Few gameplay Questions... (eat stuff on ground / polymorph out of cursed rings / techniques reload time)

[nobody]

Hi!


ATM i'm playing using vultures claw and despite the simple interface I still got a few question - just can't figure out...:

a) How do I eat stuff on the ground - especially corpses too heavy to lift? I really find it anoying to starve while standing on a mountain of flesh that's slowly decaying under my feet :) - using "." works to read stuff written on the ground etc, but with eating it just keeps saying "this is a silly thing to eat" (guess that means i'm trying to eat the floor :/ )
b) Is there any being that can't wear rings? I've been able to polymorph out of most cursed armor, helmets, weapons, but rings don't even fall to the ground when polymorhing into fungi or slime (shouldn't they?)
c) Some techniques (like "bless" when playing priest or "liquid leap" when doppelganger) just don't seem to refresh - i used them at lvl1 and they were still not available again on lvl 10. Is that supposed to take that long or what am i doing wrong?


thanks!

[xkernigh]

On Tuesday 25 September 2007 05:33:24 am nobody wrote:
> a) How do I eat stuff on the ground - especially corpses too heavy to lift?
> I really find it anoying to starve while standing on a mountain of flesh
> that's slowly decaying under my feet :) - using "." works to read stuff
> written on the ground etc, but with eating it just keeps saying "this is a
> silly thing to eat" (guess that means i'm trying to eat the floor :/ )

Press comma "," to access the menu of comestibles on the floor. Select
something from the menu to eat it.

> b) Is there any being that can't wear rings? I've been able to polymorph
> out of most cursed armor, helmets, weapons, but rings don't even fall to
> the ground when polymorhing into fungi or slime (shouldn't they?)

This seems to be a special rule, that if you polymorph into something
without arms or legs, then rings will remain stuck on your body. For
example, I once polymorphed into a snake and (my inventory screen said
that) the ring became stuck in my scales.

> c) Some techniques (like "bless" when playing priest or "liquid leap" when
> doppelganger) just don't seem to refresh - i used them at lvl1 and they
> were still not available again on lvl 10. Is that supposed to take that
> long or what am i doing wrong?

It should not take that long. I had to read the source code to spoil
myself about how long it takes for techniques to refresh. (I am looking
at a recent checkout of SLASH'EM from CVS. Vulture's Claw probably uses
an older version of SLASH'EM.)

After you cast the "bless" or "liquid leap" technique, the game sets a
timeout to a random number from 500 to 1499; then it subtracts lvl%.
The worst case is that you used a lvl1 technique, the game set the
timeout to 1499*99% = 1484 turns. Each turn, SLASH'EM will subtract 1
 from the timeout. When the timeout reaches 0, then you are "prepared"
to use that technique again. It probably took more than 1484 turns of
game play to go from lvl1 to lvl10, so your techniques should have
refreshed.

--Kernigh http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/User:Kernigh

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