Next Time You Go To Call Someone A Res Horder
RyoOhki
Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12789Members
Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12789Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Check their score</div> This has happened to myself and others on servers I frequent a few times now, and I wish to make my feelings on the subject clear.
I'm pretty much a dedicated gorge. Since 2.0 I can count on one hand the number of times I have been a Fade or an Onos. I'm either a gorge or a late game support lerk, and I rarely get thanked but I don't do it for praise; I do it because it helps my team. The only res I spend on myself is on an upgrade or two, usually to help me survive a little longer or be able to heal/bile bomb for longer.
And yet there have been times when other players have tarred myself and other dedicated support players with the title "res horder". Sometimes it's been them labeling the whole team; other times they simply see your score at the top of the table and start screaming at you to use res.
Now if someone deserves the title of res horder, by all means yell at them. But before you type or shout that in, look at their score. If they have 2 kills and their score is 50, chances are you're looking at a dedicated gorge. Think back throughout the match to that green dot you saw moving through the map, healing players, dropping dcs and ocs at strategic points and making sure that new hives are protected and connected with mcs. Then understand that without us, you wouldn't have the res to spend on your fancy fade, you wouldn't have a 2nd hive for your metabolise or stomp, you wouldn't have the chambers for your nice upgrades. And we certainly to not deserve the title of res horder.
So please, take a moment to think and press "tab". We gorges ask for little in return for our tireless efforts; I don't think some courtesy is too much to expect.
I'm pretty much a dedicated gorge. Since 2.0 I can count on one hand the number of times I have been a Fade or an Onos. I'm either a gorge or a late game support lerk, and I rarely get thanked but I don't do it for praise; I do it because it helps my team. The only res I spend on myself is on an upgrade or two, usually to help me survive a little longer or be able to heal/bile bomb for longer.
And yet there have been times when other players have tarred myself and other dedicated support players with the title "res horder". Sometimes it's been them labeling the whole team; other times they simply see your score at the top of the table and start screaming at you to use res.
Now if someone deserves the title of res horder, by all means yell at them. But before you type or shout that in, look at their score. If they have 2 kills and their score is 50, chances are you're looking at a dedicated gorge. Think back throughout the match to that green dot you saw moving through the map, healing players, dropping dcs and ocs at strategic points and making sure that new hives are protected and connected with mcs. Then understand that without us, you wouldn't have the res to spend on your fancy fade, you wouldn't have a 2nd hive for your metabolise or stomp, you wouldn't have the chambers for your nice upgrades. And we certainly to not deserve the title of res horder.
So please, take a moment to think and press "tab". We gorges ask for little in return for our tireless efforts; I don't think some courtesy is too much to expect.
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Well you see here Tails, its closeminded attitudes like this that ruin the atmosphere of Natural-Selection. Have you ever experimented with OCs? Try placing them differently, strategically even. In scrims, matches, pugs, pubs, or wherever, OCs have their place. Much as every other thing in NS has its place. OCs aside, Gorges are exceptionally useful early-mid game. Two Skulks attacking a few marines in a close corridor with Gorge back up will survive an extra two or three bullets due to healspray; that makes the difference between death and living. A Gorge bile-bombing in a vent can take out an entire installation.
Catpacks for example can also be utelized very effecienly and become rather deadly in a practiced and intelligent person's hands, yet we still see a lot of new people complain about them in game and on this forum.
What I'm trying to say is think before you post. Its more constructive and helps the attitude of the community. Don't write something off simply because you havn't seen it used effectivly. Perhaps I shouldn't adress this to just you, as its more of a general thing to everyone in NS.
Experimentation is not only for colledge. Trust me.
You need more skulks to take on more marines, it's as simple as that, and gorges don't cut it.
I think on the notion of OC's, they DEFINATELY have their place early on in the game, when marines have Level 0 armor and Level 0 damage upgrades. I cant tell you how many times as gorge I have been bait and lured a marine into a pack of OC's I constructed. Not to mention CLOAKED OC's can prove VERY deadly.
You need more skulks to take on more marines, it's as simple as that, and gorges don't cut it.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I strongly disagree. A support gorge can make all the differance in an attack, for in and after battle healing. The 10 res needed to change into a gorge is quite an amount to consider in early game situations, and it can be adventageous to remain as a gorge long enough to put down a dc or two. The hive will likely be put up by a skulk who didn't temp at the start, but a hive by itself isn't as powerful without secure resource nodes and evolution chambers.
Skulks by themselves generally come out second best against marines. Throw in a gorge and a lerk and things change.
so realize that also
Yes, gorging isn't as usefull anymore since Lerks got the ability to build .... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Ok, so they didn't <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> Gorging isn't usefull, its essential ... ever seen a Lerk build your hive or your precious DC's ? Thought so ...
1 OC won't stop a determined Marine but 3 will.
Just stay out of combat and you'll be fine
then you get the commander's commchair/TF dropping action, which is followed by the marine's doing their hop over the OCs, followed by recycled chair. Instant bypass.
then you get the commander's commchair/TF dropping action, which is followed by the marine's doing their hop over the OCs, followed by recycled chair. Instant bypass. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well, don't place them all in a line then. Put them in alcoves on all sides of a room, make it impossible to shoot at one without getting shot at by another, and they really do work wonders until the shotties come out.
Oh yeah, how exactly can a gorge be called a "res-hoarder"? Gorges don't get extra res like in 1.0, and they really don't have much of a reason to hold onto any res....I really don't understand the first post in this thread at all.
My thoughts of res **** occured in ns_metal when we had an Onos within 5 minutes of the game...
indeed
Does everyone think that everyone on the team should drop something? Often I find ppl screaming if im not a gorge in the first 10 seconds, one server that kicked ppl for it. I understand ppl should help out, but if u already have 4 gorges, ya dont need a 5th. Need to keep an offensive so the rines dont get to the stuff dropped by the gorges... One of the most frustrating things on servers nowadays.
Perhaps you misunderstand. Myself and other dedicated gorges have been called res horders at times by people who simply don't take the time to check what our class is and why our score is high. Often they're branding the whole team as res horders and don't stop to think about how exactly those rts, dcs, mcs and hives got built. My point at the start was that it's not too much trouble to take a second or two and make sure that the person you're about to call a res horder is, in fact, a noob who never temped for res and whines and whines and whines about how he's only got 2 dcs and dies in 3 seconds as an onos anyway, as opposed to a gorge who's built half the structures on the map.
If you are a gorge and you have more than 40 res, then you are rightly labelled as a res hoarder.
And SaltzBad, you should write another version of that song in your signature, but for aliens. And maybe get someone who can sing gooder...j/k <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> .
Perhaps you misunderstand. Myself and other dedicated gorges have been called res horders at times by people who simply don't take the time to check what our class is and why our score is high. Often they're branding the whole team as res horders and don't stop to think about how exactly those rts, dcs, mcs and hives got built. My point at the start was that it's not too much trouble to take a second or two and make sure that the person you're about to call a res horder is, in fact, a noob who never temped for res and whines and whines and whines about how he's only got 2 dcs and dies in 3 seconds as an onos anyway, as opposed to a gorge who's built half the structures on the map. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Unfortunatly Ryo the people who are calling you a res **** for having a high score from being gorge are such complete and utter smacktards that no amount of education can help them. Generally, these people wear drool aprons, wear overalls and have names like Billy Bob Ray.
Ingnoring them is generally the best policy. If the server is full of them, leave and let them inbreed in ignorance.