losing the will to play

[kroki]

after winning with every species and being two wins short from winning every background ive lost all will to play. my last character (mibe) got to V:4 before i got so bored of it i started actively trying to die. switched to makhleb to fool around with disc of the storms (relec, 20 evo). cleared v:5 starting at * makhleb piety and under trogs wrath by just spamming the disc. eventually i met my end rushing into combat with a frost giant while i was <15% hp. that was like, week ago.

anyone else suddenly got fed up with this game?

[Turukano]

anyone else suddenly got fed up with this game?

I know this feeling very well.

And when I'm not interested in crawl I just don't play for some days, weeks or months. And then suddenly I want to play it again!

[Bloax]

I've found no joy in playing this game for a very long time now, mostly because the early game is such a chore to get through.
And the fact that I barely do anything does not help at all, since that just means that I'll likely stop trying to breach the d:4 adder wall after a couple of splats.

[Sar]

how are adders dangerous on d4... oh wait, speedrunners

[Bloax]

if you think the early game is easy then clearly you haven't tried to do it with minimal rest and exploration

fucking hell is it awful

[n1000]

i've eaten three sandwiches for lunch today and frankly i just lost all will to eat anymore

anyone else experienced this?

[daggaz]

I've bedded well over 400 women and after much deep thought and personal introspection, I've decided I'm just going to keep going with that.

[kroki]

I've bedded well over 400 women and after much deep thought and personal introspection, I've decided I'm just going to keep going with that.

now thats a story id love to hear in detail about

[Sandman25]

if you think the early game is easy then clearly you haven't tried to do it with minimal rest and exploration

fucking hell is it awful

It is amazing how you are trying to make early game extremely hard and are complaining at its hard difficulty at the same time

On topic. It is hard to expect that overpowered combos like MiBe would not be boring after you have won all species. Stop playing easy mode

[Sprucery]

I've bedded well over 400 women

Did you do that online? 'Cause you know, offline doesn't count.

[Lasty]

It is amazing how you are trying to make [...] game extremely hard

That's not really how Bloax generally works, c.f. his bloaxcrawl changes.

[scorpionwarrior]

n1000 is right, this is a natural reaction after binging on anything.

[cerebovssquire]

n1000 is right, this is a natural reaction after binging on anything.

uh, heroin

[scorpionwarrior]

ok, anything that doesn't turn you into a zombie who steals all your friends shit, then. (stay the hell away from opiates, kids)

[Bloax]

It is amazing how you are trying to make [...] game extremely hard

That's not really how Bloax generally works, c.f. his bloaxcrawl changes.

Bloaxcrawl is a bunch of minimalistic changes (except the octopode change I had in there, which was a different little experiment of mine I wanted to try out) to improve the flow/feel of the game with very simple changes.
It's not some sort of madman's experiment where I make the game legitimately harder, because I certainly could - it would just be a pain in the ass to maintain due to trunk changing so much.

if you think the early game is easy then clearly you haven't tried to do it with minimal rest and exploration

fucking hell is it awful

It is amazing how you are trying to make early game extremely hard and are complaining at its hard difficulty at the same time

I'm not really complaining about the difficulty (it's not that hard, really) as much as I am complaining about how much you depend on the dice being in your favour when you play like that. (And thus it is painful.)
Which is how I noticed the issues I changed in bloaxcrawl in the first place.

[Siegurt]

I've bedded well over 400 women and after much deep thought and personal introspection, I've decided I'm just going to keep going with that.

But have you tried to do it with minimal rest and exploration?

[TeshiAlair]

I mean, I've been playing this game on and off for 7 years now, usually picking it up again each tournament. This stretch has DEFINITELY been the longest by a large margin mostly because

1. The game has gotten so much better with each release
2. I have a job so I can ssh in and splat a few characters each lunch break.

But sometimes you gotta take a break. Happens with every game. Go play some DF :p

[Sandman25]

It is amazing how you are trying to make [...] game extremely hard

That's not really how Bloax generally works, c.f. his bloaxcrawl changes.

I meant speedrunning, not bloaxcrawl.

[Lasty]

I meant speedrunning, not bloaxcrawl.

I know. I was making a joke about how Bloax is always pushing for changes that make the game easier.

[tasonir]

Back on topic: OP, can you take my girlfriend shopping, to parks, down by the water, etc, so I can actually have time to play the game? I don't even have kids. Just a girlfriend + job and suddenly I can't play hardly at all. How old are you? Where has all the time gone? If I ever have kids I don't think I'd be able to even think about a video game anymore...I still need to do my ice form octopode but I killed off one that actually made it to lair:5 last night, for shame (1 more hp and I would have been out of LOS of that electric eel, double shame). Ah well. Back to D:1 we go!

[Sprucery]

Almost all of my gaming takes place after the kids have gone to sleep.

[comebackshane]

Ever since I discovered that I am actually able to win the game, I am more frustrated when I lose a character. Why not just take a break? Maybe your heart will lust for crawl battle again. If not - nothing forces you to play crawl (I hope).
I can recommend Marvel Heroes 2015. The mindless slaughter is a welcome change of pace to the highly tactical crawl.

[Bloax]

I meant speedrunning, not bloaxcrawl.

I know. I was making a joke about how Bloax is always pushing for changes that make the game easier.

There are many ways to make the game easier, but only few of them actually make the game better.
You would be very foolish to assume that I'm pushing for these changes because I actually want the game to be easier, since I find the game quite easy already.
I just find some aspects of the game unpleasant, and I would really like them made less so. It's pure coincidence that they happen to make the game "easier".

I would like the game to have less popcorn monsters, too - and that's certainly not a "make the game easier" change. (But rather out of the scope of the minimal changes I'm doing in bloaxcrawl.)

[tasonir]

Almost all of my gaming takes place after the kids have gone to sleep.

This is my primary problem: The gf refuses to go to bed without me, even though I generally require less sleep than she does. Sometimes it happens, but rarely. In any case this is probably all far too much personal info/ranting, this isn't facebook, I'm just whining, etc etc. Let's get back to talking about how nagas are an above average strength race.

[comebackshane]

Almost all of my gaming takes place after the kids have gone to sleep.

This is my primary problem: The gf refuses to go to bed without me, even though I generally require less sleep than she does. Sometimes it happens, but rarely. In any case this is probably all far too much personal info/ranting, this isn't facebook, I'm just whining, etc etc. Let's get back to talking about how nagas are an above average strength race.

[bel]

Almost all of my gaming takes place after the kids have gone to sleep.

This is my primary problem: The gf refuses to go to bed without me, even though I generally require less sleep than she does. Sometimes it happens, but rarely. In any case this is probably all far too much personal info/ranting, this isn't facebook, I'm just whining, etc etc. Let's get back to talking about how nagas are an above average strength race.

I never had any problems with nagas.

[Zooty]

Almost all of my gaming takes place after the kids have gone to sleep.

This is my primary problem: The gf refuses to go to bed without me, even though I generally require less sleep than she does. Sometimes it happens, but rarely. In any case this is probably all far too much personal info/ranting, this isn't facebook, I'm just whining, etc etc. Let's get back to talking about how nagas are an above average strength race.

I never had any problems with nagas.

I never had any problems with tasonir's girlfriend.

[Hirsch I]

I never had any problems with tasonir's girlfriend.

nobody does.