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[Scurry]

Hmmm....no entry for Steiner Scout Lance? And the Trollmando?

[Rhaythe]

Scurry, on 11 April 2014 - 08:40 AM, said:

Hmmm....no entry for Steiner Scout Lance? And the Trollmando?

You got it.

[Terror066]

I really thought tha Pug was the short for Pick Up Group.

And Fatlas is not for an Altas because its fat. Fatlas is for Founders Atlas.

Maybe i´m wrong all the time.

[Tesunie]

Terror 066, on 11 April 2014 - 09:08 AM, said:

I really thought tha Pug was the short for Pick Up Group.

And Fatlas is not for an Altas because its fat. Fatlas is for Founders Atlas.

Maybe i´m wrong all the time.

You are correct for the PUG definition.

I've always thought Fatlas was not for Founders Atlas, but for an Atlas that "is slow, and is IN MY WAY!!!!" kind of a statement... (But I am not certain here.)

[Alaskan Nobody]

Tesunie, on 11 April 2014 - 09:14 AM, said:

I've always thought Fatlas was not for Founders Atlas, but for an Atlas that "is slow, and is IN MY WAY!!!!" kind of a statement... (But I am not certain here.)

I used to think like that - but have had a lot of founders tell me that the F is for founder
(as I had never heard the term before MWO, I am inclined to believe them)

[Hellen Wheels]

PING (acronym): a Players Integrative Negative Gravity, believed by some to have a dilatory affect on said player's HSR. If your "PING" is within a good range, you hit. If not, you don't. See also, "YMMV" and "Random Hit Generator (RHG)"; archaic: D&D Dice Rolls; "RNG"

NTTAWWT

Edited by Hellen Wheels, 11 April 2014 - 11:57 AM.

[Kjudoon]

Talk about old school... reminds me of the old "Wandering Damage Chart". Forget the monster, you just get hurt for a random reason. Seered into my memory is this gem:

Take 3d10 from smoke inhalation as your nosehair spontaneously combusts.

[Ovion]

You mean:

Spoiler

How To Use The Wandering Damage System
First there was the wandering monster. They serve well when applied in hordes, but why not cut out the middleman and just deal out damage to the characters directly? It makes for a smoother, faster-paced game, and if you want to kill off characters quickly, it can only be beaten by divine intervention by Cthulhoid godlings.

Instructions: Whenever a player annoys you in any way, by wearing tasteless clothes or eating the last corn chip, ask him to roll a d20. He may become worried that he's rolling a saving throw. Ha, ha!!! Little does he know that he just rolled on the Wandering Damage System matrix!!! Repeat the roll as often as desired.

The Wandering Damage System Matrix
Roll Result
1 Your character has fallen down a flight of stairs; roll his dexterity or less on percentile dice, or else consult Limb Loss Subtable.
2 The monster your character just killed gets up and attacks him, doing 8-80 points of damage.
3 Your character smells smoke; his right arm is on fire. Take 14 points of damage and save vs. gangrene.
4 Your character cuts himself while shaving; consult Limb Loss Subtable.
5 Your character's nose hairs catch fire and he dies of smoke inhalation.
6 Your character stumbles backward into a yawning chasm and disappears from view.
7 The next time your character says something, he eats his words, chokes on them, and dies.
8 Something cuts your character's nose off, doing 2-12 points damage and really messing up his charisma.
9 Your character steps on a piece of glass; consult Limb Loss Subtable.
10 Your character suddenly catches a severe case of brain death.
11 Something invisible chews on your character, doing 6-36 points damage.
12 Your character develops an incredibly severe case of arthritis and can grasp nothing with his hands; he drops anything he's holding - and if that happened to be a sword or an axe, consult the Limb Loss Subtable.
13-20 Consult the Random Damage Subtable for no reason whatsoever.

Limb Loss Subtable (roll d6)
1 - Left leg gone
2 - Right leg gone
3 - Left arm gone
4 - Right arm gone
5 - Head gone
6 - Torso cut in half

Random Damage Subtable
Dice roll Result
01-05 Take 10 hit points damage.
06-10 Take 15 hit points damage.
11-20 Take 30 hit points damage.
21-25 Take 10 hit points damage and consult Limb Loss Subtable, modifying die roll by +5.
26-30 Take 10 hit points damage and roll again on Wandering Damage System Matrix.
31-35 Take 15 hit points damage and then take 30 more.
36-40 Roll every die you own for damage.
41-45 Take 17 hit points damage.
46-50 Take 42 hit points damage.
51-55 Multiply your character's age by 5. Take three times that much damage.
56-60 Take 24 hit points damage and then take 31 more.
61-65 Take 1,000 hit points damage and roll again.
66-70 Roll every die within 30 feet for damage.
71-73 Add up the total hit points of everyone in the party. Take that much damage.
74-75 Take 3 hit points damage and consider yourself very lucky - for the time being.
76-00 What? You didn't get hurt? That's impossible - this system is foolproof. Roll again.

(Wandering Damage System is copyright TSR April 1985 and reproduced here as a small extract from an entire magazine for purposes of review and parody.)

Also - do we have anything about River City?...

I'm not sure what I'd even call it, but the infuriating attitude of players to sit at their base and wait to die, resulting in a 12/0 or maybe 21/2 at best wipeout.

Even when 1+ people are trying to tell them how to win, and they specifically ignore it.

Edited by Ovion, 11 April 2014 - 12:19 PM.

[Mazzyplz]

i got some terms for the dictionary:


pewpeww: term used to refer to lasers often in gamechat- see also:

Spoiler

dakka: onomatopeia frequently used to describe the sound of the autocannon weapons- see also:

Spoiler

dubstep: colloquial term referring to the pulse weapons- see also:

Spoiler

sodablaster: slang for the perceived sound of the gauss canon- see also:

Spoiler

Edited by Mazzyplz, 11 April 2014 - 10:28 PM.

[Race Rogers]

Everyone knows that twelve mechs going through "THAT" tunnel will be a glorious victory.

[BLUPRNT]

Anybody remember the purple thermal days.

And no I don't mean underwear, or the 60's

[Not A Real RAbbi]

BLUPRNT, on 13 April 2014 - 03:00 AM, said:

Anybody remember the purple thermal days.

And no I don't mean underwear, or the 60's

Yes. When spectating through any sniper mech would be all thermal, all the time, in full Predator glory. As mechs approached their heat threshold, they turned hotter (visibly in thermal), and shut-down or destroyed mechs cooled way down. There was a useful color gradient at work.

Also known as OP-vision.

I miss it.

[Darth Futuza]

Rhaythe, on 09 April 2014 - 07:31 AM, said:

• "Plan?" (inquiry) - If followed by a stretch of silence, a fool-proof sign that your team is about to get obliterated and that the person asking the question will die first, having done 50 or less damage. If followed by snark, a sign that your team will scatter to the winds and lose 12 to 2. If followed by an actual plan, a sure-sign that no one will follow it.

I know when to terminate myself and find a new PUG.

[Tesunie]

Darth Futuza, on 14 April 2014 - 12:43 PM, said:

I know when to terminate myself and find a new PUG.

Do take his post with a good healthy dose of humor. Even he says this is as much a humor based post as it is serious, as the humor sadly says a truth in it.

[Bartholomew bartholomew]

Plan?

...uh,not die?

usually see that one alot. But you are right about the plan part. About 1 in 100 actually work out when there ends up being one.

But that one is really worth it in the end.

[Helsbane]

Four Winds Formation - The even distribution of mechs across all the map grids so they can be easily murdered one by one.

[Salinor]

Your wrong about the meta part. Small lasers were part of the meta a while back.

[Mikhail Volodin]

Rhaythe, on 09 April 2014 - 07:31 AM, said:

This is a haphazard guide slapped together mostly out of sheer amusement. But buried within these near self-mocking words hopefully lies a kernal of truth that can be used to help guide you, the new player, away from frustrating and mind-numbing feats of sheer newbishness.

Actually downloaded and installed this game 4 days ago and have seen everything listed demonstrated multiple times on different maps. OMG after reading this I was laughing so hard I had to give it a minute so I could type this in.
On a more serious note when the above things happen you either beat your head on the desk or want to shoot your "team-mates" because that will be doing the world a favor at times, or both! LOL

[Darth Futuza]

Bartholomew bartholomew, on 14 April 2014 - 04:46 PM, said:

About 1 in 100 actually work out when there ends up being one.

But that one is really worth it in the end.

Obviously you've never played with one of my plans in place.

[Rhaythe]

Mikhail Volodin, on 15 April 2014 - 11:28 AM, said:

Actually downloaded and installed this game 4 days ago and have seen everything listed demonstrated multiple times on different maps. OMG after reading this I was laughing so hard I had to give it a minute so I could type this in.
On a more serious note when the above things happen you either beat your head on the desk or want to shoot your "team-mates" because that will be doing the world a favor at times, or both! LOL

Hey, welcome to the game! Hope you're enjoying it. All the crazy listed above just gives it flavor. =)