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From: bwm@ccice2.UUCP (Brad Miller)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: digestion ...
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Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 12:48:36 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 14 12:48:36 1984
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> >	From: jss@dicomed.UUCP (John Salmi)
> 
> >	I'll make this short and sweet - does running (as opposed to
> >	walking) tend to speed up digestion ?   I've found that the
> >	rogue gets hungry more often when running (now, you are probably
> >	going to say "Of course, you are moving faster, thus burning
> >	up your food faster", but I'm not that dense.) Anybody got any answers?
> 
> It is strange; I get the same feeling, and yet a perusal
> of the source shows that no such effect can occur (rogue 3.6).
> I suspect it is the fact that the game goes runs faster.
> 
> 					 Jim Davis (James W Davis)

Running and searching use up 1 extra 'food point' each time you do the command.
Thus walking 1 square uses 1 fp, and running 1 sq (into a wall) would use 2.
Running long distances the %age is very low, however.

Brad Miller

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