Hm, this is true (although I wouldn't say it's worth keeping the spell just because there's other ways to do the same abuse). One solution that was suggested on IRC was to make mutagenic corpses undistillable entirely (they're too mutated/glowy/whatever), and/or make mutagenic corpses drop far less often. You could still scum with mutagenic chunks though, just not build up a stockpile of potions. Would that be a suitable fix to make it harder to scum mutations?
-MarvinPA On 18/02/2011 12:43, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 06:38:07AM +0100, crawl-ref-disc...@ml.develz.org > wrote: >> commit d56e90d92889ffad74a5ca2ba44963c816a7bad8 >> Author: Chris Campbell<chriscampbel...@gmail.com> >> Date: Fri Feb 18 05:05:04 2011 +0000 >> >> Remove Alter Self >> >> Since it's only good for scumming. > I am afraid this greatly increases the problems with potions of mutation. > Smart play means that, to have a way out of a nasty mutation set in the > future, you should distill every single mutagenic corpse you see, since the > supply of them, while very plentiful (~50 during a game) dries out before > you go to neqoxec-heavy branches. > > This is tedious and thus not many people do that, but it brings significant > safety for 15-runers. Potions of cure mutation spawn so rarely there's > little hope to get rid of a specific debilitating mutation. Alter Self > provided another way out, its removal encourages distilling everything. > Everyone but Troglodytes can do that, too. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Crawl-ref-discuss mailing list Crawl-ref-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss
