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  • lenrok
    Rookie
    • Nov 2012
    • 12
    #1

    It was so stupid...

    How to identify new things?

    I was selling them.
    I thought it is a good method.
    Scroll of identify cost about ~150. Things for sell costes about 30-200(10-12 level of dungeons), so it looks ok.

    But then...
    I sold this...
    potion of experience...
    As I saw 31500 gold pieces for buying this back, and that 50k or 100k of experience points, and that fu#$%ng shopkeeper smiled gleefully after I have sold it to him for 7(seven, SEVEN, SEVEN!!!) gold pieces, I almost cried and I wasted 5 minutes of wondering, why, hell, why I have done that...

    And being aware that I cannot kill this shopkeeper, and can't chop his/her head off, rip his/her tongue, take my potion back and drink it, makes me really sad...



    Now I drink/read/zap everything...
    as long as scroll of identify will be relatively cheap or I drink/zap/read sth very deadly...

    PS:maybe wrong forum, remove my post then, but I just have to share with this piece of stupidity...

    PPS:welcome everyone
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    • Magnate
      Angband Devteam member
      • May 2007
      • 5110
      #2
      Hello and welcome. You are in good company - we've all done that. Mine was a potion of augmentation, which is arguably an even greater loss than one of experience ...
      "Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The Beatles

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        • buzzkill
          Prophet
          • May 2008
          • 2939
          #3
          I remember back in the early days, playing FA. Farmer maggot dropped a crappy dagger and I had no gold buy a scroll of identify. Although I seldom sold un-ID'd items, I did this time (perhaps my home was already full of un-ID'd crap). It turned out to be a Holy Avenger. That was before I realized that Maggot often dropped useful items.
          www.mediafire.com/buzzkill - Get your 32x32 tiles here. UT32 now compatible Ironband and Quickband 9/6/2012.
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            • debo
              Veteran
              • Oct 2011
              • 2402
              #4
              I sold a 3-charge wand of wishing to storekeeper in nethack once :/
              Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'

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                • HallucinationMushroom
                  Knight
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 785
                  #5
                  You sold a wand without engraving with it first?! Tsk tsk. You could still wish for a wand of death and kill the shopkeep, and still have some wishes left over for a blessed can of grease and a t-shirt, the two very best wishes in the game.
                  You are on something strange

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                    • Nick
                      Vanilla maintainer
                      • Apr 2007
                      • 9634
                      #6
                      My favourite.
                      One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
                      In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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                        • PowerWyrm
                          Prophet
                          • Apr 2008
                          • 2986
                          #7
                          Also happened to me in the old days when character start was scumming 50ft for money to buy a WoR and selling all potions/scrolls unIDed...

                          At least now you get object feelings, so you won't sell an xp potion when your dungeon level at 50ft yields an "excellent treasures" feeling.
                          PWMAngband variant maintainer - check https://github.com/draconisPW/PWMAngband (or http://www.mangband.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=9) to learn more about this new variant!

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                            • lenrok
                              Rookie
                              • Nov 2012
                              • 12
                              #8
                              So it seems that I am in good company

                              Another not-smart thing done, I have dropped and left potion of strength. I thought that it is just temporary... :/

                              I was enlightened as I found potion of augmentation and description was similar. Thanks to Magnate's post I have not dropped it, but quaff as soon as possible
                              Thx Magnate.

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                                • Magnate
                                  Angband Devteam member
                                  • May 2007
                                  • 5110
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by lenrok
                                  So it seems that I am in good company

                                  Another not-smart thing done, I have dropped and left potion of strength. I thought that it is just temporary... :/

                                  I was enlightened as I found potion of augmentation and description was similar. Thanks to Magnate's post I have not dropped it, but quaff as soon as possible
                                  Thx Magnate.
                                  Ha - glad to be of service!
                                  "Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The Beatles

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                                    • Timo Pietilä
                                      Prophet
                                      • Apr 2007
                                      • 4096
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by lenrok
                                      So it seems that I am in good company

                                      Another not-smart thing done, I have dropped and left potion of strength. I thought that it is just temporary... :/
                                      I think berserk strength should do what you thought plain potion of strength would do. Temporary (high) boost to STR.

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                                        • Deof Movestofca
                                          Rookie
                                          • Jan 2013
                                          • 19
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by lenrok
                                          So it seems that I am in good company
                                          Well... numerous company, at least.

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