From: verdier@viminale.greco-prog.fr (VERDIER Jean-Francois)
Newsgroups: rec.games.moria
Subject: Re: Balrog Ready
Date: 18 Dec 92 10:12:44 GMT
Organization: ENSERB (Electronic & Computer Science School) Bordeaux FRA

In article <SWOTA.92Dec10140206@karp.albany.edu>, swota@cs.albany.edu (Judith A Swota) writes:
> In posting <...> wrote:
> 
> > >I think this is CHEAP.  If you die, you die.  Reroll and start over.
> > >Anytime I see a winner now I have to wonder if they CHEATED or not.
> >  ...
> >   Well, I think that there should be a reasonable compromise.  You see, what
> > I find totally unfair about Moria is that I can spend days with a character,
> > only to see him die from something totally out of his control.  But, you're
> 
> Ahh, the great "To Backup Or Not To Backup" question.  I posted on this
> once before, and have to admit I agree with both the above.  I always
> feel like I "cheated" if I use a backup all the way to the end, but at
> the same time I feel really ripped off when I get toasted by an AMHD
> that wasn't even on the same screen as me (and was therefore impossible
> to see) when he breathed gas.  I've finally found the following
> compromise:  everybody agrees that getting a character up to a certain
> level (e.g., a Mage to, say, Level 15) is pretty easy, and it's the low
> levels that are the biggest pain in terms of getting the shopkeepers
> down to final bid, and junk like that; the higher levels are the real
> fun and the real challenge anyway, so what I've done is this:  I have a
> character I like.  I play him/her to maybe Level 15-20 or so, then save
> them.  I never save them again.  If they get killed, I start replaying
> them from that save point.  The one I've got now has no special weapons
> or armor at that point, so I don't feel like I'm royally stacking the
> deck, and I don't have to go through the frustration of rerolling for an
> hour to get decent starting stats and waste tons of time haggling (yeah,
> yeah, I know I don't HAVE to haggle, but who the heck ever has enough
> money to pay full price??).  I dunno.  I guess it's still sort of
> cheating, but at the same time, if the frustration level outweighs the
> virtue level, what's the point of playing?  Any comments?

I personally found a bug, which permits me to have an undieable character. It's
very interesting when you find a AMHD at 1500 ft... But that's not my fault.
The trouble is that the version of moria, umoria, was never recompiled. I now
only can play with Cmoria, which is already known here, and save files are not
copyable in this version.
For the sources, try email to chevalie@goofi.greco-prog.fr. I just said TRY.



> 
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> Judith               | 	While you don't actually NEED the outside world,
> 		     | 	It's still very reassuring knowing that it's there.
> swota@cs.albany.edu  |  


Sorry for my bad english.
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"Cette amoureuse ardeur qui dans les coeurs s'excite   |	JEFF
N'est point, comme l'on sait, un effet du merite;      |-----------------------
Le caprice y prend part, et quand quelqu'un nous plait,|   MOLIERE
Souvent nous avons peine a dire pourquoi c'est."       |Les femmes savantes V,1
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