[dogscoff]

For a new roguelike game, would you consider allowing save games so that you can restore it when you die? Or is that against tradition of roguelike games?

Well... you do get bones files- they're the next best thing after savegames.

I'd love to see a 4X game developped in a co-operative fashion a la nethack. Unfortunately my coding talents extend little further than "hello world" so I'd be unable to help with anything other than ideas, but I do have plenty of those.

I don't think such a project would be a serious threat Malfador's income. It would take years and years to come up with anything approaching the complexity and sheer gosh-darn-goodness of SEIV, and by then we'd all have bought SEV anyway.