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From: laman@ncr-sd.UUCP (Mike Laman)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: (SPOILER!) Re: Party Rooms  V5.3
Message-ID: <306@ncr-sd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 13:30:32 EDT
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In article <581@linus.UUCP> dnj@linus.UUCP (David N. Juitt) writes:
>*** Version 5.3 ***
>
>In the past, I've seen the odds of finding food,
>certain weapons, armor and that kind of stuff.
>Does anyone know the odds of running into a party room?
>How about a party maze?
>
>Dave Juitt	UUCP: ..linus!security!dnj	ARPA:  dnj@mitre-bedford

The odds are 1 in 20 for a LEVEL having a party room.  This is independent
of how many rooms the floor may have!

When each room is initially created the following code is executed:

	if(rnd(10) < Level - 1) {
		make it a dark room
		if(!rnd(15))
			make it a maze room
	}

	/* rnd(n) returns a random number in the range of 0..(n-1). */

Since the above code depends on your depth in the game, that makes
computing the odds a little ugly.  But assuming we are on level 11 or deeper
then we have a 100% chance of a dark room and the odds are 1 in 15 that
the room will be a maze room (computing the odds for levels 1 through 10 are
left as an exercise to the reader :-)).

Unfortunately, you won't get the nice simple odds you wanted.

One more spoiler:  When a monster mash room is being generated, the global
variable "Level" is incremented so meaner monsters are created.  This also
means that the "window" of monsters that can be created is shifted too.
I'm sure all of you know that Aquators start to appear on level 9.  Be
careful though, they can also appear in a monster mash room on level 8!
Not only that, but the monsters are a little tougher since they were created
on "a lower level".  Don't worry, the variable is decremented back to the
correct value after the party is started.

I'd better shut my mouth now before I give away the whole game.

Happy rogueing...

		Mike Laman
		UUCP: {ucbvax,philabs,sdcsla}!sdcsvax!ncr-sd!laman