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Although the central place for design discussion is ##crawl-dev on freenode, some may find it helpful to discuss requests and suggestions here first.
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galehar wrote:Beogh is the god of orcs. Hanging out in the Orcish Mines doesn't turn ogres and trolls into orcs. Changing Beogh from the "God of orcs" to the "God of folks who live in the Orcish Mines" doesn't add to the flavour at all.
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dpeg wrote:That said, if Beogh's audience has to be widened (I am sure it has to)
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minmay wrote:This would be pretty useful if Beogh ever becomes more than a challenge condition.
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njvack wrote:minmay wrote:This would be pretty useful if Beogh ever becomes more than a challenge condition.
Beogh is more than a challenge condition. He's also fun. Not every god needs to be Makhleb-powerful.
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dpeg wrote:I don't think all branches should have a god (we added Jiyva, Lugonu, Beogh) but it is so tempting to think about a spider god. (Also an old idea: there's an ancient commentary about "Josh's Spider god".)
. . . must . . . stop . . . thinking . . . about . . . gods
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smock wrote:A good minion management interface would help Beogh a lot. Specifically, it would be nice to dismiss and to easily equip/unequip orc minions. But I suppose it would be a lot of work.
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nicolae wrote:dpeg wrote:I don't think all branches should have a god (we added Jiyva, Lugonu, Beogh) but it is so tempting to think about a spider god. (Also an old idea: there's an ancient commentary about "Josh's Spider god".)
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I think it's basically impossible to stop thinking about gods once you've been bitten by the god bug. I've been thinking about various spider gods ever since I saw you mention it in another thread a couple months ago...
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dpeg wrote:However, I have read reports of Crawl freshmen players who loved the flavour so much it drew them into the game.
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dpeg wrote:I know, I know. I subscribe to all the gods! If you want, we can bounce ideas for a spider god. Send me a mail (not via the forum, an actual email). There's certainly enough content to get a cool spider god going, both in terms of flavour and mechanics. It doesn't have to be strong, of course: who would not love to take the orb as an eternal spider?
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XuaXua wrote:Was the stash depth searching thing revised? Last I recall it was still up in the air (currently Orcs only check the first X items in a stack for something to swap with and ignore the rest).
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nicolae wrote:dpeg wrote:I know, I know. I subscribe to all the gods! If you want, we can bounce ideas for a spider god. Send me a mail (not via the forum, an actual email). There's certainly enough content to get a cool spider god going, both in terms of flavour and mechanics. It doesn't have to be strong, of course: who would not love to take the orb as an eternal spider?
*pulls out gigantic stack of folders with a manic look in his eye* so you wanna hear about god ideas huh
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galehar wrote:XuaXua wrote:Was the stash depth searching thing revised? Last I recall it was still up in the air (currently Orcs only check the first X items in a stack for something to swap with and ignore the rest).
No. It's not as simple as it sounds, because the monster has to evaluate all items in the stack and pick the best. Otherwise, it might pick the first sword, then change it again the next turn for something better deeper in the stack.
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XuaXua wrote:How does a monster determine the "best"?
Does he have a weapon type preference?
Skills?
Or is it "this adds the most damage/accuracy combination to my attacks, as I've determined by wielding it"?
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dpeg wrote:Eji1700: Yes, the shepherding can be a nuisance. However, I have read reports of Crawl freshmen players who loved the flavour so much it drew them into the game. A particular moving story was by a veteran on SomethingAwful who got his wife to play, and he recounted how the orc warrior (or whatever it was) kept rushing to fight the dragon killing our hero, almost in time. She immediately fired up another one, named after that warrior
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TwilightPhoenix wrote:For all we know, the ogres and trolls in the mines could simply be slaves to the orcs.
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dpeg wrote:nvjack: Oh, yes. Thanks! Shouldn't reply when tired.
I don't think all branches should have a god (we added Jiyva, Lugonu, Beogh) but it is so tempting to think about a spider god. (Also an old idea: there's an ancient commentary about "Josh's Spider god".)
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