 wands (and sometimes a dagger). Only one of the choices is a rod, and it's possibly the weakest of the artificer starts...

That formula seems like it could be more problematic than the current one. Unless species hp was changed fairly dramatically, you'd need a lot more fighting skill (rather than less, which I think is the goal) on a caster to get the sort of HP that was possible before. By that, I mean instead of trai...

Doing a lot of throwing (and picking your fights carefully) is basically the difference between surviving the early dungeon most of the time and dying on it most of the time. Early monsters are a lot less dangerous if you can soften them up before they get into melee range. Even better if you can po...

In my experience, in 0.8 most any build can forget spells without cost. I don't think ?Amnesia are necessary. An alternative would be lose permanently MP when forgetting, perhaps at random; Sif's ability would of course be excepted. Why not simply reduce the generation of amnesia scrolls? I think s...

If you've ever owned a cat you'll know they tend to go berserk about twice a day (usually for no reason).

My main problem with FeBe is not only that they are clearly the easiest character build (as the bots show) but also that they clash with crawl's design philosophy of giving the players meaningful choices to make over the game and also fail in teaching new players proper skill and item management. I...

Crystal balls are worthless, even energy- Sif, Vehumet, the staff, or sublimation of blood are better choices. I suppose if you're a shield wearing TSO worshiper you have no better choice. Crystal balls of energy are usually worthless, but they are worth using if you have high evocations skill and ...

Plus, their gonna be in much pain from applying Racial HP modifiers to Fighting HP Not necessarily. The goal of the change is that frail races don't benefit as much from fighting, but also that they don't need it. So racial HP will be buffed a bit. Ideally, DEBe is heavily nerfed and DEFE is unchan...

Staff monks are already overpowered enough.

People have addressed this already, but I feel the need to point out just how wrong this is. You'd be right to say that some winners are as you describe, but most (at least, most who know what they are doing) aren't that badly mutated, have plenty of food, and no stat rot. Resist mutation and conse...

If one's been careless or unlucky up to that point it's perfectly doable to show up at Zot5 with a dozen or less healing items and still win, and I would argue that this is A Good Thing, but the game is rather precariously balanced at that point. Many winners are desperate, heavily mutated freaks w...

Wearing armour makes sense on almost all spellcasters, if you plan on doing any melee fighting at all. Casting is pretty easy in armours up to -3 ev penalty (dragon armour) and you get very good protection from these. You could consider something lighter if you're going for high level spells or if y...

I think your Abyss vaults are very good, although most of them are weird as hell too. More vaults is always a good thing; I think the Abyss would be a lot more interesting if all the exits and runes were guarded. I would like to make some Abyss vaults myself but I'm short on ideas. Yeah, I tried to...

The abyss can be a pretty boring place - it tends to be the same in all directions, with the only variation being the density and mixture of walls/floors/water/lava and sometimes doors. One thing I think can make the abyss more interesting is more vaults. I've made a large number of them (mostly jus...

I also think that banishment in hell is should be fixed. At that level, the abyss isn't a threat, which makes banishment nothing more than a tedious interruption. Furthermore, it tends to help you more than anything - hell doesn't give you much breathing room when it comes to resting, but the abyss ...

I don't ragequit (nothing in crawl really makes me mad) but if I find I don't like a character I have, I'll definitely quit. This usually is because I get bored, which pretty much makes the game unwinnable for me anyway.

I think it's poor design that they are allowed to. After all, the whole idea of Fighting skill giving HP is to give pure fighters some advantage that could try to counterbalance lack of spells. It probably needs to be moved out of a skill and tied to Str and Dex somehow (or something different alto...

Centaurs have the advantage of speed and HP, which lets them get through the early game without much trouble. This is the hardest and most dangerous part of the game, and means that they are a pretty easy race to win with. Combine this with the fact that it's mostly good players who choose centaurs,...

Regarding kenkus: I won't talk too much about their actual aptitudes, but I will say that they have a fairly low win rate overall. I queried Sequell, and of the currently available races, Kenkus rank near the bottom at only 0.33% of games won. The only races lower than that are high elves, demonspaw...

He's already beginning to, by the sounds of it.

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