Disappearing Diamonds.

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4 total messages Started by q Fri, 08 Nov 1985 13:14

#1142

Author: q
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1985 13:14

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Something strange is happening to me lately.
I have a *very* good game going. I have a load full of wands and
among them several wands of polymorh. Right now I'm busy trying to
get me a lot of wands of wishing. Sometimes, during my game, I have
to zap them empty to get me some wands which I can polymorh again.
Everytime I wish for 3 diamonds and do not forget to make use of
the fourth wish. But now the strange thing : In a corner of the
room I'm in, I drop the diamonds to make myself lighter. Sofar I
should have got about 300 diamonds !!!! Now if I save the game and
later start it up again, several diamonds have disappeared !!
I found this out the nigth before last. Yesterday I again dropped
several diamonds on one place. When I wanted to look how many I got
sofar, it appeared that again the diamonds had disappeared !!
( Sob Sob ). I didn't move off the spot and there were no Orc's 
on my level. 

So my questions are : Is this a bug or a feature ????
		      And if it is a feature is there a possibillity
		      to get them back ???
-- 

					Eric Valk - valk@ark.UUCP

Re: Disappearing Diamonds.

#1143

Author: Michiel Huisjes
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1985 23:04

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In article <588@ark.UUCP> valk@ark.UUCP (q) writes:
(..)
>should have got about 300 diamonds !!!! Now if I save the game and
(..)
>
>					Eric Valk - valk@ark.UUCP


Why bother, you can only carry about 115 diamonds plus your amulet....

-- 

			Michiel Huisjes.  (huisjes@ark.UUCP)
			{seismo|decvax|philabs}!mcvax!vu44!ark!huisjes

Re: Disappearing Diamonds.

#1141

Author: Stoll W William
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1985 17:41

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> But now the strange thing : In a corner of the
> room I'm in, I drop the diamonds to make myself lighter. Sofar I
> should have got about 300 diamonds !!!! Now if I save the game and
> later start it up again, several diamonds have disappeared !!
> 
> 					Eric Valk - valk@ark.UUCP

I am pretty sure there is a byte limit on the number of items in
gem piles, rock piles, dart piles, arrow piles, etc.  In other words,
if you add one item to a pile containing 255 items, you will have
a pile of 0 items.  I have not tested this explicitly, but I've never
been able to create a rock pile larger than 255 rocks.  Also I have
not verified this in the code.  BUT I bet you that if you stack your
diamonds in piles of 255 or less you will be ok.

Bill Stoll, ..!whuxlm!wws

Re: Disappearing Diamonds.

#1162

Author: cs2551ap
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1985 05:35

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In article <> huisjes@ark.UUCP (Michiel Huisjes) writes:
>In article <588@ark.UUCP> valk@ark.UUCP (q) writes:
>>should have got about 300 diamonds !!!! Now if I save the game and
>>
>>					Eric Valk - valk@ark.UUCP
>
>Why bother, you can only carry about 115 diamonds plus your amulet....
>
>			Michiel Huisjes.  (huisjes@ark.UUCP)
>			{seismo|decvax|philabs}!mcvax!vu44!ark!huisjes

I believe the max things in any one space is 255.  I'm wondering if you had
about 300-255 diamonds in that location when you dropped them.

				Tom Brown

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