ray@utcsri.UUCP (Raymond Allen) (02/03/86)
If you are wielding a dead cockatrice and you hit any monster with it you see a message similar to: "you hit the (whatever) with the cockatice corpse --more--" "the (whatever) is turned to stone!" The problem is that the (whatever) is *not* turned to stone. You only get the usual corpse. If you tame a cockatrice with a scroll of taming (or polymorph your dog into a cockatrice) when it hits another monster you end up with a pile of rocks which is the appropriate (i think) result. There is a routine 'mstone()' which, i think, turns a monster into a pile of rocks and is invoked when your pet cockatrice hits another monster. Now the $64 question. Should hack be modified so that hitting a monster with a dead cockatrice will turn that monster into a pile of rocks? I think that this would be appropriate considering the effects of a tame cockatrice hitting other monsters. I believe that this is relevant to all versions of hack although we are using 1.0.3 here. Opinions, comments etc. all welcome. -- Ray Allen | "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." utcsri!ray | - Oscar Wilde as quoted in "Parachutes & Kisses" by Erica Jong
jbuck@epimass.UUCP (02/06/86)
In article <2047@utcsri.UUCP> ray@utcsri.UUCP (Raymond Allen) writes: >... > "you hit the (whatever) with the cockatice corpse --more--" > "the (whatever) is turned to stone!" > > The problem is that the (whatever) is *not* turned to stone. >You only get the usual corpse. If you tame a cockatrice with a scroll >of taming (or polymorph your dog into a cockatrice) when it hits another >monster you end up with a pile of rocks which is the appropriate (i think) >result. I agree that this is a bug, though I had never tamed a cockatrice before so I didn't know that the proper behavior occurs in that case (though the fact that it does argues more strongly that it's a bug). (in 1.0.2 and 1.0.3) So yes, it should be changed, except that the author of the game is no longer on the net. I kind of like the idea of an "official" hack so winning on my machine is the same as winning on other machines (some of the patches I've seen posted on this list really change the difficulty of the game). -- - Joe Buck - ihnp4!pesnta!epimass!jbuck or ihnp4!pesnta!epicen!jbuck
carl@proper.UUCP (Carl Greenberg) (02/11/86)
I don't find it any problem. The cockatrice normally goes around turning monsters into boulders. I prefer to turn them into dead monsters, myself. If only there were a scroll of preservation so the cockatrice wouldn't decay, it'd be wonderful... Carl Greenberg