Rules

Some rules are needed so that everyone can play nice with each other.

Cheating

Don't cheat.

What exactly is cheating and what is not is not always clear. The tournament staff makes the final decision. Here is a list of some things we consider cheating.

Cracking into one of the game servers and adding fake games or bones.

Exploiting vulnerabilities in a weak random number generator in order to attain achievements in the tournament.

Exploiting memory corrupting bugs for the same goal.

Using disconnection at critical spots to hide a death from logs.

Here are some things that we don't consider cheating (although some of them may be against the spirit of the game).

Pudding farming.

Start scumming. (look here for the definition of a start scummed game)

Looking at player dumplogs to see what items a bones pile has.

Similarly, examining ttyrecs to find items or to recover memory from amnesia.

Using NetHack playing bots or so called "augmentation" tools like Interhack.

Exploiting well known game bugs (such as Astral call, floating wand wresting trick, gold duplication bug, artifact naming trick, etc.) Some of these may be fixed on some servers.

In general we don't consider cheating any things you do within the "rules" of the game.

If we catch you cheating, expect some form of punishment.

We haven't had any blatant cheating incidents in the past. Just use common sense and you will be fine.

Startscumming

For this tournament, start scumming games are defined as games where the player escapes or quits within the first 10 turns. Such games are hidden on the games tables but are otherwise treated like normal games.