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Indeed, I knew I would torment and then blink, so I frontloaded rN+++ and then got rid of the -Tele afterwards. Edit: Sweeped Zot:5 with no trouble whatsoever. Now what to do with all this fruit... I guess I'll use it on the orb ascension. As well as all these Evokables. Eh who am I kidding, it's o...

If you want to put in something that functions as a "rune lock" then make the lair branches easier and d:15 harder. Then it will be optimal to do lair branches before going deeper in the dungeon.

I'll just add one more thing. In my last win, I planned to do what I always do, namely dungeon to lair, clear lair, dungeon to 20, vaults to v:4, dungeon to 27, get 3 runes ascend. What actually happened was after clearing lair, D:20 was quite difficult with an open layout and several hydra and yakt...

Well this will proportionally screw even more those games where you get swamp and spider over shoals and snake. Having just won a game with shoals and snake, I can tell you that the extra gear, (potential) shops and far more lucrative branch end (at least for shoals) makes a noticeable difference.

And you actually have no choice but to clear them if you want the demonic rune. Actually you get a warning now whenever you enter a level with a rune (including demonic) so you don't have to clear any non-rune levels if you don't want to. this is pretty cool That is better than pretty cool because ...

Bzzzzt.

I'm sorry, looks like the judge has ruled fondue is not a soup.

Please enjoy these lovely parting gifts. Tell him what he's going home with Wink!

I never won with him but had some games recently. It is tempting to worship him from the beginning as cards of experience (found in deck of wonders) give you a nice start in whatever skill you want. [...] But I'd like to ask experienced players about Nemelex for the early game. I usually blind draw...

Because swiftness is a very common spell and most people will have found it several times over in a game. Swiftness also needs to be recast, can't be used by Troglodytes and requires at least some investment in spellcasting,charms or air. Swiftness now also halves your stealth and reduces your chanc...

Pretty much anything Xom can do, it can do. You probably don't really want to use it. Imitates other brands, or can heal, polymorph, berserk, haste, invisify, petrify, paralyse, torment, cause miscasts and probably do a lot more to enemies. Lots more "fun" things too. You hit the goblin. Y...

It was never particularly important. Some players started saying it was important, so other, better players started saying it isn't important. I remember when everybody, good players and bad players alike, considered GDR a big deal (which I didn't care about at the time because I refused to play me...

mikee wrote:Xom alters the alter so that it's another alter.

Pretty good idea?

Alternative: Alters alternate?

@and_into, I can see one more potential problem by increased ammo spawns - (x)bow scores will probably shoot up much higher. I know that several of my wins "lost" a lot of turns to ammo collection. That would essentially go away for all but sling users.

Aww, that quokka looks delicious!

Aren't the bad movement mutations, teleportitis and slowness, potentially dangerous on the ascent? Yes, and potentially berserkeritis as well, although at least that can be counteracted through certain measures (like clarity). You don't have to be *as* worried about mutations if you are about to wi...

I think that mummies should just be grayed out on the species screen and then we don't have to worry about the rest of this discussion. They are clearly a sub-optimal choice until we get MuHe back.

Also, why would you start as a monk when there is absolutely, positively no reason to do so if you think that "p" breaks your self imposed conduct. Literally almost any other fighting background would be better. TrHu, TrGl, TrFi, TrBe, TrDK, TrAs, TrAr and probably TrWn are all better. You...

Other than the p command (which I'm not sure if it really is suppressed by silence), nemelex powers are all non-vocal to the best of my knowledge.

Nethack has an android port. Several IIRC. It's really annoying unless you either have a really big screen or a hardware keyboard. Then it's only annoying.

Honestly, this thread had nothing to do in the stranger's corner. It's not about crawl so its place is in CYC. And I'm not moderating a discussion which isn't about crawl. If you want to have a more serious discussion, you'll have to try to keep it on rails yourself. I'm sure people will be happy t...

Mummy strategy: learn summoning, worship Sif, enjoy pressing 'aa' and 'ta.'

Realistically the only time that item dest really matters and causes trouble for me is in Zot. It's either find cons/preservation and carry HW & blink and fog and whatever else or don't find it, drop pretty much everything by the stairs go find the way to the other stairs, possibly get the HW or...

Congrats. The escape is extremely variable in difficulty. 9 of my 10 online wins had easy escapes with most of them being really easy. 1 had a really tough escape though and I almost died. Luckily I had some coaching via IRC for the best way to deal with it and survived to win.

and into wrote:Demigod ___________
(for when I want my character's religious preference to mirror my own)

Which of the pantheon do you believe yourself to have descended from :p

Here is my proposal for a portal to replace labyrinths: as labyrinths but autoexplore is enabled, stops on finding minotaur vault This isn't a terrible idea honestly. Autoexplore is much less efficient at exploring in general that regular explore so you're trading essentially trading extra nutritio...

I don't see how this is any different than say an invisible enemy killing your pals that don't see undead.

Hurkyl wrote:I understand at least part of the problem with the current solution: the line with the _ scrolls up out of the message buffer. (at least, it does with the default setup in the tiles client)

ctrl+p

Brendan I like your idea. Not so keen on most of the others though.

Having unidentified uber ring of slaying is fastest way to get your killed. 6, 7 ring of slaying might be nice, but if you run into stone bolt throwing draconian in dungeon 3 it won't help you. Also this should teach me not to learn spells before I have enough mana and they are reliable enough to b...

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BlackSheep wrote:If only there were some way to remove a ring of ice after putting one on...

You shouldn't have worshiped Ash then

Yes but you also need to be next to something that's going to hurt you less than red poison. So again, it's not impossible to think of a case that it's a good idea but it's very unlikely to be a good idea. Here's a good example, you've got 30 HP left in a corridor after having just killed a spiny fr...

It's really a nice spell that can potentially make you free of an item slot. On the other hand, I'm wondering why other spells that grant you free resistance has been removed, but this one stays (like insulation, for example) Is it because cure poison cannot 'prevent' poison but can 'cure' it? Cure...

Does that trick of "diluting" god wrath still work? Possibly this could be rewritten as "Did it ever work?" because I don't remember.

@mikee I agree 100% and that's why I said you could probably create something similar for MiBe or any of the other heavy armour Bes but I doubt you could even do so easily with something like HaBe or KoBe. And even with MiBe, do you recommend ranged or not? And it's amusing that the tartakower guide...

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Wacky, almost-definitely-bad-idea: what if you gradually got more stats on monsters/damage over time? Perhaps based on a combination of int/skill/number of that monster you've splatted. This would allow better handling of "trivial but swingy" fights such as stone giants, but keep boss mon...

And yet, here is a great guide as a counterpoint: My 0.12 SpEn guide: SKILLS: Approximate goals are as follows: 1) 8 Stabbing. 2) Invisibility at 6% fail and 10 Dodging/Stealth. 3) 12 Stabbing, 15 Dodging/Stealth, 6 Fighting, and enough Short Blades for min delay. 4) 27 Stealth, 10 Fighting, and wha...

It's no so easy to assess the source of a noise. What if magic dart triggers an inner flame chain reaction? What if it is triggered by an ally? So probably, the meter should just display the loudest noise you heard during the last turn, without caring about the source. It's better than the current ...

Vaults is easier for Be than Slime, IMO. Stay out of elf; you don't need the gear.

It's important to remember that the devs, the people that start threads here and all the people writing responses are, in fact, people. Nobody likes being yelled at, and it's a rare individual who'll calmly parse through vitriolic screed for a kernel of truth, and then ignore the sarcasm and insult...

That doesn't help Fedhas worshipers. I would just have a large fruit slot, a medium fruit slot, etc. Then, you can still find an Orange, Banana, and a Lemon, but they just go into the same slot. Keep the flavor (and the art diversity), remove the UI annoyance. I think this post might be too much in...

That's a nasty randart you got there, "Cuntuown" - it needs to be added to the list. It's almost as bad as FUKDASAC.

It could be level 4 and I don't know if I'd take it based on the reasons that Baldu said. The risk/reward is way too high, especially with the chance of a chain reaction right at the start of the spell when the balls are closest to you the highest.

Galefury: I am not so sure -- this is where the disagreements start :) For example, I think that jellies are good. Sorry for not being clear, I meant destruction of items in the inventory. Making me actually carry the things I want with me is a lot less annoying than making me not carry them. I'm n...

Bardiche is probably too strong. I know that if I was planning a polearm character and saw him early, I'd definitely let him level up to his final form just for a guaranteed bardiche by lair. Many games won't even have a bardiche, so a guaranteed one by lair is OP. A glaive would be a better choice ...

So one can still miss +4 plate armour unless he tries all plain plate armours, correct? Yes, although the chance is pretty low. don't they auto-ID on pickup if you have a high enough weapon skill? Only throwable weapons. Others, you need to wield them (they might be cursed). I don't like this excep...

As has been joked before, Okawaru gives you what prior adventurers have sacrificed to Nemelex. Also: <G-Flex> I picture oka as this old guy going through his attic and just discarding old junk as gifts < valrus> I AM OKAWARU, GOD OF COMBAT AND FIVE DOLLARS FOR THE OSCILLATING FAN IS MY FINAL OFFER

If you want to win and not experience the forest for the forest's sake, you just don't go into the forest. The same is true of crypt, elf and blade IMO. I only go into orc because the risk->reward is pretty good with the shops and the danger level of what you find there. Obviously huge gear or XP ga...

Your own fault for leaving your soft balls over the plate.

It will turn into a complete Kirke-jerk.

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