Quest Digest, 7/10/95

From: ">>-Josh->" <J.P.Gallagher@durham.ac.uk>

Date: Sat, 07 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000

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|                          THE QUEST DIGEST                          |
|             The forum for the E-mailing Quest-players              |
|       Compiled by Josh Gallagher: J.P.Gallagher@durham.ac.uk       |
|                        Date: 7th October 1995                      |
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JPG> Hello again folks!  Josh back again, editting the digest.  Much
thanks to Chris for keeping the list going over the summer.  It remains
to be seen how many of the addresses are now duds after people lose their
accounts, so the list may shrink somewhat in the next couple of weeks.

JPG> Firstly I'd like to address the problem of the quotation method.
This was brought up in the last digest, I believe, where someone
complained that the odd format was coming up with funny colours on the
screen. Well, the reason that the digest is in this format is that when
someone 'replies' to it, they may want to quote a paragraph in the middle
of someone's entry.  If this is the case, then the line saying who the
article was sent by usually gets lost, and it isn't clear where the
paragraph came from.  With the initials at the beginning of each
paragraph, it is much easier to see who said what.

JPG> Okay, on with the submissions.  There aren't many this week, as
people are doubtless settling in to universities, or perhaps even waiting
to see if I'll _bother_ carrying this on!  (Yes, sorry it's taken so
long!)  However, I'm still as eager as ever for your contributions, so if
you've got something to say, please email me!

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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 97 11:03:12 GMT
From: Dave Rees <chaos@thanes.demon.co.uk>

To : Jan-Ivar Hansen-Bergli
From : Dave Rees

I have mailled you twice at the following address :

jihb0101@toll.telemax.no

Both have failed to reach their destination. Please send me another address
where I may contact you.
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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 95 09:57:42 BST
From: Ian Robert Anderson <phyira@caledonia.hw.ac.uk>

The reason I sugested all the different types of combat rounds to be
merged together was so that groups that specialise in missile and magic
attacks dont have the hideously large advantage they do at the moment,
even the most powerful groups can be wiped out by any groups with lots of
spellcasters.
  I see the point about it not being sensible to fire missiles into meele,
perhaps limiting them to targeting characters not in melee combat would be
sensible.
  I disagree that mismatched battles will be worse, with this system a
mismatched group will have 1 round of melee (remember their wont be as
many charcaters in melee so it will be less damaging) 2 lots of missile
fire and 2 rounds worth of spellcasting (witch will mean the really nasty
spells wont be cast due to the casting time). Where as with the system we
have at the moment a group will get 1 round of spellcasting (including any
death spells witch makes a big difference) 1 round of missile and 1 round
of melee with all 15 characters present. Overall the weak group get's alot
hit less in melee, hit about the same in missile, and gets less magic
against it.
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JPG> Okay, that's a wrap!  Sorry Chris, I lost the new header... using
the old one for now... do you want to mail me the new one so I can use that?

Happy Questing...

>>-Josh->
         "we are Young, we run Free, keep our teeth nice and clean,
       see our Friends, see the sights, feel Alright"  -- Supergrass