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General / sorry was afk a moment
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had to go afk sorry about that did I miss anything?
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Off Topic / MIGHTY ALE!
« on: December 29, 2004, 11:15:42 AM »
And so it happened, on a trip to Tesco to buy alcohol with friends, browsing the shelves of bizarre drinks, there it was.
Goliath.
With a bottle proclaiming it was "Mighty Ale" and a label which used words like "challenging", "towering might", "powerful" and "brave", i knew this was the drink for me.
Goliath.
With a bottle proclaiming it was "Mighty Ale" and a label which used words like "challenging", "towering might", "powerful" and "brave", i knew this was the drink for me.
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Off Topic / GMan Likes The Music
« on: December 21, 2004, 10:23:32 AM »
Yeah, i was bored earlier so i started this.
It took more time than i wanted it to take, and any kind of timing or syncing i put in went to pot when played through a browser. oh well, who cares.
http://www.creativeblank.com/gman/
It took more time than i wanted it to take, and any kind of timing or syncing i put in went to pot when played through a browser. oh well, who cares.
http://www.creativeblank.com/gman/
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Off Topic / Anarchy Online Free for a year
« on: December 16, 2004, 04:22:25 AM »
http://www.anarchy-online.com/free/ad_campaigns/freecampaign
AO are offering, for free, the client and a year's subscription to AO (Not including expansions) free of charge and all they require is that you sign up for an account before the 15th Jan, but that doesn't matter, as it's free.
Other conditions being that you'd have to pay for the expansions if you want them, it only lasts until 1/1/2006 and they reserve the right to terminate the thing at will, but who cares, it's still free.
So get downloading. The client's only 800mb, and it's free.
Did i mention it's free? :p
AO are offering, for free, the client and a year's subscription to AO (Not including expansions) free of charge and all they require is that you sign up for an account before the 15th Jan, but that doesn't matter, as it's free.
Other conditions being that you'd have to pay for the expansions if you want them, it only lasts until 1/1/2006 and they reserve the right to terminate the thing at will, but who cares, it's still free.
So get downloading. The client's only 800mb, and it's free.
Did i mention it's free? :p
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Off Topic / Win2k pro, the mother of all viruses
« on: December 11, 2004, 09:16:27 PM »
Ok, so, today i've been building my g/f's computer, after minimal hassle, i started to install win2k, all's going well, installed fine, great. Installed mobo and video drivers and things are all cool. Get it online, hit windows update then we ran off to see a movie. Cut to a few hours later.
The computer is riddled with viruses. All i'd installed not on properly pressed (and completely legal, i might add) cds were FireFox and winrar. Both of which were downloaded from reputable sites, and the exact same files that i have running on my computer with no viruses whatsoever.
So this is what i need to ask, is a clean install of win2k on brand new hardware really so susceptible to viruses? I'd not been able to ascertain what viruses they were exactly as they were overflowing the box and effectively stopping you from running anything, let alone do anything on the internet or install software (so both windows update and installing a virus scanner were out of the question).
This has basically forced me to install WinXP Home over, what i believe to be, the more superior win2k pro, which i'm none to happy about.
The computer is riddled with viruses. All i'd installed not on properly pressed (and completely legal, i might add) cds were FireFox and winrar. Both of which were downloaded from reputable sites, and the exact same files that i have running on my computer with no viruses whatsoever.
So this is what i need to ask, is a clean install of win2k on brand new hardware really so susceptible to viruses? I'd not been able to ascertain what viruses they were exactly as they were overflowing the box and effectively stopping you from running anything, let alone do anything on the internet or install software (so both windows update and installing a virus scanner were out of the question).
This has basically forced me to install WinXP Home over, what i believe to be, the more superior win2k pro, which i'm none to happy about.
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Off Topic / Another(?) Apology
« on: July 30, 2004, 08:13:00 AM »
Well, just felt i should apologise. Some people supported me in my views, other people didn't. I pissed off a lot of people with that thread, i was in a ^^ty mood, and i had absolutely no right to take it out on anyone.
So, Ness, Vinnie, fo0l, ebnar, dev, and whoever else got pissed off by my inane ramblings, i'm sorry.
So, Ness, Vinnie, fo0l, ebnar, dev, and whoever else got pissed off by my inane ramblings, i'm sorry.
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General / Minor Rule Changes
« on: July 20, 2004, 08:38:41 PM »
Not a whine really, just a few thoughts on existing rules.
1) Lerk Lift:
Some people seem that it's fun to just pick up a gorge at will and try and fly him wherever they feel like. This is not fun. I just had a lerk attempt to pick me up 3 times in the space of 20 seconds to try and fly me off. Is there some way that "Don't abuse lerk lift" or similar can be added to the rules.
2) Team Damage / TK:
One thing that struck me as odd from another game i just played tonight is that team damaging as an Onos is prohibited. I'm not saying just walking up to a friendly player and attacking him for no reason should be justified, but if you need to escape and a friendly skulk or gorge is blocking your way, i really see no reason why attacking him to get him to move is bad. To put it this way, is a 75 res fade of a 10 or 2 res gorge or skulk more important. While i find team damaging etc to be bad form, given the circumstance, i feel that team damaging is justified, especially due to the Onos's ability to throw any unit 50m back with knockback.
Anyways, just some thoughts.
1) Lerk Lift:
Some people seem that it's fun to just pick up a gorge at will and try and fly him wherever they feel like. This is not fun. I just had a lerk attempt to pick me up 3 times in the space of 20 seconds to try and fly me off. Is there some way that "Don't abuse lerk lift" or similar can be added to the rules.
2) Team Damage / TK:
One thing that struck me as odd from another game i just played tonight is that team damaging as an Onos is prohibited. I'm not saying just walking up to a friendly player and attacking him for no reason should be justified, but if you need to escape and a friendly skulk or gorge is blocking your way, i really see no reason why attacking him to get him to move is bad. To put it this way, is a 75 res fade of a 10 or 2 res gorge or skulk more important. While i find team damaging etc to be bad form, given the circumstance, i feel that team damaging is justified, especially due to the Onos's ability to throw any unit 50m back with knockback.
Anyways, just some thoughts.
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General / Running Away At The Start Of The Game
« on: June 22, 2004, 12:35:02 PM »
At the start of the marine game, can people not rambo off straight off the bat, expecting people to comm, do you know why?
If you happen to have me and Sonic on your team, rather than having a comm bowing to your almighty need, you'll find two english guys taking turns and having a laugh. We've never won in our dual-comming, and we're unlikely ever to win. So unless you want two english guys splitting it, don't run off.
If you happen to have me and Sonic on your team, rather than having a comm bowing to your almighty need, you'll find two english guys taking turns and having a laugh. We've never won in our dual-comming, and we're unlikely ever to win. So unless you want two english guys splitting it, don't run off.
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General / Stupidest Things You've Seen Comms Do
« on: May 30, 2004, 04:10:23 PM »
I just wanna know, what are the stupidest or funniest things you've seen a comm do.
Personally, mine was today. Seth was commanding, and we were walking in to take double pretty early at the start of the game. In double was a single OC and a single RT. The RT wasn't even built when we first turned up, and in our first rush the OC was down to about a quarter health.
There were quite a few aliens about, including a res whore Lerk, but it didn't seem like too much trouble for the entire team of marines. So we kept running in and dying, each time getting closer and closer to our goal. From being sneaky and running around the back, the OC in the middle of the room was at 1 bar health.
Now enters the comm.
He drops a TF, upgrades it to siege and drops 2 sieges. For 1 OC with 1 health bar, and an RT. That's it. When i walked in to spot double, i finished the OC off with the rest of my LMG magazine then we walked into double and it was clear. No siege kills, we'd just managed to stop them. 55 res for no reason whatsoever.
Next on my list for stupid things, comms who SG or IP rush from the start of the game. Sure, you win. Great. 2 minute games sure are great fun...........
And here too, just for good measure: Please refrain from posting the names of the commanders in question from now on. It leads to flaming, and flaming leads to lockage. And this could turn out to be a rather fun thread.
Personally, mine was today. Seth was commanding, and we were walking in to take double pretty early at the start of the game. In double was a single OC and a single RT. The RT wasn't even built when we first turned up, and in our first rush the OC was down to about a quarter health.
There were quite a few aliens about, including a res whore Lerk, but it didn't seem like too much trouble for the entire team of marines. So we kept running in and dying, each time getting closer and closer to our goal. From being sneaky and running around the back, the OC in the middle of the room was at 1 bar health.
Now enters the comm.
He drops a TF, upgrades it to siege and drops 2 sieges. For 1 OC with 1 health bar, and an RT. That's it. When i walked in to spot double, i finished the OC off with the rest of my LMG magazine then we walked into double and it was clear. No siege kills, we'd just managed to stop them. 55 res for no reason whatsoever.
Next on my list for stupid things, comms who SG or IP rush from the start of the game. Sure, you win. Great. 2 minute games sure are great fun...........
And here too, just for good measure: Please refrain from posting the names of the commanders in question from now on. It leads to flaming, and flaming leads to lockage. And this could turn out to be a rather fun thread.
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General / Voice & My Accent
« on: May 30, 2004, 11:52:23 AM »
Ok, i feel the need to post this here, because it's pissing me off more and more.
I hate people poking fun, impersonating or otherwise ridiculing my english accent. I really hate it. And anyone who does will be getting a torrent of abuse from me. No, i don't care who it is.
I don't start impersonating anyone elses accents on voice do i? No. I don't. Because it's rude and half the people that *think* they can do an english accent do nothing but spout pointless racial stereotypes. And you know what, every time someone does this, i'm gonna start whining to the admins about it. I will not rest until every last racist bastard who decides to think it's funny to ridicule my accent is banned.
Now you may be thinking that i'm overreacting or whatever? But to be honest, it really goddamn bugs me, it's insulting, and there is not a damn thing i can do with my accent. Would you make fun of someone with a birth defect? Would you make fun of someone in a wheelchair? Sorry, those people can do as much to change their problems as i can to change my accent.
So for all you no who've done it in the past and think it's funny, no you.
If you're going to self-censor, go all the way. Starring out half the letters isn't good enough
I hate people poking fun, impersonating or otherwise ridiculing my english accent. I really hate it. And anyone who does will be getting a torrent of abuse from me. No, i don't care who it is.
I don't start impersonating anyone elses accents on voice do i? No. I don't. Because it's rude and half the people that *think* they can do an english accent do nothing but spout pointless racial stereotypes. And you know what, every time someone does this, i'm gonna start whining to the admins about it. I will not rest until every last racist bastard who decides to think it's funny to ridicule my accent is banned.
Now you may be thinking that i'm overreacting or whatever? But to be honest, it really goddamn bugs me, it's insulting, and there is not a damn thing i can do with my accent. Would you make fun of someone with a birth defect? Would you make fun of someone in a wheelchair? Sorry, those people can do as much to change their problems as i can to change my accent.
So for all you no who've done it in the past and think it's funny, no you.
If you're going to self-censor, go all the way. Starring out half the letters isn't good enough
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General / Friendly Fire And You
« on: March 28, 2004, 05:51:25 PM »
Since it seems abundantly clear that a large portion of players don't know how to handle friendly fire, i thought i'd post a little bit of common sense for them.
1) If you don't have a clear shot at your target, don't fire. There's nothing worse than getting shot in the back by someone who only has a one in a thousand chance of hitting their target. Yes, it may suck to see your teammate torn apart infront of you, but if you fire and hit him, you're only making it worse.
2) Parasiting. Christ, can people NOT parasite other aliens at the start of the game. I'm sick of it. Yes, it may only be a few HP off, but with the skulk's lower armour, every single piece of hp and armour counts. What's more, it's irritating as goddamned hell. Don't do it.
3) If you do accidently bite or shoot someone, apologise straight away.
4) If you do accidently TK, again, apologise ASAP, explain that it wasn't intentional.
5) If you have a GL or are throwing a grenade, look at number 1. Memorise, learn and love rule number 1. Do NOT GL spam into groups of your own team and absolutely, under no circumstances, fire your GL when you have little chance of hitting your target.
6) If you're a skulk and you leap into a building, make sure you tell your team it was you, and there's no trouble there.
7) If you leap the hive, same thing.
When the game starts. Do. Not. Bite. The. Hive. You have no idea how many people do this, it's ridiculous. Mainly NSPlayer nubs, but still, you need that thing to live, DON'T DO IT!
9) Even if someone's within healing range of DCs or a hive, don't bite them. The amount of times people have bitten me and think it's all a great joke. It's not. It's goddamned annoying, cut it out and don't do it.
10) If you're an Onos choose your targets. If you're rushing a base, attack something someone else isn't attacking. The amount of times i've been in marine start chewing on a TF or IP, nearly having it down, only to be punted halfway across the room because some Onos wanted to get there, is as usual, ridiculous. If two skulks are attacking an RT, move along. They're doing more damage and faster than you could do, but the second you attack it they will be thrown away.
You have no idea how sick i am of people intentionally biting me, parasiting me or generally being a lame f*ck just because ff is on. Cut all that ^^ out, it's annoying as hell and counterproductive to the game's goals.
1) If you don't have a clear shot at your target, don't fire. There's nothing worse than getting shot in the back by someone who only has a one in a thousand chance of hitting their target. Yes, it may suck to see your teammate torn apart infront of you, but if you fire and hit him, you're only making it worse.
2) Parasiting. Christ, can people NOT parasite other aliens at the start of the game. I'm sick of it. Yes, it may only be a few HP off, but with the skulk's lower armour, every single piece of hp and armour counts. What's more, it's irritating as goddamned hell. Don't do it.
3) If you do accidently bite or shoot someone, apologise straight away.
4) If you do accidently TK, again, apologise ASAP, explain that it wasn't intentional.
5) If you have a GL or are throwing a grenade, look at number 1. Memorise, learn and love rule number 1. Do NOT GL spam into groups of your own team and absolutely, under no circumstances, fire your GL when you have little chance of hitting your target.
6) If you're a skulk and you leap into a building, make sure you tell your team it was you, and there's no trouble there.
7) If you leap the hive, same thing.
When the game starts. Do. Not. Bite. The. Hive. You have no idea how many people do this, it's ridiculous. Mainly NSPlayer nubs, but still, you need that thing to live, DON'T DO IT!9) Even if someone's within healing range of DCs or a hive, don't bite them. The amount of times people have bitten me and think it's all a great joke. It's not. It's goddamned annoying, cut it out and don't do it.
10) If you're an Onos choose your targets. If you're rushing a base, attack something someone else isn't attacking. The amount of times i've been in marine start chewing on a TF or IP, nearly having it down, only to be punted halfway across the room because some Onos wanted to get there, is as usual, ridiculous. If two skulks are attacking an RT, move along. They're doing more damage and faster than you could do, but the second you attack it they will be thrown away.
You have no idea how sick i am of people intentionally biting me, parasiting me or generally being a lame f*ck just because ff is on. Cut all that ^^ out, it's annoying as hell and counterproductive to the game's goals.
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General / Ever Have Your "off" Days?
« on: February 21, 2004, 08:36:42 AM »
Muh, yesterday was probably my worst day of NS, Holy_Devil got to witness it.
Anyone else have these days when you just suck? No matter how hard you try, you just suck.
I mean, i thought it was backwards day since i was alien, as was DHP, he was top of the scoreboard, i was bottom. I'm not saying i'm a fantastic player or anything, but i'm usually above the normal nub clientelle that LM and FSD have attracted as of late.
Anyone else have these days when you just suck? No matter how hard you try, you just suck.
I mean, i thought it was backwards day since i was alien, as was DHP, he was top of the scoreboard, i was bottom. I'm not saying i'm a fantastic player or anything, but i'm usually above the normal nub clientelle that LM and FSD have attracted as of late.
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General / The Phrase "bs"
« on: February 20, 2004, 08:27:30 AM »
Is there any chance that you can customise whatever swear filter you're using to filter the term "BS" so that if anyone uses it it displays a message (Like the "Swearing is not permitted...." one) saying something like "Shut up! It's not his fault you suck" or something?
I'm getting sick of killing people and all you get is "BS" because they're getting pissy because they suck.
I'm getting sick of killing people and all you get is "BS" because they're getting pissy because they suck.
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Off Topic / Why I Don't "get" Windows Media Player
« on: January 28, 2004, 11:02:45 AM »
Ok, so i noticed a strange thing. I'm sitting here listening to my Dropkick Murphys live album, and enjoying it.....
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General / Comming On Hera
« on: January 19, 2004, 11:00:01 AM »
Well, i've just got off a game on LM.
I joined marines and there's me (named "Nub", hehe) and some other guy, so reckoning he wouldn't get in the chair, i decided to take up the position.
Straight off the bat i threw down an IP, TF, Armoury and shortly later an obs. I drop a welder and ask someone to weld through to cargo. Eventually we get a whole team together of 7-8 people.
When cargo was finally welded to we dropped the RT, electrified then moved to vent, on the way dropping and electrifying Maintenance. When we get to vent we drop the node, phase and TF, elec the node and a small handful of turrets. So that's 4 elec nodes with relatively no opposition.
There is a reason for this lack of opposition. Seeing how people think that Reception and Holoroom are the main parts of the map, i had 3-4 marines or so constantly pushing for Reception, with which they faced heavy opposition. I told the marines that anyone going to Reception wouldn't get health or ammo. They were cannon fodder, a decoy. Yes they were dropping like flies and every Kharaa on the face of the map was pushing toward them.
Meanwhile on the other side of the map, i move my marines to upper reception, drop a PG, TF, RT and a handful of turrets. Once that was secure then it was over to the siege point in processing, again a TF, Sieges, Turrets, Phase and Obs. By this time we had level 2 weapons and armour and MT. Things were going well.
Data Core dropped with relatively no resistance, so once that was cleared up i dropped Processing's node and electrified it. So that's 6 electrified nodes, res was pouring in.
Finally i asked for a push on Archiving. So walking around the back of Holoroom, stopping briefly to knife their RTs, we moved to the room outside Archiving and dropped a PG, Obs and TF. Finally the aliens twigged what we were doing and very nearly took down the PG, we lost the TF, but in the meantime i had researched level 3 weapons and armour and HA. So time for the big boys to come out to play. Kitting up 3 or 4 marines with HA/HMG and welders they managed to get through and beat the Kharaa back then building another TF and sieges to destroy the OCs that were causing them a problem or two.
After making sure that Archiving was secure i dropped an armoury and told them to fill up and walk in. Which they did. The hive took a battering from the HMG fire and it was close to death when "Team One Wins"..
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Bloody quitters. :angry:
So in the RR i asked what happened and apparently i was "taking too long" so the aliens decided to quit. I'm really sorry if i was making sure my tactics were solid and trying to make sure that we stand a great chance of winning. But don't deprive me of this victory that is so hard to come by. A marine win on Hera with no relocation, no Holoroom and no Reception.
*EDIT: Kudos for you marines that played, you played hard and you played well, we deserved the victory.
*EDIT 2: I might add, this is my first time comming in quite some time, there was no insubordinance, no lamers and everything went as well as could have.
I joined marines and there's me (named "Nub", hehe) and some other guy, so reckoning he wouldn't get in the chair, i decided to take up the position.
Straight off the bat i threw down an IP, TF, Armoury and shortly later an obs. I drop a welder and ask someone to weld through to cargo. Eventually we get a whole team together of 7-8 people.
When cargo was finally welded to we dropped the RT, electrified then moved to vent, on the way dropping and electrifying Maintenance. When we get to vent we drop the node, phase and TF, elec the node and a small handful of turrets. So that's 4 elec nodes with relatively no opposition.
There is a reason for this lack of opposition. Seeing how people think that Reception and Holoroom are the main parts of the map, i had 3-4 marines or so constantly pushing for Reception, with which they faced heavy opposition. I told the marines that anyone going to Reception wouldn't get health or ammo. They were cannon fodder, a decoy. Yes they were dropping like flies and every Kharaa on the face of the map was pushing toward them.
Meanwhile on the other side of the map, i move my marines to upper reception, drop a PG, TF, RT and a handful of turrets. Once that was secure then it was over to the siege point in processing, again a TF, Sieges, Turrets, Phase and Obs. By this time we had level 2 weapons and armour and MT. Things were going well.
Data Core dropped with relatively no resistance, so once that was cleared up i dropped Processing's node and electrified it. So that's 6 electrified nodes, res was pouring in.
Finally i asked for a push on Archiving. So walking around the back of Holoroom, stopping briefly to knife their RTs, we moved to the room outside Archiving and dropped a PG, Obs and TF. Finally the aliens twigged what we were doing and very nearly took down the PG, we lost the TF, but in the meantime i had researched level 3 weapons and armour and HA. So time for the big boys to come out to play. Kitting up 3 or 4 marines with HA/HMG and welders they managed to get through and beat the Kharaa back then building another TF and sieges to destroy the OCs that were causing them a problem or two.
After making sure that Archiving was secure i dropped an armoury and told them to fill up and walk in. Which they did. The hive took a battering from the HMG fire and it was close to death when "Team One Wins"..
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Bloody quitters. :angry:
So in the RR i asked what happened and apparently i was "taking too long" so the aliens decided to quit. I'm really sorry if i was making sure my tactics were solid and trying to make sure that we stand a great chance of winning. But don't deprive me of this victory that is so hard to come by. A marine win on Hera with no relocation, no Holoroom and no Reception.
*EDIT: Kudos for you marines that played, you played hard and you played well, we deserved the victory.
*EDIT 2: I might add, this is my first time comming in quite some time, there was no insubordinance, no lamers and everything went as well as could have.
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