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From: barnett@im4u.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: "Opinion Poll" (SPOILERS)
Message-ID: <775@im4u.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 19:27:53 EST
Article-I.D.: im4u.775
Posted: Sun Feb 23 19:27:53 1986
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Reply-To: barnett@im4u.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Summary: Why not to genocide D's.

In article <158@nbs-amrf.UUCP> hopp@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Ted Hopp) writes:
>>    Here's a question, what's the first thing you would use a scroll
>> of genocide on?  What else would you kill if you had more than one?
>> 
>> 	-ed falk
>
The author suggests genociding c's and x's first.  I concur, but I do it
in the reverse order.  There, our philosophies diverge.
>
>If I don't have a ring of fire resistance, I get rid of dragons next.  They
>are too hard to deal with otherwise.  At least I don't know a good strategy
>for dealing with them.  (Without a scroll of taming, of course :-).)
>
Not me -- Dragon corpses are too valuable.  The way to deal with a dragon
is to maneuver until you're at a corner of a hallway, with the D on a
diagonal.  (Like so:

		#
		D
		#@##
)
Usually, in such a position, a Dragon will forget about breathing fire
(notice I said USUALLY.  There are always exceptions...) and just pound
you.  Dragons are pretty heavy hitters, but they can be dealt with.
And eating the corpse makes you intrinsically fireproof, so you don't
have to burn food wearing that ring of fire resistance while marching
around hell. But... (Spoiler alert...) I discovered by accident the 
other day that you really don't need to wear the ring around all the
time... only when you first enter Hell, and when you climb stairs.
(I think the last part is true, but I didn't verify it empirically.)
I found out by eating a tin of salmon while down there -- my hands
got slippery and my rings fell off...Anyway, once you're fireproof,
dragons are fun -- you can use them to kill off other monsters, etc.

>After that, I don't think I would genocide anything else.  It would take
>too much fun out of things.
>
Agreed.  Except in place of Dragons, I put V's.  Nasty bloodsuckers.  
And if I have an abundance of genocides, I take out A's.

Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

"Frankly, there's something about reality that gives me the shivering willies!"
						-- Hank the Hallucination --

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