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The stop condition is that the bots just die miserably after sitting around, because they run out of items, or the monsters scale faster than them, or they run into one of the thousands of funny/stupid ways you can die in NetHack.

There is a LOT of knowledge and strategy that is VERY FAR from obvious in this game. "Unspoiled" players who haven't read the wiki only have a very faint chance of winning the game.

If you sit around in early levels without trying to make progress, you eventually run out of food, your equipment will not improve and may even degrade, and worst of all you level up, which means monsters start scaling faster than you. You have to rely on prayers to survive, but prayers have a random cooldown, and if you pray too early, your god will make sure you regret it.