Tue Mar 18, 2003 3:30 pm
Hello...my name is Mark and I'm a cheater.
Sounds like an AA meeting or something.
I am 50 years old and frankly, I do not have the temperment or patience to "learn" new skills. Take that race mission for example. Just about passed out the first time I did it my blood pressure got so high. I mean I was literally seeing spots!
So yeah, I cheat. I guess I should learn to save my $50 bucks and take up knitting or something, but I've been playing wargames ever since I was a kid and I'm too old to learn knitting. Besides, I shouldn't have anything pointy in my hands when I get frustrated. It's safer for me to yell at the computer.
Hey, there's a thought. How do we know that the computer isn't cheating? I mean, come on, I'm flying all over the place in the Anubis (big brown wrinkled double-ended taper thing) trying to get a bead on one of those light fighters and scoring one hit out of 50 if I'm lucky. But those guys hit from max range and deflection angle. Impossible, I say. Obviously the computer is taking advantage of it's superior processing routine and not having to peer through coke-bottle glasses to see the little blip that is me.
Maybe the guys that hate cheaters should start saying mean things to their computer like I do.
As for the invulnerability thing (god-mode), you can still die if you run into a planet. At least I did when I went to answer the doorbell and didn't bother to pause the game.
And while you can set the difficulty level to 0.00 to make you invincible, I've seen that you can also set it to 2.00 or 3.00 to make you wish you'd tried something else in life.
About the only other advice I could give the initial poster would be to wait a bit and see what kind of mods finally make it out of testing. Reading the editing posts, there's a host of really cool stuff in the works. Like giving the Anubis 8 guns (lvl 10) and 3 torpedoes!! Take that you stupid old computer!
Sounds like an AA meeting or something.
I am 50 years old and frankly, I do not have the temperment or patience to "learn" new skills. Take that race mission for example. Just about passed out the first time I did it my blood pressure got so high. I mean I was literally seeing spots!
So yeah, I cheat. I guess I should learn to save my $50 bucks and take up knitting or something, but I've been playing wargames ever since I was a kid and I'm too old to learn knitting. Besides, I shouldn't have anything pointy in my hands when I get frustrated. It's safer for me to yell at the computer.
Hey, there's a thought. How do we know that the computer isn't cheating? I mean, come on, I'm flying all over the place in the Anubis (big brown wrinkled double-ended taper thing) trying to get a bead on one of those light fighters and scoring one hit out of 50 if I'm lucky. But those guys hit from max range and deflection angle. Impossible, I say. Obviously the computer is taking advantage of it's superior processing routine and not having to peer through coke-bottle glasses to see the little blip that is me.
Maybe the guys that hate cheaters should start saying mean things to their computer like I do.
As for the invulnerability thing (god-mode), you can still die if you run into a planet. At least I did when I went to answer the doorbell and didn't bother to pause the game.
And while you can set the difficulty level to 0.00 to make you invincible, I've seen that you can also set it to 2.00 or 3.00 to make you wish you'd tried something else in life.
About the only other advice I could give the initial poster would be to wait a bit and see what kind of mods finally make it out of testing. Reading the editing posts, there's a host of really cool stuff in the works. Like giving the Anubis 8 guns (lvl 10) and 3 torpedoes!! Take that you stupid old computer!
