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Everytime I try to buy potions from the goblin, a tax man comes and either kills me or take all my gold? What's wrong? He says something about cheating, but I didn't cheat, I just spent a long time fighting monsters. How do I get rid of him? Am I not supposed to buy potions?

Ther is a Tax Man in Pilgrims Quest? What part of the game are you in, and are you playing the G or M rated version?

Hmm... The tax man is an anti-cheating script that check to see whether or not you got the gold legitimetly. If you didn't cheat, it must be some kind of bug. Try replacing or editing the .c file its from

1. It does happen to people - I didn't cheat and it happened.
2. It's a .d file so you'd have to demangle it.
3. I remember Simon telling me how the script worked. It's very clever.

EDIT: If you want, I can fix the problem so it never happens again. Of course I won't make the fix publicly available to protect Simon's property, but if you swear you didn't cheat, well, let me know.

No I didn't cheat. I don't even know HOW to cheat. Unless spending a very great amount of time killing monters counts as "cheating". Could you please get rid of this stupid guy for me?

E-mail me at VGfan2000@myactv.net. Thanks alot.

didn't he do it by having to gold variables that were supposed to be synchronised. Like a gold2 that that was added to or subtracted from whenever gold was? Then if gold was added to by an illagidimate script,ie. a cheat, it would be designed to add it to the second variable. Thus it could check to make sure the variables were equal to see if you cheated. It could make them equal again, and prevent cheating by setting both variables back to zero. This is all guessing, but thats how I would do it.