On 1 Sep 2002 at 3:12, chikennoodlesoop@... ... When you start up again and it asks you for your name, tell it the same name you used before. And it'll...
... This is gonna sound really, really rude, but did you actually RTFM? If not I'd highly suggest that you take some time and do so - it's really quite...
... read the manual, i think...also type ? while in the game to get some help features. you should use them very often when learning to play nethack,...
... Because it's usually intended to be... something yelled in exasperation. Usually it takes the same amount of work or a bit more to look up the answer for...
On 2 Sep 2002 at 2:18, chikennoodlesoop@... ... A quick point on netiquette: it would help no end if you quoted the relevant bit of whatever you're ...
... Depends entirely on what email program you're using. A quick look at the headers of your message suggests that you're using some AOL special, about which I...
... confused... ... Kevin, When you zap a wand the game asks you for a direction. Type ".", or whichever character you have set for the "rest" command to zap ...
... the ... Bones files are "ghost" levels the game saves. I don't know the math, but when you die, there's a chance you're the level will be saved as a bones...
... Well, I use the "yahoo! groups" interface, not the email interface, and the groups thing does it automagically. (The groups page can be found at ...
... math, IDHTSIFOM, but IIRC, it's directely proportional to the dungeon level you're on (i.e. you have a higher chance of leaving something at the "higher"...
Oh, and I forgot to mention that bones levels also have a ghost of the dead character. The ghost appears (actually, doesn't appear) as a blank space. The ghost...
Automagically: Is that a typo or a cleverly invented word? Dave ... Well, I use the "yahoo! groups" interface, not the email interface, and the groups thing...
... neither, actually - it's fairly common Hackerese - the jargon file (http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon) has this to say about it: "Automatically, but in a way...
... I'd suggest you *don't* have the space bar as the rest key, since it's also the key to move on to the next message. All too easy, faced with a stream of ...
Ok, I was just walkin' throughthe dungeon, hackin' and slashin' all monster's that I cam across... I was up to about 100,000 gold when all of a sudden I was...
... GOLD! Kevin, You Found a vault. There are alot of these in the upper levels of the dungeon. They have an owner. (Perhaps you recall the guard asking you ...
... front ... figure ... you'll ... the ... of ... a ... i think the words written in the dust in front of the teleport closets is actually quite different...
... I ... 250,000 gold is a lot--you might be mistaken. i've never seen anywhere near that much gold in a game, ever. much more importantly, how to get it...
