NetHack Poll 2009

Hi there! (I know I'm late, but I'm trying to reach everybody who ever played NetHack. And where better to find ex-players than at the competitors' site?)

After the big success of the Crawl poll in August (the results can be downloaded from http://crawl.akrasiac.org/poll_results.txt) and in loose cooperation with the Crawl developers responsible for that poll, we present you the "NetHack Poll 2009".

The intention of this poll is to gather some information about NetHack players, both currently active and past players for helping us variants developers with design decisions and to get a small insight into the NetHack community as a whole.

Even if you no longer play NetHack regularly, please take part in this poll. Most questions make sense also for former players and one question asks explicitly why you no longer play NetHack.

This poll will run through the month of November. Afterwards the results will be released to the public and a pointer will be posted here.

Please spread the word about this poll to other NetHack playing people you know.

You can either directly reply to this as mail and send it to
nethackpoll@gmail.com

Or post it in here.

Or fill out the online form on
http://nethack-de.sf.net/poll.html

Many thanks,
Patric Mueller (lead developer of NetHack-De and UnNetHack)

Note: Your e-mail address will not be shared with any third parties.
After the poll is closed and the final results have been published all replies will be deleted.

Questions:

1. What is your age and gender?
2. Which country do you live in?
3. Do you play locally, on a server or both?
4. Do you play Tiles or ASCII or both?
5. On which Operating Systems or Devices do you play NetHack?
6. Where did you get your copy of NetHack from?
7. Do you play a patched NetHack or variants of NetHack?
8. Which other Roguelikes have you ever played? (Crawl, ADOM, Angband, etc.)
9. Where did you learn about NetHack?
10. And when?
11. How often did you win NetHack? (If never, you may specify your best game.)
12. To what extent do you use spoiler for playing NetHack?
13. If you no longer play NetHack regularly, why and when did you quit?
14. If you take part in the NetHack DevNull tournament: where did you hear about it?
15. Did you ever recommend NetHack to someone?
16. Which computer game other than NetHack did you play most in the last three months (August, September, October)?
17. Please specify a valid e-mail address if you would like to receive the results of this poll directly.

What about those who never played NetHack? I want to do a poll too :(

Is there a develloping team for us? :p
I'll do the quiz later.

I think if you want to get me to play Nethack the first step you can make is to implement ADOM-type inventory controls. I cannot be arsed to memorize individual item shortcuts for each item I find.

That said, my pet theory is that some players, including me, can only ever be good in one roguelike, because they lack the patience to learn to play others and prefer to improve on familiar ground (translation: we are cowards).

i don't agree. I played nethack for a long time. Basicly, comparing nethack and adom is like comparing a small HD screen, and an enormous MD screen. I prefer the MD, but that's because i'm not used to it yet.

Comparing NetHack with ADOM for me is like comparing anal sex with vaginal sex. I have had the latter and know it's good but haven't had the former. I would like to think it's good too but my girlfriend already let me know she's not interested. So for now, I'll just keep playing ADOM. ;)

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Originally Posted by fazisi

What about those who never played NetHack? I want to do a poll too :(

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Sorry, that one you'll have to do by yourself.

I already feel somewhat responsible for former, current, future and German NetHack players.

I don't have the time to also feel responsible for non-players of NetHack. :D

The results of the NetHack Poll 2009 are online.

They are downloadable in text form from here:
http://nethack-de.sourceforge.net/ne...ll_results.txt

There's also a thread on rec.game.roguelike.nethack where I
commented on some parts of the results:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.g...5fdb7d6976fb44

Thank you for participating in the poll!

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Comparing NetHack with ADOM for me is like comparing anal sex with vaginal sex. I have had the latter and know it's good but haven't had the former. I would like to think it's good too but my girlfriend already let me know she's not interested. So for now, I'll just keep playing ADOM.

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Apologies if this post is old but eveytime I am on these forums It makes me laugh :D Analogy WIN!!

Yep Im depraved :P

Back on topic I would have participated in that poll as I just acended nethack and went from newbie to ascended in under 1 month so I have quite positive and useful feedback for the game I believe, however It looks like the polls are done with now? Is that the case? One things certain nethack, ADOM and crawl have the best RL communities easily