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Current lessons in animal ignition: Sheep do not drop wool when set on fire, nor when they burn to death. Chickens can apparently lay eggs while immolated. Cows do not seem more or less prone to dropping skin when flambe'd. Pig meat is not pre-cooked when its generation is heat-induced.

Setting animals on fire is a decent way to pass peaceful nights.

Jumped in, played for a bit of a round, then tried to pilot off a heavy transport and... something. Not sure if the server crashed or something went wonky on my end, but now trying to join's giving me some jibberish about a 'man in the middle' attack and not letting me connect.

Wish I had been awake when th'thing came up so I could'a played more

Depends on what you want to do 'em

The boxer may or may not want some dex and mag, but it'll likely be mostly str. If you're planning on using the mach/sonic gloves, go with nothing but strength. If you're using anything else, enough dex to at-least-half attack delay (preferably have it hit the absolute min of 5-10) and enough mag to proc the weapon effect regularly will also be needed.

The priest will probably want nothing but strength; str determines their attack aura, dex their defense, and mag increases range (and maybe damage), but range is probably pointless because the better staves have huge range anyway.

The snipers have to choose based on what bow they want to end up using; if it's got a magic effect, they'll want some mag. The snipers will probably want to have mostly dex, which increases damage for them, but strength increases range; if you're planning on having one or both focus on outranging the enemies, they'll want to have a good deal of strength, too.

I'd suggest checking out the wiki's guides. The site's occasionally kinda' wonky for me, but most wikia sites seem temperamental when you turn off things like javascript

Yeah, the eventual setup's vamp and onigiri on a pure str boxer. Sonic knuckle + strength boosted pure str priest = really freaking hard to kill.

You can get further with triple anything + priest than you will with quad anything. Around 34 str, a priest starts giving you a >100% total party damage boost, which means it's adding more damage than a third critter would. Solid investment.

EDIT: Though getting the onigiri card is another story. I now have four five six seven eight nine ten eleven vamp 1 cards and 0 one onigiri

Some next-gen RPG totally needs to have a character/class that heals the party by beating health out of the opposing side. Watching an onigiri boxer wade into, say, the lake level is pretty bloody awesome.

S'nice to be able to see the numbers on the enemy's life bars, though. About the only thing useful it does, unfortunately.

The costs on books are flipping ridiculous. Having numbers on the life bar is seriously not worth it

That being said, there's not terribly much worth while to do with cash, from what I've seen. Shop bought weapons aren't really worth it. I guess the compo item shops might be useful occasionally... but, iirc, by the time you get to the compo shop you're already picking up second+ tier compo items, making the shop mostly useless (Except for a stop-gap thing until you can grind up the better ones, I guess.).  So there's no real reason not to spend the cash, really. Might as well spend it on some numbers.

DOUBLEPOSTPREVENTIONEDIT: Finally got vampire card + sonic punch. Boxer is, at last, a fully functioning member of the party instead of the dangling stick-puppet I use to draw fire. Takes so freaking long to get that bloody card

For those wondering what the vampire card entails, my boxer is now basically soloing the entire castle gate stage. Before, he could barely survive wading through one or two screens*.

*When I actually let him fight instead of dangling him upside down over the hordes of grey walkers and spinny things, rendering 90% of the stage impotent vs sniper fire.

http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=List_of_roguelikes_by_name 

Obviously, you could try checking out the curses stuff here on Bay12. There's at least one neat thing there, heh, some kinda' RTS-type whazdoodle I don't remember the name of.

There's more stuff out there, but, to be honest, there doesn't seem to be much quality ASCII work outside the roguelike arena. I've noticed some shooter games that seemed alright, but that was about it, at least from the last decade.

There's quite a bit of full-text (if not necessarily ASCII; ANSI and junk, etc.) stuff when you go further back, though, to the DOS-and-earlier era. Good luck finding the good stuff from there, though; to borrow a quote from who-knows-where, looking for a good game in that mess is "like looking for a needle in a needle stack, only the whole thing's covered in [crap] and everything is on fire."

What's it like? Base management sounds like something I could do and not get shot to pieces quite so often

That... would probably be a lot easier. Will have to clean up this mess then re-floor it with something, try again. Trying to start from the bottom got me a one-tile deep stillwater pond and... a lot of little waterfalls not really doing anything along the side of the intended pond area.

I did notice that notch is using some kind of bastardized version of the Game of Life rules to determine flow behavior, though. That was neat, if a little odd.