From: rg3c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Randy Eugene Griffith)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: Things I do when I'm bored.
Date: 16 Oct 92 04:44:38 GMT
Organization: Freshman, MCS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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"
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA