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Re: The horror of Sporkhack

de...@moot.its.only.a.spamtrap.org (Derek Ray) — Thu, 18 maalis 2010 18:37:26 UT

Yes. No.

The horror of Sporkhack

henry.c...@gmail.com (hcobb) — Thu, 18 maalis 2010 16:51:20 UT

unknown lycanthrope shambling horror.
Program in disorder; you probably should S)ave and restart the
process.
This is on my local machine.
Has this been fixed in a recent Sporkhack build and will an update fix
this?
-HJC

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Re: {SPORK} strength bonus for missile launchers {was -- Racial bonus for dagger multishot?}

chillyn...@yahoo.com (Link) — Thu, 18 maalis 2010 14:43:26 UT

DEREK'S IDEAS AREN'T AFFECTING NETHACK! They are affecting
Sporkhack. And considering that Sporkhack is Derek's personal variant
of the game, I think it's perfectly acceptable for him to have the
final say of which things goes into Sporkhack.

Re: YASD

damer...@chiark.greenend.org.uk (David Damerell) — Thu, 18 maalis 2010 12:22:22 UT

Quoting Bill Green <b...@supposedly.org>:
The only invocation of exercise() in dig.c is the "exercise(A_WIS, FALSE)"
for grave robbing. Chuckie is flat wrong, as ever.

Re: {SPORK} strength bonus for missile launchers {was -- Racial bonus for dagger multishot?}

xanth...@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) — Thu, 18 maalis 2010 11:42:58 UT

Link wrote:
>> (way too much text)
In more clear spoken terms, text proving you in
multiple ways to be an idiot, and thus text to which
you lacked the guts to respond.
"Men today will hold their manhood cheap" who act as
you do.
Who am I to tell you whose boots your must lick?
My "crusade", which it isn't, is to curb the

Re: New game with NetHack code?

bksear...@hotmail.co.uk (Eladar) — Thu, 18 maalis 2010 11:19:13 UT

If you wanna change a bit, there IS a game EXTREMELY like nethack...
The main difference... You play the god.
Im sure this is where I saw it posted before so someone will have a
link (I was at work, and therefore couldn't check the game out).
Having not played the game, I can't say exactly what it is like, but I

Re: Help from source code divers, re: DECgraphics

stefa...@cox.net (Stefan O'Rear) — Thu, 18 maalis 2010 07:50:17 UT

There is no sleep; if there was, the bot would be spending 2 seconds per move.
The one second delay you see is near pure calculation. Of all the current bots,
TAEB tries hardest to come up with a good move, and we pay for it in run time.
Typical response delay for TAEB is 20-30 milliseconds.
-sorear

Re: Help from source code divers, re: DECgraphics

janis_papanag...@hotmail.com (Janis Papanagnou) — Thu, 18 maalis 2010 06:34:53 UT

Should have been "tics".

Re: Help from source code divers, re: DECgraphics

janis_papanag...@hotmail.com (Janis Papanagnou) — Thu, 18 maalis 2010 06:31:17 UT

Sorry if I was unclear! I meant; the @ character moved one square, then
waited approx. 1 second, then moved another square, then waited 1 sec, etc.
This behaviour could be explained with the "1 second sleep" that you seem
to have inplemented in (former?) TAEB versions. This was quite boring to
watch (and especially if coupled with a "deadlock" situation where the bot

Re: Help from source code divers, re: DECgraphics

stefa...@cox.net (Stefan O'Rear) — Thu, 18 maalis 2010 05:59:40 UT

Please elaborate on "ticks" and "fluently".

Re: Help from source code divers, re: DECgraphics

janis_papanag...@hotmail.com (Janis Papanagnou) — Thu, 18 maalis 2010 05:47:17 UT

Last time I observed a TAEB at NAO it showed something that looked like
the 1 sec ticks that you describe on your link. You changed that, IIUC;
does it play fluently now?
Janis

Re: Help from source code divers, re: DECgraphics

stefa...@cox.net (Stefan O'Rear) — Thu, 18 maalis 2010 05:07:16 UT

Directly has a very specific and restricted meaning there. If
your connection drops out for 10 minutes, and synchronization
is not lost, the mere act of being slow will not kill you.
-sorear

Re: Help from source code divers, re: DECgraphics

janis_papanag...@hotmail.com (Janis Papanagnou) — Thu, 18 maalis 2010 04:58:29 UT

>> While NetHack, as a turn-based game, does not suffer from
>> directly lag-caused deaths, it is still very difficult to
>> make moves sensibly when the responses are delayed.
Which is probably true in a lot cases, but not generally. (Or
the word "directly" must be considered having a very specific

Re: Help from source code divers, re: DECgraphics

aguilar.ja...@gmail.com (James Aguilar) — Thu, 18 maalis 2010 04:48:48 UT

Ah, the perennial why-to or why-not-to use Perl question. :P You guys
have done a great job with keeping your codebase clean and readable.
It's fantastic, really. And I do know just a little Perl. But to my
taste, there's just a little more magic built in to that language for
me to want to work in it during my free time.