From: kumara2@barh1a.its.rpi.edu (Anuj Kumar)
Subject: Re: Necessities of team play (was Re: Doorstop semi-clue)
Reply-To: kumara2@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:12:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.170104.3145@cs.brown.edu>, esj@cs.brown.edu (Eugene Santos Jr.) writes:
|> In article <dcl3jk-@rpi.edu> kumara2@rpi.edu writes:
|> >In article <kfM4=qy00VB4IJMVJg@andrew.cmu.edu>, Greg K Chung <gc2n+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
|> >|> 
|> >|> ...[Stiletto fills out Clueless Disgruntlement Operating Instructions
|> >|>       Form IML8 (CDOIF-IML8)]...
|> >|> 
|> >|> Disgruntled Rapier_
|> >|> 
|> >
|> >      This is crazy!!!!!!! I don't remember if I was in that game or not, but
|> >what the hell, I just got a message from someone apologizing for the way he 
|> >was playing in a game I was in. He apologized to me for playing poorly as he
|> >called it!! 
|> >      In my opinion this has gotten way out of hand. Netrek is a game!!!! It 
|> >is in my opinion, for fun and enjoyment, I mean its not going to help me get
|> >a job or something!!!!! 
|> >      If I keep getting letters like that about people feeling sorry about 
|> >themselves or something, I may just stop playing the game.
|> >
|> >          
|> >                                                               -slut
|> >                                                                Anuj
|> >
|> 
|> You are really missing the point here. Things such as apologies during
|> a game, apologies through e-mail, enthusiastic salutations from
|> lower ranking players, etc. demonstrates that the said player
|> is responsive to your input and may hold you in some form of
|> respect/esteem. This is the most important point of transforming
|> a clueless newbie to a semi-clueful player. Without such a response,
|> we will never have more clueful players!! Your post will simply make you
|> lose any respect/esteem you have aquired thus far in netrek.
|> 
|> Team play is paramount in this game! Without team play, netrek is
|> nothing. The respect and esteem of veteran players must be
|> visible to get the appropriate learning response from the newer players.
|> I find it necessary that this can only be accomplished by grooming
|> oneself to have a forceful personality for the game. Haven't you by
|> now noticed that the most respect is attributed to players from
|> CMU and Berkeley?? They have unfailingly understood that the
|> game can be much improved in this manner. The key to this type of
|> personality is to be either arrogant and/or insulting. This is
|> why we keep hearing about CMU Arrogance. And based on performance,
|> CMU always manages to win games whenever one of them shows up!!!
|> 
|> Well, enough education for now. My conclusion is that you are
|> a putz and will never understand the game.
|> 
|> CMU apprentice,
|> 	Lieutenant Brim
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> uucp:	...!{ihnp4,decvax}!brunix!esj		Eugene Santos Jr.
|> bitnet:	esj@browncs.bitnet			PO Box 1910, Computer Science
|> arpa:	esj%cs.brown.edu@relay.cs.net		Brown University
|> csnet:	esj@cs.brown.edu			Providence, RI 02912



    I totally agree with your point about how veteran players can help 
the newer players to become better and play more efficiently, but there was
one problem with the situation I was in. The guy who sent me the post was
none other than Flt. Captain Dreadnought, maybe you've heard of him. In my 
opinion, he is one of the best players I have ever seen. And if HE has to send
me, only a Commander,  a letter, something is wrong, it should have been the other way around.

                                                           -slut 
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