Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!ucsd!nprdc!malloy
From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Omega, inventory bugs
Summary: losing descriptions
Keywords: weilding, two-handed, weapons, save
Message-ID: <723@james.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 4 Aug 88 14:10:47 GMT
References: <1246@flatline.UUCP> <35262@aero.ARPA>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
Lines: 27

In article <35262@aero.ARPA> JJones@sunkissed.UUCP (Jeffrey R. Jones) writes:
>
> [description of two-handed weapon bug]

>Also, if you drop either one and pick it back up, the name gets fudged
>completely to something like "quarterstaff,+" or "qustaff   ;".
>

I've found a similar bug with inventories in general. Over the course
of time, omega can forget about the names of things in your inventory.
In a recent game, the following inventory lines got munged:

-- d) right shoulder: h		(really blessed cloak of true sight +1)
>> e) belt: 			(really staff of enchantment)
-- n> finger:  +1		(really ring of protection +1)
-- o> finger: blessed  +1	(really blessed ring of self knowledge +1)

None of the functions of the items get lost, just the names in the
inventory. I haven't found where the descriptions get munged yet; perhaps
the solution is simply to refresh the descriptions from the the Objects[]
array every so often.


	Sean Malloy
	Navy Personnel Research & Development Center
	San Diego, CA 92152-6800
	malloy@nprdc.arpa