Remove shafts
Posted: Wednesday, 15th November 2017, 17:26
Shafts just randomly kill your character in early game if you aren't strong enough (Be)or you didn't find some resources(potions,scrolls,wands).You can play flawlessly and get killed by a D:4-D:7 shaft.
I mean look a this shit http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/NicuTudor/morgue-NicuTudor-20171115-145930.txt.
And it's not an isolated example,I have a 12 wins streak who got ended by a shaft.
It's true sometimes you survive after a shaft http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/NicuTudor/morgue-NicuTudor-20171105-234919.txt,but you need luck for that(resources,not landing surounded by a horde of monster..)
A consequence of shafts is that people are pushed to speedruning or streaking lame MiBe tier combos.There is no point in trying to streak moderate-hard combos,not that many people can do that ,if the game just randomly kill you for no fault of your own.
Traps exist in other roguelikes but you also get means of protection/detection.There's no way to prepare,detect or protect(not even flying) from shafts,it's out of your control.Traps in DCSS are deadly early game and you dont even notice them late game.Or even worse are annoying,boring like the 2 tele traps blocking the lungs in Z:5.
Minimal solution:remove shafts from D:1-D:10.
UV4 solution:remove all traps.
Until this problem is solved I'll stop playing DCSS(no I won't play older versions or variants).
I mean look a this shit http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/NicuTudor/morgue-NicuTudor-20171115-145930.txt.
And it's not an isolated example,I have a 12 wins streak who got ended by a shaft.
It's true sometimes you survive after a shaft http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/morgue/NicuTudor/morgue-NicuTudor-20171105-234919.txt,but you need luck for that(resources,not landing surounded by a horde of monster..)
A consequence of shafts is that people are pushed to speedruning or streaking lame MiBe tier combos.There is no point in trying to streak moderate-hard combos,not that many people can do that ,if the game just randomly kill you for no fault of your own.
Traps exist in other roguelikes but you also get means of protection/detection.There's no way to prepare,detect or protect(not even flying) from shafts,it's out of your control.Traps in DCSS are deadly early game and you dont even notice them late game.Or even worse are annoying,boring like the 2 tele traps blocking the lungs in Z:5.
Minimal solution:remove shafts from D:1-D:10.
UV4 solution:remove all traps.
Until this problem is solved I'll stop playing DCSS(no I won't play older versions or variants).