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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: Sure-fire, total winner--bug spoiler
Message-ID: <1378@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-May-85 00:56:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1378
Posted: Thu May 16 00:56:46 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 16-May-85 22:23:19 EDT
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Reply-To: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Organization: U of Waterloo
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Summary: 

In article <859@sdcsvax.UUCP> alex@sdcsvax.UUCP (Alex Pournelle) writes:
>That's the best explanation I have: suddenly, commands took a while.  It
>was about 2 AM, well later actually, when this was happening; unless
>someone on the system started reniceing my job, I don't think I was
>doing anything naughty.  Perhaps the aobjects that I'd thrown away (I
>was blocked into one room by mr. q)  were not being cleaned up properly,
>and were stacking up in memory w/o cleanup.

actually, on 4.2 bsd, after a certain amount of CPU and a bunch of
other determining factors (so i'm told), processes will be reniced
automatically.  it has happened to me occasionally, but i only know
what i'm told.

>The sad thing: finally I had to hang up the game, without a score.  AND
>I WAS AT 25th LEVEL!  grrrrrrrr....

most srogue versions use your gold as scoring when you quit.  this is
stupid, especially since experience level is used for everything else.
if you're fairly sure you were going to be somewhere near the top of
the scorefile, then just take off you armor and commit suicide.  you
will end up on the scorefile with your experience point score.
our version always scores using experience and has a separate entry in
the scorefile for gold so you see both.

all srogue versions i know of have a limit of 2^32-1 points before the
score counter overflows.  this is around experience level 26 or so for
all classes.  if you get over 2 billion points by whatever means, don't
get too high a score or else you will not end up in the scorefile.
our version is sufficiently hard that almost no-one has a chance to
overflow the counter anymore, although it is still possible to be
a total winner.

Herb Chong...

I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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