From: eugenehs@aludra.usc.edu (HEUGE aka Eugene Hsu)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: Netrek Hockey : the best revenge
Date: 6 Sep 1992 00:18:03 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

Well Having just tried Hockey with Cfrog, 5150, Wascally Wabbit
 and a few other guys I just had to comment....

I LOVE THAT GAME :  it's the most fun since I first tried Netrek (hey look
I can spell it  8) )  We were playing in the middle if the night, as if
there was something better to do (who needs sleep when you have open
Sparc Staions), and were able to come up with 3 vs 3.

On my side we had the configuration of 2 sc 1 bb, and the other side 
2 sc 1 dd.  While I haven't played a full game version 8 vs 8 of
Netrek Hockey, it would seem to be insanely crowded.  Since we only
had 3 players we had to DEPEND greatly on fuel (all of you know that
of course so please no flames on obvious facts) and timing.  With
6 people we found that to win you had to just get excatly enough torps 
into your opponent to cripple him.  Every time one player was killed,
except in fast break situations, the puck was recovered by the side which
had the player killed, perhaps due to having 0 dam and 100% shield.  

Since we had 3 players we obviously didn't have structured goalies, just 
a continual mad chase, but damnit it was fun.   Now for a few comments:

	1)  recommendation : limit #of teammates to 6 (as someone said
            previously)  due to overcrowding.  When the game gets so
            congested it would seem that skill passing would no longer
            be a major issue.  It would than revert to blowing (forechecking
            and stealing) the hell out of your direct opponent.

        2)  Thought : Someone mentioned a penalty box : naaaaaah!
            that would take the fun out of trying to get exactly enough torps
            to cripple and not kill.  'sides if you think about it.
            There is another possibility if you couldn't attack anyone
            which is the opposite extreme of killing everything.  It would
            make one dependent solely on tractors and repressors, weakening
            scounts to nil.

        3)  Exultation : This game kicks butt, but seems alot closer to 
            soccer style play since there is the center kick off.  I was
            working on timing the kick off where at exactly puck release time I
            would be at warp 12 flying through the center of the screen.
            Of course 75%+ of the time I would miss, but if I could get it
            than it was a "fast break" game with the 3 on 3 teams.

  	4)  Praise :  Thanks for developing it (ummm can't remeber your name). 
	    It's excellent.

It's also great leaving someone playing against you on the game crippled
at 60 some damage (sc), stealing the puck from him, not kiling him, and
having him curse at ya while sitting next to you in RL as he spends the
next thirty seconds staring blankly at his screen waiting to repair, as he
watches you make the easy pass to score.
#include <violin_music.h>   /* evil cackle */

I love this game.... it's great.....

well I think I am ready for my second hockey experience again sometime later
this week.  8)

C'ya

=EUGENE=
aka HEUGE
aka heugeheuge

-- 
Eugene P. Hsu 
eugenehs@aludra.usc.edu			eph3205@ultb.rit.edu
Univeristy of Southern California	Rochester Institute of Technology
Electrical and Biomedical Engineering 	a.k.a. H  E  U  G  E
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