My Definition Of Ns...

SDJasonSDJason Join Date: 2003-05-29 Member: 16841Members
<div class="IPBDescription">a commanders view</div> NS: An RTS/FPS clone, utilizing a combination hybrid worker/soldier. The said soldier refuses to go to waypoints, has an overly disturbing love habit with the armory, a tendancy to whine at everything you do. He refuses to build, defend, or follow any type of order, persists to beg for whatever you dont have at the time, and has the nerve to think they are important enough to be worthy of 2 res ammo/medpacks all the time. The commanders job is to help/instruct/plead/beg/bargain with/lie to/persuade/bribe the said soldiers into doing what he wants to accomplish the overall goal of beating off and annihlating the alien menace.....


However it still IS MY FAVORITE GAME IN THE WORLD

How would YOU define Natural selection?

~Jason

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  • AyatollahAyatollah Join Date: 2003-01-06 Member: 11921Members
    edited October 2003
    i have been known to lie to soldiers to make them go to seemingly useless waypoints.

    ps - tell them there's lots of medpacks there, or a gestating onos
  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    edited October 2003
    How can I even begin to articulate a response in which I describe a game I practically worship? <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Geez Ayatollah, breaking trust with a soldier to get him to a <i>useless</i> waypoint? Maybe we should redefine <b>commander</b> for you.
    Or when you say seemingly, do you mean they actually are useful.
  • SDJasonSDJason Join Date: 2003-05-29 Member: 16841Members
    wow cold night.. funniest sig.. EVER.... <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Seemingly useless.. i know what he means by that...

    As in a hive, double res, or siege location... totally useless to anyone but a commander, who knows what to do with it..

    Marine: DURR.... commander i want a shotgun...
    (ME) : THere is a shotgun at the Tram Tunnel Hive.. go QUICK! before the 3 onos in gestating eggs finish evolving and destroy it!::
    :: The entire team races to Tram Tunnel like its a freakin marathon.......::
  • SpazmaticSpazmatic Join Date: 2003-05-10 Member: 16184Members
    Natural Selection: A global conspiracy to fix the world's population problems by inducing ulcers in half the commanders, and driving the other half to cut themselves open with blunt objects.
  • SubstylesSubstyles Join Date: 2003-04-10 Member: 15380Members
    a game where stuff happens
  • ANeMANeM Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16267Members, Constellation
    A wonderous game of Lorks with a stange affiliations with clorfs
    A game where scorpians may one day hovar
    But seriously, all of my recent attempts at commanding have gone wrong. For example, one round of Veil, I joined late and everyone was at double res, no comm. Now, I didn't know this at the time, no one said anything, just "WE need a comm, we need ammo, we need health" So they keep complaining about needing ammo and health and so on, so I jump in. I get an ammo request, so I'm like "Oh, that must be them" Ends up it was half way across the map from where everyone else is. So they all die and are like "WTH Epsilon?! (morons, can't even figure out my name.. ><) We needed ammo, thanks for making us lose nub" I really can't see how it was my fault... No one requested ammo, I had just joined, THey should have had a comm, one of them should have done something, but no. Its my fault because I joined late and just wanted them to shut the hell up.
    Gotta love people who complain about commanders when they don't even make an attempt to try to command.
    As such, my defination of NS from a commander pov is a game where people complain about something not getting done, yet they won't ever bother to do it themselves
  • StakhanovStakhanov Join Date: 2003-03-12 Member: 14448Members
    Natural Selection = Noob Ejection
  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--SDJASON+Oct 5 2003, 12:39 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SDJASON @ Oct 5 2003, 12:39 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->wow cold night.. funniest sig.. EVER.... <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

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    Thank you! I had a picture to go along with it but it was too big.

    LOL I like the idea of tricking the idiot marine team into going to their waypoints. Not done it myself but I wouldn't be surprised it if happened on a server when I was gorging.

    Ugh, ANeM, I hate it when I join marines late game and find that they <b>still</b> don't have a comm... And yet when you have the good grace to get in and try it out, they still blame you for their defeat. I mean really, once you've not had a comm for the first three minutes of the game, <i>you have already lost...</i>
  • Cheez1Cheez1 Join Date: 2003-01-28 Member: 12900Members
    Natural selection is a game where drunken people with guns try to shoot devil dogs and armored cows.
  • DeaconDeacon Join Date: 2002-11-24 Member: 9852Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--SDJASON+Oct 5 2003, 12:22 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SDJASON @ Oct 5 2003, 12:22 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The commanders job is to help/instruct/plead/beg/bargain with/lie to/persuade/bribe the said soldiers into doing what he wants to accomplish the overall goal <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    In contrast, the job of every alien player is to help/instruct/plead/beg/bargain with/lie to/persuade/bribe their teammates into accomplishing strategic objectives (protecting hives, ambushing patrols, clearing outposts). The alien res system (and the combat-ineffectiveness of gorges) pretty much requires that one negotiate buy-in from most of the team before making any major strategic move.
  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    However it is not that hard to do an Offensive Unit - Support Unit attack in concert...

    Just follow that stupid fade around, you know the one who want stop behind corners to let you heal him?
  • PredmidPredmid Join Date: 2003-03-28 Member: 14997Members
    my definition(s) of ns:
    acording to the commander: *reads from a ns box* "A new version of starcraft with brand new features which include mariens who dont follow orders, a complex tech tree which half of team can't comprehend, and a bucket o' frustration in pub play" ;p
  • SudzzSudzz Join Date: 2003-08-01 Member: 18663Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--ANeM+Oct 5 2003, 03:54 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ANeM @ Oct 5 2003, 03:54 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> A wonderous game of Lorks with a stange affiliations with clorfs
    A game where scorpians may one day hovar <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    LMAO. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • LucidLucid Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10534Members, Constellation
    edited October 2003
    <!--QuoteBegin--SDJASON+Oct 4 2003, 11:22 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SDJASON @ Oct 4 2003, 11:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> ....the overall goal of beating off and annihlating the alien menace..... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    so really you are saying there are 2 goals here

    1. beating off
    2. annihlating the alien menace

    what version of ns are you playing?
  • 2_of_Eight2_of_Eight Join Date: 2003-08-20 Member: 20016Members
    NS is like StarCraft, only your units swear at you when you lose.
    (this is not mine, I read it on these forums)
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