From: btd@iastate.edu (Benjamin T Dehner)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: Re: IAState team borgs way to victory! Film at 11...
Date: 28 Sep 92 16:48:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: pv7440.btd.717698925
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA

In <1a5t8tINN1jt@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> mcn@cwru.edu (Michael C. Neuman) writes:


>  The result of the Janitors of Anarchy vs. IAState was 15-5 favor IASTATE!  
>(Yeah, they actually won!) But that's not all, not only did they win by 10  
>planets, but they also got an opportunity to test the brand new IAborg (v 1.0).

	Gee, CMU must have had GREAT borgs to have beaten us so fast in our
first scrimmage :)

>Features of IABorg:

>o Auto Detting - Yep! Fastest detting in the west. Even better than PigBorg!

	I don't know about you, but my det is mapped into the 'd' key.  Try
it sometime.  Be surprised how fast you can hit a single middle-row key on
a keyboard.

>o Auto Torps   - Be able to fire that perfect hyperbola into ANY player, no
>		 matter what range! 

	Why don't you try DODGING next time?

>o Auto Phasers - Never miss! Never turns off! Allows you to shoot torps in
>		 opposite direction of phaser! Will pick off pesky oggers while
>		 you concentrate torps in base on base situations.

	The only base on base I know of exodus ended up dying, and your base
didn't.  Great borg, huh?

>o Auto Pressor - Amazing how fast this bugger picks up oggers, and will change
>		 targets without even making you stop firing!

	Yeah.  Funny how once you turn a pressor on it stays on.  Specially
when you only have to hit one key to do it.

>o Instant Off  - Tab key allows you to turn it off when opponents start  
>		 complaining. This, of course, will cause you to lose all the  
>		 planets you've taken, and in fact fall behind by a planet,  
>		 but, it's for those special situations where you may get  
>		 caught! Be sure to turn it on after emphatically denying  
>		 you're borging.

	We forgot a feature (to be included in v1.1 :) communications filter:
stop messages from whiny idiots who don't know how to play.  What do you
expcect us to do?  I accuse you of being stupid.  Am I suppose to take your
denial of that as proof you are stupid?  I guess the more emphaticaly you
deny it, the stupider you must be.

>  The combination of experience on JOA team playing tonight adds up to 12+  
>years. Only one person on the team declined to comment on their use of borgs,  
>the rest agreed. 

	So?  That comes to 8 people who have been playing for a year and a
half.  We probably have near that here at ISU.  Maybe we have a few players
who just learned a bit more in that time.

>  Be wary next time you play IAState. And be prepared for them to act like  
>you've hurt their feelings when you call them borgs. But, just remember, the  
>first time you see that perfect hyperbola with every torp hitting you, quit 
>out right then--it's not worth the frustration.

	At ISU, we are trying to put together a halfway decent INL team.
(Watch out, CMU, here we come:).  It's damned annoying that the first time
we win (against a team not much higher ranked than we are) that the loser
has to shout 'borg, borg'.  Pretty pathetic borgs, too, if we didn't manage
to genocide you.

>-Mike Neuman (Guru) Captain: Janitors of Anarchy
>mcn@b62103.student.cwru.edu

Ben (Cthulhu)

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Benjamin T. Dehner    Dept. of Physics and Astronomy 
btd@iastate.edu       Iowa State University 
                      Ames, IA 50011