ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I think I've come up with something here. Not a solution, but the two ways of implementing something that would work. 1) Monsters follow you up and down stairs. It's pretty obvious why this would solve the stair scumming issue, but it's a pretty major gameplay change. 2) Create a method for the game...

New idea: Going up and down stairs quickly causes you to stumble, resulting in Stun.

Edit: After more thought, Stun Resistance would have to be ignored as well.

There are lots of situation where new players will die where experienced players will not. If that was not the case, then the game would be much less interesting since there is little to learn. That new players die frequently is a class feature of roguelikes. There are many other situations beside ...

I'm not sure if these are bugs, but...

When the game saves, it takes a very long time, typically 3 or 4 minutes. I also experience game lag after playing for an extended period of time(2 hours maybe?). I'm running the current beta on a Windows XP PC with 1.5GB of ram.

Even if you only can abuse stair one time that is still an enormous advantage against bosses. You in effect get double the number of hit points and so on and can recuperate from all bad effects and reapply buffs after resting while the bosses remains exactly as before. Also, this method is "un...

Allowing stair abusing, say 3 times as you suggest, assuming this could controlled somehow, would still mean that the player using this would get 3 times as many resources in fights against bosses and can recuperate from all bad effects while resting and reapply buffs 3 times etc, which is an enorm...

I'm brand new to this game(but not to Roguelikes), so perhaps I can shed a slightly different light on the situation. I feel that many of the suggestions here really are falling into the "This is a Roguelike, make it HARDER" category. Most of the suggestions presented either hinder or remo...