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CURSED BOY Unregistered user |
Im at the mid stage of the game. And i am cheating because this is my first time through, reviving a dead character. And i have found i am cursed. How do i remove it or is it harmless? |
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Ilsekko Registered user Sick Burdened Stunned Confused Last page view: 5971 days, 13 hours, 21 minutes and 8 seconds ago. |
Being cursed makes the RNG add a negative fudge factor during your gameplay, making your character quite unlucky..i think removing the curse is quite impossible, but you can try to compensate it with bless. Also try to achieve a decent standing with your deity and you may become "lucky" or have the "fate smiles upon you" intrinsic, which work exactly as the curse, but in the opposite direction of course |
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Blacklion Registered user Jellies... BAH! Last page view: 5012 days, 15 hours, 34 minutes and 21 seconds ago. |
Spoiler You get rid of cursing when you have the correct piety with your god (very close iirc) [Edited 1 time, last edit on 12/19/2006 at 07:06 (GMT -5) by Blacklion] |
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Molach Registered user Lord of DurisMud Last page view: 5148 days, 14 hours, 52 minutes and 38 seconds ago. |
Reviving your dead character via savegame backup is not allowed for a legitimate character, one you wish to post to the Hall of Fame (tm) for example. It is often referred to as save-scumming as well. I used it on one character to learn more about the game, but moved on to playing "pure" characters fast. While learning the game you could try it, your choice. But the real game starts when you stop reviving. Makes it all more exciting too...if you mess up you lose your hours invested... adds realism and danger to the game in my opinion. I guess it is used in "research", but your results would be "spoily". However, I regularly back up my characters savegames. This because crashes can happen, or things like computer failure, loss of power and so forth. It is not considered cheating when your character is lost to such circumstances. I would also add, that your learning curve may be steeper if you just make new characters and start over. Sometimes if you save-scum you will end up in a semi-hopeless potition, and restarting will not do a lot of good except delay your eventual death a little. Might as well start fresh. |
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Taz Registered user Registered user Last page view: 5032 days, 11 hours, 55 minutes and 8 seconds ago. |
i tend to disagree, molach. with save-scumming you tend to go a bit further and get a chance to explore places you wouldnt be able to without save scumming. but then, there *is* a certain stage in your learning curve where you should stop. i guess it really is a person's choice and as long as they are honest when submitting characters to the hof, they can do whatever they want in the game. he seems to know that what he's doing is not legit anyway ;) Taz: A potion of gain attributes (4s) is lying here. Suddenly a stone block hits your head! Something on the ground is smashed to pieces! PeanutGod: Awwww no! How harsh is that! This is where you need the artefact 'mop and bucket'. |
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Iridia Moderator on this forum YASD Last page view: 3762 days, 17 hours, 42 minutes and 25 seconds ago. |
Re. Save-scumming: Feel free if you so desire. It's a good way of learning about the game, which is hard enough to beat even when you know all the mechanics. However, it's cheating to claim that a save-scummed victory is a real victory; only games which have never been restored from the savefile (except in the case of a crash or power outage) can be claimed as victories. Ilsekko isn't quite correct--there are ways to remove cursing. Spoiler
--Eating a karmic being, IIRC if the corpse is blessed (anything with "karmic" in the name will do) --As Blacklion says, getting to "very close" piety --Reading a scroll of luck (bless it!) --Drinking from pools has a chance of removing it (but this can also have very bad effects, such as dooming you, which you REALLY don't want--it's like "cursed" on steroids) Die Gedanken sind Frei |