Maurog
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After playing some holds, I noticed a weird pattern. A room with no monsters is a room which should not have a score at all, right? Indeed no scores are accepted for such rooms... with one exception! When you arrive into a room via the stairs (and not a neighbour room), the score will always be accepted. Even if all what you did is bravely took 20 steps north in an empty tunnel. Please fix this and make those rooms unscoreable no matter how you arrive into them.

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Doom
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A room with no monsters is a room which should not have a score at all, right?

As far as I know, a room that has been conquered in 1 move doesn't record victory demos.

Entrance rooms can't be usually exited in 1 move because Beethro starts usually around the center of the room.

Stefan
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A demo is not accepted (and the room is marked as 'uninteresting') if a 1-move victory demo of it can be produced. Whether there are monsters in the room or not doesn't matter. In fact, if a room with monsters (one monster, that is) can be completed in one move, the demo will not be accepted, and if a room with one monster can be completed by stepping on the monster upon entry then a victory demo will not be produced at all.

Edit: Doom beat me to it...

[Edited by Stefan at Local Time:04-29-2005 at 02:31 PM]

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silver
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am I the only person who habitually "pops back in and out" of such an entrance room in order to send a 1-move demo to the server and disable scoring for it?


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Stefan
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silver wrote:
am I the only person who habitually "pops back in and out" of such an entrance room in order to send a 1-move demo to the server and disable scoring for it?

No, I do that as well.

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Oneiromancer
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I do that also, silver...and if I get to the end of a room that shouldn't have a score and it gives me a score, I make sure to restore to the previous room (sometimes I even have to beat it again) in order to get it done right.

Game on,

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Maurog
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Okay, maybe I wasn't clear enough about what the bug is. Let me give you an example - JtRH Level 3, the Entrance. Check the demos... see what I mean? And don't tell me the room can't be finished in 1 move.

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Rabscuttle
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Technically, it can't be finished in one move.

The problem seems to be that a monsterless room is only "conquered" the first time you enter it, and you normally can't enter the Entrance for the first time from the edge (unless there are multiple level entrances).