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 Zephyr Registered user Solar Last page view: 4905 days, 5 hours, 28 minutes and 57 seconds ago. |
I just lost a PC to a crushing death. Oddly, it was right after he *picked up* his stuff. I know crushing deaths can happen when you enequip something that gives you extra carrying capacity, or drop your gold while wearing a girdle of greed, etc. However, he had a blessed girdle of carrying equipped, and picked up a bunch of gold, the game asked if I wanted to continue picking up more gold, which implied I was going to come out of it rather encumbered. He picked up the gold, and was crushed. I didn't realize that could happen. Is it a bug, or am I just ignorant? Give a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day. Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life. |
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vogonpoet Registered user Last page view: 4963 days and 47 seconds ago. |
Yeah I lost a PC like that - asked me if I wanted to continue, I said yeah, and died. I was pretty pissed off. Apparently gold is dangerous *shrug*. |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4245 days, 16 hours, 30 minutes and 3 seconds ago. |
Yeah, happened with me too - a bug with gold I presume. One of the perils of dragon gold-doubling ;) Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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psy_wombats Registered user Untitled Last page view: 5342 days, 14 hours, 26 minutes and 27 seconds ago. |
For all the times I've been Overburdened!, I still haven't died a crushing death. Came close when I had a girdle of greed on and paid for the whole casino stock... WHEN WOMBATS STRIKE! Enjoy your last days... |
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gut Registered user Painted this one too. Last page view: 4903 days, 18 hours, 46 minutes and 59 seconds ago. |
Add me to the list of 'been crushed to death by picking up too much gold'. ADOM handles burdened status in a funny way sometimes. If you stack ~20 large rations in a pile and try to pick them up, the game will ask something like "how many would you like to pick up? 1 - 14" If you chose 14 you will be overburdened, so why does it give 14 as an option? If that's not bad enough, sometimes even chosing 13 will do it. It's just not intuitive for a PC to be able to pick up so much junk, that they actually imobilize or even kill themselves. Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong! |
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Zephyr Registered user Solar Last page view: 4905 days, 5 hours, 28 minutes and 57 seconds ago. |
Yeah, shouldn't that only happen to PCs with really low Learning values? Dumb pubescent trolls who think "Hey, I can totally pick up that heap of ten anvils! Ladies, watch this!" ... *-squish-* Give a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day. Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life. |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4245 days, 16 hours, 30 minutes and 3 seconds ago. |
Overburdened trains the strength stat a lot, so there may be times when you deliberately want to overburden yourself. Shouldn't you as the player be smart enough to look at your burden levels and calculate how much you're able to carry? :P Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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gut Registered user Painted this one too. Last page view: 4903 days, 18 hours, 46 minutes and 59 seconds ago. |
> you as the player be smart enough Perhaps I SHOULD be, but obviously I'm not. I would prefer that an initial pick-up would only allow you to become 'strained!' and another pick-up could allow 'overburdened'. Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong! |
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Zephyr Registered user Solar Last page view: 4905 days, 5 hours, 28 minutes and 57 seconds ago. |
And I'd like to think that my wizard who knows enough about the workings of the universe to create items from thin air, turn invisible, and teleport, is capable of understanding that picking up a ton of stuff can squish you. Give a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day. Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life. |
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gut Registered user Painted this one too. Last page view: 4903 days, 18 hours, 46 minutes and 59 seconds ago. |
"I think I can! I think I can!" *squish* Death by optimism. Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong! |
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Nightmare Registered user Soul Calibur 2 Last page view: 4605 days, 6 hours, 35 minutes and 17 seconds ago. |
"Yeah I lost a PC like that - asked me if I wanted to continue, I said yeah, and died. I was pretty pissed off. Apparently gold is dangerous *shrug*." If your character was Scrooge McDuck, picking up huge piles of gold would train his swimming skill. "As for me, I feel priveleged to be among the only species able to make scientific inquiries." -unknown "Be sure to keep your distance if you don't have resistance." -DG |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4074 days, 17 hours, 12 minutes and 13 seconds ago. |
JADE proposal: Let the character build giant gold vaults to dive into! Bonus points if you introduce the artifact "first 10 copper-piece". 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! |