Re: POLL: Games ruined by bad players (Player killers, tank rushers etc)

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From: hil... steven daniel hilberg
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 00:00

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agoo...@sympatico.ca (Allan Goodall) writes:
>On Tue, 21 Apr 1998 08:00:38 +1000,  in message
><353BC586...@acp.com.au>, Martgen <ami...@acp.com.au> wrote:
>>* What do you do to decrease the chance of this happening? Are there
>>certain strategies, game configuration parameters, chat zones or methods
>>of game hosting you use to minimise the chances of letting 'bad' players
>>into or affecting your games?
>The only way I can see it is for closed games where you let in the people
>you want to play with. This, of course, results in elitist cliques, which
>tends to turn other people off.

On the other hand, I don't mind elitist cliques when they keep out people who
think that a 5 minute game in which this sort of cheese is used is 'fun'.  If
I have to be an elitist bastard because I don't play for the 'win at any cost'
strategy, so be it.  I like to play games where I have fun.

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From: hil...@students.uiuc.edu (steven daniel hilberg)
Subject: Re: POLL: Games ruined by bad players (Player killers, tank rushers etc)
Date: 1998/04/21
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