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From: bulko@ut-sally.UUCP (William C. Bulko)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: "Lode Runner":  Spoiler requested
Message-ID: <2627@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 22:48:58 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 22:48:58 1985
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In article <11328@watnot.UUCP> cagordon@watnot.UUCP (Chris A. Gordon) writes:
>I, too, have been playing the game for quite a while (I enjoy it myself) and
>I think (I could be wrong) that where the opponent(s) appear at the top of the 
>screen depends partly (or totally) on your position on the screen. I have noted
>this on the screen you mentioned (definitely NOT one of my more favourite
>screens). Usually I'm somewhere directly (or near) the treasure piece two
>levels up that you cannot access. I'm not quite sure exactly where my man was,
>but when I was in a certain position, an opponent would reappear in the correct
>place and *voila*, that screen's done.

I don't believe this works -- it seemed the obvious thing to try, and so I
have tried it before, with no success.  Besides, my current strategy (for the
most part) is to stay in a "convenient" spot, wait for the opponents to come
after me, and set up holes for them to fall into on their way.  Since I
always wait in the same spot, but see them resurrected in various places
anyway, I'd have to conclude that the method described above doesn't work.
Sigh.
     I've been receiving mail on my posting, but no one has come up with a
solution:  the majority of the replies have been either "use the ladder to
climb up to the box"  (from those with non-Macintosh versions of Lode Runner
which have a different screen setup than mine, and hence have a solution)
or "you just have to accept it."  I've pretty much resigned to the latter.
     Incidentally, is there anyone out there who has created some interesting
levels using the Lode Runner editor (or, for you non-Mac version people,
using imagination) and are interested in possibly trading?  I haven't made much
of an effort at it yet, but I *do* have a few clever ones and could probably get
motivated to draw up more if I knew someone might be interested in playing
them.


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Bill Bulko					Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas      {ihnp4,harvard,gatech,ctvax,seismo}!ut-sally!bulko
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