Blondbeard
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In Wonderquest when you hover over a monster or an object with your mouse cursor you will get a short information about how the monster moves, or how the object behaves. I think this might be very useful to implement in DROD, since the latest Ilumination tells us that the numbers of monsters will just continue to rise

Syntax
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Nice idea. I don't use the mouse, but the mention of the word "RPG" in the illumination would work well with this concept.

NiroZ
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Yeah, I like this idea.

Another thing you could do with it is display on that monster what it's priority in the movement order is, thus making those 'fit the roaches into a shape' puzzles much easier.

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File: stanley.jpeg (119 KB)
Downloaded 272 times.
License: Public Domain

Sorry, I just couldn't resist...

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Chaco
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Just out of interest, what room is that image from, if it's from a published hold?

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Maurog
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I can assure you, it's 100% fake.

No roaches were harmed during the production of this screenshot.

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... you should've entered that in the interface contest. (With appropriate modifications, of course)

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Man, that's a good April Fool's image.

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It cost almost half my available points to mod this up from +9 to +10, but oh it felt worth it. Just for the name "Stanley", I tell you.

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Oh, gods. It's like DROD, Final Fantasy and half the roguelikes in existence got together and had a bastard love child.

I don't care if it costs me 7 mod points, you're getting another rank-up.

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Mod-Ups around the board!

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DGM
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Sillyman wrote:
Mod-Ups around the board!

How can you afford to throw all those points around when you're only at 40 rank points yourself?

Oh, well. I guess it's only fair that you get one too, so here.

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I got a mod point dumping.

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DGM
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Sillyman wrote:
I got a mod point dumping.

A what now? I am puzzled and intrigued and wish to learn more of what you speak.

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When the admins decide to add more mod points to the economy for some reason, they dump them on someone. I got them dumped on me because I couldn't afford mod points for The Invisible Rule, and I guessed the previous one correctly. I don't know why people in that thread complain about being out of mod points, all you need to do is ask Erik...

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I just spent 8 to bring it to unlucky 13.

Someone please spend another 8 and keep it from having bad karma.

DGM
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coppro wrote:
I just spent 8 to bring it to unlucky 13.

Someone please spend another 8 and keep it from having bad karma.

You gotta give Maurog props here. My highest-ranked post ever was only +10, and that took a week and 8 versions of The Dungeon. Maurog just blew past me in a matter of hours with a single mock screenshot. I am undone.

For that, I give 8 more mod points in tribute.


EDIT: Can we make Stanley the Dungeon Roach the official DROD mascot?

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Sillyman wrote:
When the admins decide to add more mod points to the economy for some reason, they dump them on someone.

That makes sense. Since it costs at least 2 mod points to rank someone and you only get 1 mod point per rank-up, I knew the extra mod points had to be coming from somewhere. I just figured it was coming through contest winners.

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Maurog wrote:
Sorry, I just couldn't resist...

This is not the greatest post in the world.

But it is a tribute.

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The post now takes 9 to mod it up...

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Jason wrote:
The post now takes 9 to mod it up...

Oh, come on, it at least deserves to charge 10.

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People are going through mod points like candy, here. Every post in the thread (aside from Maurog's instant classic) just got bumped up to +2. And I don't see Sillyman online.

So who do I have to thank for my sudden promotion to Master Delver?

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Checks points next to each post. Someone's got mod points to burn.

EDIT: Ouch, BGM beat me to it.

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I suggest that Blondbeard rename the thread "Mod point dispenser"...

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Briareos wrote:
I suggest that Blondbeard rename the thread "Mod point dispenser"...

...So everybody and their grandmother knows to start spamming the thread with as many posts as possible in the hopes that the rank point fairy (or whoever's doing this) will mod them up, right?

Although, I am suddenly curious as to what thread in all the forums has had the most mod points thrown around in it.

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My money is on that thread with the -127. Of course, that one was fueled with mod-mod points, not regular mod points. Still.

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Alneyan wrote:
My money is on that thread with the -127. Of course, that one was fueled with mod-mod points, not regular mod points. Still.

Oooo, wait... Is there a way to search for that sort of thing? Rank/mod points by thread, I mean?

If not, what was the name of that thread?

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DGM wrote:

Alneyan wrote:
My money is on that thread with the -127. Of course, that one was fueled with mod-mod points, not regular mod points. Still.

Oooo, wait... Is there a way to search for that sort of thing? Rank/mod points by thread, I mean?

If not, what was the name of that thread?

Nar, you can't search for rankpoints.
BTW, its -128

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NiroZ wrote:
BTW, its -128

Heh. Time to save up mod points and start modding up that post...

I keed, I keed...

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Briareos wrote:
I suggest that Blondbeard rename the thread "Mod point dispenser"...

That would obviously be a good idea. I wonder what scan would reveal if cast on Beethro .