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Hide/Sneak

#1 Post by Delmon » Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:02 pm

Do you get more experience if you hide and then sneak?

Just wondering if it is better to hide/sneak, then just sneak.

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#2 Post by vurdijak » Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:01 pm

I'm not sure about getting experience from hiding or sneaking, but I have heard that you have a better chance to sneak up on someone or something if you hide first.

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#3 Post by ganandorf » Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:28 pm

if you hide first then sneak, you get good skills in both aspects i think, if you just sneak you get some hide skills but mostly sneak. Also the description of hide has changed, but it used to mention what vurdijak stated.
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#4 Post by Delmon » Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:31 pm

Well, right now I have never used hide/sneak often, and my hide is just as good as sneak and so is awareness... well, 2 level difference.


So I wondered if it made a difference. :?

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#5 Post by ganandorf » Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:32 pm

alright, i dont know, check out help hide, and help sneak, i think the admins changed the system and how it works now.
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#6 Post by Delmon » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:30 pm

Just a thought:

In the middle of sneaking, if you change your aim... it will stop the sneak.

sneak n
You are looking around for a possibility to sneak north.
>
aim at right arm
You abort sneaking.
You will now try to hit the right arm of your opponent.


Do you guys think that should happen?

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#7 Post by Alamar » Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:11 pm

That seems like it can be avoided by simply waiting... doesn't seem absolutey necessary to change the code to fix that one, IMO.

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#8 Post by Sairina » Sat Jul 14, 2007 4:30 am

It's not necessary, but I agree that it isn't intuitive this way.

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#9 Post by delem » Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:24 pm

Delem has trained hide/sneak in his earlier times. And obviously I hid first before I snuck up to someone, since its harder to sneak for a dwarf (with heavy armours too - haa) And my hide was significantly higher than my sneak... About 15 lessons away from each other. So not sure if I was unlucky on getting sneak improvements, or I just got more hide because I got more chances to improve it from hiding first, then sneaking.

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#10 Post by Delmon » Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:11 pm

Ok

Maby if you hide first, hide will rise higher than sneak.

If you just sneak, hide and sneak will rise at the same pace.

Thanks Delem.

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#11 Post by Delmon » Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:39 pm

Another question on sneaking.

It seems that you leave tracks when you sneak.

Is that true, and if so, maby it shouldn't be that way?

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#12 Post by rex » Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:58 pm

Delmon wrote:Another question on sneaking.

It seems that you leave tracks when you sneak.

Is that true, and if so, maby it shouldn't be that way?

Its true, except much more difficult to find the tracks. I think it should stay that way. When you sneak you will still leave footprints and should still be able to be tracked.

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#13 Post by Delmon » Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:05 pm

More difficult?

Alright, that's a good balance. Thanks Rex.

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#14 Post by Delia » Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:09 am

Area lore skills should affect that too, I think.
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