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October 31, 2019, 14:30
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Knight
Join Date: Jan 2017
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Comp 226
New competition, High Elf Necromancer
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October 31, 2019, 17:11
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Knight
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Saratoga, California (in the midst of Silicon Valley)
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Has anyone played a Necromancer before? Any generic advice to get started?
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October 31, 2019, 17:51
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Prophet
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Adelaide, Australia
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October 31, 2019, 19:59
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Vanilla maintainer
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Canberra, Australia
Age: 57
Posts: 9,481
Donated: $60
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Oh man, just when I was getting some development done...
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November 4, 2019, 17:49
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Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2019
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I know this has been addressed before, but I'd really like to compete on this one, and here is my concern:
I don't believe the "honor system" is being upheld for many of these scores. So, is it just accepted that scores include unlimited scumming? What about two "Hall of Fame" lists - one for local systems and one for Angband.live? Or at least a mark or a filter for this? |
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November 4, 2019, 17:53
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Swordsman
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Brno, Czech Republic
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I wouldn't be too quickly skeptical of amazing scores. Some people are just amazingly good at the game.
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November 4, 2019, 18:03
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Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2019
Posts: 1,004
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I agree it's possible these scores are fair, and impossible to say which are unfair. But if we could easily compare local scores with Live scores it would give some insight.
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November 4, 2019, 18:10
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Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2019
Posts: 1,004
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Poker world is being rocked by a cheating scandal right now. Here's one of a mililon videos about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kDtE9vrRiA |
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November 4, 2019, 18:51
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Prophet
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 9,022
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The amount of effort spent on catching cheaters should be commensurate with the amount of harm caused by cheating. The competitions are zero-stakes, all that you stand to gain is some degree of recognition, and all that you stand to lose is a chance at that same recognition. I'm not saying that people won't cheat, but if they do...does it really matter?
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November 4, 2019, 19:20
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Knight
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Finland
Posts: 501
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I'd most definitely play on angband.live if it wasn't so horribly slow running V 4.2.0.
I don't even know what qualifies for cheating against so called honor system  *thanc-scumming? Hockeystick-targeting? Latter I do use, a lot. Early-level-feeling-scumming, never. It kills the fun from the game pretty much perfectly for me. I just dive, barely rest at all and try to stay alive 
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