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Posted from  jon1@iham1.UUCP (carbaugh)
> There are many easy ways to "win" at hack. One of the simplest
> is to play as a W (wizard). Simply zap the wands you receive
> at the start of your game. Unless one of them is a wand of wishing,
> kill the game and try again until you get one.

Yes, that tactic was in use here for quite a while before I (hack maintainer)
found out.  I felt that such tactics severely imbalanced the game.  Come on,
if this was a video game in some amusement parlor somewhere where you had to
pay a quarter for three lives, would you use such tactics?  Well, I managed
to fix the game so that it wouldn't give you any powerful items (such as
wands of wishing) on your initial inventory.  It's still possible to find one
on level 1, but you just never started with one.  Besides, it's very
unrealistic.  Where would a wimpy first level magician get a wand of wishing
from?
				robert
-- 
Robert Viduya
Georgia Institute of Technology

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