Posted by Proud Blade on April 5, 2000 at 16:27:14:
In Reply to: Re: I beg to differ (text) posted by Xanthrailles on April 5, 2000 at 16:03:18:
"Well, the times I've been rotted, I've:
1) Kept myself healed, since each tick you take damage from rot, and
2) Grabbed some +con items, to compensate for the fact that rot gradually lowers your con, and kills you when it gets low enough. There are a whole bunch of low-level ones to help with this, or
3) Convinced a healer to healing sleep me, since that cures it entirely."
How does advice like that ruin the game for anyone? Are you really that worried that a newbie CF player will be able to crush you because they know basic survival techniques like what is above?
Or is it better to use a forum like this to help everyone learn about the game a bit, so everyone has fun, and not just the "top" 10% of the players who know all of this sort of stuff? CF is interesting for a lot of reasons, but part of it is that there are a lot of skilled players. I actually -like- fighting skilled opponents, who know what to do when I sleep/rot/insect swarm/nightgaunt/fiend/whatever them. Challenge is good. Whooping up on baffled newbies with nightgaunts is dumb.
The forum has reasonable rules. Don't take it upon yourself to extend them as you see fit.
> I can honestly say I haven't seen it in the past. You have to decide where it stops though. should you tell people how to beat rot, wither. Give out the secrets to phylacteries? Conjurers are still new and relatively unexplored. As far as the intelligant post go. See can see two right below this, blow me and yes, blow him. Heh :P. Gaunts are fun and each person should learn to deal with them in the game. That is my opinion though. If you just are syaing you are doing it to make it easier on them. Why not post maps of areas and point out death traps then, because it takes away from the experience.