laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton) (01/11/86)
In article <11386@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> desj@brahms.UUCP (David desJardins) writes: > I don't think anybody should be using debug mode. The game is already too >easy once you find out the tricks; why make it easy for people to experiment? There is a difference of attitude here -- what is the fun in playing hack? Some people have fun *winning* and some people have fun *thinking about how to win*. (And some people have fun dying..) Since I am God around here and the only hack player, I can do whatever I want. Currently I have an idea -- find a big wand shop. find the wands of wishing and polymorph there. Use up the wand of wishing -- then polymorph the wands until one of them turns into a wand of wishing. Use that one up as well. I have no idea whether or not this works. I haven't found a wand of polymorph since I thought of it. But if I could just summon up this secenario, I would. (Maybe I can, and I haven't figured out yet). So far I have only once made it down to level 30+. I killed the wizard, got the amulet -- and *got* *flamed* *by* *a* *dragon* !! My scrolls caught fire! And I starved to death before I could find another scroll of teleportation or (what I was looking for) a wand of wishing. Alas. I feel pretty good about that game -- but if all those wands turn over in the wand shop I will feel even better! I realise that there are people who like hack because it is hard -- but I like hack more because a lot of thought was put into it -- and I want to unravel that thought. Laura -- Laura Creighton sun!hoptoad!laura (note new address! l5 will still ihnp4!hoptoad!laura work for a while....) hoptoad!laura@lll-crg.arpa