Commander Mistakes

noelephant · August 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">Post your worst commanding screw ups.</div> It was fairly early in the game yet I had managed to get our marines in a pretty good position with a few resnodes and a weapon upgrade.

I did NOT have a turret factory in base as I wanted to get a few upgrades first.

The skulks rushed my base and killed pretty much all of the marines. The few outside the base area started heading back to help defend.

Realizing that we had a good shot at winning the game, I quickly selected the observatory but hit the 'motion tracking' button by mistake! Quickly I canceled it and accidentally mashed the recycle button. So much for my emergency beacon. :-/

We lost.

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Sarisel · August 2003

Recycling the turret factory instead of a bad turret (I have no idea how, but the view switched from turret to turret factory).

Dropping ammo instead of medpack for some heavy armors (mixed up the designations).

Placing buildings in bast marine start right before the vent, from which I saw bilebombs fall not long after.

Relocating to a small area, only to be gassed and boxed in by a gorge/lerk combination.

Niteowl · August 2003

i seem to drop mines instead of welders quite often. less than i used to.. but still. i'd be confused as to how marines had got mines.... :S

Kid-A · August 2003

Going 'oh voicecomm doesn't work with q (my normal button) I know I'll bind it to v....'

For a whole game I was going 'who got the arms lab/obs/etc..' Then I noticed v = recycle

noelephant · August 2003

KID-A - I did that too my first time or so commanding in 2.0!

I had 'V' bound as my 'duck' (quack) button so I was using it to assign squads.

I tried to hotkey an observatory... I recycled several observatories before If inally figured out what was happening. :-/

(In the case I stated above at the start of the thread, I recycled onscreen recycle button. I think I've conquered this problem. We'll see :-p)

CommunistWithAGun · August 2003

We were winning a game, skulks decide to rush Marine start, First I accidently recycle IPs, then to fend off a skulk outside docking (He was alone), I jumped trying to dodge, and instead killed myself, I was 1 second shy of finishing the Ips when I did that. We lost

Error404 · August 2003

Yeah 'V' is the recycle button, also it is the cancel key. It's too easy to recycle stuff. I think most of my mistakes are accidental recyclings.

p4l · August 2003

Getting in the comm chair after someone else had already messed it up ;-)

r3dsk4r3 · August 2003

p4l, that is easily the worst mistake. i took over the chair, only to have the former comm yell at me for 'messing up the game'. i don't know what is worse, him being too ignorant to take the blame, or too dumb to realize that he messed it up.

i used to have a nack for putting stuff where it couldn't be upgraded or fell through the floor, but i eventually found all the spots and learned my lesson.

this is off-topic, but as a gorge i accidentally put an oc on top of a res node instead of a res tower. luckily i was with some good players who could win regardless, and we just shared a good laugh. a really long, really good laugh.

Nefilim · August 2003

Playing an entire game, shouting orders the entire time, with my mic unplugged.

captmorgan · August 2003

Went to drop a seige, accidentally dropped a CC, only right on 3 heavies and no /stuck plugin. We lost that game thru 1 bad button press.

Of course, idiot me didnt realize you could recycle unbuilt structures until 3 games after that <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

cat_poop_waffles_for_justice · August 2003

One of my first games of 2.0, on Tanith. We had two hives, and were relocated to Cargo after the main base was going down. The old comm quit or timed out, and I hopped in the chair since we were doing alright. They got one hive up and we got heavies and smashed it without a single loss. We headed back to cargo, loaded up again and I snet my boys to waste. Three died on the way, but I had a phase gate at base, they built one there and I waited for my marines t go through, yelling "phase through, phase through, we almost got the hive!". The aliens started attacking our main base, but with one hive to fall it would soon be over.....

.....except noone had built a single IP since we had relocated. noone mentioned this until after the comm chair went down with me in it. The last 3 heavies fell to spawning skulks. I dunno bout my team, but I was laughing my heiny off.

Spectrulus · August 2003

NS_Hera, We werent doing too bad manged to get recep and holo, were about to push for data, But then my cat walked over my keyboard, her paws staying on the V key for each paw, 4 times, each one about a second, and then when i pushed her off she hit my mouse onto the floor and the ball fell out, the mouse THEN unbound causing it to hit everywhere on the map it could while the V was pressed. Every single thing recycled, even the rts, We lost. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'> Stupid cat.. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Error404 · August 2003

The worst thing is recycling the armory straight after it's finished upgrading, I've done that three times now.

SuddenFear · August 2003

I actually haven't done many major ****-ups, even though I'm a pretty substandard commander. ;/

However, I do remember when I first tried commanding. I had played NS 1.04 for a good three months, taking heed of the advice on these forums and avoided hopping in to the CC or going gorge. But I thought I was starting to get the hang of the game's pace, so I put on an alias name (just incase), took a deep breath and went up to the chair. "Ooh, shiny buttons." Team started to ask for IPs and an armoury, and after a few moments of fumbling around, I found and placed them. "This isn't so bad! Time to place a turret factory!"

The problem wasn't that I decided to place a TF rather then mines (remember, this is 1.0). The problem was that I clicked the wrong icon and slapped down a second comm chair right next to the one I was sitting in. :D Needless to say, I typed "quit" very, very quickly, and didn't attempt commanding for another month. ;D

zebFish · August 2003

Always placing CC's instead of TF's

They look so damn alike!

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