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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Not enough food in `Rogue'.
Message-ID: <577@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 20:43:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.577
Posted: Thu Aug 27 20:43:12 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Aug-87 08:55:33 EDT
References: <1384@killer.UUCP> <182100002@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: That's a bug, not a feature.

In article <182100002@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>, sparrow@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> digestion!  This is similar to the feature of the floating eyes
> transfixing you, it makes the game more exciting.

I've seen the code. It sure looks like a bug to me. Each turn the floating
eyes add an average of 1.5 turns to your transfixion, but the code is clearly
designed to simulate exponential decay... your transfixion is supposed to
have a half-life. Also... *HAVING THE GAME LOCK YOUR TERMINAL WHILE FLOATING
EYES FREEZE YOU IS AS FOUL A TRICK AS I HAVE EVER SEEN*. It can take up to half
an hour (real time) to die of starvation. Longer if the system is heavily
loaded. During this time you can not use your terminal... and if it's late
at night and everyone's offices are locked you can't even get to another
terminal to kill it. Death by TROFF (that being what's usually loading the
system late at night). We don't have this problem at my current job, since
there are gobs of terminals. At other sites, however, it's been cause for
grief. I actually got the superuser to remove the game so I wouldn't be
tempted to play it while waiting for a compile... "Surely the eyes won't get
me this time :->".
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