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macOS tiles version: https://crawl.project357.org/static/bloatcrawl2-macos-tiles.zip The shapeshifter bug has been fixed, and the macOS Tiles build has been updated. The new build is version 0.25-a0-601-g772be7b9e1. If you are still having problems with this build (or you saw the problem on CPO/CKO)...

Incremental is the new default. It generates the dungeon in a fixed order, but only as many floors as are needed. False generates only the requested floor, so the order of floors generated is not constant. For example if you are on D1 and shafted to d4, incremental prevent would generate d2, D3 and ...

For new species, the bar is pretty high. More important than lore, new species need to fit into gameplay niches that aren't covered by the existing game, or add new mechanics. See Vine Stalker and Octopode for "recent" examples of this. Viewed in this light, your proposal doesn't add much ...

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Could these statues cause the player to get blocked? For example, you are being chased by a goblin and back into a 1-wide corridor. A statue also activates while you are kiting and follows the goblin into the corridor. You kill the goblin and the statue deactivates, blocking the corridor.

This conceives the problem a bit narrowly. You would still have the luring problem, but there are things you could do to deal with that too. I'd rather focus on stair dancing, rather than the broader concept of luring. I think stair dancing is much easier to tackle (relatively speaking!!) because t...

Remove upstairs, transition the Dungeon to a linear branching layout. This is definitely a solution to stair dancing and several other problems, but I think breaks too much else in DCSS to be a realistic candidate for vanilla. You would have to rework so many other systems, like shops, dungeon stru...

The purpose of this thread is to talk about how to nerf stair dancing. Talking about if stair dancing should be nerfed is off topic for the thread. What bad effects does stair dancing have? 1. It's a no brainer mechanic that crowds out other mechanics because it's so effective. 1a. Parts of the game...

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In other words: the early game (before the midgame) is an area in which causing OOD events should be particularly minimized. A single OOD monster can, with careful gameplay, be avoided. A shaft cannot be avoided; no amount of skill, or in-game arbitrariness (e.g. having a character with certain sha...

I think it's important to define WHY people think shafts are bad. That's the first step to improving the situation. This comment is illuminating: I recently made two topics about what I called unavoidable deaths after chars were shafted. It turned out that the death of my DsHu was avoidable as well ...

Because the stronger abilities are worth it.

It's difficult to give a more precise answer, but sacrificing an eye in particular has pretty low impact for characters with good accuracy.

I described in an earlier thread (can't be bothered finding and linking, sorry) an idea of replacing scrolls of enchant/brand weapon with "magical anvils", which are like timed portals that randomly upgrade an item placed on them. It sounds related to this. Shops, scrolls of acquirement/en...

I think it's getting too complex to identify sources of SH and make some affected by confusion and some not. It would be better to make SH either unaffected by or completely disabled by confusion. If some sources of SH should be disabled by confusion but others not, this would need to be communicate...

Same directory as all other morgues. But you'll have to search for it by hand.

Magical abilities: does not ignore antimagic, some are affected by silence, while others are not. <-- none are affected by silence You can think of a 2x2 table: Affected by AM Not affected by AM Afftected by silence wizard divine Not affected by silence magical natural

It's off for me too. It is off by 2 hrs, which my offset from Korea (and I guess your local time)

As mentioned (perhaps in the reddit thread that inspired this suggestion), DCSS inherits an old D&D idea. Wizards cast spells by moving their hands and using their voices, so silence prevents them from casting spells. Demons and other magical creatures cast spells with sheer force of will, so ne...

Wiz as a demonspawn facet could be good. I'm less sure about the other ones. MP Regen is already given by spirit shield mutation, and spell hunger is wildly controversial in terms of desirability / power level (plus a dev was talking about removing food soon??). Some more brainstorming: Reduce cost ...

Silence is a great mechanic that has a major effect on the options available to players and monsters. However, its rules are unintuitive, complex and surprising. Because the mechanics are so confusing, people don't use silence or enjoy using it as much as they could. I propose making silence rarer, ...

They should stay out of 'fainting' and manage their hunger properly. Ishmael requires the user to put some thought into their gameplay and make tough decisions Crawl has many goals but two big ones are a) no instadeaths and b) no tedious but optimal play. I feel like you aren't so worried about the...

I like the idea of a new god joining the good god pantheon. You can instantly die if you run out of food, and this god encourages you to spend as much of the game as possible as hungry as possible. This mechanic will result in many players accidentally starving to death. Is that a deliberate decisio...

Rather than a partial unit of Wiz/Archmagi, you could give a full unit for a subset of spells. Like mummy necro enhancer. Another idea would be to give 1/3rd of the unit for each level of the mutation. Permanent silence sounds like it would be extremely strong. The impact on floors like elf:$ or tom...

More Ds mutations is always good! Especially more proposals that encourage playing a caster (or at least non-meleedude).
Yes, these sound very strong. "Lord of Silence" alternate proposal: radius 1/2/3 evocable silence

As I understand it, the problem is you have gcc 6 installed as gcc-6 and some newer version installed as gcc, and you want to compile crawl with gcc-6. I don't think crawl's makefile has an option to choose the c++ compiler name. So you have a few options: 1. Compile in a docker environment with the...

I have a mostly working version which will hopefully get released later in the year. If you can't wait until then and are interested in coding the rest, I'm happy to send my WIP data.

The combination of los blocking and damaging clouds from the same spell is tough, because damaging clouds dissipate extra quickly when out of LoS. Usually within 0-2 turns

Argons don't gain elemental resistances from equipment. What about mutations? Can you get 150% resistance to a single damage source? Does 50% resistance for poison/elec function as rPois/rElec+, or as a literal 50% damage reduction? What about the case of poison dot inflict chance? Why not include ...

absdepth is a way to give each level a number that corresponds to its difficulty. level absdepth = branch abdsepth + branch level. Examples: 1. As I mentioned before, Orc has branch absdepth of 10. So Orc:1 absdepth is "orc absdepth" (10) + branch level (1) = 11. (I said 10 before, this wa...

The format isn't documented anywhere except the source. See hiscores.cc. Here's a quick overview of the fields you didn't guess. lv: version of this logfile record. 0.1 is the only value in use. vsav / vsavrc: Version tags associated with your save file. Only useful for debugging. absdepth: "ab...

It was "random energy". 04:02:06 Sequell | energy randomisation[1/3]: Every time a monster makes a movement | (i.e. not an attack/spell), the amount of time taken to do its turn | has a 1/3 chance of being 0.1 turns slower, a 1/3 chance of being 0.1 | turns quicker and a 1/3 chance of bein...

Why would this improve the game?

Can the grey boxes be confused with staircases?

The next step is definitely to submit a pull request. You could offer the visual alternatives as a user-configurable option, as options to developers in the PR, or just only include what you think is the strongest.

I like the idea of building a few more story links into the DCSS universe. Some of the best stories in DCSS now are the little hidden links. Like seeing Boris for the first time and realising "hey... this is the master of Natasha!". You probably won't see them in the same game, but the fac...

Levels are created by picking one of several "layout" functions and running it. This places generates all the base-layer terrain and then (optionally) places vaults on top of it. Nobody has modified any of those layout functions for a loooong time, so you would probably need to learn the c...

All of those mechanics sound really unfun. Especially locking put the amulet slot even afterwards for the rest of the game.

You could implement this as an amulet that gives the wielder an extra life in the same way Felid lives work. You would need to modify the code to check if the player is eligible for a Felid respawn to also consider if they are wearing this amulet. Then you modify the respawn function to delete this ...

I think you need to address the "victory dancing" complaint. Both ideas require the player to play differently to normal so they get the "right" stat on level up. For example, if I want to get int on level up, I should not kill any monster with melee, even if it's easier/better. ...

3) Putting this at the top of the monster tile seems better. Monster HP bars are already shown at the bottom, and have similar colors. Having the two adjacent would lead to visual confusion: "Is that monster high-threat, or does it just have a sliver of red HP?" This might cause equal iss...

I would prefer to remove user controlled stats. They serve to make species play more like each other.

Killing a monster with a wand in ways that maximise the charges left is a fun challenge.

To add complexity, many god abilities use invocations for the power, but piety for their failure rate. I also think this is unnecessary.

That looks pretty great overall for tenpercenters. Maybe you could plot the first derivative?

It looks like you're partially right. Viewing the history for this function (git log -L :exp_needed:player.cc), it existed basically unchanged in the original Git commit (2005): 673bdae75485d14f759af597c3c62b99601f9a43 However there was ifdef'ed out code with a simpler system that was described as &...

From a bottom up perspective, this data table / curve is insane. But from a top down perspective, XL progression through a typical game is pretty sensible. Or at least, nobody is saying otherwise. The way this sensible XL progression has been implemented in code is hairy. XP logic in crawl is convol...

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