Gorging To Rack Up Kills
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Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9353Members
Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9353Members
<div class="IPBDescription">something I hate</div> <u>Something I really hate</u>
<i>My RANT, I had enough</i>
and bugs me no end, is the number of players who choose to go gorge in the early game just to rack up Offence Chamber Kills (OCKs, I call them for short). It's the most selfish thing you can do, and if I admined any of these servers, I would without doubt of mind kick these guys.
Like the other day, I played on a map where we seemed to have 2 defence chambers for what seemed like ages, yet as I wandered around the map I found massive walls of offence chambers. We had 3, sometimes 4 gorges, on our 10 a-side game, and saw that one gorge didn't even budge from his wall of lame and I swear I saw this guy spent the whole game healing his wall of lame.
Meanwhile, I do my usual hit and run, harassing the marines, taking down PGs, etc, while these gorges are happily healing their OCK mines... but not me. I ask for healing, these gorges ignore me. Worse thing is, anyone that comes along and starts shooting their precious wall of lame, I see the red circle and go to protect it, I get a load of bullets in me, and just as the guy is about to go down to my last bit, the bl00dy OC gets the kill. The gorge gets my kill, and doesn't even heal me.
What usually happened in these games, was that the kharaa ended up with a really high kill count, yet we lost in the end because the marines just sat back took it easy, got enough res, teched up and became invincible.
IMHO, OCKs are the cheapest kills you can get, anyone can get them, thats probably why unskilled players choose to go Gorge.
My advice, if you're admin, kick any gorge that loves the look of his scoreboard too much.
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<i>My RANT, I had enough</i>
and bugs me no end, is the number of players who choose to go gorge in the early game just to rack up Offence Chamber Kills (OCKs, I call them for short). It's the most selfish thing you can do, and if I admined any of these servers, I would without doubt of mind kick these guys.
Like the other day, I played on a map where we seemed to have 2 defence chambers for what seemed like ages, yet as I wandered around the map I found massive walls of offence chambers. We had 3, sometimes 4 gorges, on our 10 a-side game, and saw that one gorge didn't even budge from his wall of lame and I swear I saw this guy spent the whole game healing his wall of lame.
Meanwhile, I do my usual hit and run, harassing the marines, taking down PGs, etc, while these gorges are happily healing their OCK mines... but not me. I ask for healing, these gorges ignore me. Worse thing is, anyone that comes along and starts shooting their precious wall of lame, I see the red circle and go to protect it, I get a load of bullets in me, and just as the guy is about to go down to my last bit, the bl00dy OC gets the kill. The gorge gets my kill, and doesn't even heal me.
What usually happened in these games, was that the kharaa ended up with a really high kill count, yet we lost in the end because the marines just sat back took it easy, got enough res, teched up and became invincible.
IMHO, OCKs are the cheapest kills you can get, anyone can get them, thats probably why unskilled players choose to go Gorge.
My advice, if you're admin, kick any gorge that loves the look of his scoreboard too much.
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"some people should be slapped with raw bacon until there crying"
that quote pops into mind
Obviously if you have to do that, the teams res isnt that great yet. I find that cheap.
Aye, the commander don't get a kill when a turret kills an alien.
Marine scoreboard is not arranged by rank.
Problem is noone has the heart to do that to those cute little gorges......
If you're playing against bots, this is true, but who cares? The bots don't really fight back all that much.
I agree with everything you said except for this. Usually ( on the servers I play on) only skilled players go gorge. Maybe you're just playing on the wrong server or something, but in my experience, only good players go gorge.
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I agree with everything you've except for this, I've been gorging a lot lately because I feel I cannot get any better as a skulk, next progression for me will be giving comm'ing a go, this adds variaty to my game and I'll hopefully end up being an ' all-rounder'.
In most cases there is usually no need for OC's in the early game, nothing irritates me more than seeing OC's all over the place and no DC's
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Anyway i try not to play aliens much because if u have a n00b commander then u can kick him , if u have 6 noob gorges...then...well u can.... lose?
I am strongly in the camp to have kill counts removed so I can't really comment on that without it being totally biased (ok if you want my opinion it's this: Remove the kill/death counts totally. hell, I would love to have the death messages trimmed down to "Some Poor Player" killed by "insert weapon name here" to further remove the frag competition)
Through basic maths work, 1/4 of the team should be gorges to have a 50% split of gorges getting the res and the rest of the team getting res. The gorges are not hampered by this ratio unless it is over 25% gorge. Likewise, they do not gain if the ratio is less than 25%. Of course, that would be quite drastic since you would have less fighting power and you'll be in effect investing a huge amount of resources to tech and not fight, though if you could get more res towers....
More than 25% gorge and there will be not only less res for each gorge but there will be less res flow to the rest of the team, thus, a crappy start