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From: barnett@im4u.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: "Opinion Poll" (SPOILERS) & Fighter question
Message-ID: <784@im4u.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 10:31:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 27 10:31:31 1986
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Reply-To: barnett@im4u.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <2014@rayssd.UUCP> m1b@rayssd.UUCP (M. Joseph Barone) writes:
>
>In article <775@im4u.UUCP>, barnett@im4u.UUCP (Lewis Barnett) writes:
>> 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.
>
>	In 1.0.3 this is NOT true.  I wanted to see if hack kept track
>of such things so I 'R'emoved my ring of fire resistance around level 29
>(coming up, no less) and immediately I was burnt to a cinder with the
>appropriate message that appears.  What is described above sounds like
>a bug since the necessary checks are not done to determine if you burn
>or not.  (The above description does not make clear whether he had eaten
>a dragon as well.  If he did, that would account for surviving.)
>
>Joe Barone,	{allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5}!rayssd!m1b
>Raytheon Co,	Submarine Signal Div., 1847 West Main Rd, Portsmouth, RI 02871

I should have specified that I was talking about Hack 1.0.2.  I suppose
it is a bug, now that you mention it -- and I hadn't eaten a dragon in
that particular game.

Here's another question:  I was playing that game as a Fighter, and I had
killed several dragons (perhaps as many as 5 or 6), but none left corpses.
I finally did get a corpse, but D corpses seemed unusually scarce in the
game.  I'm always suspecting intelligent behavior behind what I know must
just be the vagaries of the random number generator in this game, but is
there any basis for the suspicion that Fighters don't see D corpses with
the same probability that other characters do?

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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