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From: sigma@usl.UUCP (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: Total winners
Message-ID: <518@usl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-May-85 16:19:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 23 16:19:44 1985
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References: <859@sdcsvax.UUCP> <1378@watdcsu.UUCP> <400@bu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: sigma@usl.UUCP (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
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Summary: 

In article <400@bu-cs.UUCP> sam@bu-cs.UUCP (Shelli Meyers) writes:
>We've got a person here who's a total winner, too.  However, rumour
>has it that he has the source code.  Can anyone explain "wizard
>mode" to me?  I'm not particulary great at rogue, but I've been
>playing straight all along.  

I don't think having the source code (in Rogue 5.3) helps much. I 
got it and I still am not  a total winner. Having the Hack source
helps much more, since it is much clearer to understand (for me)
and hack has a lot more magic objects/situations in which source 
knowledge comes in handy (Engravings, Orcrists, dogs, etc).

I think that after 1 1/2 years of rogue 5.3, it still finds silly
ways to kill me. So far, ALL my really good games were ended by
SILLY deaths:

(1) level 13, ~4000 points, land in a party room and a Venus Flytrap
    next to you along with two C's. 
(2) level 18, str=19, +3 mace, 70+ hp, wiped out in ONE shot by a M.
    just wiped out, that's it. 4500 points at death.
..... et cetera

In contrast I was a total winner in hack playing a "C", and that was
with a lot of luck... (and no dogs or wands of wishing). Rogue will
always find ways to kill you...

Spiros
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