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galehar wrote:If we remove curses, here is how we could change Ash: Wear an item for long enough (xp gain no time), and Ash will curse it. You get a piety costing invocation to uncurse items. Ash is lacking in piety costing abilities anyway.

sounds good to me.

Yeah that's the one. Those dogs, man.

If only we had a dev here, they could fix this for us!

The more I play this game the more I love it. I love it so much that I've started over. Twice. I get my character going and I think 'wait no I can build this guy better'. I'm going for a wanderer into faith dex sunbro. I want to be a holy dispenser of jolly justice. As great as the game is though, I...

I should mention that Ash is one of my favorite gods and, whatever happens here, leave my bro alone please.

#4 feels like a different flavor of negative mutation. And, as I hate getting mutated more than just about anything in crawl (even if it's a trivial -1 str), I don't want it. #3 might be good, but I can only see it working if they cause semi-permanent effects. Glow and stat loss just encourage 5'ing...

1. You know TSO gives rN+++ by himself right? That ring of life protection isn't helping you at all. 2. Bardiche min delay is 26 skill. At only 22.7 you're not hitting nearly as hard as you should be. This would have made tomb much more difficult than it should have been. 3. I'd use that recharging ...

I'd donate $50 for

+9 Boots of the World's Greatest FeDK {Running Regen MR Inacc (17/17)}

This thing just broke $65,000. I don't get it. On the topic of funding: I've often wondered who pays for Crawl. Presuming that hosting, etc., cost money - how is that paid for? All volunteer work, but product placement and targeted ads are going to be included in version .27. And commercialbots for ...

While in dragon form, your EV gets destroyed and the XP you spend on dodging largely goes to waste. I didn't train it much at all for my dragon all-rune game.

my thoughts on the matter: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4978 I would train air for dmsl, but hold off on tornado as I feel maxing UC and fighting, and having high invo for TSO would be more useful. Though if you run around pan killing every lord you see (and dragon form, w...

Shield: the best thing to do would be drop it and find a buckler, preferably a buckler of resistance. Reflection is a bad ego. Mutations: were you quaff-id'ing your potions? I used to do this all the time; I don't anymore. I save all early id scrolls for potions. You're not strong enough for elf, at...

Kirbypowered wrote:rougelike

This is a common misnomer/typo. The term is 'roguelike', as in 'similar to the game Rogue'. Rouge is something different.

Yeah, despite me playing exclusively PC games for the last few years, I couldn't figure this game out until I picked up a 360 controller. So worth it though. Dark Souls is GOTY material.

Working my way through Blighttown now after clearing Parrish.

Trog's Hand requiring corpses would more or less kill Trog's extended viability. Running Pan/Hells without heal on kill or regeneration is not fun.

I understand that trunk has an auto_sacrifice though I must ask at this point: does a feature like Trog sacrifices need to be in the game? What does it add at this point? If it's just something that goes on in the background with auto_sacrifice that you never pay attention to then what's the point ...

Your items are not OK. Specifically, your weapons are very bad. Find a bardiche and have TSO bless it as soon as you hit full piety. Use all your enchant weapon scrolls on it. I would also stop training dodging, and start training invocations. The increased power of your angels and cleansing flame w...

^that's true, it could be worded better. 0 is the normal learning rate, and just so happens to be (for the most part) the human learning rate. It makes more sense to compare aptitudes to themselves, than to compare them to humans.

Doesn't this mean that spellcasting is slightly cheaper to raise now, and stealth/invo/evo slightly more expensive? Because the old hidden penalties didn't quite match up with an even aptitude level.

Either way, I dig this change, and hope it makes it into .11.

I've been wanting to play the Souls games for so long, but stopped buying/playing consoles years ago. This game is really really good so far.

Be warned that it's essentially unplayable without a gamepad.

I double checked Hacker's and yeah, every key that crawl is supposed to understand is being read correctly except `, which is a blank. I even reinstalled the app and power cycled, because that's what one does when one tests things. IDE still works outside of the ctrl key. OK, I'll use my GIMP skills...

Yes, the chopping battleaxe is your best by far. It's enchanted enough that you probably won't find something better until Oka drops a freeze/flame exec axe. Venom is decent in the early game, but why poison dudes when you can just chop their heads off? rPois, like rElec, tends to be overvalued. Eve...

First off, if you're using a weapon, unarmed combat does not help you in any way. It doesn't improve your headbutts or auxiliary attacks. For future characters, don't train it. You should be using that chopping battleaxe at all times, unless facing a hydra. It's significantly better than your flamin...

It's getting there. I spot checked every key on Hacker's and I think they all work except `, which should be a 'repeat last action' command. Funny thing is, ` works on Terminal IDE's keyboard. However, crawl doesn't recognize IDE's ctrl key. Back to the default keyboard, are you able to customize it...

Nope, there's a few others like + and ` being misread as well. Looks like the same de-shifted problem. The number line special characters are working now.

The app doesn't seem to read special character input correctly from system keyboards. I tested both hacker's keyboard and the Terminal IDE keyboard, and when sending special characters the app treats them as numbers (% is read as 5, & is read as 7, etc). The default crawl keyboard doesn't have t...

That's funny about the colors, I hadn't even thought about that. My linux crawl does look different than what I see when telnetting through putty or connectbot, but I do the latter so much that I was just assuming that they were the 'correct' colors. I'm not even sure what crawl is 'supposed' to loo...

I strongly encourage you to set your skill training to manual, and only train 1-2 skills at a time. Automatic training leaves your skills too spread out, and it ends up training/overtraining skills you don't want (like your stabbing, stealth, and poison).

At this stage in the game, with only 15 int and a Mi's spell aptitudes, the only feasible way you're going to get statue form online is grinding. I would sooner go win than grind. What I would do: Wear the GDA, dragonskin cloak (swap to preservation in heavy fire/ice areas), boots of running, ring o...

I understand, I just value the variety of branch combinations over the variety of themes.

Crawl is random enough that I don't believe guides are very helpful. It's infinitely more useful to learn the mechanics of the game, so one can react intelligently to situations as the RNG presents them.

Not sure I like that - shoals has sea snakes, swamp has swamp drakes and swamp dragons. Spider is often waterlogged. The branches overlap each other enough that I believe we'd have more variety if any 2 were picked, as opposed to 1 of 2 and 1 of 2.

It was only guaranteed for testing purposes, to make sure it was played a lot. Now it's just part of the 4 branch rotation.

You look like you know what you're doing. rF leather, regen ring, nice set of spells, your skill training makes sense, etc.. I would learn haste first, then continue training polearms in preparation for a bardiche, as orc knights have a decent chance of carrying one and mines should be where you hea...

I love current Oka. I don't like these suggestions at all.

1. I was only wanting to get to the save files. I've got a good MuFi rolling from testing the tiles port, and wanted to move him over for testing this one too! Otherwise there's no real need to get to the files. If I really wanted to, I could root. If you've got good reasons for storing files where ...

##crawl keeps a list of great and greaterplayers that you could look out for, but having a lot of wins doesn't necessarily mean they'd be good to watch or even good at the game.

e.g. I happen to have won every race and background, but I die like an idiot all the time. Don't watch me.

isn't evo a cheap skill too?

and yes, I'm all for making all skills cost the same amount of XP, and adjusting aptitudes accordingly.

I don't understand: "for a dual school spell, training spellcasting has half the effect that training one spell skill does" - doesn't this mean that spell schools contribute more to a spell's power and success than spellcasting?

Checking recent commits, I see that sword of power and krishna were buffed. Removed sword of power from the OP. (to be honest I'm not certain if mikee is being entirely serious here :| ) I'd rather have knife of Accuracy generate with a random brand, chosen from pain/elec/venom/distortion/chaos. Sim...

RIP Stalkers. Dig-Passwall stabbing was the coolest thing. It's not your fault that you got saddled with evaporate. I agree with the suggested removal of fighters and conjurors. As far as pets and summons go, I'm hoping that with the planned nerfs, summon kills will be able to give full XP again. Si...

I can't check the source right now, but I imagine this would be as simple as finding where lichform's duration is rolled, and changing the value to 100000.

I think he means dragon scale mails.

Spell power is more heavily weighted on spell schools than it is on spellcasting and int. Your bolts of cold will be hitting harder in scenario (2).

Yes, an update! I played a bit and the hardware key mapping and built-in text editor make things so much better. This is great. Some comments: 1. Why doesn't your app store its files in the typical sdcard/app-data or sdcard/Android/app-data locations? Where they're at now can't be reached without ro...

Because crawl is frequently updated, the wiki is full of old and wrong information. Do not trust it. And what chatroom are you using? You're getting a lot of bad advice. I sincerely hope ##crawl isn't telling you these things. And - holy crap - you were using a chaos quarterstaff over a vamp lajatan...

If the target is a ghost or spectral, they don't have a body, so there's nothing for the sticky flame to stick to. But you can kill them by hitting them with any number of other solid item. Sticky flame works just fine on zombies and skeletons.

Does it make sense? Not really.

Yeah, I can only hope the ascii port of crawl catches up to frogbotherer's work.

Brogue has been ported to android. Check the google store. It's not very playable (yet) without an external keyboard, and the asking price is $2, but it's brogue. On a phone. Kinda neat.

You have 32 int and 35 dex, yet have 0 spells and 0 dodging. You aren't playing to your character's strengths. Here's what I would do in your position: First thing's first: Turn off traps and doors. Don't train armour any more. Train dodging, ditch that ring mail, and look for mottled dragon armour,...

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