Lair change?

[ajon]

Was lair recently changed to 6 levels deep instead of 8? Is there a place one can find ongoing changes like this?

[HardboiledGargoyle]

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

[Tiktacy]

Its beautiful isn't it?

[xbon]

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

that is a fair bit more convenient than the way I've been checking <full logs on the github commit reposit>, thanks for the link.

[moocowmoocow]

Thereʻs also a digest you can subscribe to with RSS.

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/trunk ... -june-2016

[xbon]

Thereʻs also a digest you can subscribe to with RSS.

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/trunk ... -june-2016

while true, I compile from the source and pull whenever I have an internet connection available and there's new updates so the pages there don't update nearly as quick enough when I just wanna check what's changed in the last 12 hours for instance, which is where http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a=shortlog or the straight git commits happen. <also if asked between the period of when they update only way to get his answer would be straight commits, all ways are legitimate though.>

[infinitevox]

How much of an impact on XP and character level is this going to have?
With "S" branches shorter, and now Lair, later content gets that much more dangerous.
For the record, I'm not complaining, I'm legit curious

[all before]

Total experience in Lair changes from ~63k to ~53k, which isn't actually a very substantial drop - it should generally result in characters still leaving the Lair at XL14 on average, just slightly further from XL15.

[MainiacJoe]

What all this branch shortening really affects is not XP but exploration piety.

[ydeve]

It also reduces monotony, which I see as a good thing.

[KoboldLord]

What all this branch shortening really affects is not XP but exploration piety.

What are you doing with Ashenzari or Elyvilon that you are having trouble keeping your piety up in Lair?

[MainiacJoe]

What all this branch shortening really affects is not XP but exploration piety.

What are you doing with Ashenzari or Elyvilon that you are having trouble keeping your piety up in Lair?

Not much, indeed I play those gods rarely. I didn't say it was a reason not to shorten branches, but I did point it out because people were only talking about XP and this is also affected.

[4Hooves2Appendages]

It also affects item generation and as a result availability of consumables. From my perspective the direction is positive.

[TonberryJam]

so why are we making the game shorter? Kinda makes the game easier....ruins the fun of a crawl.

[Hands]

so why are we making the game shorter? Kinda makes the game easier....ruins the fun of a crawl.

You have that backwards. Lair is like the least dangerous place in the game. The more of it that gets removed the harder the game becomes.

[Tiktacy]

Shorter = less exp = harder game

[TonberryJam]

One of the last games I played I had an amulet of reflection very early with a block rating of 20 early on and getting to 30+ fast. For every ranged encounter the game threw at me I just sat still and waited every turn. Yaks, Centaurs, Cyclops, Merfolks, Orb Spiders, etc. They just sat there getting everything, even large rocks, pelted back into their faces.

Easiest game I ever played.

Block is OP.

Maybe I just like a long campaign.