The Tavern

Hi

I'd like to see the letter of a newly memorized spell in the message output. Currently I'm mainly playing casters and find myself looking up new spell letters after every memorisation.

I already changed it in the sources but I'd like to hear your opinions before submitting a patch to mantis. I also feel that creating a new entry in the wiki would be overkill for such a minor request.

The current wording is:

Well, the first thing you should do after learning a new spell is assign it to a new letter via =s anyway.

Actually, maybe just put that in the message:

Good idea. All the helpful hints within the game helped me too when I started crawl, so telling the user how to reassign is nice.

That feature is useful to me because I just roll with what I get. I don't have a particular spell set I use in all my runs and learning the letters comes with frequency of usage.

On a side note: Watching more experienced players on youtube I've seen more than a few blunders when people who usually rebind spells, rebound them wrong or forgot to rebind them and cast the wrong ones.

Good suggestion but there's a way to never bother with spell letters again.
Edit: and by good suggestion I do in fact mean good suggestion which means I would like to see this in the game.

Using the rc file you can make spells assigned to certain letters automatically.
spell_slot += Stoneskin:aA
Assigns stoneskin to a or if a is taken to A and if both are taken it uses default letters that you can specify like this: spell_slot += .*:tnyujklopmYUOP
Use patterns like defensive buffs on a and A, starting spell on z, low level offensive spells on xcv, higher level offensive spells on dfgh.

Anything that requires editing the rc is a power user functionality. Most people will never change their rc ever. Things that are quality of life improvements should be in the game itself whenever possible.

Thanks for the feedback. I submitted a patch.