From wwwwolf@iki.fi Thu Jul 2 12:56:27 1998 Path: news.eunet.fi!wwwwolf From: wwwwolf@iki.fi (Urpo Lankinen) Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.nethack Subject: [RGRNCA] Re: PLEASE HELP ME WITH HACKING MUD GAME SERVERS!!!!! Date: 1 Jul 1998 12:54:17 GMT Organization: WWWWolf's den Lines: 142 Message-ID: References: <35998878.E7ECAE62@geocities.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wwwwolf.pp.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-FurryCode: FCWm3adm A+C-DH+M+PR+T++W-ZSm RLU a19cl+++d-ef+h*i++p-sm X-YiffCode: Yiff1.0Mhet P-- Z-- T! S+ V+ H(wolf,*)+ aIr X-RGRNCA-Activity: Dammit! X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.4.3 UNIX) DAMMIT! Only three newsgroups. Thus, this was not spam. (But I will report it anyway to the originating host, geocities and perharps to the Two Towers Council of Wizards...) On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:53:13 -0700, koticimage2 wrote: >I was playing this mud and I was doing pretty good, Ah... great. Another MU*er. >when all of the sudden a player killed me. Uuu. Nasty. (Reminds me of a time when I still was in BatMUD... Yucks, that place had a lot of newbie-hostile people. Summon - zap a few times with magical thingy - collect the loser's expa... *I was too scared to ask for reimbursement.*) ... > I tried and was unsuccessful, I would greatly appreciate it if you >could give me some advice, on what programs to use etc. Thank you >very much for your time. >PS: The site is "towers.angband.com" port 9999, the Two Towers MUD. Well, there is a program called TinyFugue. That's what I used when I needed to get higher stats in BatMUD. (Honestly, building stats was *much* easier with tf than it was with that lousy old telnet(1)...) Oh, here's a cool tf hack for you. This was originally written for MUCKs, for *much* more peaceful activities, but this has been changed a little to make it work *even better* in LPMUDs (and of course, this allows you to hack the stats, too!) /def twiddlestats = \ /let mystring=%{*} %; /let out= %; /let ctr=0 %;\ /while ({ctr}<=(strlen({mystring})-3)) \ /let out=$[strcat({out},substr({mystring},{ctr},3))] %;\ /let ctr=$[{ctr}+1] %;\ /done %;\ shout %{out} (For the original version, consult my home page. Somewhere in games/multi.) Yes, changing stats is that easy. Don't worry if you don't understand this; You don't need to. This small program might look complicated (granted, tf macro language is a little complicated - hey, I'm writing a tutorial of it), but it is really all you need. Now, while logged in, try something like /twiddlestats HACK SERVER STR=18 INT=18 ALL_WIZARDS_SUCK (str=18, int=18 etc: you need to change these to the max values and add the rest of the stats, I didn't checked what it was. ALL_WIZARDS_SUCK is a password that gives you the access to the stat frobbing.) This sends a special message to the game that tells it to change the stats. (This command is usually only known by the wizards.) Well, here's a few more hints from an ancient MU*er (well, I've been MU*in since 1994, and 5 years is a LONG time in computer circles...) - If the MU* has a built-in combat system, think twice before getting a character there. - Most of the combat-enabled MU*s are LPMUDs. LPMUDs tend to have AD&D(r)-style character system. So, you can suppose that the LPMUD wizzes are like AD&D(r) Dungeon Masters(tm)(r)(c): If you whine long enough, they will give you max stats. So, whenever you see any of the MUD Wizards, KEEP WHINING. You have nothing to lose but your stats. And character. And reputation. And intelligence. And... - Honesty is the best policy (...but insanity is a better defense. And thanks for asking, I'm not insane, just eccentric.) - Avoid combat/pkilling systems like plague. Go to social/RP systems. (Of course, if you are not smart enough for social/rp systems, combat/pkilling *is* an option.) ::WWWWolf suddently grabs the cretin from throat, peering deep into the cretin's eyes.:: D00dio mio, you insignificant piece of foo! qoH yIHegh jay'! Hmm, probably incorrect in Klingon, but I don't care. A few things you really should know: - Your kind is not welcome here. - Cheating in multi-player games is EVIL. - Think before you type. (Well, I myself have violated this rule a few times - dammit, Advanced Features look like blatatant bugs to me at 00:30 in night... my deepest apologies to all programmers/maintainers I have angered so far. I hope I will someday learn not to stay awake for that long. But Multitrack segfaults, in middle of the night *and* in the bright daylight and my oh my, *that's* clearly a bug - hmm. Maybe I'm raving again. Back to our scheduled d00dslicing.) - Be honest, you pitiful cheater. - Cheating in multi-player games is EVIL. You spoil other's joy and most importantly YOUR joy. Not to mention all technical problems you'll create. Let's see... surely you all want to know what the Special Weapon Of The Day is? Jashpar... bring me the Box. ::Jashpar the Waiter grunts acknowledgingly and opens the pantry trap door. He fetches a BIG box from the cellar and hands it to WWWWolf. WWWWolf opens the box. People around him cannot see what he is looking for. However, he tosses stuff out of the box to the corner of the room, muttering "now where the heck did I put that..." Pile of stuff - grenades, theather knifes, cartoon bombs, weird gadgets with "ACME" printed on them, pistols with "BANG!" and "" flags protuding from the barrels, and loads of other stuff get gathered in the corner. [Note: The whole thing in next chapter from {1} to {2} happens in 5 seconds.] Finally, faster than CR3T1n can react {1}, WWWWolf pulls a large mallet from the box, grins wickedly, and hits the cr3t1n to the head, properly flattening him. WWWWolf hits cr3t1n until the d00d looks as small as a golf ball. Speaking of which, next WWWWolf drops the mallet and morphs - he disappears with a puff of smoke and reappears wearing VERY silly golfing clothes. (All golfing clothes are silly.) He shouts "FORE!" and hits the d00d-ball with wood 2, right out of the door in nice arc {2}. WWWWolf morphs to get back his RGRNCA uniform, and peers out of the door. He watches as the ball disappears in the woods. He listens carefully. A tells him the ball went to a hole in a tree - and tells him that the d00d is being eaten by a killer squirrel.:: That's that for that cheater. - Signed, WWWWolf of rec.games.roguelike.nethack CR3T1NZ advisory (Mobile Unit), Vestrum Excrucibo (Our battlecry: "Wrong Newsgroup, pal!") [RGRNCA BONUS: First who guesses correctly what the tf program does *without looking at the messages in the original version* gets the Correct Guess Award. I will give out these whenever there are any hacks I give to the d00ds.] -- WWWWolf (known to some as Urpo Lankinen), just another lupine technomancer ICQ:4291042 -==(RGRNCA)==-