So about that new crafting dimension - Anyone Alpha Players on?

Well, the blockers in the room are sorta mismatched, so I am guessing it has something to do with them, which is plenty fine by me, can't we mod in more blockers?

 

OMG! MUST FILL WITH BLOCKERS! That is sooooo exciting!

 

Sadly no.

 

Here's a new little teaser for everyone:

That's right -- Conquest of the Wizardlands has skills you have to spend money on.

 

Nice, a good use for all those useless Zorkmids you build up towards the end of the game.

 

Yeah, now we'll have a reason to fish for crownstar annendums in all those fountains.

 

I'd assume that's in Bankster skill tree =3

Can anyone spoil the Communist though, I wonder what's all that about? >__<

 

Well it seems to mostly be a utility and buffing tree so far. It does have healthcare.

 

Wow...and just the other day I was brainstorming for my new mod and was like "MAN! I wish there was a way to charge money to cast this spell!"

 

"useless" zorkmids?
Maybe for us players, but for the character who beat Dredmor, they'll certainly have some value as a retirement fund.
OK, maybe that isn't even relevant to the matter at hand. That said I'm excited for Bankster since it offers new options in the way of spending money on your skills.

 

So more questions for you people in the Alpha

1.) When crafting Can you see the tooltip for the craftable item?
2.) Do buffs Get stack numbers yet?

 

1. Yes! We have tooltips in the crafting window now.
2. Yes, buffs have stack numbers now when you mouse over them, and a graphical representation, too, for a quick glance. It actually looks like stacked cards. Fun story: I had 1007 stacks of a spell one time. The graphical stacks went clear across the screen.

My character is not an honest person.

 

Hmm...

The way buff stacking will be displayed appears to be pretty fraudly. I mean, friendly...

 

Oh man that is sick! You make me so happy Glazed. I can't wait!
Does the white lines represent each stack then? Since some stacks have caps is there a different graphical representation of the current vs the Max?

 

Yes, each line is a stack beyond the first one. So, 10 stacks shows as the main icon plus 9 lines. As far as I know there's no indication of the max stack size.

Here's an example of 10 stacks:



And here's evidence of the crafting tooltip:

 

I took your word for it, but the pictures are greatly appreciated nonetheless.
I wonder if they will do something about overly stacked debuffs.

 

Most buffs/debuffs have limits, so you can only have a few copies of each. And of those without limits, more have some sort of duration, so it's really difficult to amass them. Unless the one he showed is a weird exception, you have to be actively trying to break it like that and be lucky, otherwise it's impossible to get a stack that numerable.

 

I'm not sure what you mean. Most buffs or debuffs don't stack very high in normal play. If you do manage to get 20 stacks of something it still won't even go past the second column of buffs.

I intentionally cast Insurance Fraud 1007 times as a test. (I used a mouse-click macro, so it was really only about 100 clicks of a keyboard button for me.)

 

So, how does the item tooltip in crafting handle artifacts that can get random stuff on them, like the Emerald Amulet, and uh, whatever else can spawn as a random artifact.