ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian) (01/15/85)
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I verified yesterday that you can tame someone else's dog by
leaving it food if you don't hit it first. Hitting it (accidentally)
makes it go wild, evidently. In one game I had two dogs running
interference for me, Fang II and Fang VI. Fang II was a dog and
Fang VI was a little dog. Great game. I had trouble increasing
my experiance points because the two dogs would tear anything
nasty apart before I could get to it!
Speaking of dogs, I have modified my version of Hack so the dog
doesn't automatically go wild if you leave him behind on a level.
This makes a lot more sense to me, and allows you to duck down
(or up) to avoid nastys without losing the little damn dog. Comment
out the two lines in routine keepdogs(), 'tame=0' and 'peaceful=0',
in file hack.dog.c. This doesn't make the game much easier, just
less time consuming and frustrating.
The dog may still go wild under other circumstances!
On this net.games.hack business, since hack is just another variant
of rogue (albeit quite a different one), why don't we simply continue
discussions of hack in net.games.rogue?
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Ron Christian (Watkins-Johnson Co. San Jose, Calif.)
{pesnta,twg,ios,qubix,turtlevax,tymix}!wjvax!ronpat@ist.UUCP (Patrick Place) (01/25/85)
<Bite on this> >Speaking of dogs, I have modified my version of Hack so the dog >doesn't automatically go wild if you leave him behind on a level. >This makes a lot more sense to me, and allows you to duck down >(or up) to avoid nastys without losing the little damn dog. Comment >out the two lines in routine keepdogs(), 'tame=0' and 'peaceful=0', >in file hack.dog.c. This doesn't make the game much easier, just >less time consuming and frustrating. Well, why don't you continue to modify the source, you could stop all monsters from hitting you, then the game would be even less time consuming since you wouldn't need to worry about all that tedious business of dying and having to start a new game. If I modified a game to make it easier, I certainly wouldn't want anyone else to know. Sure, play the modified game but don't expect any respect if you do finally get the amulet out of the dungeon. -- Patrick Place {inset, root44, mcvax, qtlon}!ist!pat Imperial Software Technology, London England