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From: jona@clyde.UUCP (Jon Allingham)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Hack comments + questions (SPOILER)
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Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 07:45:53 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 23 07:45:53 1985
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> In article <3@gitpyr.UUCP> robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya) writes:
> >> And once on a deep level I quaffed monster detection and saw a segment
> >> of the dungeon absolutely congested with monsters 
> >Monster congestion like that is called a 'zoo'. I think some machine-run
> >person in the dungeon named 'David' handles all the zoos.
>
> Unless your friendly implementor changes the code, only login id's called
> "david" ever see treasure zoos.

This is not exactly correct. I know that when playing as wizard
( -w option ) there are treasure zoos. 

What happens is the wizard gets a zoo part of the time, and a shop
( for normal players ) is determined by:
	if( level > 1 && level < 20 && rn2( level ) < 2 ) mkshop();

It's sort of a pity that normal people don't see treasure zoo's, maybe
the code should be changed to give a ( very ) small chance of getting
one -- of course you wouldn't live through one unless you were pretty
good since you get hit from 3 sides when standing in a doorway. With
a ring of conflict you might just make it though.
-- 
Jon M. Allingham	(201)386-3466	AT&T Bell Laboratories-WH

"Beam me up Scotty, no intelligent life down here!"