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[Go on, throw me a tripe ration]

I thought some people out there might be interesting in the changes
we have implimented (and some we're still considering) on our 
version of hack:

   1.	Environment variable 'SEX' which is checked for Male/Female.
	If not present then 'person' is used ...

	This is because I watched somebody here being seduced by a
	Nymph and I said "But you're female !". The first act was to
	prevent Nymphs from seducing female players. Then a male
	player said that this wasn't fair; if we were going to do
	this we'd have to give male players extra strength ... you
	can see where the discussion was headed.

	Furthermore, one of the male players wasn't sure that he
	liked the idea of being seduced any more than the females.

	So, exit Nymph. Enter Ninja, with identical stats to the
	Centaur. Exit Centaur, enter Con-artist (we decided this was
	an acceptable spelling). The Con-artist tricks characters out
	of items rather than resorting to violence.
	
	Naturally, people of undecided SEX choke on 'their' food,
	rather than 'his' or 'her' food. This requires that a players
	sex is in the score file (otherwise you end up using the
	SEX of the users, not the dead player !). And all sorts of
	other little messages in similiar vein.

   2.	Escaping with amulet code (easy ... remember to update score
	file !)

   3.	Storing uids instead of names in the score file, thus limiting
	players to one entry per class each. It doesn't stop me pretending
	to be somebody else though !

   4.	New character type: A Ghostbuster. We've recently got very tired
	of meeting learner players ghosts all over levels 2-4, so we're
	going to add a new character and a magic weapon. The trouble is,
	I can't remember what the things should be called (help !). Apart
	from this piece of scientific mastery, the Ghostbuster has
	almost no other equipment (we were thinking of what we could do
	to the dog while we were at it ...). Because of the imbalance
	caused by having ghost-destroying devices deliberately left lying
	around, dead Ghostbusters leave no trail.

	I don't care, I *like* the idea of being a ghostbuster !

   5.	A couple of silly bugs. All reported on net.games.hack.

  ...	As you can tell, we've hacked a little. This does not seem to have
	detracted from our enjoyment of the game. My co-hack-hacker and I
	have not pawed for long hours over listings trying to see how we
	can get ahead. I know my co-hack-hacker reads and furtively stores
	all the clues from net.games.hack; I don't (more fool me).

	Before I go home to bed, I thought I'd say how embarrashing it
	is to be killed by a scroll of genocide... I was only trying to
	make robbing shops easier ! And to have it on the scoreboard as
	well ... By the way, I regard it as a bug that you can't genocide
	demons or trappers. Shape-changers too I imagine. Oh dear, perhaps
	I won't be going home so early tonight ....

	Anybody got any *interesting* monster ideas (like the Tax-man) ?

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							Andrew.

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