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Well, I participated for the first time in August 2009, but at that time I was far from even a rune. A year later, though, I grabbed a SpVM highscore with my first-ever all-runer, and with all the litlle time I have at my hands, I will do my best to grab this feat again

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After a few days of inactivity I'm back for more games. GO EXPENDABLES! 8-) Expendables FTW! :) I think sooner or later we'll have to up our game and become knows as "The Extendibles" though... :lol: When I wrote about my tourney win, I mistyped, renaming our team to "The ExpAndables...

TehDruid wrote:After a few days of inactivity I'm back for more games. GO EXPENDABLES!

Expendables FTW!

tcjsavannah wrote:Absolutely. You're in.. just change your RC. Room for one more now!

Anyway, even now that Sphara joined our clan (and currently being on Zot:5), there's five Expendables, while rules allow six players.
Any reason why not to get another member, if anyone is interested?

It seems pretty reasonable that when you have nothing more to learn, the god who cares about worshippers gaining knowledge is no longer interested in you. :P And it's not something that ever happens short of insane multi-Zig characters, so it's a non-issue anyway. Maybe I'm getting confused in trai...

Under what circumstances is it a good idea to get Dex instead of Str? For this we can ignore primary casters since you'll want Int 95% of the time anyways. Other than the bonuses to EV, what benefits do Dex offer over Str? I recall in an earlier version weapons had something along the lines of &quo...

"GrinderFodder" sounds nice as well.

I really like this Lich picture.
Courtesy of http://namesjames.deviantart.com/

Alas, my game might have been even better if I had found a single rMut amulet. I would dare to conquer more, perhaps even an all-runer, but three bad mutations from two shining eyes on Slime:1 reminded me of "better safe than sorry". I wanted to try a Ziggurat for one - again, alas. Both Z...

Second win for The Expendables! 8-)

http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.10/Zicher/morgue-Zicher-20120228-124521.txt

Now I'm a member of both "goodplayers" and "awfulplayers" groups :-D

OK guys, now you're just underestimanting yourselves.

Crawl should probably actually automatically consolidate ammo on enchantment. The "drop and pick up the ammo you just enchanted" trick seems unnecessary; I can't think of any case where you wouldn't want to do this. Hooray! You're welcome. I also changed the wield menu to make it show mis...

minmay wrote:That vault works fine in console...

Sure it _works_ fine per se in console. It's the graphical image that made me laugh, and I, for one, probably would not imagine it this way in ASCII. For me, this beach is an undisputed win for tiles

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Confidence Interval wrote:How about a clan for people who have played the game several thousand times and still never won? I'm happy to start one if anyone else is interested.

Suggestions for a name for such a clan are welcomed.

"...AndStillEnjoyingCrawl" ?

Hmmm ... For some reason I do not seem to be added to the team after modifying the RC file and triple-checking for misspellings.
Anything I might have done wrong?

Hmmm ... Would you accept an awful player with some all-runer experience as well?

Just got this beauty from my first scroll of acquirement on this game: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/simjimm/Crawl-Phew-Demonblade.jpg I was like: :o Especially since I just started training Necromancy (got Regen from a Book of War Chants that was lying around). Bit of a step up from my ol...

http://i44.tinypic.com/avr4ud.jpg A pleasant little beach I came across during my explorations. yesssssssssss I made that one! If it shows up before D:6 there's no blood or corpses or sharks, it's just a little place to chill. OK, this is one thing that console players will _never_ fully enjoy :-D

Is Dex any good? I mean, I get that Int is the most useful stat for most characters, and that Str might be useful for some melee focused ones; is there any kind of character who would prefer a higher Dex? While Dex is of marginal use, there is one interesting combo whould fully utilize it - SpBe. W...

Woohoo, congratulations!

Baby steps. He's only on Lair:4. Very little in Lair merits casting Poison Arrow at Honeycomb with a spriggan. With a +3 spellcasting apptitude, he'll very quickly drop his hunger costs if he focuses just on that for a few floors. That plus any Int increases he accrues will also help drop his failu...

I don't see how "No, the glaive of prune is a pretty good glaive, but bardiches are much better than glaives and vorpal is much worse than flaming/freezing" would have been a huge improvement over just "No". I usually try to explain what I say, but this seemed too obvious to bot...

- I would not turn off Poison Magic and Conjuration off yet. 9% failure is still not good enough. Once you get it to, say, 2-3%, you're probably fine. - Poisonous Cloud, when used correctly, can be useful in mid to late game as well. Elven Halls, yaktaur packs, draconian packs, all of them fall like...

There's not much to explain. A bardiche is simply better than a glaive in terms of damage, so any normal bardiche with decent enchantment will beat the Glaive of Prune. Very true. My point of raising my voice was not this fact, which I and any of the more experienced players know. My point is that ...

Crawlmatch.com (or OKCrawl.com), a site soon to be set up to facilitate dating among Crawl players. People will be matched based on their combo preferences and win rates. Given the frequency of death to ghosts, this can be pretty risky if both dating parties would play online or on the same compute...

Galefury wrote:No.

Ummm ... Isn't your post a bit, well, less than explanatory?

Numbers are correct, although for rF and rC you obviously mean "to" instead of "by". Would you care to elaborate on that? Here are the numbers: rF and rC both reduce damage by 50% at +, 33% at ++ and 20% at +++. rN reduces damage by 1/3 per +, thus completely negating draining a...

Would you care to elaborate on that? Here are the numbers: rF and rC both reduce damage by 50% at +, 33% at ++ and 20% at +++. rN reduces damage by 1/3 per +, thus completely negating draining at +++. Torment takes 50% of your current hitpoints without rN, but this amount is reduced by 5% per +. I ...

BlackSheep wrote:Is there a drawback to firing/throwing missiles at melee range?

IMHO, no. And for early hunters, it can be a lifesaver.

You throw a +1 large rock. The +1 large rock hits Erolcha. You kill Erolcha! Trog accepts your kill. Something appears at your feet! Trog grants you a gift! Trog appreciates your killing of a magic user. Something appears at your feet! Trog grants you a gift! Your Throwing skill increases to level ...

I just did a check in Wiz mode, with Int 22 and Spellcasting/Fire/Conj at 27, Fire Storm is at "Great" but with hunger cost of Ration. So yes it's possible to get it online, just expensive. Note that spell schools (Fire and Conj in this case) never have an effect on spell hunger - only Sp...

... and no one wants to be root, do they?

Ah, the ever-glorious Poison Arrow Gatling Gun build :). I would disagree with Tasonir on turning off the spell skills, or at least some of them. Charms are used for what I consider two of _the_ most helpful non-attack spells in the game - Haste and Deflect Missiles (the latter also uses Air). I wou...

Sp is supposed to be a food challenged species and hunger is supposed to be a cost of high level spells. If Sp can win the game by spamming high level spells at every corner, then something isn't right. If the minimum cost makes this playstyle unviable, they can always go back to sneaking, stabbing...

KoboldLord, anything you mentioned in your post would still be of no help to Spriggans (except the staff of energy - and this may be undesirable as well, given the heavy equipment slot restrictions placed on them). And believe me, I, Heaven luckily forbidded, did run into food troubles with them eve...

Thanks for the advice, all. Next up, my first attempt at an all-runer. It sounds like I should try Pan before the Hells, but how about attempting Pan before the Slime Pit? I feel that lots of people would disagree with me, but I personally tend to do Hells _before_ Pan, rather than vice versa. Obvi...

Although I'm not per se against the minimum spell hunger thing, I fear that it would have a devastating effect on spriggan casters. For instance, fully unloading a Poison Arrow Gatling Gun (Haste, DMsl and then Poison Arrow until you are out of mana) could cost as much as 660 satiation points (at 1/...

For my two Czech hellers - do not remove Minotaurs. I take these when I want a more strightforward bashing game, contrary to pondering all the spells and abilities and whatever I can have at hand, all the time. Melee Minotaurs are just the right ones for taking a rest from all that convoluted stuff ...

I'd say that Cthulhu would appreciate being corrupted, if we were playing ADOM. Mutations may or may not sound good enough to fill this

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This combo definitely sounds interesting, but the Jiyva altars being non-guaranteed is probably the worst drawback of this combo - you may not harvest her powers until fairly deeply in the game. Choosing another god before may also not be desirable due to the wrath one will face. Still, interesting ...

You seem to be doing fairly well on this char - keep it up! In terms of where to go next, I would suggest the Swamp now, at least the first four levels, at least to get the feeling of the branch. You can be fairly safe as long as you don't let anything come to melee. Take special care of hydrae and ...

One of the great things about turn-based games is that you can ask for help online. In case of Crawl, you also receive it most of the times.

Congratulations on the win, and thanks for the inspiration to try this build!

Tutankham, while I do feel pity for you and I don't share the harsh approach of the other guys, face it - this death was entirely your fault. Others have already explained the escape options you had, and I want to add one that is probably the most critical. That is to stop, put your hands off the ke...

What I want to know is how he managed to set a speed record when he was in the abyss three times :) how'd you get banished there the first two times? About how long before you got out? Have luck - everything can happen. Have enough experience, everything can happen as well. I believe Cerebovssquire...

Reading YAVP posts can be helpful in a joyous matter.
Reading YASD posts can be helpful much, much more.

EDIT: _Writing_ both of those can be helpful even for others

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Wow.
Just three hours to pick a win is impressive enough. Picking an all-runer in that time? Triple damn impressive.
Congratulations on this one!

First win is a great achievement for anyone. Congratulations for you!

cerebovssquire wrote:"(rElec)... prevents 50% of electricity damage".

Unless knowledge bots are wrong, rElec negates 2/3 of the damage. Or was this chenged recently?

Happy Corner wrote:

See? You should have followed his advice, he would not have to kill you

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Woot, another tourney is incoming? Guess I'm a bit behind on current news. Is there any more information (especially the from-to dates)? The dev page does not seem to include this info, and sure as Hell I'd like to give some SpVMs a whirl again :). EDIT: The knowledge bots helped :) ... The info is ...

Crawlmatch.com (or OKCrawl.com), a site soon to be set up to facilitate dating among Crawl players. People will be matched based on their combo preferences and win rates. Given the frequency of death to ghosts, this can be pretty risky if both dating parties would play online or on the same computer.

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