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- From: rankin@eql.caltech.edu (Pat Rankin)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
- Subject: Re: Incredible. Simply.
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 19:19 PDT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology
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- References: <1992Nov17.204515.18545@csi.uottawa.ca> <Bxw9ux.C3u@cs.columbia.edu> <1992Nov18.195427.23020@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <BxxtCr.KEC@cs.columbia.edu>
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- In article <BxxtCr.KEC@cs.columbia.edu>,\
- vh@cs.columbia.edu (Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou) writes...
- > Stormbringer makes a big difference in how easy you get the intrinsics.
-
- Perhaps Ken didn't emphasize this enough. Killing something with
- Stormbringer makes absolutely no difference whether or not it will leave
- a corpse, and absolutely no difference whether or not you might obtain
- an intrinsic of some sort from eating that corpse.
-
- > Each time that you hit a monster with Stormbringer, it loses one level.
-
- That has no effect whatsoever on the eventual corpse (except to
- hasten its production :-).
-
- > When you eat the corpse it leaves, your chance of getting any specific
- > intrinsic is (monster level)/(some constant depending on the intrinsic).
-
- This is based on somebody misreading the source code. The `level'
- involved comes from the monster's class, not from the individual monster.
- Corpses are objects which don't have levels, and the data for the original
- monster is long gone by the time you devour its corpse. Draining a level
- from a monster does not change its class and it certainly doesn't drain
- the entire class.
-
- No matter how many times you hit a particular dragon with Stormbringer,
- its _class_ will still be level 10, giving 2/3 chance for most intrinsics
- when its corpse is eaten.
-
- Pat Rankin, nethack.rankin@eql.caltech.edu
-