From: exodus@IASTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: TBird
Reply-To: exodus@IASTATE.EDU
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 07:51:12 GMT

In article <1992Sep6.183534.22680@wixer.cactus.org>, rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org
(Felix S. Gallo) writes:
> In article <1992Sep4.204254@IASTATE.EDU> exodus@IASTATE.EDU writes:
> [double spaced, but I can't STAND IT THAT WAY:]
> >  If you people don't like T-Bird don't play there, but keep your putdowns
> >to yourself. At least Explorer has the balls to keep trying to expand the
game
> >and work to make it better. Just because some of the modifications don't
work
> >out as well as others doesn't mean everybody there is a bunch of idiots. The
> >game hasn't changed much in years. Maybe a little ingenuity should be
welcomed
> >rather than scorned. The 'why fix it if it ain't broken' mentality says a
lot
> >about some of you people.
> 
> The problem with the place, last I played there, was that the people with
> GAs would runnerscum *everyone else* and then crow about how their ratio
> was over 1.5.  Which is coincidentally really easy when your plasmas track
> better than Patriot missiles.
> 
The GA's were only on for a month or so this summer. They were tried out and
were found unbalancing and therefore removed weeks ago. Chill out.
And incidently, if you were referring to me, I have had a 2.5+ ratio there
long before GA's were ever around (with a 2.05 offense, not a runner scum). So
that slam doesn't wash. Admittedly, there were GA scummers there and they were
often obnoxious. Seems to me many of them were from Berkeley though.......

> The other problem with the place is that in the one game I played there
> (a full tmode game), I racked up a 20.5 planet score by single handedly
> genociding the enemy team.  I also had a 30 bombing score, but that's just
> me regularly, I guess.  And with an 18 defense, I was on track to become
> Grand Admiral on single DI.
> 

As I was saying, T-Bird has been flooded with newbies. If you get on when they
are playing, go somewhere else then. If it was so easy for you, why'd you stick
around and rack up DI? Guess you are one of those players playing for rank, eh?






> >  And incidently, there are a lot of clueful players at ISU. But the game is
> >constantly picking up new players here and the server is usually flooded
with
> >newbies. Take that into account before you prejudge everyone from here.
> 
> My prejudice against everyone 'from there' stems from the fact that they fall
> into two groups: people who think netrek is a fancy version of autocad, and
> people who, using GAs, scum the hell out of those people and go on to think
> they're Great.  
> 

That's a really stupid generalization. Nuff said

> >
> >PS.  Somebody should do something to include GA's into the game. 
> 
> Guess which camp Exodus falls into?
> 
I promote bringing in GA's as balanced ships, not chaos ships. Get a little
more idea what you're saying about somebody before blurting it on the newsgroup
ok? And incidently, I've played with you many times Sunscreamer and can say
with all confidence that you can't match up with a lot of ISU players and
shouldn't be lobbing rocks in your glass house.

> >The GA bitmaps
> >are the best and could easily be included with a little balancing.
> 
> I'm afraid
> if(!strcmp("Exodus",pseudonym[player]) allow_to_be_GA[player];
> ain't gonna cut it.
> 
  What the heck does that mean?

> > So cut
> >T-Bird
> >some slack if Explorer is trying to work them in.
> 
> There are two schools of thought.  One of them says that all servers should
> be made room for under god's holy plan.  The other of them says that if
> something is sufficiently dumb, one should warn other people.
> 
> >						*EXODUS-ISU*
> 
> 					*SUNSCREAMER-AUSTIN*



You know, you're going to look really stupid when INL starts and our rookie
team embarrasses you and your big mouth. If we are as bad as you say we are
we'll get genocided in record time every game- better think twice.



                                             Exodus/USS Yorktown


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