Runners

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:22 am

Immediate edit: got more of the log back from a scrolled-up screenshot:

Pyr0TeK: ...lol...
TS|Delwin Dark: zZzZzZ
Jonathan core dumped Louie for 1 points.
Abby created a new team.
Abby entered the game.
Jonathan gained 28.632 points on the ladder and moved to position 4.
Jonathan improved its personal highscore in the won multiplayer rounds list to 1900 but stayed at position 9.
Louie:  gg
TS|Delwin Dark: kk
Jonathan: finally
Jonathan: hi
Deleting objects...
Deleting grid...
Time:     328.709 seconds
Sent:     230888 bytes in 5322 packets (702.409 bytes/s)
Received: 456212 bytes in 5382 packets (1387.89 bytes/s)
Creating grid...
Pyr0TeK: sheesh
go (round 8 of 40 )!

microbus · Post by **microbus** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 3:29 pm

328 seconds for a round? wow

nearly 5½ minutes

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 5:46 pm

Sorry dont understand ? what am I missing here ? Camping ?

Fonkay · Post by **Fonkay** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 5:58 pm

Runners, they are the people who, well, run away. They wont let you get close enough to dump them, they speed around, and keep to the other half of the arena. When you chase them, or get close, they turn around and go the other way.
This is especially bad in the servers with retracting tails, because some of them will box themself in and then camp awhile, then get out, and box themselves again. It can go on for quite awhile.
So basically, to sum it up, it's the new generation of camping.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:42 pm

They also over-abuse the rim all the time, and say gg when I'm thinking quite the opposite.

microbus wrote:328 seconds for a round? wow nearly 5½ minutes

No, 329 seconds with better rounding. Still nearly 11.2 minutes (in base 4).

microbus · Post by **microbus** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 2:57 am

yeah... I finally have microbuscity setup so you can't overabuse the
rim so much... maybe 3 or 4 180s, then you'll die for no visible reason lol

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 3:09 am

It didn't get to endless negating (so we have 180ing, piing, -1ing, and negating now?). Mostly this:

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even if I was far away.

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 3:30 am

As a matter of throwing my hands in the air in bored exasperation, I've somewhat taken to a "tactic" of running from the runners, as well as those who do nothing but speed around and make big boxes. Why bother with them, I say. So from time to time I let them make a huge box around me—sometimes helping them do so—and then I just fool around in there for awhile. They eventually mess up and crash, proceed to yell "camper!" to which I reply, "don't make big chicken**** boxes and run away if you don't want people to 'camp.'"

Since you mention it, it's also quite funny to me when someone comes into BiH or wherever and tries to 180 on the rim a bunch.

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Crash —> "omg! wtf?" —> I laugh.

They tend to leave after that, though.

wd!