From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!cbosgd!mark
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Title: Re: Faint with hunger
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.2629
Posted: Wed Sep 15 13:08:35 1982
Received: Thu Sep 16 02:03:31 1982
References: burdvax.152

You do not get hungry faster from any of the previous list, except
possibly drinking beer while playing.  Each turn you take uses up
one unit of food.  Running across a room takes one turn per space.

In order to not get hungry as often, one important thing is to search
rooms efficiently.  The more you bounce off the walls of the room,
the more food you eat.  Searching diagonally tends to cover more ground
in the same amount of time.  Of course, resting and searching also
take up turns, so you can't afford to do too much resting and searching
if you're starving.

Wearing most rings causes food to be consumed faster, so you get
hungry faster.  Some rings eat more than others.  Slow indigestion
reduces your food consumption rate by 1/2 of the normal rate.

Rogue was tuned for a 24x80 screen.  If you have a bigger screen you
have to explore more area and tend to get hungry faster.  If you have
a smaller screen you don't get hungry as often, but other problems
arise.  (Your inventories can become unreadable, and you don't have
as much manuvering room.)  Later versions of rogue try to compensate
for screen size, and won't go above a certain size.