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Re: Ramscoops, which one to use? Fri, 07 March 2003 05:32 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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yucaf wrote on Thu, 06 March 2003 18:06

So why are you posting? Mad2 I am not asking if I can select unplayable settings in the race wizard! I am asking about reasons for taking this option in real games. Thank you for your useless contribution.

Wow. That seems very unkind. I don't recall ever representing myself as some kind of expert, or even a good player - I doubt anyone has said as often as I have that I'm not as good as everyone else. I'm really offended at the venom in your post; after tossing it around in my head for a couple hours when I should be sleeping, I'm wishing I'd never come back. My mistake, I guess, was thinking that this was a forum of discussion for any Stars enthusiast to participate in - I must have missed the little sticky which advises anyone not on a competing level with Jason Cawley to keep silent.

As for the newbies you mentioned, I'm probably as close as you're going to get nowadays. You're right about the timeline of my play being about 1995/1996 rather than 3-5 years ago. I didn't realize so much time had passed since I played, but now that I think on it, that's about right. When I left Stars to play other things, low growth HE's were considered unbeatable by many. When my interest in Stars returned a few months ago, I immediately joined a game, and the game is just now winding down. I played the 3% tri-immune HE. I'd never even heard of 25k by 2450, nor Jason Cawley. Now I know of Jason Cawley, and 25k by 2450, and that my 3% HE isn't quite all I thought it was years (even months) ago. My point when I asked where you geniuses were back then, was supposed to be a lighthearted crack that you could have told me that years ago and I would've been ahead of my time, but apparently not clear enough. It was not meant to offend.

I don't think I'm ever going to feel like opening my mouth on this forum again in any such discussions because I feel so bad right now, but the last thing I want to say is that just because you think a low-growth HE is the stupidest thing in the world, that doesn't mean people don't play them. In the game I'm playing, my 3% HE is in 3rd place, and isn't going to win but it wasn't a washout either. The guy in first place is a 4% HE. Of course, it's a beginners game - I'm sure nobody there really merits any respect from the likes of you and Jason Cawley. But I think that the original statement you've so harshly berated me for making is legitimate, not "useless information". It wasn't meant to be "information" of textbook caliber - and I didn't know I was intruding on some scientific factual analysis based on only the optimum PRT and LRT settings wherein the mere mention of what someone might do with a low growth HE was considered altogether invalid.

I won't post anything else that might confuse the other newbies as something to emulate (because I won't be posting anymore), but you really needn't worry about them. We can tell who knows something and who doesn't. But if they get castigated for opening their mouth when they participate, they probably won't hang around anyways - problem solved, right? And just as a favor to you, I'll change my tagline so anything they happen to read with my name on it will feature a disclaimer about the worthiness of my opinion.



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