Talk:Cheating

Discovered the Wizard Bones cheat myself a couple of years ago, but have never heard anyone else use it. I might even be a sort of pioneer of Nethack cheating. Nah, probably not. Wrote the cheat here, anyway. - Potman (Guest), Dec 9, 2006

How should the following behaviors be classified?

• manually keeping track of things the player doesn't usually know. That is, nutrition and prayer timeouts, etc.
• doing the same as above, but using a hex editor or other tool to view the exact value in the memory.
• using keyboard macros to automate death farming, pudding farming, etc

- anonymous, Dec 9, 2006

• Not cheating. If you manage to find out what the exact numbers are (I don't know them), I don't see why you couldn't use them.
• Probably cheating.
• Probably cheating.

These are only my opinions, of course. - Potman (Guest), Dec 10, 2006

• Not cheating. It's "spoiled", but it's not cheating. Prayer timeout is random anyway, and it's really hard to know.
• Cheating. There's minor variation on hunger that it's not possible to know (such as from jumping, spellcasting, etc) and looking up these values is cheating.
• Not cheating. All it does is let you go faster.

- JoshJ. 10/12/07