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1.1     ! root        1: .\"  hunt
        !             2: .\"  Copyright (c) 1985 Conrad C. Huang, Gregory S. Couch, Kenneth C.R.C. Arnold
        !             3: .\"  San Francisco, California
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"  Copyright (c) 1985 Regents of the University of California.
        !             6: .\"  All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             7: .\"  specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             8: .\"
        !             9: .TH HUNT 6 "21 August 1986"
        !            10: .UC 4
        !            11: .SH NAME
        !            12: hunt \- a multi-player multi-terminal game
        !            13: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            14: \fB/usr/games/hunt\fP [ \fB\-qmcsfbS\fP ] [ \fB\-n\fP name ] [ \fB\-t\fP team ] [ \fB\-p\fP port ] [ \fB\-w\fP message ] [ host ]
        !            15: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            16: The object of the game
        !            17: .I hunt
        !            18: is to kill off the other players.
        !            19: There are no rooms, no treasures, and no monsters.
        !            20: Instead, you wander around a maze, find grenades, trip mines, and shoot down
        !            21: walls and players.
        !            22: The more players you kill before you die, the better your score is.
        !            23: If the
        !            24: .B \-m
        !            25: flag is given,
        !            26: you enter the game as a monitor
        !            27: (you can see the action but you cannot play).
        !            28: .PP
        !            29: .I Hunt
        !            30: normally looks for an active game on the local network;
        !            31: if none is found, it starts one up on the local host.
        !            32: The location of the game may be specified by giving the
        !            33: .I host
        !            34: argument.
        !            35: This presupposes that a hunt game is already running on that host, see
        !            36: .IR huntd (6)
        !            37: for details on how to setup a game on a specific host.
        !            38: If more than one game if found,
        !            39: you may pick which game to play in.
        !            40: .PP
        !            41: If the
        !            42: .B \-q
        !            43: flag is given,
        !            44: .I hunt
        !            45: queries the local network (or specific host)
        !            46: and reports on all active games found.
        !            47: This is useful for shell startup scripts, \fIe.g.\fP csh's .login.
        !            48: .PP
        !            49: The player name may be specified on the command line by using the
        !            50: .B \-n
        !            51: option.
        !            52: .PP
        !            53: The
        !            54: .BR \-c ,
        !            55: .BR \-s ,
        !            56: and
        !            57: .B \-f
        !            58: options are for entering the game cloaked, scanning, or flying respectively.
        !            59: .PP
        !            60: The
        !            61: .B \-b
        !            62: option turns off beeping when you reach the typeahead limit.
        !            63: .PP
        !            64: The
        !            65: .B \-t
        !            66: option aids team playing by making everyone else on one's team
        !            67: appear as the team name.
        !            68: A team name is a single digit to avoid conflicting with other characters
        !            69: used in the game.
        !            70: .PP
        !            71: The
        !            72: .B \-p
        !            73: .I port
        !            74: option allows the rendezvous port number to be set.
        !            75: This is a useful way for people playing on dialup lines to avoid playing
        !            76: with people on 9600 baud terminals.
        !            77: .PP
        !            78: The
        !            79: .B \-w
        !            80: .I message
        !            81: option is the only way to send a message to everyone else's screen when
        !            82: you start up.
        !            83: It is most often used to say ``eat slime death - NickD's coming in''.
        !            84: .PP
        !            85: When you die and are asked if you wish to re-enter the game,
        !            86: there are other answers than just yes or no.
        !            87: You can also reply with a
        !            88: .B w
        !            89: for write a message before continuing or
        !            90: .B o
        !            91: to change how you enter the game (cloaked, scanning, or flying).
        !            92: .PP
        !            93: To be notified automatically when a
        !            94: .I hunt
        !            95: starts up, add your login to the
        !            96: .I hunt-players
        !            97: mailing list (see
        !            98: .IR huntd (6)).
        !            99: .SH "PLAYING HINTS"
        !           100: .I Hunt
        !           101: only works on crt (vdt) terminals with at least 24 lines, 80 columns, and
        !           102: cursor addressing.
        !           103: The screen is divided in to 3 areas.
        !           104: On the right hand side is the status area.
        !           105: It shows damage sustained,
        !           106: charges remaining,
        !           107: who's in the game,
        !           108: who's scanning (the
        !           109: .B ``*''
        !           110: in front of the name),
        !           111: who's cloaked (the
        !           112: .B ``+''
        !           113: in front of the name),
        !           114: and other players' scores.
        !           115: The rest of the screen is taken up by your map of the maze.
        !           116: The 24th line
        !           117: is used for longer messages that don't fit in the status area.
        !           118: .PP
        !           119: .I Hunt
        !           120: uses the same keys to move as
        !           121: .IR vi (1)
        !           122: does,
        !           123: .IR i.e. ,
        !           124: .BR h ,
        !           125: .BR j ,
        !           126: .BR k ,
        !           127: and
        !           128: .B l
        !           129: for left, down, up, right respectively.
        !           130: To change which direction you're facing in the maze,
        !           131: use the upper case version of the movement key (\c
        !           132: .IR i.e. ,
        !           133: .BR HJKL ).
        !           134: You can only fire or throw things in the direction you're facing.
        !           135: .TP
        !           136: Other commands are:
        !           137: .sp
        !           138: .nf
        !           139: .ta
        !           140: .ta \w'>\|<\|^\|v\ \ 'u
        !           141: f or 1 \- Fire a bullet (Takes 1 charge)
        !           142: g or 2 \- Throw grenade (Takes 9 charges)
        !           143: F or 3 \- Throw satchel charge (Takes 25 charges)
        !           144: G or 4 \- Throw bomb (Takes 49 charges)
        !           145: 5      \- Throw big bomb (Takes 81 charges)
        !           146: 6      \- Throw even bigger bomb (Takes 121 charges)
        !           147: 7      \- Throw even more big bomb (Takes 169 charges)
        !           148: 8      \- Throw even more bigger bomb (Takes 225 charges)
        !           149: 9      \- Throw very big bomb (Takes 289 charges)
        !           150: 0      \- Throw very, very big bomb (Takes 361 charges)
        !           151: @      \- Throw biggest bomb (Takes 441 charges)
        !           152: o      \- Throw small slime (Takes 15 charges)
        !           153: O      \- Throw big slime (Takes 30 charges)
        !           154: p      \- Throw bigger slime (Takes 45 charges)
        !           155: P      \- Throw biggest slime (Takes 60 charges)
        !           156: s      \- Scan (show where other players are) (Takes 1 charge)
        !           157: c      \- Cloak (hide from scanners) (Takes 1 charge)
        !           158: 
        !           159: ^L     \- Redraw screen
        !           160: q      \- Quit
        !           161: .fi
        !           162: .TP
        !           163: The symbols on the screen are:
        !           164: .sp
        !           165: .nf
        !           166: .ta
        !           167: .ta \w'>\|<\|^\|v\ \ 'u
        !           168: \-\||\|+       \- walls
        !           169: /\|\\  \- diagonal (deflecting) walls
        !           170: #      \- doors (dispersion walls)
        !           171: ;      \- small mine
        !           172: g      \- large mine
        !           173: :      \- bullet
        !           174: o      \- grenade
        !           175: O      \- satchel charge
        !           176: @      \- bomb
        !           177: s      \- small slime
        !           178: $      \- big slime
        !           179: >\|<\|^\|v     \- you facing right, left, up, or down
        !           180: }\|{\|i\|!     \- other players facing right, left, up, or down
        !           181: \(**   \- explosion
        !           182: .ne 3
        !           183: .cs R 24
        !           184: .cs I 24
        !           185: \fR\\|/\fP
        !           186: .cs R
        !           187: \fI\-\(**\-\fP \- grenade and large mine explosion
        !           188: .fl
        !           189: .cs R 24
        !           190: \fR/|\\\fP
        !           191: .cs R
        !           192: .cs I
        !           193: .fi
        !           194: .LP
        !           195: Other helpful hints:
        !           196: .sp
        !           197: .ie n .ds b []
        !           198: .el .ds b \(bu
        !           199: .ta
        !           200: .ta \w'\*b\ \|'u
        !           201: .nr In \n(.i
        !           202: .de MP
        !           203: .br
        !           204: .in \n(Inu+\w'\*b\ \|'u
        !           205: .ti \n(Inu
        !           206: \*b    \c
        !           207: ..
        !           208: .MP
        !           209: You can only fire in the direction you are facing.
        !           210: .MP
        !           211: You can only fire three shots in a row, then the gun must cool off.
        !           212: .MP
        !           213: Shots move 5 times faster than you do.
        !           214: .MP
        !           215: To stab someone,
        !           216: you face that player and move at them.
        !           217: .MP
        !           218: Stabbing does 2 points worth of damage and shooting does 5 points.
        !           219: .MP
        !           220: Slime does 5 points of damage each time it hits.
        !           221: .MP
        !           222: You start with 15 charges and get 5 more every time a player enters
        !           223: or re-enters.
        !           224: .MP
        !           225: Grenade explosions cover a 3 by 3 area, each larger bomb cover a
        !           226: correspondingly larger area (ranging from 5 by 5 to 21 by 21).
        !           227: All explosions are centered around the square the shot hits and
        !           228: do the most damage in the center.
        !           229: .MP
        !           230: Slime affects all squares it oozes over.
        !           231: The number of squares is equal to the number of charges used.
        !           232: .MP
        !           233: One small mine and one large mine is placed in the maze for every new player.
        !           234: A mine has a 2% probability of tripping when you walk forward on to it;
        !           235: 50% when going sideways;
        !           236: 95% when backing up.
        !           237: Tripping a mine costs you 5 points or 10 points respectively.
        !           238: Defusing a mine is worth 1 charge or 9 charges respectively.
        !           239: .MP
        !           240: You cannot see behind you.
        !           241: .MP
        !           242: Cloaking consumes 1 ammo charge per 20 of your moves.
        !           243: .MP
        !           244: Scanning consumes 1 ammo charge per (20 \(mu the number of players)
        !           245: of other player moves.
        !           246: .MP
        !           247: Turning on cloaking turns off scanning \(em turning on scanning turns off
        !           248: cloaking.
        !           249: .MP
        !           250: When you kill someone,
        !           251: you get 2 more damage capacity points and 2 damage points get taken away.
        !           252: .MP
        !           253: Maximum typeahead is 5 characters.
        !           254: .MP
        !           255: A shot destroys normal (\c
        !           256: .IR i.e., 
        !           257: non-diagonal, non-door) walls.
        !           258: .MP
        !           259: Diagonal walls deflect shots and change orientation.
        !           260: .MP
        !           261: Doors disperse shots in random directions (up, down, left, right).
        !           262: .MP
        !           263: Diagonal walls and doors cannot be destroyed by direct shots but may
        !           264: be destroyed by an adjacent grenade explosion.
        !           265: .MP
        !           266: Slime goes around walls, not through them.
        !           267: .MP
        !           268: Walls regenerate, reappearing in the order they were destroyed.
        !           269: One percent of the regenerated walls will be diagonal walls or doors.
        !           270: When a wall is generated directly beneath a player, he is thrown in
        !           271: a random direction for a random period of time.  When he lands, he
        !           272: sustains damage (up to 20 percent of the amount of damage already
        !           273: sustained);
        !           274: .IR i.e. ,
        !           275: the less damage he had, the more nimble he is and
        !           276: therefore less likely to hurt himself on landing.
        !           277: .\"MP
        !           278: .\"There is a volcano close to the center of the maze which goes off
        !           279: .\"close to every 30 deaths.
        !           280: .MP
        !           281: Every 30 deaths or so, a
        !           282: .B ``?''
        !           283: will appear.
        !           284: It is a wandering bomb which will explode when it hits someone, or
        !           285: when it is slimed.
        !           286: .MP
        !           287: If no one moves, everything stands still.
        !           288: .MP
        !           289: The environment variable
        !           290: .B HUNT
        !           291: is checked to get the player name.
        !           292: If you don't have this variable set,
        !           293: .I hunt
        !           294: will ask you what name you want to play under.
        !           295: If you wish to set other options than just your name,
        !           296: you can enumerate the options as follows:
        !           297: .br
        !           298: .ti +1i
        !           299: setenv HUNT "name=Sneaky,team=1,cloak,mapkey=zoFfGg1f2g3F4G"
        !           300: .br
        !           301: sets the player name to Sneaky,
        !           302: sets the team to one,
        !           303: sets the enter game attribute to cloaked,
        !           304: and the maps \fBz\fP to \fBo\fP, \fBF\fP to \fBf\fP, \fBG\fP to \fBg\fP,
        !           305: \fB1\fP to \fBf\fP,
        !           306: \fB2\fP to \fBg\fP, \fB3\fP to \fBF\fP, and \fB4\fP to \fBG\fP.
        !           307: The \fImapkey\fP option must be last.
        !           308: Other options are: scan, fly, nobeep, port=string, host=string,
        !           309: and message=string \(em which correspond to the command line options.
        !           310: String options cannot contain commas since commas
        !           311: are used to separate options.
        !           312: .MP
        !           313: It's a boring game if you're the only one playing.
        !           314: .PP
        !           315: Your score is the decayed average of the ratio of number of kills to number
        !           316: of times you entered the game and is only kept for the duration
        !           317: of a single session of \fIhunt\fP.
        !           318: .PP
        !           319: .I Hunt
        !           320: normally drives up the load average to be approximately
        !           321: (number_of_players + 0.5) greater than it would be without a
        !           322: .I hunt 
        !           323: game executing.
        !           324: .SH STATISTICS
        !           325: The
        !           326: .B \-S
        !           327: option fetches the current game statistics.
        !           328: The meaning of the column headings are as follows:
        !           329: .I score
        !           330: \(em the player's last score;
        !           331: .I ducked
        !           332: \(em
        !           333: how many shots a player ducked;
        !           334: .I absorb
        !           335: \(em how many shots a player absorbed;
        !           336: .I faced
        !           337: \(em how many shots were fired at player's face;
        !           338: .I shot
        !           339: \(em how many shots were fired at player;
        !           340: .I robbed
        !           341: \(em how many of player's shots were absorbed;
        !           342: .I missed
        !           343: \(em how many of player's shots were ducked;
        !           344: .I slimeK
        !           345: \(em how many slime kills player had;
        !           346: .I enemy
        !           347: \(em how many enemies were killed;
        !           348: .I friend
        !           349: \(em how many friends were killed (self and same team);
        !           350: .I deaths
        !           351: \(em how many times player died;
        !           352: .I still
        !           353: \(em how many times player died without typing in any commands;
        !           354: .I saved
        !           355: \(em how many times a shot/bomb would have killed player if he hadn't
        !           356: ducked or absorbed it.
        !           357: .SH FILES
        !           358: .nf
        !           359: .ta
        !           360: .ta \w'/usr/games/lib/huntd\ \ \ 'u
        !           361: /usr/games/lib/huntd   game coordinator
        !           362: .DT
        !           363: .fi
        !           364: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !           365: huntd(6)
        !           366: .SH AUTHORS
        !           367: Conrad Huang, Ken Arnold, and Greg Couch;
        !           368: .br
        !           369: University of California, San Francisco, Computer Graphics Lab
        !           370: .SH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
        !           371: We thank Don Kneller,
        !           372: John Thomason, Eric Pettersen, Mark Day,
        !           373: and Scott Weiner for providing
        !           374: endless hours of play-testing to improve the character of the game.
        !           375: We hope their significant others will forgive them;
        !           376: we certainly don't.
        !           377: .SH BUGS
        !           378: To keep up the pace, not everything is as realistic as possible.

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