From: explorer@iastate.edu (Michael Graff)
Subject: Re: IAState team borgs way to victory! Film at 11...
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 12:43:39 GMT

In <btd.717698925@pv7440.vincent.iastate.edu> btd@iastate.edu (Benjamin T Dehner) writes:

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


>>Features of IABorg:

>>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?

This is one thing which amazed me all the time...  I played a scout, and
the ease at which I could hit other ships amazed me.  I can dodge, but
the other team just ran into the torps.


>>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.

And it's really easy to move a mouse pointer and click the other
direction to pressor one way/fire another.  And there were other
``tricks'' of the base defending trade we were testing out, too.

>>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.

I'll go one step further -- I accuse him of being a poor looser.  We
won, but by a LPS.  Next time, we'll simply take everything, and that's
that.

>>  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.

I know I wasn't on a borg.  Neither was griffon, the one most accused of
being a borg.  Nor the other 5 in the room.  I know you have little
reason to trust me over anyone else, but I'll give you this information
to possibly back up my word:
	(1) I used to run a always-non-borg server.
	(2) If I win, it needs to be a fair win.
	(3) I work in the systems department here at ISU.

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