Mines Malingerer
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Joined: Saturday, 13th August 2011, 14:21
Tiles: Change demon tier icons to general threat level
I did some digging, and it seems like the demon tier icons (tile_show_demon_tier = true) were created to help users identify the threat level of all the various demons you can encounter. (Source: https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:tiles:tiles_interface#indicate_demon_difficulty )
That's all well and good, but it seems oddly specific to have such an option just for demons. Why not broaden this to all monsters? This would give a much needed visible threat level to offline tiles. Currently there's no indication other than xv'ing every monster. Online tiles has the color-coded monster list, but I could see some peoples using this option as well for better situational awareness.
Proposal: new option - tile_show_threat_level (default: false)
I based these on Ash's sensed monster tiles. Feel free to use if this idea gets support.
Edit: Tweaked the icons a bit for better clarity.
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