molnar@utecfc.UUCP (Tom Molnar) (04/02/84)
<this line left blank> While playing rogue (version 5.3), I have found one or two anoying bugs. One bug that irritates me to no end is the habit of rogue to suddenly save the game and exit. Repeated attempts at restoring the game are useless. While I have read that this happens after the game has been saved 16 or so times, I have had it happen even before the game was saved once. Unfortunately, this bug appears regularly whenever I have a good game (that is, when I reach level 20 or so). Another time I stumbled upon a treasure room that contained three Nymphs(on level 16), after I fought them my inventory was destroyed. I was wearing a ring of slow-digestion, but it didn't show in the inventory. In fact, the remaining articles were referenced by brackets alone - no letters were associated with the items. Of course having lost my escapes, I didn't last very long. Have others experience these bugs in Rogue v5.3? Has anyone noticed that two handed swords are most likely found when hit points are low? It has been my experience that long swords are less effective than the +1+1 mace, does anyone agree/disagree? Does anyone find wands of magic missle usefull? I would be interested in hearing from Rogue5.3 total winners to see if they had to deal with the previously mentioned bugs. On our machine, only one person was ever successful in winning. Others have managed scores of 6000 or so. The winning game wasn't as difficult a game as it might have been though. It seems that winning in v5.3 is more difficult than in previous versions. Well, hope to hear from others. Tom Molnar.