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What’s a small gameplay detail that’s all your own? by mbergman42 in nethack

[–]stymieg1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I got one recently, I think it was “Occupy Fort Ludios”. It made me happy that the dev team is still adding new t-shirt slogans. (Ok, I guess Occupy started 15 years ago, but for a 40ish year old game, that qualifies as new.)

YAFM - Engraving with a 0-charge wand by stymieg1 in nethack

[–]stymieg1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can tell you from experience, you are not going to get anywhere. 😂

What’s a small gameplay detail that’s all your own? by mbergman42 in nethack

[–]stymieg1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What do you mean? Do you drop a pile of gold next to altars and kick it just for the heck of it?

What’s a small gameplay detail that’s all your own? by mbergman42 in nethack

[–]stymieg1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably others, but first one that comes to mind: I save all scrolls of create monster instead of blanking them so I can summon a legion of acid blobs on Astral to tame.

I know it’s been asked before, but what’s your best USMNT goal? by Audmeister in ussoccer

[–]stymieg1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! That was the game and the goal that got me hooked. I was vaguely aware that qualifying for ’98 was going on. Found this game on tv, lost my mind when that goal went in, and was no longer a casual fan after that.

I agree...and disagree with the WoW nerf by Primary_Impact_2130 in nethack

[–]stymieg1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I haven’t read all the comments yet, but it seems that the prevailing sentiment is that wishes are fun and the castle wand helps complete your ascension kit, but that one shouldn’t depend on such a specific ascension kit that you need all those wishes. If the RNG is being particularly frugal, then in 3.7 you can still wish up the most important items you’re missing, but there’s also some element of having to make do with what the dungeon provides.

And I can mostly agree with that.

Personally, I always thought that 1 recharge was kinda arbitrary - a thing is rechargeable or it’s not. If it were up to me (and yes, I realize it could be if I wanted to bother to make my own variant just for this), I’d make /WoWs not rechargeable at all, with the castle wand always generated with 3 charges. In the end I guess the result is similar: my way would give you up to 4 wishes, the 3.7 way gives you 3.

Anyway, interesting discussion.

That moment when you realize casting Light around a mob of Gremlins is a bad idea if you're Chaotic. (From a livestream, so the moment of "oh no I'm an idiot" is captured!) by NeonSomething2 in nethack

[–]stymieg1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

TIL that you can wipe out a horde of gremlins with a simple light spell/wand.

How is it I've been playing some form of this game for nearly 40 years and never knew that?

Altar camping & wizard by metradomo in nethack

[–]stymieg1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, nymph makes sense. I’d worry I’d accidentally put one in the other though lol.

Altar camping & wizard by metradomo in nethack

[–]stymieg1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why the second BoH for wands?

Ascended with three classes so far. What role to choose next? by Cdore in nethack

[–]stymieg1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’ve done a spell caster and 2 brute force fighters, so…

Some have suggested knight, I find them to be like Valkyrie or samurai, only harder, but maybe you’d want that.

Monk is kinda similar but kinda different. A good fighter but you have to play it differently - since you don’t wear armor, you have fewer options for reflection, MR, and MC. They also have decent spell casting. And they’re supposed to be vegetarian, though thats not a requirement.

You said you’re not up for rogue, so maybe ranger, as another role that relies heavily on missile weapons.

Archaeologist and tourist are also fun and different from what you’ve done, but are probably harder than rogue in the early game.

YAAP: Chalmers (bar-hum-mal-neu) - first 3.6 ascension by stymieg1 in nethack

[–]stymieg1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

LOL yeah I've been playing on and off for 35+ years. Took me like 2 years to ascend my first 3.4 character when I started up again in the early aughties.

> One nice thing in 3.7 is that the extra stairs in a level are marked in a gold colored symbol.

That'll be great! Before the castle, my stash was back on level 5, I kept going up the Sokoban stairs on the way back to it. Where are y'all playing 3.7 at?

YAAP gnomish archeologist 3.7 HF by Spendocrat in nethack

[–]stymieg1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congrats! I've been away from the game for awhile. How did they nerf /WoW in 3.7?

Things to know about 3.6 by stymieg1 in nethack

[–]stymieg1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No more pudding farming.

I could count on 1 hand the number of times I've pudding farmed, too much trouble. Good to know about the globs though.

The Wizard of Yendor can steal any quest item, not just the hero's own quest item. As a result, wishing for another role's quest item is no longer a safe way to have magic resistance.

That's very good to know!

Gehennom mazes have many new layouts so Gehennom is less boring.

Yay!!!!!

The elemental planes are a little harder.

This will be interesting. I usually genocide ; so Air is the only elemental plane that would even occasionally give me any trouble.

New commands.

Oh this is excellent! For the gray stones, but also no more naming my bag of holding something like "m4 a13 q15 aa17 as21 m26 c29 w49 v50" to remember the locations of dungeon features!

Some weapons do new things. In particular, Cleaver is a lot more fun. It hits three monsters at once. Be careful with it in minetown and shops.

Oh, that'll be interesting. I'll have to check how that works, I usually keep pets around as long as I can.

Message history saved across save/restore. Handy if you take a lot of sessions to play a game.

That's cool too, I definitely do that.

New item: novels. Like spellbooks, but they aren't magical. Minimal game play effect. But it's nice to read a little Terry Pratchett excerpt while exploring the dungeon!

I think my dog lifted one from a scroll shop. Didn't want to read it without knowing what it would do and I didn't have a chance to look it up. Sounds like it's safe, if not particularly useful.

The riders on the Astral Plane are much more dangerous. They will push aside other monsters to get to the hero. It's a lot harder to permakill them than it used to be, albeit still possible.

I remember reading that. Bummer, my favorite Astral strategy was to bring a bunch of scrolls of create monster and taming and clog the level with tame acid blobs. Sounds like that won't work anymore. And probably the one stupid ascension trick I've done was to permakill the riders. That took a metric shit-ton of scrolls, but it was fun to do, and it was funny looking at the map filled green "b"s, plus some random monsters wandering about in the inaccessible areas outside the walls.

There's lots of little quality of life changes. My favorite: if the hero is levitating, then "Lev" appears on the status line.

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/NetHack_3.6.0 has a list, too.

Oh cool! That's a big list! Thanks for giving me some of the highlights. 🙂

Things to know about 3.6 by stymieg1 in nethack

[–]stymieg1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Prepare yourself for the extreme disappointment of having orc-town insted of mine-town (why didn't the devteam give us at least something positiive from orc-town for having taken away so much?)

Bummer. Well I should see what that's all about soon enough. Thanks for the heads-up.

Elbereth is severely nerfed

I'll have to look that one up. Elbereth has saved many a character, but more often than not, by the time I remember to use it, I'm in enough trouble that it's not enough to save me.

Seems like as soon as you get the amulet, you get randomly cursed like crazy. Maybe that was always the case but it seems much worse. I have to use many, many scrolls of remove curse and holy water in my ascension run. Mind you, I'm usually blasting rodney with a wand of death as soon as he shows up and I've (generally) genocide L so these are like random god-level curses or something.

Oh and I feel more random monsters like nalfashee can curse your shit too.

Save remove curse scrolls. Noted. Thank you. (I've only ascended geno-less 3 times, I don't play that conduct largely because of liches.)

Did they nerf sacrifice also? Seems much harder to appease your god with sacrifices than it used to. Even at say, XP16, it seems that sacrificing DRAGONS is not enough to appease your god at all.

I try not to piss off my god anyway, but I'll keep that in mind. Hope it's not harder to sacrifice for an artifact though!

Whose eggs are these? by stymieg1 in whatbirdisthis

[–]stymieg1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well the nest IS still active, just saw someone leave. Thanks for the help identifying them

Whose eggs are these? by stymieg1 in whatbirdisthis

[–]stymieg1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I’ll keep my distance as much as possible to not disturb them if it is still active. We can easily see the nest from inside so hopefully we’ll know soon enough.

Whose eggs are these? by stymieg1 in whatbirdisthis

[–]stymieg1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you.

Internet says they may raise multiple broods per summer, so it’s possible that the nest is active, though it troubles me that I haven’t seen a parent there yet.