Is there init adjustment for moving slowly?

[dolphin]

So ... I was wandering around in the Abyss as a DS magicker of Chei wearing the Hat of Pondering and in two moves an Ancient Lich and some equivalent nasty blew me up. Yes, it was dumb (I could have totally Stepped from Time in the second turn), and I'm not bothered that the game killed another moron. However, is there a way to set Crawl to warn me when something 'extremely dangerous' shows up in the 5 turns it takes to move a square? Can it ask me nicely like it does when I'm swapping armor?

Thanks

[Sprucery]

You can put something like this in your rcfile:

  Code:

force_more_message += An ancient lich .*comes? into view.

But you have to do that for all dangerous monsters one by one. Maybe put something like

  Code:

: if you.god() == "Cheibriados" then
force_more_message += An ancient lich .*comes? into view.
[etc.]
:end


so that it'll only do it with Chei. Disclaimer: I haven't tested that.

[Sandman25]

Can it ask me nicely like it does when I'm swapping armor?

No, there is no way to do that, it's a single action for player. This is cost for worshiping Chei.

[Eyesburn]

auto exclude maybe can help you too

  Code:

################
# Auto Exclude #
################
## dangerous monsters ##
auto_exclude += ancient lich, death drake, hydra, ice statue, jelly, orb of fire
## paralysing monsters and uniques ##
auto_exclude += [^c] wizard, ancient lich, Ereshkigal, Erolcha, eyeball, Grinder, Jory, lich
auto_exclude += Norris, ogre-mage, orb of eyes, orc sorcerer, Rupert, sphinx, vampire knight
## other uniques and unique followers ##
auto_exclude += Agnes, Aizul, Arachne, Asterion, Blork, Boris, Crazy Yiuf, Donald, Dowan
auto_exclude += Duvessa, Edmund, Erica, Eustachio, Fannar, Frances, Frederick, Gastronok
auto_exclude += Grum, Harold, Ijyb, Jessica, Jorgrun, Joseph, Kirke, Louise, Mara, Maud
auto_exclude += Maurice, Menkaure, Mennas, Natasha, Nergalle, Nessos, Nikola, Pikel
auto_exclude += Polyphemus, Prince Ribbit, Psyche, Roxanne, Saint Roka, Sigmund, Snorg
auto_exclude += Sojobo, Sonja, Terence, Urug, Wiglaf, Xtahua, hog, slave

[eharper256]

So ... I was wandering around in the Abyss as a DS magicker of Chei wearing the Hat of Pondering and in two moves an Ancient Lich and some equivalent nasty blew me up. Yes, it was dumb (I could have totally Stepped from Time in the second turn), and I'm not bothered that the game killed another moron. However, is there a way to set Crawl to warn me when something 'extremely dangerous' shows up in the 5 turns it takes to move a square? Can it ask me nicely like it does when I'm swapping armor?

Thanks

I've heard that (SHIFT + Movement) is a godsend when playing Chei; I believe it warns you when something happens, though I haven't worshipped Chei in a long time so I can't say for sure.

[and into]

I use Shift+Move on nearly all characters.