Do you play rubber? redux

[Corn1]

You can only rip a server if you set BUG_WALL_RIP 1, and get the settings right.

Eventually Zurd and I are going to put up a server with that setup!

Because having a gamebreaking bug is so much fun, right?

[Phytotron]

... You just failed to define a stab and a dig....

So did you and everyone else who's offered up some sort of definition. This is what I'm saying. More: I was in one server for a little while earlier (Cheers, Friendly Server, maybe?), and everyone there (among their incessant griping that I was "closing") was referring to just a basic 'pure' grind as a dig.

Goofiness.

[compguygene]

I am thinking that we need to get some HR players together, and write a few wiki pages with videos to make a "formal" definition. I am a bit backlogged in Armagetron projects at the moment to coordinate such a task. But, I will start a topic about it, when I am caught up with where I want to be with my servers, etc.

[sinewav]

...write a few wiki pages with videos to make a "formal" definition.

Why? So no one can read it and make their own definitions?

[compguygene]

My thought is to add some pages to the main wiki on Armagetron about hr. To do so, I would like to see the community make some definitions (on the wiki) and videos. That is all sine. I just am offering to set up the pages, to make it easy for others to do the work. A few people have expressed an interest in doing this. Of course, the Armagetron wiki is open to editing by registered users! I also think that if there were pages about HR and the HR community made them, they would use them in training new HR players. I know that you, and many others think High Rubber is worthless, but plenty of players out there actually play it. I have been doing things to encourage the redevelopment of HR.

[Mecca]

There is no point in putting formal definitions on the wiki. 99% of players won't read it and the definitions will be morphed as time goes on anyways.


@ Phytotron: The nicest people on tron never fail to define words.

[LucK]

This is what I'm saying. More: I was in one server for a little while earlier (Cheers, Friendly Server, maybe?), and everyone there (among their incessant griping that I was "closing") was referring to just a basic 'pure' grind as a dig.

Goofiness.

You haven't played this server much have you? This server plays open so when u do a "pure grind" as you call it the delay between the time you hit the tail/wall causes a slight dig even though this isn't really illegal or even frowned upon some new players die on this and think it was a dig.

[Phytotron]

[ItzAcid]

this is an old topic, but in my opinion don't play hr or df unless theres a group of old players in the same server. the newer players on the servers are ignorant and blame their fail on stabs and digs . To them, if you do a "snug" trap or even get close to the wall then you "STAB, DIG, AHHHH!!" So, don't play in DF or HR servers unless theres older players in them

(not all "older" players no what they're talking about of course, but they are a little bit smarter on terms than all the noobs that are infesting the df and hr servers)

[Phytotron]

Isn't Dogfight [DF] just another term for "open?"

[ItzAcid]

yeah pretty much. just a variation of the original gametypes.

[Phytotron]

And you're trying to say that's somehow better? Demanding someone play open and not "close or seal" (a.k.a, a grind, pure, dig, stab, whatever) is the same, no matter what arbitrary distance you put on the width of the tunnel. Please, you're no better.

[Kijutsu]

Phytotron, what exactly do you want this game to be? That every single server has the same boring settings and rules that you [hardly] like to play in?

[Z-Man]

It's not about the settings, it's about arbitrary *game* rules put up the players are responsible for keeping themselves, which is silly in the absence of referees. The server itself should be the referee. (And that, incidentally, is why there are settings now to support enforcing open play, so this silliness can be stopped.)

[ItzAcid]

i never said it was better? If you're just going to bash the gametype then why ask about it you obviously don't care about it and just want to talk about how the older ways are superior to the gametypes we have now (or so it seems to me. If not my bad for assuming that.)