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From: cccallan@deneb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: UltraRogue -- questions/suggestions. (Slight Spoiler)
Message-ID: <133@ucdavis.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Feb-86 16:42:38 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  2 16:42:38 1986
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> >10) If you are wearing crystalline armor, every lightning bolt that hits
> >    you adds charges to your [wielded] weapon.  I've had a weapon with
> >    over 1500 charges!
> 
> What good is it to have your weapon charged? It doesn't seem to make
> any difference as far as I can tell.

Try zapping it, like a wand.

> 
> >     [ ... ] evil sorceresses drop as much as will fit in the 
> >    immediate vicinity when killed (but they are nearly impossible to
> >    kill - a prime candidate for genocide if you plan to make it to the
> >    lowest levels).  
> 
> I stopped playing after running into about 40 evil sorceresses
> one time. It's not that they are hard to kill, rather that it
> takes too long to kill them. It is so boring to sit there surrounded
> by 8 monsters and having to hit an evil sorceress over and over until
> she dies. It takes forever almost ... and it spoils the fun of the game.
> As far as playability goes the game could use some improvement.

What would you rather have?  Monsters down at 50th level that you can
kill with one blow?  There should be some monsters that should be avoided
and not fought.  Otherwise rogue (or urogue) become a mindless
hack-n-slash type game.  I think that if anything, urogue needs to
get harder/different at the lower levels.

I still say that REAL rogue players play rogue 5.3.  Has anybody found
any bugs (profitable ones) in 5.3?

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Allan McKillop
...{ucbvax,lll-crg}!ucdavis!deneb!cccallan    (UUCP)
...ucdavis!deneb!cccallan@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (ARPA)

Semi-Obligatory Silly Quote:
"I'm no fool!  I killed the boss!  You don't
 think they are going to fire me for that?!"