Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site moncol.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!hjuxa!petsd!moncol!john From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) Newsgroups: net.games.hack Subject: Re: A bug? Message-ID: <188@moncol.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 20:50:19 EST Article-I.D.: moncol.188 Posted: Mon Mar 17 20:50:19 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Mar-86 03:52:53 EST References: <3259@sun.uucp> <158@nbs-amrf.UUCP> <775@im4u.UUCP> Reply-To: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) Organization: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ Lines: 30 In article <161@bucsb.UUCP> dino@bucsb.UUCP (T.H.) writes: > >I was playing 'hack' the other day when I was about to starve to death. > >I went into a shop and steped on a food ration. I was too weak to > >pick up the food ration so I ate it off the floor. I went to the > >entrance of the shop and paid the shopkeeper but it said "You don't owe > > anything." I thought this was strange so I ate > >another food ration off the floor and the same happened again. > > That's in the newest version (1.0.3) as well. Think of it as a feature. > You can eat things even when you can't pick them up; without this feature > it would be very difficult to eat dragon corpses. It's something > the shopkeeper doesn't catch. He also doesn't charge you for what the dog > eats. The "you don't owe anything" message must have come because you were holding no other food rations. In a recent game, I tried it and the following happened... I ate one food ration off his floor, but was holding 4 (already paid for- I had them when I came in). He charged me for the four I was holding. This is in PC-Hack 1.0.3. (an early version). -- Name: John Ruschmeyer US Mail: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ 07764 Phone: (201) 571-3451 UUCP: ...!vax135!petsd!moncol!john ...!princeton!moncol!john ...!pesnta!moncol!john Give an ape control of its environment and it will fill the world with bananas.