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I just checked on nethack.alt.org high score in the last 60 days https://alt.org/nethack/top60d.html https://alt.org/nethack/top60d.html 5000 points is still

• CydeWeys 4y ago
  To those not that familiar with NetHack, it's possible to run up arbitrarily high scores by doing activities within the game such as pudding farming. This is essentially a risk-free way (when done correctly) to get an unbounded number of kills, and as each kill is worth points, an unbounded score as well. I believe the score maxes out at 2 billion something, i.e. the maximum value of a signed int. So you may as well consider all 7 digit and up scores for ascended characters to belong to one single group, as any of these characters could have arbitrarily inflated their score, they just chose not to, as it's relatively uninteresting/boring to do. What's more interesting is a low score ascension. That is insanely hard to pull off as it means you're taking a very fragile character into the endgame, and yet somehow pulling through.
  • ntrz 4y ago
    Various farming strategies have been severely restricted in recent versions of the game; puddings don't even drop real corpses now. There are definitely still plenty of ways to loiter around and boost your score, though.
    • CydeWeys 4y ago
      I'm showing my age here then. I mostly played version 3.3.1, then some of the 3.4.* versions. I haven't played 3.6.*.