Comments on: Play-testing: Alphabet Stone Soup! https://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/play-testing-alphabet-stone-soup Development live! Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:52:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Epitaph64 https://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/play-testing-alphabet-stone-soup/comment-page-1#comment-68 Epitaph64 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:15:14 +0000 http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/?p=296#comment-68 Thanks for all the hard work you guys put into this project. That's why it's the best roguelike still in development in my opinion! Thanks for all the hard work you guys put into this project. That’s why it’s the best roguelike still in development in my opinion!

]]> By: blinkfrog https://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/play-testing-alphabet-stone-soup/comment-page-1#comment-67 blinkfrog Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:18:45 +0000 http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/?p=296#comment-67 I don't know true reasons, but in last trunk builds it is harder to play by HECr. In 0.5.2 At least 50% of my characters were able to reach Lair, and now it is ~20%. May be it is due to AC/EV changes. And it seems long blades became more rare than before. In 0.5.2 there was approx. 15% chance (in my experience) to find long blade at D2 and even more at D3 and deeper. But now I played ~15 HECRs and earliest long blade that I found was at D7. Of course, it may be banal out of luck. I don’t know true reasons, but in last trunk builds it is harder to play by HECr. In 0.5.2 At least 50% of my characters were able to reach Lair, and now it is ~20%.
May be it is due to AC/EV changes. And it seems long blades became more rare than before. In 0.5.2 there was approx. 15% chance (in my experience) to find long blade at D2 and even more at D3 and deeper. But now I played ~15 HECRs and earliest long blade that I found was at D7. Of course, it may be banal out of luck.

]]> By: Timbermaw https://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/play-testing-alphabet-stone-soup/comment-page-1#comment-65 Timbermaw Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:27:11 +0000 http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/?p=296#comment-65 I kinda liked the random energy changes, but it looks silly at the moment: creatures suddenly move 1 square ahead and then 2 turns later they move back 1 square. It doesn't make much difference. A suggestion: make them only get +1 (or more) energy bonus (and slightly less chance of it happening), but after that turn they get some kind of post-action slow, so characters that successfully evade can run for the stairs. I just feel this feature is not being used at its' full potential right now. I kinda liked the random energy changes, but it looks silly at the moment: creatures suddenly move 1 square ahead and then 2 turns later they move back 1 square. It doesn’t make much difference.

A suggestion: make them only get +1 (or more) energy bonus (and slightly less chance of it happening), but after that turn they get some kind of post-action slow, so characters that successfully evade can run for the stairs.
I just feel this feature is not being used at its’ full potential right now.

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