MikeRosoft
Since: Jan, 2001
Jul 15th 2018 at 10:44:55 PM
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Codename: Iceman
- On one occasion you need to obtain two items by winning them in the Yahtzee dice game. The trick is that authors incorporated the 'anti-cheating' solution that allows your opponent to accept the game only limited number of times (and calling you a cheater later), thus rendering the save-restore method useless. There is no other way to obtain the items, so if the player character loses all his money, he must start the game over from the beginning. The real kicker? The game does not recognize the straight, so betting a straight against a pair means losing a round.
This isn't entirely correct. Some of the items *can* be obtained elsewhere, and others aren't strictly required to finish the game (failing to obtain them just prevents the 100% completion). In any case, this isn't a programming mistake, it is by design.
Long live Marxism-Lennonism!
Could someone clean up the King's Quest VII example? The firecracker does explode almost instantly on modern systems, but after dying you're restored to where you died with another firecracker. Hence you can eventually get the firecracker to it's destination, you just have to stop to die every few seconds.
Could someone confirm and add this?
mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really. Hide / Show Replies