Aliases Suck

[LOVER$BOY]

It surprised me how people figured I was aP|Vertrex when I changed to my alias. I mean, I haven't used that name since 2006 due to being fond of LOVER$BOY.

[sinewav]

It surprised me how people figured I was aP|Vertrex when I changed to my alias. I mean, I haven't used that name since 2006 due to being fond of LOVER$BOY.

In game it's a little bit different. Since people tend to play in the same servers at the same time, and often the same colors, you can sometimes pick up on a player's style and how they talk. This will allow you to make good guesses. But some random IRC message on a Sunday afternoon? No way to know.

[LOVER$BOY]

It surprised me how people figured I was aP|Vertrex when I changed to my alias. I mean, I haven't used that name since 2006 due to being fond of LOVER$BOY.

In game it's a little bit different. Since people tend to play in the same servers at the same time, and often the same colors, you can sometimes pick up on a player's style and how they talk. This will allow you to make good guesses. But some random IRC message on a Sunday afternoon? No way to know.

Ah...! Now that makes great sense. Thanks for sharing that info sine

[F0RC3]

Hello "kodama" whoever you are.

This is Kodama, If I were you I wouldn't **** with him:

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[takburger]

Hello "kodama" whoever you are.

This is Kodama, If I were you I wouldn't **** with him:

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http://i33.mangapanda.com/black-joke/1/ ... 728215.jpg

http://i17.mangapanda.com/black-joke/1/ ... 728217.jpg

http://i8.mangapanda.com/black-joke/5/b ... 753347.jpg

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This Kodama is too big and heavy to be fast enough on the grid. He wont catch my cycle.

[Fippmam]

Orion still calls me FroZone o:

[ConVicT]

What is really accomplished with a new alias? Nothing.

I disagree.
Sometimes I play better when nobody knows who I am.
They know how ConVicT plays, and what to expect from him, but when I'm a noob nobody has ever seen, they have no clue what to expect.
Obviously this doesn't apply to him since he's open about who he is, but a simple name change can help when everyone knows your game plan.

[sinewav]

They know how ConVicT plays, and what to expect from him, but when I'm a noob nobody has ever seen, they have no clue what to expect.

What you are describing is the equivilent of a 'sucker punch'. It means your are a coward. Playing as a noob is like turning down the difficulty level of the game. You want to go easy mode? Play under alias. You aren't 'playing better' you are just deceiving your self into believing that just like you deceive others with your name change. Afraid of competition? Seems so.

[Word]

I used to change my alias about ten times a day and later returned to the normal one. There's certainly something childish, or even girlish about that, like changing the clothes of a puppet.

What sucks is wasting someone else's time by doing that, I don't mind if one enjoys doing it and keeping it for himself for whatever reason (where is Phytotron?).

[Jonathan]

On the subject of cool names, let's all discuss what the coolest name is in a game that is essentially an advanced version of snake? Any huge ass monster snakes come to mind?

De Anaconda: 300 meters.

[ConVicT]

They know how ConVicT plays, and what to expect from him, but when I'm a noob nobody has ever seen, they have no clue what to expect.

What you are describing is the equivilent of a 'sucker punch'. It means your are a coward. Playing as a noob is like turning down the difficulty level of the game. You want to go easy mode? Play under alias. You aren't 'playing better' you are just deceiving your self into believing that just like you deceive others with your name change. Afraid of competition? Seems so.

Not really like turning the difficulty down, everyone playing doesn't just stop trying, they just don't know my style (fair enough since I've not played in so long that I don't know theirs either)
It's not cowardly at all. I don't stand to lose anything by playing with my real name (probably not even the match cuz I'm so awesome)
I play with other names and purposely lose for a few rounds, then get called a noob or whatever "Go play in The Tavern, noob", then I play properly and embarrass the player by whooping his ass, as a noob.
Good players usually work out who I am within 3 matches cuz of my play style and they always use the same tactic against me *Don't get too close*
As for being afraid of competition. I'm not really competitive in the slightest. So, not as much afraid, just missing the part of the brain that cares.

[sinewav]

I play with other names and purposely lose for a few rounds, then get called a noob or whatever "Go play in The Tavern, noob", then I play properly and embarrass the player by whooping his ass, as a noob.

So you're a troll? Oh good, nice to know you admit it. Seems like you're the kind of person that contributes the poor atmosphere in some of the servers.

[ConVicT]

You have a way of making it look as if people are saying things that they aren't!
The guy who thinks I'm a noob and saying so every time he beats me would be the troll.
I don't see how me calling myself a random name is contributing to "poor atmosphere" in the game.

I'm not liking the atmosphere in this server, someone must have an alias, what a troll!
^^ Say it like that and you just seem irritable.

[takburger]

You have a way of making it look as if people are saying things that they aren't!
The guy who thinks I'm a noob and saying so every time he beats me would be the troll.
I don't see how me calling myself a random name is contributing to "poor atmosphere" in the game.

I'm not liking the atmosphere in this server, someone must have an alias, what a troll!
^^ Say it like that and you just seem irritable.

Please re read what you said above:

I play with other names and purposely lose for a few rounds, then get called a noob or whatever "Go play in The Tavern, noob", then I play properly and embarrass the player by whooping his ass, as a noob.

Even if I think that talking to you like that is not nice, if you lose on purpose to beat someone after you are a troll because:
- you ruin team games by suiciding (if you play team modes)
- you want to be very bad to the point that you annoy players then put them in an uncomfortable position making them angry. Generating this is the main thing a troll do.

To sum everything up, if you build yourself a good reputation, people will welcome you (whatever your skill is) and be nice to you. (there will still be few trolls but that is too few to be noticed).

One thing you have to understand about armagetron players, we come to have fun, we have fun because of a certain skill level (thats why you'll seldom see fort/sumo players in FT). We accept new players that want to try, but the others they annoy us really because they are ruining the time we are supposed to have fun.

It is like if you cook yourself something super tasty and you decide to watch the tv and see dead people at the news. It ruins it and you have a bad mood. Same for trolls. But if you cook something super tasty and you have someone nice to share it, you'll be even more happy and it'll taste even better.

Be nice, get nice returns... karma 101...

[ConVicT]

I don't play in team servers any more, ever since CTWF became empty
Karma you say, well if you knew the troll I meant, you'd know that's nothing compared to what he deserves lol
I don;t do that to everyone, just the trolls. If it's terrible to troll trolls, then I guess I'm a terrible tronner.

I used to play in CTWF as "Heart&Soul" if you remember me?
Did I ever troll with that alias that you remember?