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An interesting game, glad this topic motivated me to finally try it. Wish there was a little variety in what you start with, though.

Anyone know of any other roguelikes which control this well with a mouse? Ever since I saw the Amiga/Atari ST versions of Rogue, I've felt unable to approach roguelikes without mouse support.

(I suppose there's TOME, which has pretty nice mouse/keyboard support, but I have weird hang-ups when it comes to that game that I don't want to get into)

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On floor 4, I have two monkeys and a goblin acting as my ally.

I'm going to move on to trying Stone Soup now, because I have clearly won Brogue.

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despite winning I returned to this game.
what kind of jerk roguelike makes an allied monster hostile when you polymorph it

also I wonder why this computer thinks Stone Soup is substantially more intensive than Brogue.

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I can't believe it didn't sink in that it's a full 26 levels until I read Tulpa's post. I suppose it was willful ignorance. I was under the impression that it was in the mid-teens to clear the game, with the kind of enemies you run into at the lowest levels from a much wider pool of monsters. I don't think I'll ever get anywhere near that - by level 8 or 9 I can't help but search every few steps because traps, and I never explore efficiently.

I wish I knew enough about the relevant stuff to know more about how this game generates packs of enemies. I suppose I just need to keep using potions of telepathy, but are some monster packs spawned that way (like a group of sleeping jackals or wandering monkeys or a little party of goblins). Do any other roguelikes do that?

also I need to stop using wands of plenty on ogres. They look cool bunched up like that but they keep setting off and dying from poison gas traps.

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Sometimes it's useful to equip a weapon somewhat heavier than recommended, such as an axe or spear when facing a crowd of enemies (or a jelly). Identified, useful magical side effects are are another reason.
That said, does anyone bother to use maces/war hammers? I usually just throw them at enemies.

I've used repeat dungeon a few times to see how far autopilot got without my help. You know, as an ego massage.

Most of my ideas about this game at this point somewhat hinge on how out of depth monsters at tweaked, since that's usually my biggest problem (that and poor decisions, of course). If I had any initiative, I'd mess with the source and play with some ideas I have, since the core game is so simple and the interface so nice, but I don't so....

(ex: a mod to replace wands with seeds, which when planted can turn into trees that produce mangos, common grass seed that will spread like creeping death, flower fields that will cause enemies to sleep/start wandering if previously hunting, noxious flowers that will indiscriminately belch out tiny poison gas clouds occasionally, spore plants that will repeatedly spawn weak nuisance enemies, etc)

(come to think of it, is there any enemy that swarms towards bloody tiles when they are present but prefers to feed off them if the player is far enough away? There should be. Dungeon sharks)

I do think certain factors besides a Ring of Awareness should cut down the number of turns it takes for a secret door to appear. I realize it wouldn't be a risk/reward thing if it always took one turn even while standing right next to it, and you can apparently detect them from several tiles away, but it'd be nice if you could find them in one turn if, say, you have seen them from both sides.

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Whoa dang and possibly what you dudes might consider spoilers:
http://i.imgur.com/GBAZ8.png
Wish I had noticed that print screen will dump a screenshot before now.

Can anyone speak to how clones generally act? I only just discovered them on my latest and by far greatest run, a ridiculous series of close calls that ended in a total mess on D:23 (after falling a level and ending up surrounded). I only discovered they existed when I was using a wand of plenty on my invisible golem, and I managed to make two clones of myself, a situation I didn't get to enjoy in any real way due to the sheer amount of hateful monstrosity that was raining down on me.

It's possible I could have extricated myself sometime in those last 100 turns (out of 21370, it seems), and I'm tempted to see if a comparison between some save files from other runs and the recording will yield some Frankenstein file I would only feel quasi-ashamed of scumming, but that little adventure burnt me out on the game for a bit.

Wow, the system for watching recordings is pretty sweet. Too bad the only rewind is manually selecting a turn.

btw, Mauve, thanks for the tip on equipping weapons above my strength level. It's seriously made combat a lot easier (aside from poor decisions, of course).

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1.6.3 has been released.
I haven't played it yet myself but here's the major highlights from the changelog:

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1.6.4 bugfix release:

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here's a poll for you guys: at D2, you find a treasure room with Rings of Regeneration, Transference and Wisdom. All register as positive magic. Assuming you don't want to waste at least one potential scroll of ID here (with scrolls unidentified), which would you choose?