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gingervitos
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Right hit level 14 started doing some alerts for some Q . I waited till I was 14 till I started them and made sure I had some dillo gear you know so my gear stats go up when the alerts start. As you do. So anyway we won 20 seconds to spare in a BF alert. To cut a long story short some moron that was in the alert PM'd me asking me what level I was I said 14 then he started trying to be a smart **** saying he was 28 like it meant he was some sort of CO vet. And checking my combat records he didnt actually help that much anyway.
I told him in not so polite terms that he wasn't a vet that I was the founder of one of CO's oldest supergroups and that I was actually seeing how well low level toons do in alerts and that he was a noob. Unfortunately over the last few months I have seen an rise in the levels of players that get over 25 and think they know everything about the game and think they are gods gift to alerts.
In closing to said players alerts are for EVERYONE not just you get over yourself.
I told him in not so polite terms that he wasn't a vet that I was the founder of one of CO's oldest supergroups and that I was actually seeing how well low level toons do in alerts and that he was a noob. Unfortunately over the last few months I have seen an rise in the levels of players that get over 25 and think they know everything about the game and think they are gods gift to alerts.
In closing to said players alerts are for EVERYONE not just you get over yourself.
Git Gud M8!
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Nah I haven't said half this asshat said to me and if he is going about doing this to people he thinks are noobs its going to put a lot of new players off.
Git Gud M8!
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we deal with the first three and one person runs strsight to the side mobs,
then the other sides mobs
then the back mobs
To the sounds of various comments on their IQ and how many digits are in it
While everyone else is pulling the boss out.
we eventually manged it with 4 people after one person left in disgust.
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Report , ignore and move on.
Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
I had a particularly bad Recruiting Drive. It devolved into the other players calling each other stupid noobs. In fact, they were so caught up in it that they ignored the villain so they could continue insulting each other until we failed the alert.
I'm sure it made Poe's day, though.
If you have only been here since 2011, then I doubt you are the founder of one of COs oldest super groups.
Maybe we all need to get over ourselves.
Number 1: If YOU arent doing EVERYTHING, dont go in, 9/10 it'll fail.
Number 2: Bring a freeform friend in with you to help you through it, the rest of them are fodder, archetypes, leechers, or people who will quit within a week or so and fire off their Tier 1 Blast power like it's all they have.
Number 3: Do something else!
Number 4: Pay a veteren freeform 1500 global to level up 1 of your characters with you by doing Alerts for you. Preferably a green lizard freeform, who is on all the time with nothing to do *nudge nudge wink wink*
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PS if you were one of the founders of the oldest SG's (like me and people like Mad Banana of ARC and many more) I WOULD MOST CERTAINLY KNOW YOU.
What annoys me most is when people simply don't seem to "get" what the goals are for a particular alert - like running off to fight all the mobs in a Recruiting Drive or Red Winter.
I've taken to creating a few useful binds for these, but if there's one thing you can't account for, it's the immense depths of people's stupidity.
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He is Snake. Thats my little brother. He played CO when it first came out . He did actually set up PAIN inc, the SG I now run in the fall of 2009 . He left at the end of that month and didnt come back until end of 2011 (not counting the time he logged on to give me the SG).
His SG is as old as he says it is.
SNARKY NOTE * being away for 2 years does not make one a vet
Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
I've had this experience before. I often find a red lantern ring streaking into my place after a few alerts. I'm thinking of finding a supergroup that likes to run alerts and stuff at this point.
You know your going to totally ace an alert when you see a xSUPERMENx who is a member of that legendary SG New Champions 567.
Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
Be that as it may, calling a resurrected SG one of the oldest like that is a stretch. No offence meant I just don't see the time served quite yet
No offense taken thats exactly the point of my snarky note really. But in his defense I have run it since April 2011. Age wise the SG is old but its only really been active since the date I stated. Still older than most around these days ( back up and running for around 2 years).
I Must make a better effort to derail flangefaces thread so heres a picture of a cat . Cant be showing any signs of favoritism
EDIT * I really do have to add that this thread is named well since Ginger has taken to doing alerts :P *
Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
I have a thing for gingers...:eek:
Most of that was funny the last bit made you look like a self obsessed toolbag. My AV is a My Pet Monster with a baseball cap on yours is a toaster, your argument is invalid.
Mature.
Git Gud M8!
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Cause I'm worth it. Playing since 2009.
A good example will be Ao'qepoth smashes, PUGs tend to tell you how to play or say things out of frustration because they find it easy to fail. If you know what you're doing, just ignore the comments and play. I get told a lot to back off my melee dps to fight at range for Ao'qepoth, but I never had any trouble with him on my melee dps, even with aggro. I'll rather not have someone inexperienced holding aggro on Ao'qepoth to be honest.
Or just light those ninjas up at level 40 with The Specialist archetype. ^_^ \o/
That's an Aperture Science Sentry Turret (Portal). -.-;
I don't think he was all that serious about that. Giving other people access to your accounts is very unsafe, and paying them for potentially making a mess of it even more so.
It's an Aperture Science Sentry Turret (from Portal). -.-;
Nah it was the bit about him not knowing me so I couldn't be a vet. I mean I know plenty of people like me who bought the box day one...In my case before day one we are talking BETA here..that don't know who the f__K he is. I know this Mad Banana guy been to enough of his CC's never seen Snakewildlife there. I am pretty sure there are plenty of players that are as old as me that Snake doesn't know. Players like Fenrak and callmebro. Players that don't mouth off as much as others but are far superior players than people that spend all their time raging at people or moaning about sigils doing critical hits and getting his sorry **** banned. Snake doesn't know me and I couldn't really give two f__Ks. The mans a dip**** I mean I didn't even mention him in the thread. Looking forward to when he goes to far again and gets kicked from the forums.
I know I love Portal. Epic game.
Git Gud M8!
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Cause I'm worth it. Playing since 2009.
I have one of the oldest accounts around, and am not well known at all
Well, my mother happens to think I'm very important! :biggrin:
I was in Alpha and my original Cryptic User number on the forums was under 1000. I founded and still lead one of the early SGs too.
Once I even cared enough to write guides, but I don't see much reason too nowadays.
Am I someone?
I am going to ignore the fact that someone I like on the forums and my bro are going NO YEW! at each other and get back on topic. I am just not going there.
In the last month or so I have met plenty of new players that can totally rock alerts with lowbie toons. A good player is a good player no matter how long they have been in the game.
Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
You are, with every right. However, that courtesy is only extended to you within your circle.
Another person's idea of idiots in alerts could very well be some guy who wants everyone else to play by his rules because he claims to be some vet or goes into alerts already thinking he's better than the rest. It's fairly simple, just don't be that guy.
While there are exceptions to every rule, in general, if someone has been playing a game longer, they tend to have more knowledge about said game. Again, though, that isn't always the case, but it is a reasonable conclusion to come to.
From my own experience, for instance, if I see someone in an Alert who is using multiple single target attacks, which are functionally identical to one another, I assume that they built their character that way because they think it looks cool, it's part of some concept build, or they simply don't know any better, (such as not knowing that they can undo a power pick they didn't like or so forth). Observing the way they play said character further helps me to narrow down which of the above categories they fall into, and depending upon how well or poorly they are doing, I may offer some words of advice. If I do, I try to approach the situation as non-accusatory as possible, in case they are the kind fo person who becomes defensive when advice/criticism is doled out...
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Red winter.
7,12,13, 35 and my 34.
we won easily.
the 12 had his pets.dinos
the 7 had no nemesis gear and didn't die once,
the 13 knew what to do with their AT, they healed and backed up
I'll admit I thought Oh ****,whe I saw the levels but they all had no probs. I had my usual aggro prob
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Never would be. My post was with tongue firmly in cheek.
In case the big smiley didn't make it obvious, or the reference to my mothers opinion of me. :biggrin:
We finish off most of the cohorts, and take down the boss with about 20 seconds to spare. I notice one of the cohorts off to the side shooting at us, so I rush over and start beating on him. Everyone else stands around and watches, as if the guy doesn't exist.
I'm like WTyouknowwhat.....
I miss taking down the cohort by about a second. He was on the verge of being dead, with only a sliver of HP left, and time expired.
The group proceeds to blame me for not taking him down in time.
/sigh
I'm no pro, but I'm kinda thinking that we might have won, if some others had come over to help out.
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My post was more an opportunistic reply in general, since you provided a perfect example of a vet. To anyone first time running into you within an alert, none of that is common knowledge to him nor matters for that duration anyway.
That's also the main reason why I generally don't interact with PUGs as the intent can be easily misconstrued, and usually don't end well. I do however respond to tells after an alert that ask for tips or about my build.
So accustomed to having the alert end when the boss dies, that I sometimes auto-pilot into waiting for the reward and leave map button to show up, while not noticing there's still a henchman or villain standing. Though if I'm alerted or became aware of it, I will help out.
The part about blaming the player who did something about it is really unreasonable though.
I've also encountered vets who almost always just go for the boss and never bothers to help out with the minions in smashes and bursts as if that job is beneath them. I truly detest that behaviour.
Don't get me started on players who always rage about how they always get the aggro and rage quit alerts because of it.
My definition of idiots in alerts can be quite extensive too.
I find that often times, people put more importance on standing in front of the camera so they can shove their terrible costume into the cutscene than actually finishing the alert. They really think you're gonna write home about their evil sorcerer costume or their terrible maniacs tribute. Next time, just apologize to all of them for disallowing them their pathetic little beauty contest, you'll be all the better for it.
Ugh lazy hypocrites... I higly detest hypocrites.
It's also a good case example of Smash Alerts being a problem. You should share it with JonSills in the "Remove Smash Alerts" topic in the Gameplay forum (use search if you don't see it, it's a huge topic).
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Here's my typical routine on Radiation Rumble:
In Nemesis Dockside Dustup I almost always go straight for the boss if I'm on a DPS character and ignore the minions because I know I can end it faster for everyone if I do. If I'm a tank or healer then my tactics will change, especially if it notice the team is struggling with the minions. But DPS? Yes, I go for the boss and trust in the tank-ish or support characters to do their role (if they are failing I'll try to assist, but I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt). As a low-level I fight the minions first.
Bottom-line: it depends, requires situational awareness
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I shout "MINE!!!" on local on Nemesis Alerts if I see my nemesis.
I also occasionally say something in-character, particularly if one one of my two evil characters. I'll actually congratulate the other players in Nemesis Alerts on those two evil characters for helping me murder the hero. It seems to bother some of the serious roleplayers who see their characters as infalliable good that could NEVER be duped into doing henious acts that benefit the evil-doers!
Mostly though this "talk" comes in the form of PMs/tells.
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Everyone else attempted and contributed to the boss fight as well, I don't see a reason to justify just the boss fight while the rest of the job falls to others. But I really don't mind it usually, except some vet farmers I've noticed do it consistently. They tend to run lots of alts through dailies and put in the minimal effort to help clear alerts especially in grabs and bursts, sometimes even waiting at the spawn for everyone else to clear before moving.
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Some of this is going to sound arrogant. Not my intention, but here goes...
I see people talk in alerts on occasion and many times if I see it in a timed alert...I stop doing anything. My thoughts are if you think you have time to do that then you think you are the one pulling this alert and can afford to do so. 9 out of 10 alerts I'm in (excluding alerts teamed with people I know)...if you're handle isn't @KenpoJuJitsu3 you're not the one pulling the alert so you need to get off the text chat and get on with the fight. So I'll idle, watch the bosses life bar predictably stop moving and I'll continue to sit there. I've got plenty of time to fail an alert at the expense of people taking their hands off of their attack keys to start chatting (usually SHOUTING bad instructions to people who are carrying them through the alert). I'm here to play with you and I even do smash alerts on my level 40's for no other reason than to have fun helping pull random teams through some of them. But if someone is going to stop playing and talk then I can stop playing too. I'm here to play with not for you.
As to the overarching theme of who is and isn't a vet based on character level or who signed up for the game first regardless of actual time spent playing...LOL
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This.....brought a tear to my eye. Simply beautiful. Are you free to write speeches for me? :biggrin:
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Nope. In reality its people I have gotten to ditch WoW for CO ( well ditch it a few days a week :P ). Last few months I have gotten at least 13 people to join CO and them being raid vets and as such smash alerts are a cake walk for them. Dunno what CoX has to do with this thread.
Unless you take what Ginger says as he has noticed theres a lot more know it alls in alerts over the last few months.
Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
Oh?
How?
What are you saying to persuade them?
Consolidate the currencies! (Please!)
Does your Champion have a theme song? (share it!)
Got a funny in-game screenshot? (share it!)
Please fix the Overdrive energy unlock! (Should help promote thematic build diversity!)
Far too often I've seen peeps struggling with the minions, so my tactic in the 2 minute drill and dockside are to take the minions before I even look at the boss. In recruiting, I help with the first three and hope to not have aggro so I can pull the boss (if someone else hasn't already. If peeps are pulling the side, I still try to wipe out minions before the boss.
I figure the faster the minions are all down the faster we can all focus on the boss, even if that focus is simply toggling on your EB, if there's other peeps that can destroy the minions as well as I can, then all the better since we get to beat the boss up that much faster, but getting them out of the way means less death (since they aren't killing peeps) and no worries about "why isn't the alert ending?" when the boss goes down.
However, if I'm not on a tank type (or someone hasn't bubbled me), I will stand around and wait for someone else to attack first.
In the game, I'm @Knickknacks.
Simple. I tell them you can lift trucks over your head and punch noobs into orbit. Whats not to love . The fact the game has foam fingers was the thing though
Also my crew I run mmos with likes to try new stuff now and then we've also been doing some BL2 also.
Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
I second this; If you clear the *necessary* minions first, everyone can focus on the boss. Especially in Recruiting Drives, where a minion using a knock while you are a little to one side can aggro another group and further complicate things.
If you are a DPS who lacks in survivability, it is imperative that you manage your own aggro to the best of your ability - in some Alerts, like Recruiting Drive, if you die it speeds up the timer and makes everyone's lives more difficult...
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Ideally, everyone drops into their roles and the tank can keep an eye out for unwanted attention and grab agro when people get in over their heads.
Practically, HA HA HA AGRO MANAGEMENT? PAYING ATTENTION TO OTHER PLAYERS?
HAHA HAHAHAHA
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Lol at KJJ's "well, then, if you have time to talk you have time to carry it". I'm too competitive for all that, but I admire your moxie.
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