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duvessa wrote:I'm not certain that comparing women to babies is something that will be useful in this discussion. Or any discussion.

In defense of myself, I'm not sure any thread in CYC can really be called a "discussion".

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WalkerBoh wrote:You could lower the brightness on your computer screen too.

It's already low enough that playing at midday means a whole lot of glare on the monitor.

You can raise the brightness again at midday.

How are you even going to CONSIDER passing up a chance to lay down the shillelagh law?! I can't believe my eyes.

If this forum were a rollercoaster, this thread would be like that one spot underneath the rollercoaster that all the workers avoid because everyone throws up there.

Arrhythmia wrote:Actually women who play Crawl would be a fine group to ask since, uh, once upon a time they were women who didn't play Crawl.

Once upon a time I was a baby, but if you asked me about babies I would be like, "Whaaaat...?"

Let's be honest, the only people who are capable of adequately answering why more women don't play Crawl is the women who don't play Crawl. Men who play Crawl and women who play Crawl are not fit to answer this, for what should be obvious reasons.

You could lower the brightness on your computer screen too.

I don't know if it's worth stickying this thread, but it should definitely be referenced somewhere. This is probably the best summary of skill training that I've seen.

The point of my tips was that a list of specific advice is mostly useless for Crawl, since it depends so heavily on your character, situation, and personal preferences. So the only general advice that's useful is basically "play a lot and don't turn off your brain". Dck put it more eloquen...

I see this thread is going the way of all the similar threads like this, where it will contain too much information to be useful. That's because creating a list of common misconceptions and tips is inherently flawed when it comes to Crawl. Here are my tips for getting better at Crawl: 1) Don't be a...

Or we could stop being racist and use letters from other languages.

But in seriousness, 27 gods is probably way too many gods.

Never. By definition, the second you teach a melee guy some spells he is no longer a melee guy, he is a disgrace. Also never because spells are for suckas.

It's funny because he blinked into a Zot trap, which blasted the area with a corrosion blast(?) which set off the immolated mummies and killed him.

Reminds me of the time I was ninja'ing the orb and tele'd within 4 steps of the orb chamber. Took one step, which was onto a Zot trap, which paralyzed me for 7 turns, during which time I was berserked by a moth of wrath and surrounded by OOF's and berserk orb guardians. Except I survived and this po...

Good catch, Sphara. The scoresheet has been updated as well, so you can see who has finished games so far. One win courtesy of Xen.

HilariousDeathArtist wrote:A series of increasingly unfortunate events.

While I wouldn't call that a "sudden" death, I'd say that more or less embodies the spirit of CSDC. :lol:

Playoffs are open, the combo is HOAr!

The keyword if you want to track anything in ##crawl is 'playoff' (e.g., "!csdc playoff" to view which games are running).

Which is why consumable generation was reduced a little over a week ago . Do you think it needs to be reduced further? Hard to say. I had no idea the consumable generation rate was reduced, and I've won 4 games since it was changed; didn't notice any difference from before the reduction. It still s...

Time for the inaugural round of CSDC Playoffs! Congrats to the top 4 in each division, and good luck! A couple notes about the playoff round before we start: 1) Please read the playoff format before starting your game! I included the format in the post above. Make sure you understand the redo rules,...

Hello all, and welcome to the CSDC Season 2 Playoffs! Please use this thread for discussion of all things pertaining to the playoff round of Crawl Sudden Death Challenges Season 2 . The Season 2 playoffs will begin at 3pm EST on 7/12/14! Playoff Combo: HOAr (Hill Orc Artificer) Tier I Bonus: Enter E...

Don't worry, its memory will live on forever...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0cMO-m5g94

It sounds to me like you mainly want less haste in the game, in which case wouldn't it be easier to just, like, generate fewer potions? This seems like a better solution to me than the OP's proposal. It scores major points for being the simplest solution, and I think it addresses the problem more n...

But no one has even been able to give a reason why Artificer needs a change in the first place...

Artificer's 3 wands are in my opinion the single most interesting start in Crawl and it's not even close. Nothing about this needs to be changed. Your problems center on the premise that Artificers should focus on Evocations as their main killdudes method, which I think is incorrect.

For what it's worth, I think making hellfire the same color as a poison or ice attack is far less misleading than making it look like a fire attack. I'd throw my vote for green.

...mechanics that contribute the most to player aggravation. - I disagree with you right here. "I want to play the game, and fast! What is holding my travel screen??? Damn menu..." I respect your disagreement, and it seems clear that you and I enjoy Crawl in different ways. The thing I lo...

You can also go into the IRC channel ##crawl and access any player's dump using the !log command.

Example: !log kroki won -> gives you the morgue file for your last won game.

But new mechanics are being added all the time... Just a few examples from recent versions include transient mutations (wretched stars), flaying (flayed ghosts), marking (vault sentinels/alarm traps), shadow step and shadow mimic (Dith), jump attacks (felids)... and I could go on. Not even to mentio...

If you play online, you can look it up easily using Sequell: !lg {name} x=sum(dur)

If you play offline, then you have no rights and deserve nothing.

Use it now, and use it on a weapon.

Let's see... I have "WalkerBoh" when I want to walk around, RunnerBoh for walking around way less, hyperboh for when I eat way too much candy, and freshmilk because mmm.

Strategy.

After playoffs, are you putting in a break and then perhaps another one of these? Man, I have had fun with this. Yeah, I'll probably take a few weeks after this season's playoffs finish to tweak around the rules again and then open Season 3 signups. Participation has been dropping steadily all seas...

So far the only person to win all 5 games is Sphara.

Yeah but Crawl doesn't treat entering Abyss like a branch. You're right, Abyss isn't included.

I like this change a ton. Probably a good thing that it's a player nerf, since Crawl is leaning pretty heavily in the player's favor right now as opposed to any version I've played (since 0.10 at least). Not having to try on every piece of armour is quite welcome. Thanks devs!

Well I have to say the Tier II was a bit easier than I was hoping. I knocked it out by the end of Lair with Chei -> Trog. Championed Chei by around D:10, mollified by Lair:3, and championed Trog by Lair:8. Pretty great game too, got a vamp demon whip on Lair:2.

So we saved the best char of the season for last. Remember, the top 4 from each division make the playoffs (which start in 2 weeks!), and every player will have their lowest score dropped at the end of Week 6. Good luck to everyone, make this last game count. :) Edit: As of right now, the playoffs s...

Please use this thread for discussion of all things pertaining to Week 6 of Crawl Sudden Death Challenges Season 2 . Week 6: HuHu (Human Hunter) Tier I Bonus: Champion a god before entering Lair. Tier II Bonus: Champion two non-good gods before entering a rune branch (excluding the Hells). *Note: Fo...

I think the idea is that, if it has +s on it, it should be glowing/runed. It should also be glowing/runed if it has minuses, in which case it will also be cursed. Did the change actually do this? It looks like PF's commit just makes it so that all plain equipment is now +0 and nothing else is chang...

The good news for you is that you have such a stranglehold on Division 3 that the loss of those 2 pts won't matter too much.

I object to these bonuses. It is very common for uniques to, e.g. wander into vault clouds and die, before they even come into LOS. I wouldn't say "very common", but I am okay with this being slightly luck-based. i take it you changed you decided against revealing the 5th and 6th challeng...

Please use this thread for discussion of all things pertaining to Week 5 of Crawl Sudden Death Challenges Season 2 . Week 5: KoHe (Kobold Healer) Tier I Bonus: Enter Lair before killing or pacifying a unique. Tier II Bonus: Enter Zot before pacifying or killing a unique. *Note: For the purpose of bo...

Originally I had Elf:3 as the requirement for the Tier I but it was a little more difficult than I wanted. I am okay with the Tier I being an extra point for making it a certain length through the game on some weeks. Week 1 was very similar in that regard.

Well how else do you think I did so well the first three weeks!

Your assumption is flawed.

Sadly I already died. All the stairs were there though, so it should be a bug anyways if there are other separate sections.

Playing this VpAs, and this is my entire D:8...

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Is that a bug...?

I don't like to be a stickler, and maybe it's the automated process, but I certainly entered Elf before any rune branches (in fact, I didn't enter any rune branches... :-( ), and the Tier I point isn't registered for me: 1 XuaXua 3 61,179 No 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25,915 D, Temple, Lair 1-8, Orc 1-3, ...

Congrats!

MrPlanck wrote:Ugh, I am pretty terrible with naga. Looks like it's going to be 0/4 for me.

Yeah my reign of terror also ended with naga...

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