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Article #224722Re: If it smells like a bot... is it?
From: FrankRizzo
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:00
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Where is this server, so we can come show ya how to play... Bad
sportsmanship makes for a hurt hiney.
=)
--
FrankRizzo{OT}
http://www.offtopic.com
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of
them."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Phil Benton <Ed_H...@evilnet.net> wrote in message
news:7pc9el$69m$1@hyperion.nitco.com...
> 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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