CF: Re: Beginneers Guide

[Maciej Kalisiak <>]

Anthony Thyssen writes:
 > Aboout the beginneres Guide
 >    http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/%7emac/cf-fbbb.html
 > 
 > It mentions ``set pickup-mode to "silver and higher..."''
 > but don't mention how -- VERY important in a beginneers guide...
 > (See the sig)

:)

Yeah, I was ASSUMING they would be using gtk client, which has this as 
a drop down menu...

 > Does ``mark'' allow you to pick what is to be identified?
 > I always thought dropping the item and money was the key.

No, mark does not do what I said, although I mentioned this to Mark
Wedel and it sounds like it will be in the next version. I'll hack my
own patch sometime today or tomorrow and I'll put it on the list. The
way it works now is (as far as I read it in the code; anybody correct
me if I'm wrong) that it starts at the top of your inventory and
identifies all the items going downwards until it runs out of money
(the money that you dropped). It will not identify the objects lying
on the ground (I thought it would do this too; for some reason I think
that's how Nethack does something...)

 > pouches cant by `weilded', thay are made active, open, closed
 > in a cycle.  A active key ring only saves keys. Same with quivers
 > for arrows, and purse for money.

Right, I forgot the proper terminology. Interesting (about the
specialized pick ups). But the quiver will only pick up arrows if the
"pick up mode" allows it, right?

 > Wow thanks I didn't know `check curse' was a flat fee!

Ahhh, the first satisfied customer... :)
Glad to see the page to be of some use so soon.

 > Nice idea about the mice, I have only used them for initial 
 > experience gain. mice are of course no good against dragons.
 > Hmm what the game needs is a low level spell ``summon mouse'' :-)

Yes!!!!!! The Magic Flute artifact!!! :):):):):)

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