Aucbarpa.991 net.games.rogue utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:arnold Tue Mar 23 12:08:38 1982 rogue stuff About Bill's suggestions for rogue, I'd like to shed some light and make some comments: "1) The c command should allow you to name *any* object..." The "c" command only works for \classes/ of objects, not individual objects. So you can't call one alexandrite ring one thing and another something else. I agree this isn't as nice as it could be, but see the comment on (5) below. "2) ...the cluster of little dots that follows you around isn't really necessary..." The old thing it used to do is not erase the dots, but leave them behind. I'm not sure if this is what you're suggesting, or whether you want it not to put the dots down in the first place. If so, you might even convince me to make it an option, but I think it'd be ugly... "3) ...the status line [should include] weapon strength, when known." What weapon strength? You mean +1,+1 stuff? Anyway, I've just added the last thing that will fit on the status line (maximum real strength, like maximum hit points), and nothing more will FIT! "4) the status line should also include a (semi-)real-time clock." See 3. It WOULD be nice, though. Maybe another command: T? Of course, you can always use "date" from the shell... "5) A scratch-pad command would be useful" Yes, it would. But it's a sort of hassle. I have added a command which tells you which of the potions, scrolls, etc., you have discovered thus far in the game. This seems to generally suffice. "6) Traps should affect monsters as well as players." Well, maybe. Then again, maybe not. The Centaur may be intelligent enough to know the trap is there and not step on it. And then again, maybe not. That's a whole new can of worms, and I'm tired... "7) On the other hand, occasionally the arrow-trap arrows that HIT you should be magic (i.e. fatal). Fair is fair, after all." It would be, if not for (6). "8) [throwing] a potion at a monster...should [have] some probability of being effective." Why? Would it decide to drink it? Do Nymphs drink? Would it be absorbed through the skin? What about Wraiths who have no skin? Anyway, new rogue by the end of the week! Ken ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.