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i said SATURDAY in big caps and he said yesIt's like me and confused talking, just backwards >_<
well, we're supposed to meet at 2 today but the family has stolen mage until 4
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I like Traveller's Rythem the most... most melodic-sounding to meWith fruity loops its primarily trial and error. you write a bunch of little loops and then you make a song out of it. There is a lot more room for flexability with reason, so I'm starting to move more towards evolving melodies, just haven't had the time to lay down a full track yet.
I think you should focus on a melody more, one that changes and evolves throughout the song. Right now, it's not the melody evolving, but what's supporting it - beat, background. In my opinion, it should be the other way around.
Also, I have a small question. Do you play around with notes until they sound nice, or do you get them playing in your head then you just put it in? Basically, do you write by trial -and-error or something that's already laid out in your head?[snapback]50528[/snapback]
Why did you do that, out of curiosity? What about Hitler do you find amusing?He has a funny mustache and looks really funny.
Being german by descent, I find what he did disgusting and horrid, and I see no humor in it at all.
Perhaps you can explain?[snapback]50408[/snapback]
ns_caged: I was having my team rush for double so we could take down Vent hive, but skulks kept rushing us and getting there first. When the next group of marines spawned, I gave each one a pack of mines and sent them to double. When they got there, I dropped four armories. I had them drop mines all around the floor and armories and had them stand on top of the armories. For some reason, it worked.I bet the armories weren't nessicary...[snapback]50385[/snapback]
Dead Meat > Anakin SkywalkerIndeed. ROFLed this one.[snapback]50269[/snapback]
Some of you might remember me, some of you may not. (I'm looking at you Lightning Blue.) I'm an old veteran of NS from way back in 1.0, was there for LB's original clan and server (The Brotherhood IIRC) and was a beta tester for NS during the 2.0's. I'm back from a long absence and am playing NS once again! My new handle is Ephraim, but on the NS servers I go by "Ephraim // Sirus" just so people (might) recognize me.no kidding there is a lack of those things, I left.
Anyways, I'm looking forward to playing again with my friends of old ! See ya online.[snapback]50020[/snapback]
You don't command for Exigent unless you're "kinda good", so I like to think I know a little about commanding, competitive or otherwise.I'd give an undisclosed didget to see LMers shooting well enough to acctually kill all the lower lifeforms in a hive as well as chase away the large ones while still being able to shoot the hive down.
The point of attacking the hive isn't just to waste the res, it's to slow the alien team down. One alien might have 40 res to re-drop it with, but that's 3 more minutes before they get 2 hive abilities and armor, and 3 more minutes for you to push the tech advantage you have. Not everything is about 100% domination and forcing them to a point of no-return, delaying tactics are often necessary in order to stave off defeat long enough to gain competitive advantages. If you can get the second hive down, your tech level is automatically better than the alien's level, so use the advantage to destroy their res base. Start killing their RTs, and when you find another hive building, kill it too. This can be repeated until they don't have anything left, while you have a full tech tree. This is one of the things I mentioned already, it's exhausting their resource supply by forcing them to spend everything they have just to hold on. What you're describing is exactly the opposite, the alien team is forcing you as the commander to spend everything you have, which is what you have to avoid in order to do the same to them.
The most common way to get a hive down is to kill all the skulks nearby and force the higher lifeforms to flee, all the while hitting the hive with whatever weapons you have that aren't needed to kill aliens. sieges can work, but are very slow in comparison to simply pushing into the hive room to directly engage it. The key to marine midgame (which is what you're describing, the point when at least one team reaches mid-tech level, mid being the AA or a second hive) is to withstand the explosion of alien tech and continue teching yourself. This means defending your res nodes and not relying on the structures to do it themselves. Actively moving marines to res nodes under attack is the number one thing that new commanders do not do. They rely on electricity or turrets to defend areas for them, which is quite simply the wrong answer. The cost of these structures versus their defense value is almost no comparison, aliens are intelligent players that can manipulate them in a way that renders them worthless. Marines are also intelligent players, so use them for defense instead of turrets or eletricity when dealing with nodes. The key to marine mid-game is getting the most out of what you have, and wasting resources on fruitless RT defense is not a good answer when compared to the strength of two hive aliens.[snapback]49785[/snapback]
