Mindflayer mindwipe and abuse
- From: pendell@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 14 Sep 2005 06:10:48 -0700
It has come to my attention that keeping detailed identification notes
in case of mindflayer mindwipe is considered abusive.
Fortunately, this has had no impact on my past two ascensions, as
copious use of identify discovered the scroll of amnesia
and mindflayers were countered with "E", wands of magic missile,
polearms, and scrolls of genocide.
However, I cannot always count on being so blessed. So how is this
solved ingame?
My first thought is copious use of the #name feature -- but what about
things that can't be named? I've tried renaming a scroll of gold
detection to "gold", without success.
Perhaps I should keep an individual named specimen of each scroll
safely tucked away in a box, and if I get mindwiped go up and use the
contents of the box to refresh my memory?
Or is there a more elegant way to do this?
BTW, I'm doing this because I want my ascensions to be unquestionable
-- I'd hate to put an * next to the YAAP notation. But I've never
really understood why this is an abuse. We keep copious notes of
what's on each level and what the inventory of our stashes are, don't
we? Why do we keep those notes but destroy the object identification
ones? If a PC is relying totally on his memory, he should lose that
information as well. If he's keeping that information recorded (in a
notebook, say), why should he record the one and not the other?
Isn't it reasonable that a wizard with 18 intel who has devoted his
life to study, or an archeologist who has survived Ph.D level
coursework, would not rely solely on his memory during the most
important quest of his life? Wouldn't some method of notetaking to
track inventory management and object identification be an elementary
precaution even schoolkids will think of, much less the super-genius
types that are the nethack spellcasting classes?
Respectfully,
Brian P.
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