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Re: If it smells like a bot... is it?

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From: SC Mr.Blonde
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:00
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Do you guys really get a kick out of beating a guy with a 28.8 connection while
you both have cable? How fair is that? Maybe he had a really good game. Or maybe
he got a friend who is really good to play using his name. But one thing is for
sure, you two are pretty poor sports teaming up on a HPB like that.

Phil Benton wrote:

> Here's a scenario that happened last night:
>
> Me and one of my teammates [both on cable]  were slamming this guy [28.8] on
> our regular server. He got his head handed to him and left before fraglimit
> hit. This is a reguar occurance as this fella is rather annoying and when he
> pops on we beat him down. It' stradition.
>
> Later in the evening, he pops back on, and persuant to tradition, we
> commence on assaulting him.
> End result of this later attack is *we* get whumped. furthermore, he's
> nearly untouchable and has unerring accuracy the remainder of the evening. I
> had noticed on occasion as he was being persued that he would spin around
> and fire w/o error, nailing us as though we were standing still.
>
> Wanting to test the "ratbot" theory, I immedaitely typed ratbot at the
> console and got no response. [aside of the irritable reply of our opponent,
> who was rather PO'd that we'd accuse him of using a bot]
>
> I'm still kind of suprised that he killed us as easily as he did. He
> refrained form using the railgun ans was more apt to use rockets or sshotgun
> w/ strength rune. furthermore, I have a *hard* time hitting him with the
> railgun, even though I have no problem slamming a slug home on some of the
> usually tougher opponents.
>
> Something just don't add up. Any suggestions, recommendations, or theories
> would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil Benton
> aka Ed Hunter[SS]
> eddi...@home.com

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Date: 1999/08/17
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