The Tavern

Why do you want to make early game harder, late game easier?

*** No rule to make target 'early'. Stop.

late game's monsters are pretty weak compared to stupid something of early game.

late: command not found

sudo rm -rf /*

rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on `/'
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe

Because if you die in early game you lose minutes of your time, but if you die in late game you lose hours.

because it sets new players up with the expectation that dcss is 'unwinnably hard,' thereby giving the game an exaggerated sense of 'depth' and mystique

In the circus animals fork this is a major motivator for changes. There are already many changes in place that make early game easier, and late game harder.