Pakars

tl;dr: Walling off a section of the map completely disables respawns in the enclosed area. If you're getting zombie spawns in an area, it's not properly enclosed.

Five days ago, zephyrsails posted a project where they constructed a huge walled-off area in Louisville to attempt to end zombie spawning, and succeeded. After that, they showed us how to cheese the spawning mechanics in Louisville to significantly cut down on future zombie spawns. After a little bit of learning my way abo

After 15 hours, I achieved level 20 and made a run at the black dragon to get an idea of its hit values and how much more grinding I'm going to need to do to be able to beat it.

Yes, I've been doing my best to grind up "legit" without switching back to 2D mode on a save later in the game for "new game +". I've clearly gone mad.

With all of the best gear available from Heliodor and the Heliodor region, it's going to take a lot more grinding than a mere level 20. A lot more.

Notes:

The black dragon's stats are not the same as the black dragons seen later in the game. Its attack power is notably lower, at around ~140 or ~150 instead of 262. It's also got an absolutely atrocious agility st

After a few years of not playing DCSS, I came back last week and decided to actually go through with my original goal of completing a 15-rune win as a Mummy Wizard of Gozag on trunk-webtiles. I died. A lot.

Mostly to hubris, as I re-learned how to actually play carefully.

I actually learned a lot by splatting my mummy wizards about surviving scary situations(Potion petition early and often -- 200 to 700 gold for haste/might/brilliance/etc. is a steal), and only ended up in actual near-death twice on this game. Once on D:10 when I got fireballed by an efreet from out of LOS(it shot at one of my summons while I was backing off), and once in Swamp when I didn't respect a ghost crab enough - M

[Here's the dump file] (http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Pakars/Pakars.txt)

Pakars the Archmage (Deep Elf Wizard)             Turns: 154239, Time: 11:28:20

Health: 214/214    AC: 14    Str: 11    XL:     27
Magic:  53/56      EV: 31    Int: 47    God:    Vehumet [******]
Gold:   14462      SH: 30    Dex: 16    Spells: 11 memorised, 0 levels left

rFire  + + .     SeeInvis +     a - staff of energy
rCold  + + +     Clarity  +     f - +2 robe {rC+ rF+}
rNeg   + + +     SustAt   +     s - +8 large shield {rC+ rF+}
rPois  .         Gourm    .     J - +5 hat "Kuimitec" {MR+ Int+4}
rElec  +         Spirit   .     I - +0 cloak of the Villain {Int+5}

So, at $ISP, we've recently had a number of people calling in to our tech support because their internet hasn't been working...

For an hour.

...Once.

The worst kind of tech support calls, because you can't cause it to repeat itself.

For some background, we had just recently started our large switch-over to IPv6, and it was supposed to be seamless.

This caused a few people to scratch their heads because the problem solves itself, and when it's not working, both the customers and our agents are able to reach the modem, juuuust fine. They just can't use the internet. The IPv4 address is reading Active but Unused with a live lease, but our system is waiting for traffic from the active IPv6

After a little over a year of playing, and 5 months after my very first 3rune ascension(with a basic almost every month since), I've finally achieved my goal of completing extended with a caster.

Here's the paste: http://pastebin.com/L18C0Yir

Over all of this playing, I really learned a lot. It turns out that the early game is pretty forgiving, and someone that knows what they're doing should be able to reach Lair >95% of the time unless they're playing a really weak race/class combo.

I would like to thank all of the people that play on webtiles, because being able to watch them in the late game was an incredible help, especially for my troubles with the Abyss. Watching them also helpe

http://pastebin.com/1HmvF0k3

I have every resistance in the game available to me, and can max anything except sustain abilities with ease(both ring slots if I want 2x) without giving up too much of my other resistances.

I got here with relative ease, mostly due to finding an early rF+ and abusing the heck out of wands/mephitic/channel, then finding a fair number of artifacts that weren't complete garbage.

As you can see, I've spent all of my teleportation scrolls, so I bought a wand of teleportation and recharged it to 9. I used them all on fairly serious situations(Things like anacondas showing up on my retreat path while at low mana on Snake:5 after clearing the level except for the run

http://pastebin.com/z7jXmpmG

I ice stormed everything in vaults:5 to death because I wanted to train my skills more before I attempted Zot, and I'm glad I did.

I ended up with 4 runes.

I never found any kind of resist mutation, so the orbs of fire were extremely nasty(almost all of them mutated me every turn) -- I completed the game with 3 strength!

I ended up apporting the orb to the stairs up, then before I grabbed the orb, I went through all the levels and dug paths to the closest stairs. Having to walk only 5 spaces on most of the floors helped a heck of a lot on my ascension run, especially as nasty high-level demons showed up very quickly. I didn't bother fighting the pan lord that

http://pastebin.com/hVXUvdrE

Here is my most cautiously played DECj ever(incidentally, also the furthest I've reached in trunk -- It seems significantly harder than 0.12). I've gotten the swamp and spider runes, and I'm looking for some advice.

I've cleared most of the welcome party in V:5, but there's a shadow dragon, a shapeshifter(weak), a hell knight, a vault warden, and a yaktaur captain still there, as well as anything that may have shown up since I left the floor and went back to my stash. I have no idea if I should try and vaporize the shadow dragon and dash up the stairs or not(probably a really bad idea).

I've been having a really, really rough time finding resistances(still n