Niclas Fredriksson wrote: > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Mark Mielke wrote: > > >> Somehow my thousands of hours of experience means absolutely nothing. >> I'm neither surprised nor too hurt. It's exactly how people such as you >> have acted for over a decade, and its exactly why I stopped enjoying >> Netrek. Have fun Neil Armstrong. >> > > You've previously stated that you have 0 hours of experience with playing > netrek clue games with voice. > The opposite is true. I stated that I have played Netrek in the same room with people, and enjoyed it. We still used emergency distress, but we would ALSO shout out "guys! where the f are you?" As to whether clue games at the company I played at the time compare to the clue of games on the Internet at the time? I didn't have access to port 2592 on the Internet at that time, but from the NNTP newsgroup and screen shots, I would say that we had very good players (I was never the best - of the hundreds of people who played at our company, I was probably 3rd or 4th at the top of my game), but clue games on the Internet sounded impressive, and I was always disappointed that I was unable to participate. (This is around 1992-1993, when the Internet was mostly used by Universities and the government) By the time the Internet became widely available, I had already reduced my playing hours significantly as the company I worked for blocked out playing during working hours (apparently employees were playing all day instead of working? :-) ), and I grew other responsibilities including school, a job, and a girl friend. Around 1994-1995 I played occasionally on the Internet, but if my memory is correct, there was no Windows client at the time, and playing over X with a 33.6kb/s modem was extremely painful. I was only able to do well because I was fairly good at the time, but once the lag hit 1.0+ second latency, and my ship would go from warp 9 into an area to the next update with my ship exploding, I gave up. 1996 or so is when I started my yearly interest where I would play a few days and then take a year break. In the last 5 years, it has been about 1 day a year. I completely suck right now. My "clue", though, is that I recognize and know exactly how much I suck. I know I'm not moving fast enough, or torping fast enough. I know I'm not holding onto the phaser lock. I know I'm not detting others to protect my team mates, and I know I'm on the wrong side of the planet than I should be for conflicts. My knowledge is still good - my intuition and reflex is gone. So there you have it - that's my Netrek playing history. You can feel free to mock me for being a twink again... :-) Cheers, mark -- Mark Mielke <mark at mielke.cc> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.us.netrek.org/pipermail/netrek-dev/attachments/20080409/a18a537d/attachment-0001.htm