Ahouxn.123 net.games.rogue utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!houxi!houxn!govern Fri Mar 12 14:01:57 1982 Cursed rings; Things I'd like to see Rather than have a nymph "remove" your cursed rings, the "Remove Curse" scroll ("You fell like someone is watching over you") is fairly common, and removes all curses from you. Alternatively, since the Enchant Weapon and Enchant Armor scrolls remove curses, you could try *wielding* the ring and reading Enchant Weapon. (wielding a cursed ring without the scroll is bad news, though.) Several things I'd like to see in future versions of rogue: 1) The c command should allow you to name *any* object, including weapons, armor, and previously identified objects. For example, you could name an arrow-trap arrow "Not Magic" to differentiate it from unidentified, possibly magic arrows. Also, since many staves and wands have multiple charges in them but are eventually used up, you could name one "use first" or "used up" (prevents re-finding it after dropping it). 2) In dark rooms, the cluster of little dots that follows you around isn't really necessary, and eats up a lot of modem and cpu time refreshing itself. These should either be optional or deleted, especially since rogue seems to be in the "top 10 commands list" at many locations. 3) It would be nice if the status line included weapon strength, when known. 4) If it isn't to much overhead, the status line should also include a (semi-)real-time clock. Updating every 5 minutes or nnn steps is fine. 5) A scratch-pad command would be useful, especially for playing previously saved games. One command would write, another print out. 6) Traps should affect monsters as well as players. Thus, leading a Xorn by a beartrap could add to your lifetime. 7) On the other hand, occasionally the arrow-trap arrows that HIT you should be magic (i.e. fatal). Fair is fair, after all. 8) If you throw a potion at a monster, there should be some probability of it being effective. Thus, you could throw a potion of blindness at an Umber Hulk, or Raise Level at a Purple Worm. Cheers, Bill Stewart ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.