From: sfd@soda.berkeley.edu (Scott Drellishak)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: Re: Hell Peacock
Date: 11 Oct 1992 07:14:58 GMT
Organization: Metaphor Computer Systems
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu

In article <92425@netnews.upenn.edu> botelle@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Justin Botelle) writes:
)In article <1b3gmiINNogb@agate.berkeley.edu) sfd@soda.berkeley.edu (Scott Drellishak) writes:
))In article <Bvtv1G.88C.2@cs.cmu.edu) hill@norman.VI.RI.CMU.EDU (Robert Hill) writes:
)))Scott 'I have spoken' Drellishak writes
)
)))) Tremble in fear.
)
))Since I've only played on discovery, calvin, bigdog (when it's full),
))and sturgeon in the last few months, it seems unlikely that I'd ever
)
)afraid to play with the big boys, Scott?

No, I have to play over a 56kbaud line from work, and cross-continent
lag doesn't help my game any.  In any case, I think you'll find that
"the big boys" are not all CMU students.  More arrogance.

Which is not to say that the game on the above servers couldn't use
some clue -- why don't more people from berkeley play on bigdog, for
instance.

))encounter you.  In any case, I play netrek to relax after work, not to
))winwinwinwinwin.  The biggest flaw of the now-popular CMU style of
))play is that it turns netrek from a game into a contest.  Frankly, I'd
))rather play a fun game of softball than an all-out game of baseball.
))If you take my meaning.
)
)Yeah, you don't know how to play hardball

This is productive.

))Just out of curiosity, those of you have played against me in the last
))couple of months, send me mail and tell me if you take me seriously as
))a player.  I can't remember the last time somebody totally dominated
)
)I don't.  I didn't take you seriously as a server god.  Bezier sucked, and
)I'm glad it's dead.

I love you too.

)And if you can't remember the last time someone dominated you, maybe it's
)because you're afraid to play on bronco.  Btw, didn't IAState dominate you?

Sure, because we don't care.  I was kill-scumming all night, and
enjoying myself.  Consider Armchair Admirals to be a Dada-esque
statment about the meaninglessness of netrek.

)Maybe you should arrange a scrimmage with TTWNN or Side Salad.
)
))No, you don't understand *our* (yours too) heritage.  Next thing,
)
)How earthy.  Heritage.  Netrek?  Something that has been around less than
)a decade can not have heritage.  What's next:  antiques?
)
))The reason I don't like the current trend in netrek is that it takes
))what I consider to be the fun parts of the game away.  The CMU style
))is a successful strategy, given the current rules of netrek, but any
))style which de-emphasizes dogfighting (which is what Xtrek was
))originally about, before cloaking, stats, and planet-taking) is, in my
))opinion, boring.  It's a video game.
)
)ogging is fun.

Ogging is easy.  It's the first thing I learned how to do...only, back
then, we called it "suicide".  Killing the other guy and *living* is
an accomplishment -- ogging is a last resort.

))standard server.  Can somebody help me get my tongue out of my cheek?
)
)No, we need to get the foot out first.

[sigh].
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