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From: barnes@vger.UUCP (Steve Barnes)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: hack bugs (spoiler?)
Message-ID: <302@vger.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 18-Jan-86 01:38:12 EST
Article-I.D.: vger.302
Posted: Sat Jan 18 01:38:12 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jan-86 05:27:56 EST
Organization: UC Santa Cruz, CIS Dept.
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My appologies if these bugs are old news...  I've noticed
several in our version of hack.

1) "Full Moon tonight, you feel lucky!" - when this message
   is printed, your luck is incremented by one.  This means
   you can save your game, and restart it, thereby raising
   your luck as high as you want.

2) Polymorph wands - a "feature" of this game is that you
   can polymorph a wand, and it will turn into a different
   wand, fully charged.  What this means is that you can
   collect 5 or 6 wands, lay them out in a line, and start
   polymorphing.  Unless you are unlucky, you will get at
   least one polymorph wand before you run out of charges.
   Continuing this process indefinatly, you can get all sorts
   or great stuff - wishing wands, summon monster wands
   (kill the summoned monsters and take their stuff)...
   Technically this isn't a bug, but it makes the game much
   too easy.  My suggestion is to keep charges constant when
   polymorphing wands, making the problem less severe (with
   special allowances for wishing wands...  no more than 3 charges).

3) Engraving.  When you engrave using your hands, your weapon
   is automatically un-wielded.  Great way to un-wield
   cursed weapons...

4) The hell hound - you can throw food at him, and he becomes
   your friend.  Seems a bit silly to me.

These are all the bugs that come to mind.  I'm also bothered
by the morality enforced by luck.  By killing or eating your
dog, you loose luck.  *Everybody* loves to kill their dog...


				Steven Barnes
				ucbvax!ucscc!vger!barnes