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Sulangatori Registered user Tourist Last page view: 1442 days, 7 hours, 8 minutes and 16 seconds ago. |
Has anyone ever noticed that sometimes during a game a very common item is nearly impossible to find. Right now I'm playing a Gnomish Bard lvl27. I am somewhere past the casino and this guy has yet to find a girdle of carrying! Not that I need it, but I have never gone this far without one before. Also, this guy finds ludicrously few scrolls of identify. Just to top it all he has not found one (!) random artifact, and that includes visits to the dragon cave, darkforge and the casino. Nothing. Other PC's have sometimes had a hard time finding water and one particular PC, after having his inventory and equipment cursed, failed to find a scroll of uncursing. After spending some time just doing normal stuff he finally went to the High King chambers and after spending a couple of hours looking for scroll of uncursing I got bored and quit (I think he is still somewhere in my saved games). |
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gut Registered user Painted this one too. Last page view: 4898 days, 4 hours and 24 seconds ago. |
Yep. I've definitely noticed that. It also seems to me that either a scroll of danger will be rare, or a wand of monster creation will be, but seldom both. (Although that may just be my imagination.) I think the most annoying item to be rare, for fighter types, is a wand of cold. Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong! |
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Nezur Unregistered user |
I guess the game randomizes a chance for items to be generated at the beginning of each game. |
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Maelstrom Registered user The Knight of the Black Rose Last page view: 3117 days, 21 hours, 12 minutes and 40 seconds ago. |
That's the basic law of ADOM. The Random Number Generator is a b!+(h. If you need to kill a harpy, you'll get revenants, blink dogs, giant slugs and just about every rare or useful monster, except the one you want. If you want water or scrolls of identify, monsters will leave SoCRs and PoGAs and you'll have no way of blessing them. The RNG hates us ;P A pessimist sees a dark tunnel. An optimist sees a light at the end of that tunnel. A realist sees a train. And the train driver sees three idiots on the tracks. |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4240 days, 1 hour, 43 minutes and 28 seconds ago. |
And a feature of the human mind is that you tend to remember when things don't go your way, instead of when they do go your way. You think the RNG hates you because you forget all the times when you find what you want easily. Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4069 days, 2 hours, 25 minutes and 38 seconds ago. |
It feels better to blame a cold, heartless program for our troubles... You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! |
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J. Registered user You'll never get rid of me Last page view: 5664 days, 20 hours, 37 minutes and 48 seconds ago. |
Yeah, it's not my fault my characters keep dying. If you're feeling happy, don't worry, it'll go away. Originally posted by noob: "I'm everytime amazed how you people know to exploit every single little bug (or not-bug) for elaborated scumming tatics even if the feature seems completely useless or bad." |
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Hallowed Registered user Last page view: 5117 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes and 5 seconds ago. |
I have definitely noticed that before. Especially right now as i speak i am a level 30 dark elf barbarian who just cleared the Earth Temple and i have found NOT ONE scroll of uncursing. This is extremely irritating lol. In a recent game a wizard had a very hard time finding potions of water. Also, gut, this barbarian i am currently playing has found 6 wands of cold so far...i found that rather surprising. |