NetHack Poll 2009

[Nick McConnell]

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Hi there!

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 (although I can guess why
people in here don't play it anymore ).

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
netha...@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.

[Patric Mueller]

Thanks, Nick,

I'll post a pointer here, too, when the results are in.

Bye
Patric

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NetHack Poll 2009: http://nethack-de.sf.net/poll.html

UnNetHack: http://apps.sf.net/trac/unnethack/

[Martin Bazley]

The following bytes were arranged on 11 Nov 2009 by Nick McConnell :

> Copied from oook:
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> Hi there!
>
> 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".
>

[snip]

Wait, isn't this an Angband newsgroup?
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[Nick McConnell]

Martin Bazley wrote:
> The following bytes were arranged on 11 Nov 2009 by Nick McConnell :
>
>> Copied from oook:
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>> Hi there!
>>
>> 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".
>>
> [snip]
>
> Wait, isn't this an Angband newsgroup?

Well, I thought there might be some ex-Nethack players here who have
seen the light and want to stick it to their old game ;)

Nick.