還有人在這嗎?

[kcwong]

Seems like everyone's gone already?

[kcwong]

On Jul 23, 2:56 pm, kcwong <evilwar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems like everyone's gone already?

Replying to myself... -_-
I received an email from Claud... so someone's still around! :)


I'm KC, a consultant (IT, mostly government and bank projects) in Hong
Kong. I started playing NetHack back in Jun 2006. I've learned about
Roguelikes long before that, and I've heard about how people have
played for 17 years and never ascended (but still having fun). I
forgot why I started playing NetHack though. :P

On the first day I killed over 100 characters... to name a few: killed
in combat, starved to death, food poisoning, cursed items, angering my
own god by praying repeatedly, loss of HP from falling down (Knight
trying to ride pony inside the first room), got into the habit of
kicking doors (and finally kicked open a shop closed for inventory --
missed the engravings), team ant, team q.

I almost quit in frustration - I was save-scumming and wasn't getting
any idea of how to play better. I talked to the only long-time NetHack
player I know on a forum - got some advice and learned a few tricks,
and then I stopped save-scumming (100 deaths in a day made me
insensitive to my characters' poor fate), and one by one I found the
problems went away... they no longer bother me anymore. Without
knowing I already have a solution to them all (or prevent them from
happening).

Still haven't ascended, but I have a bunch of characters in good
conditions. Wizard, Valkyrie, Barbarian, Archaeologist and a Tourist.
All have breached the castle, with the elf wizard as the best, looking
for the vibrating square. I stopped playing them for now in fear that
my insufficient skills would kill them in some stupid ways.

My new characters can finish Sokoban for sure, most can make it
through Mine's End, and some can reach the Castle. They died because I
was not careful enough. -_-

For all this time I don't know many NetHack players... there's a bunch
in rec.games.roguelike.nethack, but as the NetHack map shows very few
are in Asia. So I was quite surprised when I found this group!


Also, is it okay to use English here? If not, I can post in Chinese...
I just got used to post in English, from all the groups and forums I
visit. Haven't been typing much Chinese for years... so my skill in
Changji degraded a bit.