On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Eino Keskitalo <eino.keskit...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/12/21 David Ploog <dpl...@mi.fu-berlin.de>: >>> 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.
Elephants were introduced to provide an interesting threat for a Lair ending vault that was different to just the "eh, death yaks". Ergo, I am in favour of removing them from normal generation, or at least making them considerably more rare. Of course, removing plain elephants in favour of the dire and hellephant variants is also an option, but having plain elephants is okay too. However, it would be good if yaks weren't as similar to elephants, regardless of whether or not the latter are generated with regularity or limited purely to vaults. I'm not sure how this could be achieved. Finally, I am ambivalent regarding giving yaks trampling. I'll have to see how it plays to have any particular comment. -Jude ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
