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From: flinn@seismo.UUCP (E. A. Flinn)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Questions & Comments
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Date: Wed, 28-Mar-84 18:13:08 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 28 18:13:08 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Mar-84 01:07:22 EST
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A couple of questions about version 5.2:

(1)  It matters a great deal whether or not you're wielding a bow when
you throw an arrow:  is this also true of darts?

(2)  When you have read a scroll of monster confusion, is it true that
the monster becomes confused only after you have exchanged blows with
him/her?

And a couple of observations:

(a)  If there is an area of the screen you can only get to by searching
for hidden doors, and there are several rooms in which a door might be,
it seems to occur on the shortest available side about 2/3 of the
time.

(b)  In mazes, searching for continuations with 9s works just as well
as 20s (a flaw in Rogomatic, which also pounds away at what are
obviously dead ends, and sometimes misses segments of mazes).  There
are hardly ever dead-end segments of mazes with an odd number of #'s in
them.