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From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: debug mode **SPOILER** I give an idea in this one...
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Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 17:06:37 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 10 17:06:37 1986
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In article <11386@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> desj@brahms.UUCP (David desJardins) writes:
>   I don't think anybody should be using debug mode.  The game is already too
>easy once you find out the tricks; why make it easy for people to experiment?

There is a difference of attitude here -- what is the fun in playing hack?
Some people have fun *winning* and some people have fun *thinking about how
to win*.  (And some people have fun dying..) Since I am God around here and
the only hack player, I can do whatever I want.  Currently I have an idea --

find a big wand shop.  find the wands of wishing and polymorph there. Use up
the wand of wishing -- then polymorph the wands until one of them turns into
a wand of wishing.  Use that one up as well.

I have no idea whether or not this works.  I haven't found a wand of polymorph
since I thought of it.  But if I could just summon up this secenario, I would.
(Maybe I can, and I haven't figured out yet).  So far I have only once made
it down to level 30+.  I killed the wizard, got the amulet -- and *got*
*flamed* *by* *a* *dragon* !!  My scrolls caught fire!  And I starved to death
before I could find another scroll of teleportation or (what I was looking for)
a wand of wishing.  Alas.  I feel pretty good about that game -- but if all
those wands turn over in the wand shop I will feel even better!

I realise that there are people who like hack because it is hard -- but I
like hack more because a lot of thought was put into it -- and I want to
unravel that thought.

Laura


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