Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucsfcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!kneller From: kneller@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Don Kneller%Langridge) Newsgroups: net.games.hack Subject: Re: slight spoiler Message-ID: <559@ucsfcgl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 14:14:05 EDT Article-I.D.: ucsfcgl.559 Posted: Thu Jun 27 14:14:05 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 06:21:08 EDT References: <550@ucsfcgl.UUCP> <2039@genat.UUCP> Reply-To: kneller@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Don Kneller) Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab Lines: 29 In article <2039@genat.UUCP> mike@genat.UUCP (Mike Stephenson) writes: >> Bummer. Just lost my first good game of the new hack. Extend the bug about >> not recieving a "you're having a hard time getting all that food down" line >> when eating corpses to include royal jelly. I suspect that apples, tins, and >> tripe are probably not covered by that choke warning, hopefully some coder will >> check it out. > >*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR FAVORITE FOOD *** > >Sorry, it applies to *all* food type items. Hack uses a point system for >determining the food value of a particular item. >The number of "food points" you have go up as you eat and down with time. >The status messages at the right hand side of the status line are generated >depending on the food point number. The "Choke" messages are generated >whenever you attempt to eat something when the number of "food points" you >have exceed a certain value *at the time you start eating*. > > Mike Stephenson What the first posting was explaining is only when eating FOOD RATIONS do you get the warning message "You're having a hard time getting all that food down". This warning appears when you are close to choking on your food. For all other type of edibles you can choke without warning (although you have to be satiated first -- you can't choke on any type of edible if you aren't satiated, so satiation is a warning in itself). Don Kneller