Other nethack options (Was: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?)
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's trivial to reconfigure it in nethack's option screen, just like any other option. I'm not sure why this one should be special. IMO, leave it at the upstream default; you'll surprise nethack players coming from non-Debian systems less that way. And it's not like nethack doesn't have a host of other quirks. :) Right, that reminds me of a default option which I always change, namely pickup_types. I don't know what the default is at the moment (in woody it seems to be just $), but IMHO things to be auto-pickuped are $!?+/=, and some characters might even leave out the spellbooks, though one can at least sell them for decent money. Making nethack options debconf question seems a bit silly to me, but I don't see why we should stick to upstream defaults when they are wrong... Lukas
Re: Other nethack options (Was: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?)
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 08:09:00AM -0400, Lukas Geyer wrote: Right, that reminds me of a default option which I always change, namely pickup_types. I don't know what the default is at the moment (in woody it seems to be just $), but IMHO things to be auto-pickuped are $!?+/=, and some characters might even leave out the spellbooks, though one can at least sell them for decent money. Making nethack options debconf question seems a bit silly to me, but I don't see why we should stick to upstream defaults when they are wrong... Define right. Opinions don't constitute right. If they did here's right: numberpad w/NO auto-pickup except for money. I don't want my packs full of crap; let me decide what to pick up and what to leave laying on the ground. Best to stick to upstream defaults because for those of us who know we want it different than defaults will know what to change right off the bat. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Other nethack options (Was: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?)
Steve C. Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 08:09:00AM -0400, Lukas Geyer wrote: Right, that reminds me of a default option which I always change, namely pickup_types. I don't know what the default is at the moment (in woody it seems to be just $), but IMHO things to be auto-pickuped are $!?+/=, and some characters might even leave out the spellbooks, though one can at least sell them for decent money. Making nethack options debconf question seems a bit silly to me, but I don't see why we should stick to upstream defaults when they are wrong... Define right. Opinions don't constitute right. If they did here's right: numberpad w/NO auto-pickup except for money. I don't want my packs full of crap; let me decide what to pick up and what to leave laying on the ground. I didn't use right in the paragraph above (except for the very first word, but I assume you don't want me to define that, it does not have any meaning in that context), so why should I define it? And for your preference of not picking up anything except money, that is very dangerous if monsters pick things up instead. Think of wands of death, wands of digging, scroll of create monster and stuff like that, or amulet of life saving. And if you want to avoid getting burdened or stressed by auto-pickup, then why pick up money? And auto-pickup for money is also annoying when leprechauns are around etc. I find the default of auto-pickup=$ hard to defend. Having auto-pickup turned off is another matter, that would be fine with me, as long as pickup_types is sane. Lukas P.S.: For the humor-impaired: Here are some smileys, feel free to spread them over the text of this email: :) :) :) :)
