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From: wws@whuxlm.UUCP (Stoll W William)
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Subject: Re: XP an gold.(And other obscurements)
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Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 13:19:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 22 13:19:06 1985
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> <Are you, or have you ever been a member of the Line Eater Fraternity?>
> 
> Hi there.
> 
> 	I'm a little disturbed by the fact that you don't get your
> 	XP's or your gold pieces shown on the screen on version
> 	1.0.2. I saw something about obscuring maxHP and Strength
> 	by using adjectives instead of numbers.
> 	Please, don't!
>
>	...
> 
> 	Does anybody agree with me on this?
> 	/NPN

I agree.  At least supply a command (perhaps a new option to the
i(nventory) command) which displays this information.  Sometimes
knowing how close you are to the next experience level can
affect strategy.  Perhaps this is a "feature" -- not
being familiar with D&D I don't know if characters normally know that
"killing one more monster will raise me a level" or not.

The $ (count gold) command is next to useless).
You seldom get an accurate count, it takes time, and sometimes
you get no answer at all!  I always drop my gold and pick it up
again; I get a quick and accurate count that way.  I would either
fix the $ command (think of it as referring to a little book
which the hacker always keeps up-to-date) or implement a new 'i'
option and discard the '$' command.

Bill Stoll, ..!whuxlm!wws