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I've been playing nethack on and off for several years now. What happens
is I get into it for a few months, get frustrated at how difficult it
is, and then give up for a while. A year or two later, the cycle
repeats. So as you can imagine, I've never come anywhere close to
ascension. In fact, I generally never make it past dlvl 6 before dying.
But I've been reading this newsgroup quite a bit lately, and practicing
a bit, and I'm slowly learning. I've managed to escape a couple of nasty
situations that would certainly have killed me a year or two ago.
So in the interest of improving my game, I have a couple of questions.
1) Assuming that it's a bad idea to identify scrolls and potions by just
trying them out and seeing what happens, how do you get them identified?
Is there another way besides waiting until a shop appears and then
price-IDing a scroll of Identify? I suppose I could just read the
spoilers and price-ID everything, but I'd rather find a way to actually
*identify* my items, before using them.
2) I've seen people post that their character has a naked AC of -10 or
whatever; how does one increase one's AC?
3) Can only certain classes cast spells? I usually play as a samurai,
and when I find a spellbook, sometimes I can read it and successfully
learn a spell. But if I try to cast it, I see that it has a failure rate
of 100%, even if I take off all of my armor. Will I eventually be able
to cast the spells I've learned (assuming I live long enough), or can
only certain classes cast spells? If the latter, why the heck can I
learn them in the first place?
Thanks in advance.
--
Karl von Laudermann - karlvonl(a)rcn.com - http://www.geocities.com/~karlvonl
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "complex";w=39;m=2.0;w.times{|y|w.times{|x|c=Complex.new((m*x/w)-1.5,
(2.0*y/w)-1.0);z=c;e=false;49.times{z=z*z+c;if z.abs>m then e=true;break;end}
print(e ?" ":"@@");puts if x==w-1;}}
I've been playing nethack on and off for several years now. What happens
is I get into it for a few months, get frustrated at how difficult it
is, and then give up for a while. A year or two later, the cycle
repeats. So as you can imagine, I've never come anywhere close to
ascension. In fact, I generally never make it past dlvl 6 before dying.
But I've been reading this newsgroup quite a bit lately, and practicing
a bit, and I'm slowly learning. I've managed to escape a couple of nasty
situations that would certainly have killed me a year or two ago.
So in the interest of improving my game, I have a couple of questions.
1) Assuming that it's a bad idea to identify scrolls and potions by just
trying them out and seeing what happens, how do you get them identified?
Is there another way besides waiting until a shop appears and then
price-IDing a scroll of Identify? I suppose I could just read the
spoilers and price-ID everything, but I'd rather find a way to actually
*identify* my items, before using them.
2) I've seen people post that their character has a naked AC of -10 or
whatever; how does one increase one's AC?
3) Can only certain classes cast spells? I usually play as a samurai,
and when I find a spellbook, sometimes I can read it and successfully
learn a spell. But if I try to cast it, I see that it has a failure rate
of 100%, even if I take off all of my armor. Will I eventually be able
to cast the spells I've learned (assuming I live long enough), or can
only certain classes cast spells? If the latter, why the heck can I
learn them in the first place?
Thanks in advance.
--
Karl von Laudermann - karlvonl(a)rcn.com - http://www.geocities.com/~karlvonl
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "complex";w=39;m=2.0;w.times{|y|w.times{|x|c=Complex.new((m*x/w)-1.5,
(2.0*y/w)-1.0);z=c;e=false;49.times{z=z*z+c;if z.abs>m then e=true;break;end}
print(e ?" ":"@@");puts if x==w-1;}}
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