flinn@seismo.UUCP (E. A. Flinn) (03/29/84)
----- A couple of questions about version 5.2: (1) It matters a great deal whether or not you're wielding a bow when you throw an arrow: is this also true of darts? (2) When you have read a scroll of monster confusion, is it true that the monster becomes confused only after you have exchanged blows with him/her? And a couple of observations: (a) If there is an area of the screen you can only get to by searching for hidden doors, and there are several rooms in which a door might be, it seems to occur on the shortest available side about 2/3 of the time. (b) In mazes, searching for continuations with 9s works just as well as 20s (a flaw in Rogomatic, which also pounds away at what are obviously dead ends, and sometimes misses segments of mazes). There are hardly ever dead-end segments of mazes with an odd number of #'s in them.
sdh@rabbit.UUCP (S. Hawley) (03/30/84)
In order for a confuse monster scroll to take effect, you must successfully hit the monster in question. I haven't found any "Life.. don't talk to me about life" -Marvin Steve Hawley <allegra,alice>!rabbit!sdh time limit for the time between reading the scroll and hitting a monster to get it confused.
marie@nmtvax.UUCP (03/31/84)
As far as i have been able to tell darts cause no damage at all. They merely wake up the monster. It is true that the monster only becomes confused after blows are traded.
dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (04/01/84)
~| From: marie@nmtvax.UUCP
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~| As far as i have been able to tell darts cause no damage at all.
~| They merely wake up the monster.
Not true. They don't do too much damage, though. Useful for doing away
with floating eyes, leprechauns and things that are a LONG way away -
horizontally across a wide room. If the monster gets too close, switch
to arrows. (Note that in 5.2, a bow doesn't make arrows all that much
better, but in 5.3 throwing arrows without a bow is near useless.)
~|
~| It is true that the monster only becomes confused after blows are
~| traded.
More specifically, when you hit. As long as you miss the monster,
it won't get confused.
Magnifibeast (10-time 5.2 winner, working on 5.3)
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{allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsrgv!davenonh@utzoo.UUCP (Chris Robertson) (05/05/84)
I've seen the sources -- darts *DO* do some damage, but not much. You can kill a leprechaun with 9 or 10 of them. --Chris