Opinions

[amaril]

The -ctele status should be visible in zot. Imbalanced weapon/ elemental attributes should be flattened (mf te ho etc). Demonic guardian should be made into an active ability, then removed because it overlaps w/ makhleb. Airstrike/shatter should do = damage to all enemies/players. Entropy weavers shouldnt exist. Poison is not a good status effect, for players or monsters. There should be no limit to spellpower enhancers, or a max of 1. Maurice is bad. Players should be able to eat mutagenic meat when engorged. Dowan/duvessa should not have weird stair rules. Items should be retrievable in water. There should be one type of permafood, which takes one turn to consume (while food is still in the game). There should be a status effect that indicates that adjacent trees are hurting you bc of awaken forest. No steam/sticky resistence. Dragon scales should be called dragon armour.

Dont know what this is supposed to accomplish, besides memeing/preaching to the choir. Cheers.

[Arrhythmia]

my opinion: donald trump should not be president of the united states, and voting for him is a grave mistake

e: and, should hillary win, the appropriate moniker for bill clinton will be "first laddy"

[archaeo]

At first I was excited, thinking, oh dang this is gonna be juicy, but then I remembered I'm a moderator.

[Hellmonk]

I like opinions and I think it's good to have them.

[Cimanyd]

Dont know what this is supposed to accomplish, besides memeing/preaching to the choir. Cheers.

Don't forget thank farming.

[HardboiledGargoyle]

opinions are like assholes: they keep you from becoming full of shit if they function right

[VeryAngryFelid]

Let me try to discuss suggestions I disagree with.

Imbalanced weapon/ elemental attributes should be flattened (mf te ho etc).

It is a nice way to change difficulty as long as crawl does not provide explicit difficulty settings. Want easy game? Use polearms as Mf. Want hard game? Use axes or staves as Mf.

Demonic guardian should be made into an active ability, then removed because it overlaps w/ makhleb.

Demonic guardian is nice when you get high level mutation early enough. Feels almost like Help god.

Airstrike/shatter should do = damage to all enemies/players.

Airstrike is fine both for player (I got to 1 HP as flying Tengu above lava) and for monsters (it is fun to deal high damage). Shatter would be OP without less damage to flying monsters and I wouldn't like its damage decreased for non-flying monsters.

Entropy weavers shouldnt exist. Poison is not a good status effect, for players or monsters

Entropy weavers + spiders is an amazing combo, one of the best groups devs created. You want to retreat from weavers to lure it to stairs (using stairs alone to remove corrosion and then either kill the weaver near stairs or even lure it upstairs) but spiders are fast, they poison you and you cannot just run away. Also they have relatively high EV so penalty to accuracy from corrosion makes it much harder to hit them.

There should be no limit to spellpower enhancers, or a max of 1.

I like max 3 more. It keeps staff, archmagi and ring of ice/fire useful while making fire/ice distinct from earth/air.

Maurice is bad.

I used to think the same way until one game where it took my wand of teleportation and I had to run away because of other monsters. It should spawn with dangerous group of monsters IMHO.

There should be one type of permafood, which takes one turn to consume (while food is still in the game).

I agree about one type of permafood but it should take 10 turns to eat and it cannot be eaten with hostile monsters in view. Make food tactically relevant!

[Shtopit]

Journalists are very important to make it so that people can have opinions without developing their own thoughts. (S.A. Kierkegaard, paraphrased)

I agree about Maurice and trees.

I also think that there are too many gods that give long-lasting allies. (I hate playing with allies).

[archaeo]

my opinion: I actually love allies and summoners and necromancers and ally gods, all of which are in a better place in 0.19 than they've ever been (though Beogh and Ne both need some work still imo).

[duvessa]

my opinion: your opinions are BAD and wrong

[tabstorm]

When you fight Maurice so you drop your teleport scrolls on the ground to floor-read them in the event of the fight going south due to him having a wand or something, in the spirit of 0.13.

[VeryAngryFelid]

When you fight Maurice so you drop your teleport scrolls on the ground to floor-read them in the event of the fight going south due to him having a wand or something, in the spirit of 0.13.

that's easy to fix: you should not be able to use floor items which you dropped unless you have no monsters in view.

[tabstorm]

Or... just don't have Maurice in the game so there's no need for a special case of the floor-use mechanic to prevent annoying behavior.

[Doesnt]

is it still optimal to lug around a bunch of crap weapons to fill your inventory with useless things for maurice to steal instead of things you actually care about

[HardboiledGargoyle]

reflavor Maurice into a pervert who just removes your worn equipment but it stays in your inventory, and to restrict using him to your advantage, he can't use stairs because of house arrest

[jwoodward48ss]

"Drop your consumables before fighting Maurice"

That actually won't work, unless you're committed to never moving an inch. Maurice can pick up items that you've seen, the cheating bastard.

FR: Give Maurice the "Blink Other" spell.
or
FR: Let Maurice steal from under your feet.

Problem solved!