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Insurrectum posted:Yes it does. Ok... which one's which? Would you mind actually explaining the difference instead of just tossing out an assertion?
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flatluigi posted:What silly tileset is that? The one linked in the OP as far as I know. The door diagonal thing was very annoying, I stick to ascii.
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ToxicFrog posted:The official Nethack tilesets distinguish correctly; look, for example, at the screenshot in the OP (the doorway near the player is empty, but there's at least two other open-door ones on the map). Vulture's also works. I'm really not interested in using a tile set and feel increasingly retarded for discussing it, but isn't that because there's a wand on it?
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Mar 9, 2009 22:33
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stubblyhead posted:It is worth noting though that if you can unlock the door in some fashion, the shopkeeper doesn't mind and you can buy/steal to your heart's content. Do you actually have to unlock the door or would it be fine to teleport in/out?
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Mar 11, 2009 20:04
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:See if you can guess what happens here:
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Mar 12, 2009 01:35
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Crimsonjewfro posted:I'm more baffled at how he got a cursed chickatrice corpse. Lich? Unholy water? Bones? I had a game in wizard mode trying the "Closed For Inventory" teleport. The c's were wandering around, picked one up and got in a fight with a priest (who presumably cursed the corpse) before throwing it at the ceiling without a helmet.
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Mar 12, 2009 23:59
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I have a barbarian at level 12, just found the quest entrance in the big room. I skipped minetown though, couldn't find the entrance and just pushed ahead. Should I go back and look for it, use some wands of digging? I'm missing some essential tools (blindfold, boh, key), and my AC is a little higher than I'd like.
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Mar 16, 2009 17:42
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ledge posted:You can't dig to get to the mines as far as I am aware. You'll need to find the stairs, they will be somewhere. I know I can't dig into the mines themselves. There are a few blank spots on dlvl 2-4, I meant to imply digging to those since a few hundred turns of searching all of the walls got me nothing. Sorry for the confusion. I got reflection from soko, and found a luckstone elsewhere. What I'm really missing is the nice-to-have tools. Having to bash doors and force chests sucks.
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Mar 16, 2009 20:52
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ledge posted:Oh okay, in that case, you won't have to dig to find the entrance, searching will eventually find a passage to another room on one of the levels.
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Mar 16, 2009 23:03
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How does a lock pick get rusty?
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Mar 23, 2009 23:55
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SubG posted:I've genocided woodchucks as many times as I've killed Demogorgon. But I really hate those fuckin' woodchucks.  Spinachbane?Also, ran into one of your bones files on NAO yesterday. Looked like a samurai who ran into a poisoned dart.
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Mar 24, 2009 18:05
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Did NAO recently make a change with bones files? My past few games have all hit multiple bones files, often with a few ghosts each. Am I just imagining things?
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Mar 27, 2009 17:40
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Tyshalob posted:It's possible to have a bones level where the previous player was also on a bones level and died. I know that, I'm not saying that's odd. I'm saying that going through the mines and hitting 3 bones levels in two consecutive games is strange.
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Mar 27, 2009 19:10
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I thought most people polymorphed priests to make the killing easier?
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Apr 1, 2009 17:49
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YAAPcode:Now I've put up a samurai, valkyrie, and barbarian, would caveman round out the stupid mindless bashers roles? JawnV6 fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Apr 8, 2009 |
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Apr 8, 2009 16:38
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McNerd posted:Combined with the ten commands or so it takes to disrobe and rearm every time, this is a ridiculous hassle (I usually skip some of those commands as well, for example not putting my T-shirt back on every single time). A trick that I picked up from Gilder is to #adjust your final set of armor to ABCDEF, with the shirt at A, armor at B, cloak at C, so you can just hold shift and type WAWBWCWDWEWF to completely armor up without any thought required.
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Apr 10, 2009 18:58
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Sartak posted:Anyway, I don't want to lead the Interhack+TAEB project. I'm more than happy hacking on just the framework. I love adding cool debugging poo poo. I do a lot of perl, but after finding a TAEB bot bones that was carrying nothing at all I'm a bit miffed 
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Apr 21, 2009 16:42
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How long do I stay as a dragon after a poly trap hits me with SDSM? I dug to escape Medusa's level where a Titan had cast Summon Nasties resulting in a few minotaurs. I think I could take out most of the trouble with the breath weapon, but I don't want to revert flying back over the water.
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Apr 22, 2009 20:30
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I went up and killed medusa, didn't try flying back over the water figuring I'd deal with that mess later. Pressed onwards a few floors, got into a fight with a Captain and tried to dig my way out, landed in the castle and teleported him away. Then a purple L (my first) popped up next to me, sat on an E square for a while trying to figure out a way to deal with him. took out un-ided scroll which ended up being taming. Wrote a couple and tried to get him with no such luck. I was making my way towards the upstair to take him on there when he Summoned Nasties, leaving a Minotaur next to me. Still had a scroll of taming in my main inventory, I read it for shits and giggles. My tame minotaur did a bang-up job killing the L that summoned him 
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RoboBlaster posted:That was a good way of making the best of a bad situation. Some of my ultimately best games had a point somewhere toward the beginning where I was really close to giving up during a nasty predicament. I've normally geno'd h and L and only had to deal with a few, this was my first protracted fight with one (who incidentally summoned a master mind flayer next to me). And I'm still stupidly happy that I killed the thing. I've had some time to dive into the source and poked around at it, trying to tame the L was really stupid since it has ~90% chance to resist. Also should've read the taming scrolls while confused, it affects a 11x11 square around you with no other effects, could've gotten a few of the xorns in the castle wall near me. The upshot is that now I know Minotaurs have MR 0 and can always be tamed, offering another escape from those. edit: He wasn't dead, had just escaped upstairs. Died assaulting the castle. gently caress nethack. JawnV6 fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Apr 24, 2009 |
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BARON BONGHITS posted:Not that it matters now but as a side note silver dragons breathe cold you could've just frozen the water to not worry about polymorphing back in midair over it  Just when I think I've got a handle on the various escape items available and how to move around something basic like this... eugh.
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Apr 24, 2009 19:08
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I was trying this out in wizard mode, but what's supposed to happen when I'm wearing SDSM and I step on a polymorph trap when Silver Dragons are genocided? It printed out: "You feel rather silver dragon-ish." Is that a result of being in wizard mode or is this one thing that won't just outright kill you?
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YAAP: http://alt.org/nethack/userdata/Jawn/dumplog/1240644908.nh343.txt I had been trying cavemen, accidentally hit random role and wound up ascending the barbarian that popped up. Only genocided L, had a written a couple of scrolls to spare but held back. Next time I'm definitely bringing enough gold detection/booze to locate all of the portals without having to play hot/cold with the Amulet, Plane of Fire was stupidly annoying with conflict on.
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BARON BONGHITS posted:Plane of fire is way more bearable if you turn off sparkles in the options, in case you don't already know I had that turned off, it was the dozens of messages telling me about fire elementals and how they felt a little warm before hitting the other fire elemental who also felt a little warm! Pretty sure a "the fire elemental disappears" slipped by me, because when I got within a square the magic portal was ID'd for me.
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Apr 30, 2009 05:56
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Ogmius815 posted:Seriously secret doors are the dumbest poo poo in the universe and the #1 factor that takes away fun from the game. I can't tell you how many times I have known almost for sure that there was a secret door on a given wall and had to pace up and down it searching every step for sometimes hundreds of turns before I found it. Beyond that I'm convinced I am missing rooms on like a quarter of the floors I pass and I hate that feeling. The game would be a lot more fun if there were no secret doors or hallways. Go Neutral, make your first wish Blessed Eyes of the Overworld. Won't show you secret doors, but it's stupidly easy to figure out where they are when you can see the hallway on the other side. And if the beginning isn't interesting, what is?
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On my first ascension I lost the Bell of Opening. I had dropped it while polypiling and managing a stash, not really knowing the importance of it at the time. I raced around trying to find it and was eventually convinced that I had polymorphed it into something else, until someone watching me told me that was impossible and I searched my stashes.Sargeant Biffalot posted:Yeah I've had the old exploding bag a few times now but I don't remember that happening last night and my health is a bit too high for it, similarly I killed all the nymphs running around sokoban and none of them had it. Probably lost it somewhere, still nothing there that I planned on using any time soon, just gonna hope I find another one soon. The obvious answer is that a nymph put a wand of cancellation into the bag.
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YASD, I really need to stop playing 'a few turns' before work in the morning. I had a priest that had a shield of reflection and GDSM on dlvl1. Had a few close calls on a Minetown bones file that had already killed a couple people but finally lost him this morning to a energy vortex. Had a wand of teleport and could've escaped just fine, but I went for one more hit like an idiot.
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May 26, 2009 15:57
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Argon_Sloth posted:Energy/Ice vorticies are made dangerous by their passive attack (the damage you take when you hit them in melee). Stick to ranged attacks and you'll be fine. Throwing your weapon works pretty well, because it always lands at your feet. I was inside of it, do you really not take damage if you just . through it?
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Darth l33t posted:What's really impressive about this one is that he pulled it off in under a month. That's just sick...
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May 27, 2009 06:10
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Rapacity posted:Blindness has been my downfall too many times now. I've killed my pet, hit a guard and set minetown on me, been stolen from by loving monkeys until I'm punching BLIND, the list goes on. As for eyes, it's pure luck as to where they pop up and I've only got it once in 20 or so games before the mines. Stand in place and search when blind, maybe retreat into a hallway to allow fewer creatures around you. When an I pops up, either use a stethoscope to see what it is, #chat to it, or just wait for it to hit you before attacking anything.
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I have a local priest going, he's doing significatnly better than I expected. Cleared out the mines without much problem and on the Oracle level I hit a level teleport trap, found a random ring and put it on, then hit another. The ring must have been teleport control, as it's asking me what level I want to go to. Can I specify some very low level and turn this into a poor man's Dig for Victory? I'm at clvl10, AC -3, no permanent source of Elbereth, so I really don't think I'm fully equipped for it, but is it worth a shot?
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Went to 25, it was a maze level. Got smacked around by a Minotaur, teleported him away once but he got me the second time. Good times 
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McNerd posted:Yeah, you didn't even remotely stand a chance. I wouldn't have thrown away a promising character like this: As I understand DFV isn't a good strategy, it's a long shot that might be pretty entertaining. It was 4 PM on the afternoon before a 3 day weekend. I wasn't exactly going for an ascension.
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factorialite posted:Is it possible that the storekeeper turned to stone? Was it a bones file? Shopkeepers stay mad if they've been robbed, there's some phrase they'll say like "can't be paid back in money, just blood". Otherwise try waiting on a different square in the store?
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Jul 5, 2009 17:24
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quote:The gnome lord reads a scroll labeled VE FORBRYDERNE! Stupid Gnomes with scrolls of earth..
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For anyone with an iPhone, Dirk Zimmermann just released iNetHack for free. I'm getting started with it and there are a few annoyances (tiles  ), but overall it's nethack-to-go.
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Darth l33t posted:Link just takes me to a download for iTunes. It's a link to the game's page on the iTunes store. Here's the TouchArcade article on it, w/ picture for those curious. iPhone apps can hit up URL's, I'm sure that you could work out a system to swap bones files around. Whether the developer's willing to put in that effort is another matter entirely, for a free game I doubt it. Right now I'd be happy to get (a)pply on one of the main buttons, I have a magic whistle and bag that are just a pain to use.
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ThaGhettoJew posted:If it weren't for spoilers and the internet NH community, I wouldn't even know it existed. I'm pretty sure you could get to the end of Sokoban without spoilers?
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Xir posted:I took this game slow, reading the status messages and not holding down the direction keys. You shouldn't be holding down the direction keys anyway. Shift-move works if you're using the vi keys, there should be an equivalent for the num pad. I've got a post-quest caveman ready to go, probably try to ascend him tonight if nothing stops me. Last decent game I had died on Astral after 3 escape efforts failed in a row, the final blow being zapping Famine with a teleport and having him end up right next to me I'll be a little overprepared this time.
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I ascended a Caveman over the weekend, so I've put up the melee roles (barbarian, caveman, samurai, valkyrie). Only used 3 wishes (speed boots, shield of reflection, gauntlets of power) and I found speed boots/GoP/"oR later so I think I could've gone wishless. The stupidest mistake was lacking Fire resistance. After a certain point I just assume I have all my resistances. In Gehennom I saw I'd lost ~10 max HP, enlightenment told me that I didn't have it yet. Got crowned just to make sure I had everything covered after that. Now I think I'm going for a Priest.
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