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From: grady@fx.com (Steven Grady)
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Subject: Re: File players/default missing from MDG...
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.201422.15177@fxgrp.fx.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 20:14:22 GMT
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rosalia@max.physics.sunysb.edu (Mark Galassi) writes:

>In article <1991Feb20.174300.23010@coplex.uucp> dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks) writes:

>>   I created a blank default file, but it brings me into the game
>>with no hit-point, so I immediately die.  Anyone have this file?

>I still don't know exactly what the file format is, but the various
>numbers correspond to those you see in the "mdg_char" program.

By looking at the code, I came up with this default.  It's not very good,
but it works..:
--cut-here--

200
0 0 0 0 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10:10
5:5
0
[0/0]
3
0
0
al = 1
--cut-here--
Format:
	Name
	Gold
	[abilities in the 26 spells -- how much effort has been put
	 into learning each one]
	maxHP:HP
	maxSP:SP
	fightingAbility
	[startingSect/home]
	extraLives
	oldTime
	creationPoints
	al = alignment
Probably "fightingAbility" should be higher than 0, but I don't know a
good value..

I suspect with a real version of "default", this game could be fun, but I
don't have time to play-test to determine good values, and right now
the game is kind of boring. (I haven't found any objects or gold, and I die
before I can kill more than a rat or two..)
-- 
	Steven
	grady@fx.com
"Now it's time to say goodbye.  Please get off my property.  Until
next year!  I suggest you don't dawdle -- the hounds will be released
in 10 minutes."