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4 total messages Started by Gumby Thu, 16 Jan 1986 19:16

#1232

Author: Gumby
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1986 19:16

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(hack 1.0.2)

I had something interesting happen the other day. I was cruising along
around level 25 or so, wearing the following: +0 Plate mail, +0 gloves,
a +1 shield, and a +3 elven cloak. My total armor class was something
around -5 or -6 (gloves may have been +1). At any rate, I found another
scroll of enchant armor and read it and this is what happened:

"Your elven cloak glows violently green for a moment--more--
 Your elven cloak has vaninshed..."

Interesting, eh? Back to -1 armor class. Has this ever happened to
anyone before? I suppose you can't enchant armor past +3....

Also, I hear a lot of talk about killing the mail man and racking up
experience points. Every time I see him, he cruises over, gives me my
mail and disappears, all in one turn. How do you kill him????? Is this
only in hack 1.0.3 that you can get to him? 

 -- 
* Isaac Salzman (Gumby)
* Research Development Labs (RDL)
* Culver City, California, 90230
* UUCP: ...!{psivax,sdcrdcf,ttidca}!rdlvax!salzman
* ARPA: ttidca!rdlvax!salzman@Rand-unix.arpa

Re: Over enchanted armor

#1238

Author: Nancy Miller
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1986 18:52

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> (hack 1.0.2)
> 
> I had something interesting happen the other day. I was cruising along
> around level 25 or so, wearing the following: +0 Plate mail, +0 gloves,
> a +1 shield, and a +3 elven cloak. My total armor class was something
> around -5 or -6 (gloves may have been +1). At any rate, I found another
> scroll of enchant armor and read it and this is what happened:
> 
> "Your elven cloak glows violently green for a moment--more--
>  Your elven cloak has vaninshed..."
> 
> Interesting, eh? Back to -1 armor class. Has this ever happened to
> anyone before? I suppose you can't enchant armor past +3....
> 
>  -- 
> * Isaac Salzman (Gumby)

I have wished for +7 plate mail and gotten it.  But I get a similar message
when I read a scroll of enchant armor that affected it.  It appears that for
each type of armor there is a maximum enchantment value.  Lately I've been
wishing for +6 plate mail when I haven't yet seen a scroll of enchant armor.
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Nancy Miller
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Re: Over enchanted armor

#1246

Author: Andrew Klossner
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1986 20:47

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	"It appears that for each type of armor there is a maximum
	enchantment value."

It's been a few months since I looked at the source code, but I believe
that the actual mechanism is that whenever you try to enchant an item
to greater than +3, there is a random chance that the item will
evaporate.  This is true of weapons as well as armor.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]

Re: Over enchanted armor

#1251

Author: Richard Kuhns
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1986 20:08

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In article <602@nlm-mcs.ARPA> miller@nlm-mcs.ARPA (Nancy Miller) writes:
>> (hack 1.0.2)
>> 
>> I had something interesting happen the other day. I was cruising along
>> around level 25 or so, wearing the following: +0 Plate mail, +0 gloves,
>> a +1 shield, and a +3 elven cloak. My total armor class was something
>> around -5 or -6 (gloves may have been +1). At any rate, I found another
>> scroll of enchant armor and read it and this is what happened:
>> 
>> "Your elven cloak glows violently green for a moment--more--
>>  Your elven cloak has vaninshed..."
>> 
>> Interesting, eh? Back to -1 armor class. Has this ever happened to
>> anyone before? I suppose you can't enchant armor past +3....
>> 
>>  -- 
>> * Isaac Salzman (Gumby)
>
>I have wished for +7 plate mail and gotten it.  But I get a similar message
>when I read a scroll of enchant armor that affected it.  It appears that for
>each type of armor there is a maximum enchantment value.  Lately I've been
>wishing for +6 plate mail when I haven't yet seen a scroll of enchant armor.
>-- 

From examining the code, it appears that when _reading a scroll of enchant
armor_, there is a random chance (based on current +) that your armor will
evaporate if it's currently +3 or better.
-- 
Rich Kuhns		{ihnp4, decvax, etc...}!pur-ee!pur-phy!mrstve!rjk

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