| Hourglass - Someone explain this to me [message #60830] |
Tue, 06 January 2004 17:03  |
SteveT02
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So I was playing today on a certain server (I won't mention which, because its not really important) and the map we were playing was Hourglass. I was on Nod. So there were three guys who purchased flame tanks and they were going around the sides to get into GDIs base. So I went and purchased an Artillery and proceeded to the top of the hill to blast GDIs base while the flame tanks went in on the sides. So as I'm hitting their refinery, I get a message from the server mod saying to stop hitting from the hill. He then proceeds to tell me that we can't attack from the top of the hill on hourglass. Okay, whatever. Being the good netizen that I am, I stopped and went around the sides..yaddah yaddah, Nod still wins.
Now I understand that its their server and they can impose whatever rules they want...if I don't like them, I don't have to play there. Thats cool. But why is it NOT ok to attack the opposing base from the top of the hill? Its not like you can't stop the enemy from doing that. All you gotta do is send a tank or a couple of guys up to kill it. And you can do it without exposing yourself to the other sides OB/AGT. So what gives with this rule?
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| Hourglass - Someone explain this to me [message #60846] |
Tue, 06 January 2004 18:12  |
Homey
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Location: Canada
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You can hit every gdi building from up thier, only 1 art can hit the barracks at a time unless the agt is dead.
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| Hourglass - Someone explain this to me [message #60891] |
Tue, 06 January 2004 22:05 |
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Crimson
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If you can't take out the arties on top of the hill you deserve to lose. I allow that on my servers.
I'm the bawss.
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| Hourglass - Someone explain this to me [message #60912] |
Wed, 07 January 2004 04:02 |
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General Havoc
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It's called "camping" and it is a perfectly legal tactic as long as your not exploiting any bugs in the game (Islands B2B). If they were so bothered then they should put that rule in the MOTD, but artys are easy to take out with any of the 1k characters or 1 timed C4.
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| Hourglass - Someone explain this to me [message #60926] |
Wed, 07 January 2004 06:18 |
flyingfox
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They might as well script a mod that sends a hurricane speeding the mrls or artillery flying off the hill back into their base when they go up there.
"boink"
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| Hourglass - Someone explain this to me [message #60932] |
Wed, 07 January 2004 06:49 |
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maj.boredom
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That why its called Whoreglass. I’ve come to terms with the fact that that is how that map is played, but it’s my least favorite of the standard maps. I guess some people still see that as something like Base to Base, but its not and both sides can do it so it’s a wash anyhow.
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| Hourglass - Someone explain this to me [message #60992] |
Wed, 07 January 2004 17:31 |
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General Havoc
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That would make sense, 16 players seems like a average limit. It was due to the FDS that the 32 player servers evolved. I don't know if Westwood anticipated people geting hold of high bandwidth connections to host games on, but they developed the FDS and that what any 32 player server uses.
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| Hourglass - Someone explain this to me [message #61024] |
Thu, 08 January 2004 03:08 |
spotelmo
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I never attack from the hill myself because for some reason i cant do damage from up there with arty or mlrs  , but any way you can easy kill the arty or mlrs from your base. Also some one define point whoreing, cuz when I'm playing i hear allot of definitions. I’m shooting a building and there’s engineers inside repairing it but its staying at a steady 50% life, I’m keeping it there so an incoming SBH can kill the engineers. I get yelled at for point whoreing...
Also what’s so different from the hill, to the sides. My first move in game most of the time is to go destroy the weapons factory with an arty from the side, it works, sometimes but shouldn’t it be considered point whoreing too because your just sitting there shooting at the building?
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"point whoring" is a term used by simple minded idiots who don't know that points is one of 3 ways to win the game.
there are some morons who think that fighting head to head with the enemy in a tank battle or gun battle is the only proper way to play the game. in reality, as long as you aren't cheating, all is fair and if you can score points for your team and keep one or more of the enemy busy by constantly pounding a building, GO FOR IT!
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) didnt plan for more than about 16 players on most of the maps they gave us.
