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From: levy@fisher.UUCP (Silvio Levy)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: Winning BIG (spoiler for total winners)
Message-ID: <196@fisher.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Jul-84 16:52:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: fisher.196
Posted: Wed Jul 11 16:52:48 1984
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On the subject of winning big, it must be said that the game gets a bore.
In particular, after shuttling between level 26 and level 1 for two or three
times, you start finding *nothing useful!*  I don't know why that is, but
it happens consistently with me (and I've won enough times that I know what
I'm talking about).  Very few things are useful anyway -- basically enchant
weapon, armor and raise level.  The latter can be dangerous, as there is
nothing above experience level 21 -- you get back to exp. level 1, but your
hit points are *unchanged*.  So, if you have, say, 100 HP, and 1 experience
point (appropriate for experience level 1), the next big monster you kill is 
going to send you to experience level 5 or 6 -- and more than likely your
HP are going to increase past 127, i.e. they become negative.  (Of course,
if you were not careful enough to offer yourself to vampires a couple of
times before, this probably happened long ago.)  Next thing you know you
fall into an arrow trap (since no monsters can hit you) and you're dead.

If it doesn't screw you one way, it screws you the other...

Also, in my version 5.2 the scoreboard puts you in the first line, but with
your gold score modulo 2^19 -- so your 100k gold points may be registered as
500 or some such random number...