/dev/null/nethack Tournament 2001

bakunin writes: "Tonight (Halloween) at midnight Pacific U.S. Time, /dev/null's third Annual NetHack Tournament opens. As with past years, the Tournament is open to anyone who'd like to play. We're also open to anyone who'd like to volunteer to run a game server, since (though we have a T1 hosting the main game server) play can be slow across the transoceanic links." /dev/null is calling for volunteers to run a server; you only need a modest machine but must have good bandwidth. See below for more information. bakunin continues: "/dev/null is a loose association of networking geeks, unincorporated and noncommercial. We make no money from this; we just do it for giggles.

The prize structure going in, as we're open to suggestions to change this during the Tournament, is:

Prizes
The "standard" prizes will go to:

• Highest Score
• 1st, 2nd and 3rd Highest Score in each class

The "additional" prizes will go to:

• Most Ascensions
• Lowest Scored Ascension

Since we'd appreciate volunteer servers to help speed the game play up for folks not near Oakland, California, here's roughly what you need to host:

Server Requirements
Remember, before volunteering, that anyone with admin level access to a game server box is not allowed to compete. So don't volunteer to host if you want to be a contender.

• a multi-user NetHack installation (thus, probably, a Unix of some sort; the /dev/null server is an OpenBSD system)
• sufficient speed/disk/memory to support 250 player accounts and 25 concurrent players (ours is a P133 with 64M of memory and 2.5G of disk)
• a dedicated Internet connection (our is on a T1)
• since NetHack needs real user accounts, we'd recommend that it be a dedicated system (the players will need to be entered in /etc/passwd to play on the box)

"

Comments

Slashdotted?

[TopFlite211]

The site cant be slashdotted already is it?

Anywhere the rules/details are mirrored?

Re:local accounts?

[MentlFlos]

I'm in almost the same boat... I can provide everything BUT the user accounts. That would get me not-employed very quickly.

If this can be figured out, I have a nice dual PIII 933 that would do quite a dandy job. (if I get really creative, I can put the sparc 10 (dual 50mhz) back up, then I'm not even touching a production machine)

-paul

Registration

[The Welsh Avenger]

OK, for all the poor saps like me who couldn't find out how to register to join the tournament, here's the appropriate linkage:

http://nethack.dev.null/scoop/?op=newuser

you feel foolish, you haven't been paying attention.