Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site aluxz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!aluxz!rakon From: rakon@aluxz.UUCP (kohler) Newsgroups: net.games.rogue Subject: Re: 2.0 hints Message-ID: <210@aluxz.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 09:05:33 EST Article-I.D.: aluxz.210 Posted: Thu Jan 3 09:05:33 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 00:29:27 EST References: <8190@watarts.UUCP> <93@uwvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA Lines: 28 > Trading Post: You cannot drop or sell cursed things in a trading post. > So if you cannot carry anything else, get rid of something before you > enter the trading post. You can sometimes tell if something is good by > the amount of gold you have to pay for it. A 150 gold potion might be > cursed, while a 450 potion might be blessed. Items that are the same will > cost the same amount of gold within the trading post (I believe). > Trading posts can be great if you do these: 1) Do a magic detection in the trading post to single out the blessed items. 2) Remember the prices you pay in different games. Scrolls, potions and rings cost the same from game to game. For example, scrolls of enchantment are always 600, so you can usually find them by pricing. However, hold monster is also 600, but it's good to have too, so I don't complain. 3) There is also a system of cursed and blessed pricing: a 50% mark-up for blessed items and a 50% discount for cursed items. In the original example, the potion's base price would have been 300. 4) Sometimes you can cheat the trading post. I was carrying a single +3 arrow after going deep enough that bow fighting was pretty worthless. When I priced it, I was offered over 1000 gold pieces (!) which I took. 5) You can drop or sell some cursed items, as long as the trading post is willing to price them, ie, a 150 cursed scroll of light. RAKON ( I feel weak now ) THE MULTICOLOURED