Recent posts by Texas on Kongregate

Topic: Vorp! / Epic bug! LOL!

Its not a "Bug’ its a “Feature”. You’ve got Space-Fold. You manage to get “No-Ship” achievement award for this?

Topic: Vorp! / Dragons and Titans

LOL Masakarii campaigning for balance and fairness?
Give me a good laugh…

Topic: Vorp! / Vorp Corrupt-A-Wish

You attempt to run to cover, but fall down and scratch your knee, and then your plane appears in front of you and rolls over you but you are not injured, you are just stuck under it.

I wish Al Gore had not invented the internet.

Topic: Vorp! / Vorp Corrupt-A-Wish

master001749 made a very complex wish and kept repeating it over and over. I wish lobster aeroplane worked, fail proof, that he own for the rest of his life, and until he flies it thousands of times, he cannot die and if it is destroyed it reappear in front of him and if lobster was destroyed or deformed in anyway even a tiny cut, he would re-appear in perfect condition inside the airplane. Lobster would also have full knowledge on how to operate such a craft and the knowledge can never be lost. Lobster would be in perfect physical condition to operate such a craft at anytime. He can even operate it using his mind if he wanted to. I swear to god if you corrupt this I will write a post so long there is no way anyone can corrupt it. I wish lobster aeroplane worked, fail proof, that he own for the rest of his life, and until he flies it thousands of times, he cannot die and if it is destroyed it reappear in front of him and if lobster was destroyed or deformed in anyway even a tiny cut, he would re-appear in perfect condition inside the airplane. Lobster would also have full knowledge on how to operate such a craft and the knowledge can never be lost. Lobster would be in perfect physical condition to operate such a craft at anytime. He can even operate it using his mind if he wanted to. I swear to god if you corrupt this I will write a post so long there is no way anyone can corrupt it. I wish lobster aeroplane worked, fail proof, that he own for the rest of his life, and until he flies it thousands of times, he cannot die and if it is destroyed it reappear in front of him and if lobster was destroyed or deformed in anyway even a tiny cut, he would re-appear in perfect condition inside the airplane. Lobster would also have full knowledge on how to operate such a craft and the knowledge can never be lost. Lobster would be in perfect physical condition to operate such a craft at anytime. He can even operate it using his mind if he wanted to. I swear to god if you corrupt this I will write a post so long there is no way anyone can corrupt it. I wish lobster aeroplane worked, fail proof, that he own for the rest of his life, and until he flies it thousands of times, he cannot die and if it is destroyed it reappear in front of him and if lobster was destroyed or deformed in anyway even a tiny cut, he would re-appear in perfect condition inside the airplane. Lobster would also have full knowledge on how to operate such a craft and the knowledge can never be lost. Lobster would be in perfect physical condition to operate such a craft at anytime. He can even operate it using his mind if he wanted to. I swear to god if you corrupt this I will write a post so long there is no way anyone can corrupt it. I wish lobster aeroplane worked, fail proof, that he own for the rest of his life, and until he flies it thousands of times, he cannot die and if it is destroyed it reappear in front of him and if lobster was destroyed or deformed in anyway even a tiny cut, he would re-appear in perfect condition inside the airplane. Lobster would also have full knowledge on how to operate such a craft and the knowledge can never be lost. Lobster would be in perfect physical condition to operate such a craft at anytime. He can even operate it using his mind if he wanted to. I swear to god if you corrupt this I will write a post so long there is no way anyone can corrupt it. Poof! I wish lobster aeroplane worked, fail proof, that he own for the rest of his life, and until he flies it thousands of times, he cannot die and if it is destroyed it reappear in front of him and if lobster was destroyed or deformed in anyway even a tiny cut, he would re-appear in perfect condition inside the airplane. Lobster would also have full knowledge on how to operate such a craft and the knowledge can never be lost. Lobster would be in perfect physical condition to operate such a craft at anytime. He can even operate it using his mind if he wanted to. I swear to god if you corrupt this I will write a post so long there is no way anyone can corrupt it. Death to noobs. I wish lobster aeroplane worked, fail proof, that he own for the rest of his life, and until he flies it thousands of times, he cannot die and if it is destroyed it reappear in front of him and if lobster was destroyed or deformed in anyway even a tiny cut, he would re-appear in perfect condition inside the airplane. Lobster would also have full knowledge on how to operate such a craft and the knowledge can never be lost. Lobster would be in perfect physical condition to operate such a craft at anytime. He can even operate it using his mind if he wanted to. I swear to god if you corrupt this I will write a post so long there is no way anyone can corrupt it. Ban all noobs forever! I wish lobster aeroplane worked, fail proof, that he own for the rest of his life, and until he flies it thousands of times, he cannot die and if it is destroyed it reappear in front of him and if lobster was destroyed or deformed in anyway even a tiny cut, he would re-appear in perfect condition inside the airplane. Lobster would also have full knowledge on how to operate such a craft and the knowledge can never be lost. Lobster would be in perfect physical condition to operate such a craft at anytime. He can even operate it using his mind if he wanted to. I swear to god if you corrupt this I will write a post so long there is no way anyone can corrupt it.

I wish I had invented the interwebz.

Topic: Vorp! / Let's Nerf Craw Some

Kamehas are nerfed by targets hugging walls or zigging by drones, turrets or something that may distract the Kamehas. If you want to fight a craw in the wide open, expect to be lunch for Kamehas. Good attackers know to hug the walls, don’t see a need to nerf.

Topic: Vorp! / Vorp! Advanced Defense Tactics

Defending with Friend Ship requires using the Heart Throb extensively pressing forward through the midsection and then following up with the Cupid Arrow deployed to their rear and then the Reach Around so they cannot escape.

Topic: Vorp! / Vorp Corrupt-A-Wish

Lobster’s airplane appears directly in front of him during FAA approved run up test, it is too successful and the engine generates too much power, and he gets sucked into the fan intake, and gets mangled into a bunch of little pieces, but he cannot die so he is living carrion, the buzzards turn up their nose at him because he doesn’t smell dead enough to eat.

I wish there would be no bombs exploding in Boston Marathon.

Topic: Vorp! / Vorp Corrupt-A-Wish

You have a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, but it is grounded due to battery problems and it sits idle in a very expensive hangar.
I wish I could find at least 6 players in the lobby in the evening hours.

Topic: Vorp! / ban all noobs

It is good to encourage noobs. So they keep playing and next game they feed my craw.

Topic: Vorp! / Fairness is only an illusion.

Obviously there is a “tipping point”, and the team that gets the initial advantage outlevels and goes on to dominate. And of course the problem for the lobby jumpers is that with only around 10 players on you don’t get as much choice of game, either play or sit out 20 minutes to wait for the next cycle. If you like to play and are a decent player try and encourage the noobs some, maybe give a little constructive critique.

Topic: Vorp! / Vorp Corrupt-A-Wish

Xxxggghr left a poison trail, but it is buggy and only works on odd numbered tuesdays.
I wish pigpigwj was more awesomely high scoring on leaderboard.

Topic: Vorp! / 0 B! rewards

Tonight games which complete normally are providing 0 B! reward.
Not very encouraging…

Topic: Vorp! / Vorp Corrupt-A-Wish

The homing Dreadnaught’s mines locked onto the nearest ship, which was yourself, so you died.
I wish the top players would not Team or Lobby jump, but that’s a pretty easy wish to ruin.

Topic: Vorp! / Pirate Ship for the Ninja Haters

Yes TAO, for the strategy of “shooting out of the sides”, the Circe is among the best approximations available, though its a bit tricky to drop a ghost field and pull a quick 90 degree turn and drop an omen sphere.

Yes I am playing with the old “Ninja vs Pirate” theme, and saying if there is an obvious Ninja ship, ,where is the Pirate ship?

Topic: Vorp! / Pirate Ship for the Ninja Haters

Ok first to set the mood, consider the song…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QWL5wM73V0

Now for those of us annoyed by Shinobis, we’d be looking for a ship with big guns bearing to the sides, so that we can pull up beside our target and broadside it with cannon or grape shot.

For a more modern intepretation, consider the Spooky AC-130 flying with side bearing heavy guns.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cddlo-jzAI4

Conceptually, either all weapons fixed bearing to the left (as the AC-130), or having a choice of which side to bear weapons on, with a time delay if it is needed to “switch sides”. That could even be one of the upgrades, start with fixed bearing to left and once upgraded you can hit a button to change weapon bearing, and with upgrades it gets faster.

And there should be a move called Keel Haul, ok we have a song to motivate this too…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU4F4qWtDu0

Moves:

• Broadside
• Bearing Switch (port/starboard)
• Keel Haul (ramming attack)

Topic: Vorp! / So we've lost a bunch of players ... now what?

Actually I think playing with and against better players is among the best ways to learn if the noobs and wannabes don’t get over excited and rage quit or surrender prematurely.

With regard to matchmaking, among problems I’ve seen is high ranking players that lobby drop and then join back on the other team. If you don’t have a vote button, you can always vote with your feet. If the good players lobby drop to join a game without noobs, we just have to train the noobs to also lobby drop and follow them to their new team maybe.

If there were sufficient effort to make a simple change, what would be nice would be a difficulty button/slider, where if you put it to the lowest setting it is limiting you to playing with and against people very close to your rating, so the noob should end up in a team of noobs against a team of noobs, but it may take much longer for a game of this sort to form especially with only 20-30 players on. And the same selection for 1300 may pair them only with 1250-1350. And at the other end, the high difficulty would be as currently, allowing pairing with a wide range of player rankings with faster game start but more potential for stacked games.

Topic: Vorp! / Game Zig Zag lag came back.

http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-hardware/29623-dell-releases-bios-updates-fix-underperforming-overthrottling-notebooks.html is the article with the details about the DELL BIOS / GPU Driver issues.

Topic: Vorp! / Game Zig Zag lag came back.

Thak you for the suggestion, I happened to find out that DELL Laptops including mine came from the factory with BIOS and GPU driver that would overthrottle in response to temperature getting high.

Before doing driver updates, my experience in VORP I may start off at 60 FPS, and then degrade abruptly to 20 FPS, and then abruptly drop to 3 FPS where most ships just spin around and bounce off of walls derpy like crazy.

After downloading latest BIOS and GPU driver, I am getting more consistent graphic performance in the 45-60 FPS range, and a little more consistent battle results.

Topic: Vorp! / Crashing and Lags

For some derpy lag, I find a correlation with CPU temperature. You can check if your case seems hot, and it may be a good idea to monitor your case temperature or CPU temperature and quit playing for a while when it is getting hot. For my laptop, I switch power mode to “always on” for playing and back to “portable/laptop” which underclocks to reduce power when I need to let it cool off. Additional cooling fan pad and tool like SpeedFan to monitor temp and increase fan speeds may help too.

Topic: Vorp! / Vorp! Advanced Defense Tactics

Continuing with Circe, I should also note that my reference to tiger is assuming you have an effective Craw or THawk co-defender. Another approach, if you have an SS and Circe on the team, pair up and stay together, you have similar speed and handling limits and as a pair can opt to go base hunting together or hold a defensive station together, with healing assistance you stay on station longer, and your bolts have better range than the SS loadouts so you give him good cover. Work out the details in pre-game chat.

Topic: Vorp! / Vorp! Advanced Defense Tactics

DEFENDING WITH CIRCE

First off Circe role is not primarily defense, early game you’ll focus on turrets and support, and some base killing, though if you are teamed with an ant or clank they’re typically better at base killing, and your role in this area is secondary. So assuming one of your ops is Deport, you want to go base hunting when your Deport is charged, and take a defensive role while your deport is recharging. If you are getting killed frequently, joined late, disconnected and reconnected and are thus underlevel (i.e. 2 or more levels under the other team average) it may be a good time to switch to a defensive role.

For your defensive role, you are typically most effective in positions 2 (between left batts) and 5 (between right batts), you can spam bolts that typically won’t generate damage quickly enough to kill but may get you an assist if you have some more effective defenders around, or may be sufficient to get the enemy to turn tail and run home before they finish a turret or battery. And if you find ships at an emitter, or in a stationary position lining up a shot on a turret or battery, they are vulnerable to omen sphere and if you line it up good for a direct hit that may also be good for a kill, so don’t spam your omens, save them for that scenario.

Since you aren’t highly maneuverable, you won’t be that good at chasing ships, stay in your optimal def position and let them run away, or if they are in a pack 2 or 3 against you, try and get an omen sphere in their face and try and retreat to left depo using space fold and hug the center flame turrets if they are still up.

Pay attention to mini-map and positions of your teammates, if you are being ganged it may be better to run toward your nearest mate instead of reatreating to depo. If you are underlevel and have suffered several kills already, your enemy may be more interested in chasing you and chalking up another easy kill than finishing the batteries and getting them to chase you toward a more effective defensive teammate that finishes them before they get the batts may turn the tide. You are the rabbit and the big dogs will get excited and distracted to chase you when you run toward your friend the tiger.

Topic: Vorp! / Vorp! Advanced Defense Tactics

DEFENDING WITH SS

SS is the most awesome enterprise class ship that is suitable for any task including defense.

The most heroic action, as any man familiar with the good book knows, is to be able to heal the sick and raise the dead, and you my apostle have the power to lay hands on and heal your friends, and this is where your initial upgrade effort goes. 33231122555444. Shields are for wimps, superhero SS pilots have little need of them.

With its high energy capacity, all loadouts are spammable. Just get in to the middle of the battle cloud and hold down keys ZXC for all loadouts and you’ll do some combination of hitting enemies and healing friendlies, and move around enough to avoid mines, flames, nukes, omen spheres and such, and try and avoid spamming afterburner while derping and bouncing around off the walls.

while it is has underrated damage skills initially, you can safely farm drones and go for Drone Wars and Atom Hound awards and level up and have a surprisingly powerful SS. Just don’t go far out of the base to farm drones or you’ll typically get farmed and contribute a load of atoms to enemy upgrades. Just remember, while you are farming drones, your friends that are actually valiantly in battle, and getting killed because you aren’t up healing them, or any other semi-productive attack or defense activity, while they are waiting to respawn will be watching you circling drones and be yelling profanely at you to quit Vorp forever.

Live long and prosper. If you are really derpy, and you’re on a laptop it probably means your CPU is close to overtemp, and speedstep is clocking it back to cool it off. When you see this it means quit playing Vorp for a while, and applies whether you are in an SS or other ship, but I just note that due to spamable loadouts and seeking/indirect fire weapons with not much aiming effort, SS is a little easier to play on slow derpy puter than most of the other ships.

Topic: Vorp! / Cup II Demo

Ok, it is not really simple to post an image to a kongregate forum, but basically if you capture the image with screen print & paste into PAINT and then save as a jpeg, and then post it to photobucket, then you can reference an image URL in a kongregate forum post.

You put the copy the image URL from photobucket and add ! on either side of it.

!http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c367/tomcatkev/Texas-5-kills-as-SS_zps9b00b2a5.jpg!

Topic: Vorp! / Cup II Demo

Score!

Topic: Vorp! / Cup II Demo

This is just to test to see how I would post an image.
Say if for example I scored 5 kills with SS