Hell/Pan rework idea

[papilio]

Hell: Each branch depth 7 -> 1 (or 2 is okay). Increase rate of hell effect. Kick trvial monsters
(Geh 1~6, Tar 1~6, ... are totally meaningless now. )

Pan: Make each floor more flavoured and characteristic.
Increase density of monster and reduce the overall length

[removeelyvilon]

It is my understanding that the devs are are already on the task of reworking Hell/Pan.

http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a= ... eads/bosch

Commits:

"Seperate and revise hell effects"
"Re-assess and rescale Hell floor spawns"
"Cut each Hell from seven floors to four"

And from 0.20 plan:

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Extended revamp - Big targets: Hell, Pan. Slash number of Hell floors, slow down hell effects but strengthen with a custom list; make Pan rune floors spawn consistently through better odds on tracked lord kills, provide special announced nasty demonic floor vaults. Requires decent vault work, stronger layout validators, effects refactoring, monster table updates. Goal is to set the two branches in a roulette to reduce extended's length / redundancies (demonic rune is a big question mark- might need mini-branch to balance it out, might need its own branch.)

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

[ONIchinchin]

"Cut each Hell from seven floors to four"

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Goal is to set the two branches in a roulette to reduce extended's length / redundancies

This achieves literally nothing except turning regular Crawl one step closer into Crawl sprint. Good to know that this game is in good hands

[Midn8]

IIRC the trivial monsters are there to make [[Shadow Creatures]] not gamebreaking

[papilio]

IIRC the trivial monsters are there to make [[Shadow Creatures]] not gamebreaking

Making monster set harder does not break the game, shadow creatures considered.