discuss branch rotation

[HardboiledGargoyle]

Crawl rotates Swamp/Shoals and Spider/Snake.

Sometimes people suggest that the game should sometimes generate Swamp+Shoals or Spider+Snake.

I have an idea that the game should generate only 1 of Snake/Spider/Swamp and only 1 of Shoals/Elf/Crypt. This would reduce total available XP, improve replayability, and keep these branches fresh.

[chequers]

Elf needs a rune for that to work. You could generate only one lair S branch and only one of Elf/Crypt instead. Or 1x Snake/Spider/Swamp, 1x Elf/Crypt, 1xShoals/Vaults. Moving vaults or crypt would require branch entrance re-ordering, but that's not a real problem.

[Leszczynek]

Removing content doesn't make anything fresh, adding content does. Just saying.

Full rotation of lair branches is a neat idea, I'd also like to see some Crypt/Tomb alternative, but that's a lot of work. I'm not sure if making Elf/Crypt not appear at all is a good idea, it is after all an xp leverage before getting the 3rd rune. You don't have to do them if you feel you don't need to.

[PleasingFungus]

we should make a crypt alternative/replacement called 'forest'. jokes. references. joke's

[claws]

https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php? ... n_roulette

probably the fallout over this won't make two devs flee and leave another maimed though

[Sprucery]

I like to do Elf and Crypt in all of my games.

[wizzzargh]

Forest was rad, y'all just bad

Hell/Pan rotation sounds pretty neat though.

[Rast]

I have an idea that the game should generate only 1 of Snake/Spider/Swamp and only 1 of Shoals/Elf/CryptSlime. This would reduce total available XP, improve replayability, and keep these branches fresh.

FTFY.