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    I have an Orcish Healer named Gug. He was about to drink from the pools in Darkforge to get a wish to save Khelly. I decided to save the game before doing this, because I hate pools. I copied the save elsewhere, of course. I reloaded, drank from the pool, and he immediately died of old age; silly orcs! I copied the old save, and sought a wish via gremlin bombing. I got an RoDS pretty quickly, and wished for an AoLS to save Khelly. He gave his typical awesome items, and then i got the dialogue "You hear a whispering voice in your head... (more)" or something like that. I pressed space, and IT CRASHED!

    It was quite a disturbing thing indeed. Luckily, he is not entirely lost, due to the savescumming done earlier. He did, however, lose quite a few nifty things, such as a Spellbook of Strength of Atlas (and as a healer to boot; a once in a lifetime grab!)

    I have had this happen only once before, and it was when my dog as a farmer attempted to attack itself in a blind rage. It had saved before crashing that time, though.

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    I've heard of Khelly crashing peoples' games a lot, but it's never happened to me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda_Lord View Post
    He gave his typical awesome items, and then i got the dialogue "You hear a whispering voice in your head... (more)" or something like that. I pressed space, and IT CRASHED!
    Yeah, Kelly tends to do that to people, crash their games when telling them that they might meet again some day. It happened to a very promising future-ultra of mine quite a while back. Somehow the server didn't make a backup of the save I'd made a few levels before so I lost the entire game. It wasn't pretty at all Which is why it's recommendable to save right before giving him the AoLS

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    Before talking to Khelly is the only time I save scum now. Most other crashes are avoidable if you know some precautions (no enraged pets, not letting too many items build up, don't pick up ingots, etc)
    I said it before, and I'll say it again. If I knew scripture like you, I'd prolly be an athiest too.. -gut

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    Quote Originally Posted by fazisi View Post
    Before talking to Khelly is the only time I save scum now. Most other crashes are avoidable if you know some precautions (no enraged pets, not letting too many items build up, don't pick up ingots, etc)
    The best and only precaution that really works is making regular backups. I also seem to crash often when extended dropping items, ingots or not, and I'm surely not going to drop them one by one. In addition, it is impossible to avoid #1 because you simply can't tell when your pet will rage, when will it sustain enough injury in one round to do so etc.

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    I've resorted to killing paniced/blind rage pets in the immediate round afterwards to prevent a crash. I would rather be a chaotic asshole than non-existant. It's mostly that I couldn't be fucked to have to keep making backups. If I die to a crash, I sign in exasperation at my loss and make a new one.
    I said it before, and I'll say it again. If I knew scripture like you, I'd prolly be an athiest too.. -gut

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    having observed different adom players (3 in real live) and having played a lot on different systems and computers, I'd say (apart from those 'predicable' kelly/ingot crashes) it very much varies with the system you are playing on. The system, not the kind of system. I saw windows vista + dos box crashing all the time at my sisters machine, so that she never got below the casino and frustratetly stopped playing at all... long games just tend to crash. but mine here works almost relatively crashfree. I only once had a crash on my old suse linux at my old university. On my xp i had some issues on the notebook either with winbeta or dosbox, but not on the desktop. Well... seems like some pretty unpleasent and random memory access things occur there. Number 3 of those players has a regular crash rate (that is always short before winning, but not enough to put him of playing yet).

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