mikee wrote:I noticed that there have been some attempts at collecting good general advice for new players and that these attempts were unsuccessful. Instead, how about some bad advice you would give to your enemies if they started playing crawl? Possibly I can compile all of them and add "don't" to the front of each.
- Read the Wiki as if it were the gospel but only the advice parts.
- Ignore the information listed in the wiki and learndb.
- Forget to ask for help from IRC, and on the forums.
- Rest only when your hp are at 10% or less.
- Make as much noise as you can. It scares away the goblins and fiends.
- Try to kill every monster you find.
- Eat food as soon as possible.
- Forget corners.
- Run only when faced with ranged or mage type enemies. Especially those green clothed orcs.
- Run into large groups of monsters and melee them, particularly when there is a really nasty one.
- Use x v only when totally bored.
- Drink potions as soon as you find them.
- Only read id scrolls only as a last resort. Particularly, wait until the very late game.
- Pick up weapons that aren't even remotely likely to be useful to you.
- Worship Cheibraidos if you want to run around and dodge everything.
- Use (a)bilities sparingly. Particularly if they duplicate a consumable you could find.
- Save good consumables for later.
- Kill every unique you find.
- Only run from uniques when you are at 10% or less of your hp.
- Quaff flying potions and then fly heedlessly over deep water.
- Ignore messages warning you of danger.
- Complete every single part of every map and branch you can.
- Do elf 3 as quickly as you can.
- Do orc 4 as quickly as you can.
- Dive as deep as possible and then fight your way out.
- Use unidentified wands on yourself first.
- Wear id unided weapons and armor as soon as oyu find them, even if you don't have any scrolls.
that's all I've got at the moment.