newbie/l33t intermixing

[Dharkbayne]

Yeah, the only thing I see ppl advertising is CR, cuz if they are CR5, you know they are a l33t commander and NOT a n00b,but not everyone WITHOUT CR is a sucky commander, I know many times where they actual leader of the squad was a n00b , and he wasn't leading anything, so I had to take his place, but he got the CEPS when we capped it , usually, when I advertise , I will say

"Adv hacker/galaxy pilot looking for organized squad, I will get the job done."
or something along those lines, mainly the last part is just to stick out, cuz noone else says anything but the certs, so, yeah, my THREE CENTS! TAKE THAT MR HAMMA POO POO HEAD! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA AAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHBWAHAHAHAHAHHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHFLALALALALALLALALALAALLALALAAZING O! ZINGO! ZINGO! LETS HAVE SOME MOTHERFUCKING PIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

[d0rian]

whoa!

[tmartinez72]

I didn;t read all theposts in this thread, so forgive me if this has already been mentioned.

There IS an incentive to recruit players with low BR.

It can be called "twinking" to EQ vets. Basically, you WANT to group high level BR players with low level BR in the same squad.

WHY?

To get them BR faster!

WHY?

It only makes your Empire more versatile faster. More players will be able to get cert ponts faster & implants faster.

That's the incentive.

Does it make them better players? No, that's skill. That comes with practice.

[d0rian]

thats an empire benefit. true.
i thought it was called "power leveling"

though it is interesting to hear the word "twink" used in online games once again....thats an OLD term.

but maybe someday there will be a personal benifit added to the game xp system.

[tmartinez72]

You're right, "power leveling" would be a more correct term.

"Twinking" would be outfitting a n00b in the best equipement.

[mistled]

We used to call it 'mentoring'.

[Dharkbayne]

I know where twinking came from, :P here's where: In an old game called Everquest, you probably haven't heard of it, in the beginning, pretty much the best armor anything had, was bronze, which was the color of twinking, and higher levels would give their old bronze armor to n00bs, hence, twinking them, yes, I am full of useless game lingo origins and other stupid trivia,

[Jimbo]

I think twinking came before Everquest. Everquest is just where is became known to a wide audience.

[d0rian]

yes but do you know where the term "twink" came from?



an old game called "netrek" that was played on unix x deskops.

it was a term modernly known as a "noob" but with more of a stupid tendency. a noob is just new but a twink was usually a person that somewhat knew the game but was still a stupid player.

often used as "you stupid twink" or "what a twink"
or they would say "twink on sb" where sb was a starbase, a vehicle that should never be maned by a twink.


i think people still play netrek today.
that was truely an awsome perfectly balanced game.

[d3ath4u]

I was about to get into EQ, about 4 years after it first came out, but then i read about how hard it was to catch up from a n00b, and how there is such a gap between n00bs, and lvl whatever the highest level is.

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