Acca.212 net.games utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!z@CCA-UNIX Mon Nov 23 08:53:27 1981 More on quitting vs. getting killed in rogue I don't really understand the complaints against quitting, as it doesn't take any brains to bash away at a monster until you get killed, while it does take some intelligence to realize when you have no reasonable chance of survival. Here at CCA, I was the first one to "quit" out of a good game, and the difference between quitting and being killed put me in first place on the top ten. There was a lot of grumbling at first (especially by the number two person, who would have been number one if he had quit), but soon, the other players adopted this strategy themselves, and our top ten now consists mostly of "quitters" (along with a couple of winners). We really don't see anything wrong with this; where would we all be now if the British had decided to fight to the last man at Dunkirk? After all, He who fights and runs away Lives to fight another day. Zorro the Avenger ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.