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Re: [Tournament] Problem with accessing record

chlor...@free.fr (chlorine) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:08:17 UT

Thanks for the clarification.
I might get a plastic star this year so I'd have hated for
my game to be lost! ;)
Cheers,
chlorine

Re: Clan DYWYPI in DevNull Tournament

ble...@gmail.com (Bleeko Bleeko) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:03:35 UT

Just a quick note for anyone playing in the tournament. I have
whipped together a little perl to grab and munge the devnull logs, so
it is no longer necessary to email me about Clan DYWYPI.
All you need to do is die, and I will automatically (within a day)
send you an invite to Clan DYWYPI
How's that for service folks!

Re: NetHack Poll 2009

juliana.rb.br...@gmail.com (JRBrown) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:28:35 UT

While reading the comments in this thread, and after having taken the
online poll, I realized that you might think that "when did you learn
about nethack" (question #10) has some relation to when the respondent
started *playing* nethack. In my case it didn't; I first heard about
nethack in college (around 1996-97) in connection with the Luggage

YASD

7ab...@lebarducoin.fr (7aboir) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:46:38 UT

a YASD worth to mention: I was wrongly thinking that pit next to water
should be filled in. Well apparently not the "trap" pits...
...while on top level of wizard tower in front of the moat while weilding a
handy rubber chicken, and just stoned that stupid monster that was probably
trapped in the pit. That was my first shot to devnull this year. I wonder

Re: [Tournament] Problem with accessing record

use...@unrated.net (robin) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:45:01 UT

The games are being saved (we don't use the record file); this is a
stale lock file coming back, as the servers are saying.
(The usual cause of this is creative players trying to intentionally get
the Trickery trophy by crashing the game in various ways. ;-)
I went through 7 of the servers this morning clearing those out; I'm

Re: NetHack Poll 2009

b...@sonic.net (Ray) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:05:03 UT

The "Shiren the wanderer" series of roguelike games is quite popular, if
not quite mainstream, in Japan, and it's a commercial product.
Although they preserve the idea of permanent death, they have made
some concessions to being commercial and having mainstream gamers
expect to win with just a few weeks of effort. So you get inheritances.

[Tournament] Problem with accessing record

chlor...@free.fr (chlorine) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:46:17 UT

Hello,
just wanted to report something that has already been reported
here, but on another server (lost the original thread, sorry).
At the end of my game, instead of being presented with the high
score list, I got a series of messages:
'Waiting for access to record. (59 retries left).'
for all values of 59 retries to 1.

Re: NetHack Poll 2009

leonardoofthelarcenousla...@thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org (TheJoker) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:38:47 UT

Or read the group... duh.

Re: Some more messages

janis_papanag...@hotmail.com (Janis Papanagnou) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:11:53 UT

And another helpful wizard...
"The gnomish wizard casts a spell! You can see again."
Janis

Re: YAAP: Ronin-Sam-Hum-Mal-Law (illiterate, genoless)

ran...@pactechdata.com (Pat Rankin) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:40:25 UT

[...]
Others have addressed how to deduce the charge count,
but I haven't seen anyone else mention that one possible
result of sitting on a throne is, "You are granted an insight!"
That's approximately equivalent to reading a blessed scroll
of identify (one of the minor differences being that it won't

Re: NetHack Poll 2009

janis_papanag...@hotmail.com (Janis Papanagnou) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:20:16 UT

Dito. Patric will have a tough time condensing all the answers.
Janis

Re: NetHack Poll 2009

dfrey...@yahoo.com (Doug Freyburger) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:10:14 UT

I was surprised when there were blanks for free form answers. I
expected drop downs with the most common expected choices.
Cool stuff.

Re: NetHack Poll 2009

pl...@mi.fu-berlin.de (David Ploog) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:49:16 UT

Agree that this is largely irrelevant. Much less important than tiles vs
ASCII or server vs local anyway.
Not tourist information. Knowing where the game is (not) played is quite
interesting as a developer. The language question is one reason; another
is the absence of participants from Asia. Crawl is played there, so for

Re: NetHack Poll 2009

b...@sonic.net (Ray) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:16:24 UT

Heh. So, because you're not being polite, it's entirely okay
that I tell you I use the numpad? Okay, whatever.
Seriously: I want all those letter keys for other commands,
and arrows don't do diagonal movement. Hence, numberpad.
Bear

Re: YAAP: Ronin-Sam-Hum-Mal-Law (illiterate, genoless)

bjn...@gmail.com (bjnord) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:11:44 UT

On Nov 6, 7:53 am, Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanag...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
That means "wand of death, gotten from the wand of wishing". I
ended up with so many extra wishes, I wished for two wands of
death (after the black dragon disintegrated the Orcus one).
Since I couldn't recharge them, or even know their status, I