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To extend that: their work on the webtiles implementation is wonderful. I bounce between webtiles and console.

Here's a screenshot of me at the moment: http://i.imgur.com/mZXTnh1.png

There are a bunch of available servers:

* Sydney, Australia: http://crawl.project357.org

* Arizona, USA: http://crawl.akrasiac.org

* Georgia, USA: http://crawl.berotato.org

* Georgia, USA: http://crawl.s-z.org

* Paris, France: http://crawl.xtahua.com

* Falkenstein, Germany: http://crawl.lantea.net

* Seoul, Korea: http://webzook.net

* Tokyo, Japan: http://lazy-life.ddo.jp

And of course you can watch others playing on webtiles, too.

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Something I really enjoy about DCSS is the community aspect that goes on in ##crawl on freenode. First, lots of help from smart players. Second, the bots announce milestones like unique mob deaths, entering branches, wins, deaths, etc. You can query the bots for help, too, useful for things like querying a monster's stats, and a million other things.

Essentially what you can get from: https://lookupdb.guy.ht/#term/death%20yak

Here's the query syntax for Sequell (a bot): https://github.com/crawl/sequell/blob/master/docs/listgame.m...

And just to add to the link dump, here's a list of user defined commands for the bots: https://loom.shalott.org/userdef.html

They have a tournament a few times a year, with every release. You build teams (or play on a team by yourself) and accumulate points a variety of ways. Banners are earned, and it is all logged.

http://dobrazupa.org/tournament/0.17/overview.html

The IRC thing is such a nice enhancement that I wrote a relay bot for it (kind of a meta-bot): https://github.com/neckro/OCTOTROG

I'm part of a small sub-community of players, and we use it to filter the announcements so we only see the players we care about, run queries on the Crawl bots without disrupting ##crawl, etc.

(edit: oh hi grimgrin, didn't notice it was you :)

Nice list! Should be akrasiac instead of akrasia, though. :)

I played NetHack in the console, but I always play Crawl in webtiles. The tiles themselves are beautiful and the minimap is very, VERY useful.

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