Re: Floating eyes out of the blue?

Ohle Claussen wrote:
On 2007-11-06, Tina Hall wrote:

[ about using the ingame library to know not to hit floating eyes]

What can be objected to is that many of these entries don't actually explain much. Often you just get some obscure quote, which, for me at least, is discouraging to use the command. (I recently did a few times, because I have forgotten a lot, but then stopped for lack of information in it.)

That is a very good point. I seem to remember that I personally
switched from using farlook on new encounters to using learn-by-dying
and learn-by-spoiler after I got quoted an only vaguely relevant and
sometimes misleading passage of fantasy literature one too many times.

Personally I don't expect the game to reveal every detail, whether in
the Guidebook or in any in-game database. Playing variants (Slash and
Spork) I observed that I was just becoming more or even overly careful
whenever I encountered an unknown creature (or a new situation); that
approach added to the excitement of discovering new game elements and
lead me quite far[*]. You're then naturally doing more ranged attacks,
let your pet handle the situation, or circumvent a creature.

Janis

[*] Compare that also to the Krysia's Krusaders approach.
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