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From: BobR@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: umoria questions / bugs ?
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Date: 12 Oct 88 05:04:19 GMT
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CrackerJack (Ant?) asks:
>When you go up or down to a level that you have already mapped,
>the level regenerates itself. Is this suppose to happen?

While I didn't see anything specifically in the UMORIA documentation, a
similar game on the IBM PC called "OMEGA" (huzza for pc-ditto!) says this
about the situation....
 
Consider that the Dungeon is so vast that when you come back up to a level,
you are actually entering an area that you hadn't explored before on the
way down...
 
Actually, it's simply a device to avoid having to store *every* level
either in RAM or on disk... it's simpler to just generate a new map when
you go back up...   I agree, in this implementation, the printing of a map
is a waste of paper...
 
BobR