Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Date: Tue,  6 Oct 1992 17:40:02 -0400 
From: Greg K Chung <gc2n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Illuminatus News

Hugh recently posted this obnoxiously silly message.  Here's a point by
point reply.  You'll agree that this washout has been must have eaten
too many torps...




>	I leave third space scumming in the hands of MUCUS PIG.  I only
>3rd space scum when MUCUS is in the game.  As far as I can see, it's a
>breach of ettiquet, and should be discouraged.  Let MUCUS do it if he
>wants.  He upsets enough people anyway.

	MUCUS adds more to the game than any other player out there.  There are
times that I will only stay in a game because he is there.  His comments
during the game are often more entertaining than the game its self.  His
use of mind control to make opponents fail and team-mates succede is
invaluble in a tournement game.  You should know this, having captained
Darkhorse.  His role in TWNN is critial to the success of IC.  It is
very similar to Botelle and Paulsen.

>Justin and Brian seem to take extreme pleasure in cutting to the bone. 
>When MUCUS says something, it is generally too rediculas to be really
>offensive.  
>Anyway, it will be interesting to actually meet Justin and Brian.
>I wonder if Mike is going to go insane again.  I hate it when he flips
>out.

	Unlike our succefully thwarting Mike Moore from coming to campus, we
intend to let Botelle and Paulsen walk right in.  They are infinitely
more valuble to us than Ged was.  It was good work getting him to leave.
	While they are here, we must introduce them to our prototype halftime
server so they can realize how wrong they are about INL halftime.


>	This is the same reason that I think that the flight recorder
>should be not only allowed in games, but improved and encouraged.  While
>I didn't get much out of watching it, I'm sure that there is a lot to be
>gained from such a device.

	We do not aprove of recording devices in general.  A great deal goes
into an INL game, and not all of it is playing.  That is more than I
should tell you already.  Until we decide that the recorder is the
official INL client, it will not be allowed by the council.
	It is much like IAState using a 'borg during thier tournement.  It is
not allowed in the game, and we shall not stand for it.  On the other
hand, if it makes a good distraction from imortant events, the cartel
may or may not order such a thing to be done.

>Will Tom join Xgolems?  Should we ask him.  Is that why he hates us so
>much. . .because we never offered him a shot at being on our team?
>	Hey, Tom, are you interested?

	We will do whatever we need to in order to win the INL title.  If that
means causing certain players to leave their teams, then so be it.  If
that means having certain fools come to CMU to be killed by psycotic
team captains, so be it.  If that means schedualing 4 genocides for our
team, then so be it.  If that means making sure that no teams from
outside the US can join and upset up, then so be it (Even though this
failed in council, we kept the teams themselves from joining.).

>It's like being killed by Iggy.  It happens.

	Ahhh yes, but not on "real" (TM) servers.  On real servers they don't
have wimp things like Iggy and LPS timers, and 3rd space scumming.



Stiletto/The Network -- Captain of the Illuminus Cartel