Monday, 27th May 2013, 13:03 by reaver
Various thoughts:
Are you going to add the spriggans? (druid, defender,berserker, rider) IIRC, the spriggan mock-up vault appears around the depth to be balanced for a crypt replacement, and I'd like to see them in a branch at some point.
This is probably a Fedhas buff, and having it appear randomly might be weird. If we added the Orc Mines to a roulette, Beogh would be randomly nerfed, and maybe abandoned by players, if it didn't appear. It might not be a issue since the branch shows up late, or even become a unique and distinctive part of the Fedhas experience, but it's something to keep in mind.
If we were to compile the branch for non-coders to playtest, It would probably be best to set it up on the servers as an alternative game mode. We'd reach a lot of people who don't follow development, and we won't have to worry about different OS's or updating everybody's binaries.
You guys know that if you want to test out the branch, you'd probably need to do it in ACSII, right? Nobody is going to add a tile for a monster which might disappear within a couple days, and I'm pretty sure a branch with multiple monsters represented by "?" (The default tile if none is specified) would be unplayable. We could add a bunch of placeholder tiles (For example, various colors of circles) pretty easily, but it'd be still more work for whoever sets it up.
On IRC my nick is reaverb. I play online under the name reaver, though.