Finerminer wrote:Well Boh, in the " read this before posting " it gives an example about _ is overpowered...and I think _ would help. So I think it is a design concern. If under/over powered concerns were never addressed I think we would still have summons off screen killing entire floors of enemies.
It is not a design goal that all Crawl races be of relatively equal power, or even that there should be no races significantly weaker than the others. The example in the stickied post is telling you how to format your posts, not what does or does not constitute a design issue.
The summoning change you mentioned was not made
because summoning was overpowered, but because it encouraged handling every encounter with tedious backtracking to ensure maximum safety. The fact that it made summons weaker was a side effect, not an explicit goal.
Regardless, my point stands that your proposed changes to Fo add additional work and complexity to the game. To justify that, you need to provide very powerful evidence of an improvement. "Fo seems weak, and this would make them not as weak" does not fall into that category.
Edit: also you violated like half of the things in that sticky topic so...