You can activate Tournament Mode in the settings (modern ports only). It is meant to be used in tournaments for forcing settings necessary to take part in the tournaments and as extra safeguards against cheating.
It also tries to emulate the environment which players have when playing on public Linux servers, for maximum equivalence with Linux server play. Therefore it forces on settings like Allow Ghost Levels and Share Bones Files.
Game Mode
Tournament Mode allows games to be played only in Classic Mode:
- Permadeath
- Save files can be loaded only once
Game Difficulty
Games can only be played at Expert difficulty or higher.
Expert difficulty is an unadjusted difficulty, which is considered to be comparable to NetHack difficulty.
Settings
Tournament Mode forces on the following settings:
- Post Game Progress
- Post Top Scores
- Allow Ghost Levels
- Share Bones Files
- Save File Tracking
- Record Game
- Auto-Upload To Cloud
Tournament Mode also disables all custom links and webhooks in the Server Posting section.
You also need to have a registered GnollHack Account and have entered your username and password to the respective fields.
GnollHack Account Server
On the GnollHack Account server, in recent games and top scores, games played in Tournament Mode display Tournament along with the game difficulty and the game mode.
Junethack
For taking part in Junethack, you need also to register your Junethack username to GnollHack Account.