From: esj@cs.brown.edu (Eugene Santos Jr.)
Subject: Re: Things I do when I'm bored.
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 08:34:46 GMT

In article <UerYWqG00Vp0MCK0xB@andrew.cmu.edu> rg3c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Randy Eugene Griffith) writes:
>1) Find an opponent to joust with.  Jousting can be so much fun. 
>Especially when you get 3-4 people into it, and you start having
>MegaJousts and Joustlemania (A good Megajoust is this:  4 people, 2 on
>either team.  One flies to each corner planet of the galaxy, locks onto
>the opposite corner planet.  Then select max speed (everybody should
>have the same ship) and whammo, meet in the middle and have a slick
>little 4-person explosion.)  Use your imagination.
>

I waanaaa joust! Nobody ever invites me :(

>2) Take a lap of the galaxy.  This can be challenging, because a lot of
>times there are dorks from the other team who will come chase you down. 
>So take a scout if you're going to do it.  What is really great is when
>you get 2+ people from different teams to take a lap together.  Call it
>a lap for peace or something.

This is quite boring unless the other team is utterly clueless.
If they are clueful, they either blow you up immediately, or completely
ignore you.

>
>3)  Sing a little song.  Fuhrer and I prefer Don MacLean's American Pie,
>but really any song will suffice.  Obviously, the song should be sent to
>all so that everyone can enjoy it.  (When Fuhrer and I get going, we
>alternate typing lines).
>

More power to you! Just as long as you don't sing the songs
they made us sing in grade school. You know.... "On top of
spaghetti! Alllll covered with cheeeeese!!!!" Too many bad
memories :)

>4) Try to take the other teams home planet with a scout.  If you can
>make it from your home planet to their home planet and get into orbit
>without being killed, good job.  Note:  You can't take tricky paths
>around the galaxy to do this.  I'm talking about locking on and going
>warp 12.
>

Like 2 above. Only works and is entertaining if the other team is completely
clueless. Anyone who has clue will kill you immediately.

>5)  A variation of 4, be a free kill for the other team.  Basically
>charge into their space with an uncloaked, unshielded scout and see how
>long it takes them to blow you up.  It's funny because a lot of people
>can't lead something going warp 12 and end up missing you with all their
>torps.. Phasors usually do you in though.
>

My answer is a variation of the one for 4.

>Well that's a handful of fun things to try sometime.  If you have any
>other ideas or anything, by all means let them know.  And if you ever
>want to boost your ratios by getting 50 free kills in a row, let me know
>and I'd be happy to help out.
>

Boy, you must really really be bored. I'd go and fine something
more constructive like basket-weaving with licorice sticks.

>Do note that a lot of geeks for some reason take offense when you do
>these fun activities.   They'll start telling you how you should play
>the game.  So what do you do?  Well you have a couple options.. One,
>lock onto them and get on top of them and follow them everywhere.  Not
>only does this annoy them but when they are engaged and you blow up on
>top of them (of course, you keep your shields off) you can usually kill
>them.  Another thing you can do, since the ones who will get mad at you
>are the ones who think they control the game or something, is get a few
>legitimate kills, pick up all your team's armies, and then get yourself
>killed deliberately.  That's only really useful if the geek is the one
>who is trying to play team captain or something.  If they are starbase,
>you have some other options.  For instance, fly near enemy territory,
>stop, cloak yourself, and then fly back at your own SB.  More often than
>not they've lost track and think you're an ogger and start going nuts
>trying to kill you.  You can also dock with your SB, sit on top of it
>and constantly fire your weapons.  I'm not too sure, but I think this
>will run down the SB's fuel????  And it goes without saying that if the
>other team is ogging your SB, you need to dock with it (no shields) and
>blow up on top of him.
>

This is what get's you called a *ahem* "dick" to say the least.
If you ever try to do any of the one things above during a game
where at least 50% of the players on your team WANT to play
seriously, you are an undisputed bonafide *ahem* "dick".
You are ruining someone elses fun, and they certainly do
happen to be a majority in this situation. Think twice before
doing this. And if this doesn't bother you the least bit,
I suggest "one of the following options".... 1) curl back tongue and
swallow, 2) play with detonator caps, 3) clean loaded shot gun,
4) dive in pile of razor blades, 5) say "Hi" to Hannibal Lechter
for me, and 6) grow up. Each of these options will certainly improve
the general quality of human life.

>Well like I said if you have any other ideas, let me know... 
>
>
>Mr. Yuk
>-- Randy "The Apeman" Griffith
>"You gonna be the new worm face now"

Commander quiet (bigmax)


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