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Article #224708Re: If it smells like a bot... is it?
From: Phil Benton
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:00
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Up until 2 weeks ago I was one of those HPB's you're defending, and seeing as I have been where his "smacktalkingT" place is right now, I know exactly what he's being put thru. Regardless of our capabilities either on cable or dialup [which I still use on occasion] the question of our sportsmanship wasn't the point of inquiry. That's for another thread, Eh? ;) -- Phil Benton eddi...@home.com SC | Mr.Blonde <am...@CLOTHESatlantic.net> wrote in message news:37B9BD8F.71EB93BB@CLOTHESatlantic.net... > 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 > > -- > SC|Mr.Blonde Remove CLOTHES to reply > ICQ: 534009 > > "A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you > least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left > of your unit." - In the August 1993 issue, page 9, of PS magazine, > the Army's magazine of preventive maintenance. > >
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From: " Phil Benton" <eddi...@home.com> Subject: Re: If it smells like a bot... is it? Date: 1999/08/18 Message-ID: <A2pu3.4415$ok3.1336@news.rdc1.il.home.com> X-Deja-AN: 514044081 References: <7pc9el$69m$1@hyperion.nitco.com> <37B9BD8F.71EB93BB@CLOTHESatlantic.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Complaints-To: ab...@home.net X-Trace: news.rdc1.il.home.com 934944032 24.8.239.36 (Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:40:32 PDT) Organization: @Home Network X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:40:32 PDT Newsgroups: alt.games.quake2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit