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I never played World of Tanks outside of the lowest tiers (and even that only for a few days) and have only played low tier games here, but one thought I have is that the advantage that WoT gave to defenders was that they could hide and generally achieve the element of surprise, whereas in this game no such advantage exists, causing most matches to have no defenders.

I don't have a ton of experience on this topic admittedly, but the one time I got a caster deep into the game, I had almost completely run out of food and was eating kill to kill, with maybe 1-3 reserve rations at any given time. It was a combination of not knowing spells caused hunger (and thus spamming spells all the time rather than using a bit of melee) and resting for egregiously long stretches. So in the absence of any hunger-helping items/branches, I assume I'll have to adjust my play slightly to get through the game as a caster. That doesn't strike me as pointless mechanic.

On my early melee characters when I didn't realize hunger could become an issue (since it so rarely is in games) and I didn't carve up many corpses, I would run low on food then too. I learned to carve corpses for food, which is a similar action to praying over corpses for piety. Get used to doing one and you're used to doing both.

How many rations you carry versus how many you leave in your stash is a part of the inventory management game too.

Every time someone has an extended victory in less time than it takes me to win with three runes, a small part of me cries.

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Grats on the 15-er Antioch!

There are a lot of painful mistakes to be learned in the Level 10-14 range. In my limited experience it was probably the most difficult part of the 3-rune victory game.

Woot! My first ever ascension. And in the first game of the tournament no less. I have been playing as MiFi off and on for the better part of six months, and have been getting closer and closer to a win lately. I knew it was only a matter of time, since the learning curve on MiFi is a steady and relatively quick process.

http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/datgum/morgue-datgum-20130518-015850.txt

I have never played a single player roguelike before, and I'm surprised that I've developed a healthy part-time addiction to this game. It's a little disappointing that I've only started playing DCSS after it was already "solved" on a basic level. The satisfaction of winning a basic 3-runer at this point is modest imo. It didn't take much to look at how other winning MiFi's skilled up and the order they did branches in, and copy them.

Not sure how much farther I will dive into the game, as far as testing out more challenging combos. At some point I will definitely try to do a 15-runer as a MiFi - I felt like I could've gone farther in this run. I chickened out basically. Now I understand when and why to make the transition from Oka to TSO (I didn't even realize TSO could net you rN+++, for example), the importance of certain item types (resist mutation, conservation) how to better conserve potions and scrolls, how to reduce the number of turns I use, stuff like that. The next step is to get familiar with the extended branches, die some painful deaths, and take things to the next level!

Alternatively, everyone else in the thread has about 32 hours to form another clan...

I created the Bay12 Sleepyheads clan for any other late-comers that want on a team. I believe there is about 24 hours left to signup, by adding the following to your .rc file:

# TEAMCAPTAIN datgum

I'm not sure if the clan will show up on the leaderboard until someone joins, since my first game of the tournament is still in-progress.