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From: rick@sesame.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: "cheating" at hack
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 17:36:36 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 22 17:36:36 1985
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> This is in response to the guy who commits suicide on level 2 as
> a tourist and kills his ghost as a caveman.  Not a bad ploy.
> But....
> It does make the game a little boring.  My latest stratagy is to
> take a 'losing situation', that is, circumstances that my peers
> think couldn't win, and turn them into good scores.
> 	Ron Christian  (Watkins-Johnson Co.  San Jose, Calif.)

I've switched to this mode myself (I was the suicide poster).  You've
got to, in order to have any fun after having a total win.  I have
two changes I'd like to see, though:
1)	Kick dog.  Makes dog run away from you for some amount of moves.
	There's nothing I hate worse than walking down a dead end with
	three dogs following, and then trying to get the mutts to move
	out of the way so I can get out of the hall.  As often as not,
	I end up killing one or more of them in my frustration to get
	out.  Especially if I have tripe in my pack that I'd like
	to save as a special reward for a particular good monster kill.
2)	Some way to pick up stuff in the middle of a pile.  I find it
	a useless waste of time to have to unstack the neat piles
	of stuff a ghost leaves in order to get at something in the
	middle of the pile.
-- 
		Rick Richardson, PC Research, Inc.

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