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0 skill dagger attacks once per turn, 0 skill handaxe at 1.4 Yeah, I was aware of that when I made the original post. I wasn't really expecting it to perform well when I wielded it. it's not a terrible weapon at that point in the game though, just not amazing Eh, I suppose it was a bit situational ...

re:wrath: What about tweaking of item generation? Generating equipment that makes enemies more effective against you, without being useful for you. (eg. weapon of holy wrath, if the player is undead. Specialist equipment like barding, if the player race cannot equip it. GSC, if the player cannot equ...

+8 hand axe of Internal Strife (weapon) {venom, MR+ Int+6} Pretty good for my GrEE. Int+6 and the ability to wade into melee :) Still died before the end of Lair, though. ...it's a hand-axe. :? .. and? It provided decent, reliable melee damage output with no skilling required, thanks to the +8, ven...

Code:: +8 hand axe of Internal Strife (weapon) {venom, MR+ Int+6}

Pretty good for my GrEE. Int+6 and the ability to wade into melee

Still died before the end of Lair, though.

Duvessa's fix seems good. I'd like to point out that avoiding the stacking thing specifically might be beneficial. Like, instead of "3 lamps of fire", have "lamp of fire +2" (if you pick up another one, it becomes 'lamp of fire +3'). To me, this seems somewhat less weird than hav...

I think it would be clearer then to just show the amount of skill points needed for the next integer level: Armour 2.2 (143), Dodging 4.0 (298), for example (assuming -1 apt in both). What about rounding off the last digit? That would reduce the maximum length from 4 ("2750") to 3("2...

Sar wrote:I'm not sure that works!

It partly works, IME. Enough to make plate a dubious proposition, but ring or perhaps scale mail is still okay (esp. if you have poor HP).

IMHO another thing is more important. Skill 7 costs 1400 skill points skill 8 costs 1800 skill 9 costs 2250 skill 10 costs 2800 skill 11 costs 3450 skill 12 costs 4200 skill 13 costs 5050 and so on. "Just 1 more level" can be a very bad idea and it is not visible. From that pov, perhaps t...

Early game Naga are one of the most purely puzzle-game like situations you can encounter in crawl, which I really appreciate -- it's possibly one of the best ways to learn good positioning, it's difficult but not excessively so, and it is unique. I'm not opposed to the idea of buffing Naga, personal...

Well, the word "toggle" does imply a change that one has actively induced, like flipping a light-switch, rather than a change that has occurred without user input. It was actively induced, but not by players. Playing webtiles/SSH trunk is pretty much a tacit acceptance that this is likely...

by "toggling during an actual game" I didn't mean "on the same persistent character, that may or may not have been played months ago" I meant "toggling during an actual game." It toggled in trunk, so people who had saved games from before double damage would have updat...

Offtopic, but what is better about tiles UI? (I play console mostly. I try tiles now and then) The ones I listed (always-visible minimap (shows entire level), monster status icons (covered by Sar)) are IMO the most uncontroversially good. Tiles also has simpler behaviour for larger windows (it auto...

It is possible to remove icon-inventory, icon-monsterlist, icon-spelllist by changing init.txt and this is what I did after I had stopped using mouse. Edit. Oops, I am wrong. It is impossible to remove inventory tab, I just don't use it so I forgot it is displayed. Oh, thanks. I was just about to a...

(console players are used to bad UI; they're a lost cause.) How so? (honestly, as a mostly-tiles player, I was like, hahaha no. I like how tiles looks, and certain features (minimap, monster status icons), but it has a number of UI misfeatures -- hover over [monster/item/spell] for details, icon-in...

@Pollen_Golem: I can't speak for dpeg, but the use of 'requires' in "This weapon requires skill level 16 in the 'Long Blades' category to reach minimum delay." is problematic in the same way as many wiki guides - prescriptivism. It implies an imperative for the player to train it -- which ...

There are situations where I might want to wait with a monster in LOS. But they mostly are where that monster is nonthreatening and is blocking another, more threatening monster from attacking: ie. situations where stealth already doesn't matter. In principle I can agree that it seems more intuitive...

AFAIK, no.
The most sensible option is probably to have a key you can press to show them in the Memorize screen, probably in purple (to match the Skills screen). Then selecting that spell should search for a book with that spell and offer you candidates to travel to.

I don't object to the skillification idea, it seems good at a casual inspection (except for the problem of racial differentiation). But it seems hard to imagine that this has not been considered in the past, especially the concept of artefacts that boost skills. Can any devs comment on this?

Yeah, -Faith sucks pretty bad. Demigods demonstrate that well, and god powers only become more valuable to a race that has major basic weaknesses (HP-4, no armour, no weapon brands).

If you wanted to fix felids I'd say: Before: <Sequell> Fe: Fighting: 0, Dodge: 3, Stealth: 4, UC: 0, Splcast: -1, Conj: -1, Hexes: 4!, Charms: 2, Summ: 0, Nec: 0, Tloc: 4!, Tmut: 1, Fire: -1, Ice: -1, Air: -1, Earth: -1, Poison: -1, Inv: 0, Evo: 1, Exp: -1, HP: -4*, MP: 1 After: <Sequell> Fe: Fight...

I wouldn't mind, in theory, a version of felids where the extra lives was removed and their hp was buffed, either to -2 or -1. In other news I never liked octopodes being -1, and think they should be 0. But I'm not entirely sure if this is really much of an improvement for felids. It'll make them m...

Even if extra lives stay, Felids still need some changes. What problem are you trying to solve? Why do Felids "still need some changes"? It's hard to give feedback on a solution when you don't know the problem :P It's right there in the OP. Most felids are tedious. Exceeded only by mummie...

Do we necessarily want to make XP match risk uniformly? Or, for certain escapable monsters, do we want to make/leave them low-XP to help teach the Crawl idea that good running-away skills are vital? As long as it's not particularly spoily, I think that having some monsters that are both dangerous an...

Lava and items should mutually annihilate.

(not really, that's a terrible idea. Well, maybe only if the item is above a certain value, so that carrying around 12345 stones wouldn't work. Probably still terrible though.)

OP needs to follow Unix philosophy, IMO: Do one thing well. As a plan for a newbie to build skills, I generally agree with Sandman's idea ('win tutorial builds'). We could say: 'win one of the first two builds listed under the wiki 'combos for beginners' list ; do not play other builds for now. Make...

Rename them to 'intermediate kobolds', and make them only spawn between levels

It seems to me that $EXPANSION would address this neatly. define the $CONSTANTS in your RCfile, then use them: * Ctrl+f $w (with w = 'weapon && (artifact|ego)') * Ctrl+f $a && Orc (with a = 'armour && ego') That would address : a) the un-mnemonicness of ctrl+0-9 b) refining a...

The glass is almost completely empty at all times, since the most part of atoms is just emptiness. Emptiness or probability density functions? in which case the glass is overflowing. The glass in your mind is full of probability density functions. The glass in the real world contains no probability...

^ Robe of Night doesn't seem to stack on Nightstalker, but Lantern of Shadows looks like it does.
Dunno what you mean by 'Darkness'.. all I could find about that was the cloak of darkness ego, which gives evocable invis.

You could also set a way point to the D1 upstaircase when you start (with Control-W,0 as soon as you start the game, for example) then when you wanted to leave it would always be control-G,0 (which is exactly the same keypresses :) ^ First actually useful use for waypoints I've ever heard of. Thanks.

How would this proposal interact with the existing 'diminishing returns' setup? (By which I mean, the fact that the likelihood of getting an additional mutation rather than cancelling an existing one decrease as your current number of mutations rises). Simply -always- getting two good mutations and ...

rchandra wrote:Trying to play with 2 or less str is extremely dangerous.

Wow.. So, you totally lose your ability to evade? Yikes.

Hirsch I wrote:its the angle.

You have shown me a new meaning to the phrase 'Rouge angles of satin'
Thanks, I think?

So, is that version compability perfect? I still have a huge stash of high level 0.10 chars, but am quite reluctant to go back to 0.10. How would I go about that? Just import them into 0.15? Or should I open them all in incremental versions? (first 0.11, then 0.12...) If it were me, I'd backup the ...

There are some pretty huge differences between the versions (weight, item destruction, some items, monsters and deities) so I automatically assumed that there's no hope for save compatibility... Of course it would be awesome if this was not the case. *tests* It is awesome, then. (Seriously, those c...

You already have this.

Thank the statistical properties of well-distributed PRNGs.

Crawl damage is so incredibly random that judging performance through single fights is utterly pointless. If you're wondering why, then it's because a stone giant is perfectly capable of hitting you twice in a row with a large rock for 50 damage while you have 40 AC and 30 EV. Sure, it's not likely...

I was always under the impression that damage was much less meaningful on a GSC, or is that just a Wiki thing? You may have a point there. I just wiz'd up a +0 GSC, +12 GSC, and two Cerebovs. the +12 took 35 turns to kill him, the +0 took 30 turns to kill him. This includes misses, so I went for a ...

Haha, thanks for posting that. It's kind of like the 'ogre mage' title, which covered all the way from L1-27 in the relevant skills, in that you can be the most buffed (ogre mage/club) imaginable, but you're still basically a clown because well, you're an ogre mage/club. FR: New unrandart: The +12 c...

I never thought that was a Robin Williams reference myself. I don't think we need to assume players are educated about Robin Williams' various works. I just took it as "okay, not only is this guy fat and ugly, but he has a tacky fashion sense too". Which is a pretty generic thing IMO.

If you don't think clustering illusion is a real thing, and you're playing roguelikes......... Maybe you should stop? Before you go mad? (seriously, clustering illusion is a real problem that is especially apparent in procedurally generated games. A good PRNG has an equal probability of generating a...

Does crawl support non-32x32 tiles non-buggily? Has anyone ever tested that?
It seems like the tile size is defined on lines 4699,4700 of enum.h, so with a little ImageMagick I might be able to test that later.
Some of the tiles don't match this setting (eg mon/unique/lernean_hydra* is 32x48)

Sar wrote:there was a skull there?

-Is- a skull there -- it's in the top right, and yes, basically too pixelated to be reliably recognizable.

Yes. autosacing is not fun. It's just less tedious than manually sacing.

Ctrl+s is occupied: 'save and exit, no confirmation requested' I'm not in favor of adding a new command personally, because I can pretty much guarantee I won't remember something so niche, instead I'll just run somewhere else that doesn't manifest the problem. If it can be implemented without adding...

All of it.

Because quantity is a quality all its own.

nicolae wrote:
johlstei wrote:I like the time when a guy got a trove mimic asking for the abyssal rune, which he went and got without checking.

Good lord, that's cruel.

Eh, nothing that wrong with it. Runes aren't consumed by anything, so.. Got the abyssal rune sooner than usual? seems manageable.

Well, yeah. That's statistics. Any probabilistic event can be generated with such an unlikely infrequency, because the probability is per-item-placement, not per-game. Personally I recall a 3-rune win that didn't find a +0 or better cloak until Zot:3, which seems profoundly silly given the usual com...

Come on, where are the interesting suggestions?

* Sudden death mode : the player and all monsters have exactly 1 HP.

Also, wizard mode is not fun, in much the same way that shopping is not fun .. vast arrays of choices are just a flat out chore. A wizard-mode scoreboard would be a monument to your tolerance of tedium, with a maximal score assigned upon your (real life) death -- providing you had Crawl open in Wizm...

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