00:30:57 Fork (bcrawl) on crawl.kelbi.org updated to: 0.23-a0-4635-gd11b0deb9c 03:22:52 Experimental (bcrawl) branch on underhound.eu updated to: 0.23-a0-4635-gd11b0deb9c 05:07:31 Unstable branch on crawl.akrasiac.org updated to: 0.29-a0-341-g24ffce5 (34) 10:23:01 Hello everyone! I know most people are busy but the other day PleasingFungus was expressing that the current state of Ozo's Fridge isn't ... I'll say pleasing, so I started thinking of some ideas to tweak it to make it more unique: 10:23:01 It seems like PF's main issue with the spell as current is it’s too easy to just freely “press button to win” kinda situation. So I was thinking about how to make it more unique and less “press to win” while retaining being a full screen AoE: most other spell schools have a charge attack and Ice does not. Flame wave/Searing Ray/MCC would 10:23:02 be the examples. What if Fridge was converted to a channel, and while retaining full LOS but the damage scaling was changed so that it increased in damage as it “drains heat from the room” (taking turns to charge). To make it even more interesting I think that you could mess with how the -Potion worked. 10:23:02 The basic idea I had to encourage unique play is a (warning, I’m just spit-balling and not sure what final balance should/would look like) 3-turn charge, first turn is 50% of current Fridge Dmg, second is 80%, third is 150% current, but also finishing the charge activates -Pot as well as maybe even acting like a turn of Metabolic Englaciation, 10:23:03 potentially slowing everything susceptible on screen. Or some kind of big bang of an ending. 10:23:03 This will still allow people to put out some damage that’s weaker before they realize “oh shit, I need to use a pot” so people can stop charging to avoid it, but then the damage never really pays off since it now takes 2 turns to do slightly more than 1 previous turn of Fridge's damage and you can't move. Another idea I had was possibly 10:23:04 applying the Frozen status to everything in LOS on the final charge (player included), not sure if that would also come with -Pot etc. but it seemed potentially worse to have a short slow than -Pot, and even worse to have both! (also, players can handle it so ... yeah) 10:23:04 I know it’s not a perfect idea, but I thought I might be able to put some unique seeds up in your brain 😊 I hope all is well with you and your family! Thanks for all the work you do. 10:29:04 Glad I wasn't the only one who felt that way about Ozo's. Was meaning to bring it up but kept forgetting. 11:32:21 03gammafunk02 07* 0.29-a0-342-g5774675: fix: Clean up DES syntax 10(33 minutes ago, 1 file, 2+ 2-) 13https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/5774675eae68 11:32:21 03gammafunk02 07* 0.29-a0-343-g3af9d58: feat: Simplify chances for special rooms 10(33 minutes ago, 1 file, 1+ 1-) 13https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/3af9d588a417 11:32:21 03gammafunk02 07* 0.29-a0-344-ge2f44be: feat: Rebalance the slime special room 10(16 minutes ago, 1 file, 13+ 16-) 13https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/e2f44be95a14 11:47:18 Unstable branch on crawl.kelbi.org updated to: 0.29-a0-344-ge2f44be95a (34) 15:23:54 Unstable branch on underhound.eu updated to: 0.29-a0-344-ge2f44be95a (34) 23:21:45 Unstable branch on cbro.berotato.org updated to: 0.29-a0-344-ge2f44be95a (34)