> commit 44e93c5fb84afd4bbf14cc0eb7df4499e47fac2b > Author: Eino Keskitalo <evkt...@users.sourceforge.net> > Date: Sat Dec 18 23:51:46 2010 +0200 > > Trampling for yaks and death yaks. > > Increase the size of yaks (to BIG) and death yaks (to GIANT). Make > their attack trampling. > > I think the trampling is a great feature for yaks. They are the last of > the great archetypal boring monsters of Crawl (the others being slime > creatures and ugly things). Being pushed around by herds of yaks should > be good.
I am not convinced. With this change, why did we introduce elephants? Now, yak bands and elephant bands look awfully the same. > Also, since yaks are only BIG, the large species won't be pushed around > by them, which gives them a nice small perk. Could've also not increased > yak size, so that only small races would've been pushed around by > regular yaks, but I'd rather give the regular yaks something that is > visible against most character builds. I made a proposal on the wiki for yaks. In my opinion, we should build upon them living in herds, with common movement, sensing and stampede. > Now death yaks and elephants are similar again. I'm in favour of taking > out elephants from the normal generation again, but that's another > decision. It's ironic that yaks get the feature that was implemented to > differentiate elephants from them, but I really think it's spot on for > them and if it comes choosing between yaks and elephants, yaks are an > important part of Crawl legacy while the elephants are a new addition. I > mean, yaktaurs, maaan. We now have a three elephant castes. Elephants could also grab (constrict) opponents with their trunks. By the way, I sometime proposed extra damage when trampling does not work because you're standing at a wall. Something like +50%. If you're not about to be pushed around, feel the pain. David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester recently released a report on the Return on Investment (ROI) of Google Apps. They found a 300% ROI, 38%-56% cost savings, and break-even within 7 months. Over 3 million businesses have gone Google with Google Apps: an online email calendar, and document program that's accessible from your browser. Read the Forrester report: http://p.sf.net/sfu/googleapps-sfnew _______________________________________________ Crawl-ref-discuss mailing list Crawl-ref-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss
