Gleened from a time long long ago (circa1999)

[SN]JAG

(edited for T2)


Ladies and Gentlemen, of the Tribe of ’01.

Wear Cloak packs.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, Cloack packs would be it. The long-term benefits of Cloack packs have been proved by Cloackers, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of Scout armour. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of scout armour until you’ve been smacked down in a juggernaught. But trust me, in 2 months, you'll look back at demos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how lame you really were. You are not as l33t as you imagine.

Don't worry about turrets. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to mortar jump on Archipelago. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your motion sensors, the kind that drop grenades on you at 4 p.m. on some idle game on dust2dust.

Make one flag run every day that scares you.

Ski.

Don't walk into teamates’ mines. Don't put up with teamates who walk into yours.

Strafe.

Don't waste your time on the sensors. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The mission is long and, in the end, it's only with the enemy team.

Remember great caps you made. Forget the times you were 0wned. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old scripts. Throw away your blaster.

Snipe.

Feel guilty if you don't know what you want to get at the inventory station. The lamest people I know didn't know after a minute what they wanted to do with the inventory station.

Get plenty of repairs. Be kind to your spinfusors. You'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll join a tribe, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll go on defense, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll capture, maybe you'll “dance!” on your way back to the base. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your frags are half chance. So are everybody else's.

Enjoy your Jetpack. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

“Dance!”, even if you have nowhere to do it but your own flag room.

“Read the manual ffs!”, even if you don't follow it.

Do not read strategy guides. They will only make you feel lame.

Get to know your team. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your defenders. They're your best chance of capping and the people most likely to stick with you under fire.

Understand that attacks come and go, but a precious few you should smack down. Work hard to bridge the gaps in Sanctuary and Katabatic, because the better you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were a newbie.

Live in Leitrim once, but leave before the packet loss makes you insane. Live in Dublin once, but leave before the pings make you soft. Board A Jericho.

Accept certain inalienable truths: People will have mindless duels. Muppets will use the sniper rifle like a machine gun. You, too, will have a bad game. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you 0wned the other team, people defended, snipers were sneaky and newbies respected the guy in Juggernaught on the flag.

Respect your heavy.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have an energy pack. Maybe you'll have a Repair. But you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your weapons or by the time you're finished at the Shrike will have left missle range.

Be careful whose Havoc you board, but be patient with those who pilot it. Bomber’s are a dangerous form of transport. Piloting it is a way of not mowing down your teamates, avoiding the rocket turrets, painting the right targets and Ejecting it before the enemy teams missiles are on you.

But trust me on the Cloack packs.

(original)
http://www.boards.ie/bulletin/Forum10/HTML/000318.html

[SN]JAG

GET UP THERE


FEKING READ IT ITS GOOD!!!

Hecate

I think I wrote that, or somthing like it anyway. It was up on the EM webpage for a while.

wrote it to distract myself from the leaving cert and some girl trouble i had at the time. hey...that'll make you to do some pretty strange stuff

Ry

LOL JAG I didnt bother reading it either then i saw the GET UP THERE post LMAO nice touch

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