I just downloaded the tutorial about the "tricks" and
I have to admit, I'm a little depressed at the moment.
I wish there was a 3.1 community where people could
continue to make levels and submit them. An old school
lasertank community where cheating is discouraged.
How would you like it if someone taught you how to
play chess, and then after you had been playing for 3
or 4 years and getting quite good, they sit you down
at a partially completed game and ask you to get out
of check.. there you are, wracking your brain for
days, insisting that it is checkmate. But your
instructor keeps telling you there is a way out of
check. After you finally get frustrated and quit, he
tells you about this "trick" whereby you can move your
king 3 places to the left or right after you flip a
quarter and yell "Britzky!" ta-da! you're out of
check!
You would probably feel kinda like the way I feel
right now about how I thought I knew how to play
lasertank.
In other online games, like StarKingdoms or Utopia, if
you exploit a bug, it's called cheating. If you're
caught, they delete your account and ban you.
The reasoning behind it is simple, everyone should be
on equal footing, no secrets.
Apparently the lasertank help file needs revisions
since these statments are no longer
valid/true/complete:
TANK
This is you. You can move in four directions and fire
a laser. Tanks can not travel over water (not
necessarily true, see: "Tanks sink slowly" in the
tutorial), and can not drive through solid objects
(also not necessarily true, while it is true that you
cannot drive through a mirror that is blocking you, it
may be possible to shoot it under you and then simply
drive past it, which is extremely realistic since we
know that in real life you'd be able to shoot
something underneath a 30 ton tank, but this same
object would not be able to be driven over) other than
the Flag.
THIN ICE
It is just like Ice but once something passes over it,
it will turn to water. The tank can slide over the
thin ice without any problems but there is no standing
on thin ice or it will break and you will fall in.
(not necessarily true in all cases, see: "Freeze and
Unfreeze ice" in the tutorial)
And lastly, can I just say that my wife and I were
solving some "kids" levels that were on one of the
files I downloaded, and the first two that we tried
required one to move backwards on a tankmover. How in
the world is a child going to know:
1. That this glitch exists
2. That it is even possible to go backwards on a
tankmover?
It's widely known in the programming world, that there
is a running joke where if a glitch cannot be coded
out, simply call it a 'feature'. The only reason these
'tricks' are allowed to hang around, is because it
gives people a power trip to have inside secrets. I
can picture it now, the first person who discovered
some of these bugs and used them to make their levels
unsolvable probably felt like king of the mensa
society since no one could solve his/her puzzles.
Did Jim Kindley really abandon the game because he was
busy, or was it because he didn't like the direction
things were headed?
later
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I have to admit, I'm a little depressed at the moment.
I wish there was a 3.1 community where people could
continue to make levels and submit them. An old school
lasertank community where cheating is discouraged.
How would you like it if someone taught you how to
play chess, and then after you had been playing for 3
or 4 years and getting quite good, they sit you down
at a partially completed game and ask you to get out
of check.. there you are, wracking your brain for
days, insisting that it is checkmate. But your
instructor keeps telling you there is a way out of
check. After you finally get frustrated and quit, he
tells you about this "trick" whereby you can move your
king 3 places to the left or right after you flip a
quarter and yell "Britzky!" ta-da! you're out of
check!
You would probably feel kinda like the way I feel
right now about how I thought I knew how to play
lasertank.
In other online games, like StarKingdoms or Utopia, if
you exploit a bug, it's called cheating. If you're
caught, they delete your account and ban you.
The reasoning behind it is simple, everyone should be
on equal footing, no secrets.
Apparently the lasertank help file needs revisions
since these statments are no longer
valid/true/complete:
TANK
This is you. You can move in four directions and fire
a laser. Tanks can not travel over water (not
necessarily true, see: "Tanks sink slowly" in the
tutorial), and can not drive through solid objects
(also not necessarily true, while it is true that you
cannot drive through a mirror that is blocking you, it
may be possible to shoot it under you and then simply
drive past it, which is extremely realistic since we
know that in real life you'd be able to shoot
something underneath a 30 ton tank, but this same
object would not be able to be driven over) other than
the Flag.
THIN ICE
It is just like Ice but once something passes over it,
it will turn to water. The tank can slide over the
thin ice without any problems but there is no standing
on thin ice or it will break and you will fall in.
(not necessarily true in all cases, see: "Freeze and
Unfreeze ice" in the tutorial)
And lastly, can I just say that my wife and I were
solving some "kids" levels that were on one of the
files I downloaded, and the first two that we tried
required one to move backwards on a tankmover. How in
the world is a child going to know:
1. That this glitch exists
2. That it is even possible to go backwards on a
tankmover?
It's widely known in the programming world, that there
is a running joke where if a glitch cannot be coded
out, simply call it a 'feature'. The only reason these
'tricks' are allowed to hang around, is because it
gives people a power trip to have inside secrets. I
can picture it now, the first person who discovered
some of these bugs and used them to make their levels
unsolvable probably felt like king of the mensa
society since no one could solve his/her puzzles.
Did Jim Kindley really abandon the game because he was
busy, or was it because he didn't like the direction
things were headed?
later
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price.
http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/