Recent posts by urmelhelble on Kongregate

Topic: Stick Arena: Ballistick / sucks

WHY ?!

Topic: Stick Arena: Ballistick / Problems

Hi sonicrivalxx, already tried another browser? Using the Interent Explorer, I can’t move, too. For me, Google Chrome works best.

Topic: Stick Arena: Ballistick / this game disconnects me all the time!

Living in Europe, I know the problem only too well. It’s a horror. Whatever the reason is, it’s NOT what the SAB site tells you. They said I should use the Internet Explorer – if I use it instead of Google Chrome, I won’t even be able to move my character. They said someone had logged in my your account, and I should change my password – crap. They said I should try the European server – it’s by no means better there. They advertise and expand, instead of caring about how to manage the game properly as it is. Some day we shall have ten players a round and a dozen of new hydrogen-hybrid weapons, but it won’t load at all.

Topic: Stick Arena: Ballistick / Ten Kongregate Stick Arena Pros

No, Shadow is NOT urmel, and won’t be urmel Monday.
lol It was pure chance that I came to read these last comments, but it was an interesting surprise to hear something new about my actual identity. No, I may be a bit mad, but I’m not a schizophrenic.
Any other candidates for the urmelhelble role should contact me personally on my kongregate account – I’ll set up an application form for them.

Topic: Kongregate / How to after-earn Kongai cards?

Couldn’t there be found a new way to earn old Kongai cards? I needn’t tell you: Not everyone has been a member of Kongregate right from the start. Should every player who joined later, and everyone who is still to join, have no chance to aquire the cards he missed without being responsible, apart from using kreds? So far, buying instead of earning is the only way left, which doesn’t quite match the principles of Kongregate policy, does it?

What about the medium “badges-of-the-day”? Wouldn’t it be technically possible to give players the option to chose if they want to earn either double the points or the points plus a certain card? Maybe it wouldn’t, but otherwise maybe one could give it a thought.

Topic: Stick Arena: Ballistick / PrOs and n00bs (newbies)

Originally posted by FuglyPump:

But when creating a map you should be able to specify who could join… players with kill death ratio of 2.5 and above for example, people between rank 5 and 10…. alright maybe people may abuse the system and pros could easily hunt newbies by creating a map for rank 3’s and below but im just tossing ideas around. Anybody got any suggestions to improve this?

They could also make different classes of rooms, open maybe to different ranks of players, which give you different amounts of ranking points per kill – e.g. grade 1 rooms with every kill worth 0.1 rp, grade 2 rooms giving 0.5 rp per kill, grade 3 with 1 rp per kill, and grade 4/5, where a kill counts for 2/5 points per kill, respectively. Such, a higher ranked player might make himself an easy life hunting noobs in grade 1 rounds, but this way it will take him ten times more kills to rank up than it would if he played among better opponents in a grade 3 room. On the other hand a good newcomer might rank up quickly by taking part in games of grade 3 and above. So it’s up to you which way you will go.

Topic: Stick Arena: Ballistick / PrOs and n00bs (newbies)

Originally posted by FuglyPump:

erm…. yeeaaa… urmelhelble you say “Why shouldn’t a good player have some fun hunting a couple of newbies – now and then?” you do it ALL THE TIME, not every now and then lol.

Yes, that’s true, and I admit that it was not very gentlemanly. But, well: You COULD do it. EVERYONE could have done it. So please don’t blame me for having made the most of it. –
Is sniping gentlemanly? Shooting from the rear? Using the bat in a corner where your opponent can’t dodge? Is it gentlemanly to attack a player knowing he has just come out of a duel and is at low health? SAB is all not a gentleman’s game, you won’t be given an award for noble-mindedness. You take your chance when you get it. – I’ll have to pay my debts now since the noob hunting season is over. And you won’t take much pity on me, will you?

Topic: Stick Arena: Ballistick / PrOs and n00bs (newbies)

Why souldn’t a good player have some fun hunting a couple of newbies – now and then? You start as a noob and get kicked around by skilled players. Then you learn, you exercise, you improve your aiming and tactics, and now you want yourself to be the guy who kicks instead of the one who gets kicked. What’s wrong about that? – Yet to determine your ranking on the high score list, there should be qualified tournaments, like the ATP tour in tennis, although that would be a hard job to organize.
And there should be a reward for pros who teach others and help them to get better, since it is depressing when you keep losing, no matter how hard you try, and nobody tells you what’s actually wrong with you.

Topic: Kongregate / The effects of comments' rating

I don’t know how you feel about it – as for me, the comments marked as “under rating threshold” are always among the ones I read first …

Topic: Kongregate / Are you a casual/moderate/hardcore Flash gamer? What type of badges are your most/least favorite and why?

My heart is hardcore – my skills are casual … sigh

Topic: Stick Arena: Ballistick / How to win and Tips

KillerTingThing and 909442 are perfectly right. These rankings considering kills only are a nonsense. They are unjust against a lot of very good players who spend their time in pro games instead of hunting noobs, and they can make you think you’re great while you just keep collecting cheap kills or fumbling around in games of low quality. I know that only too well, since I’m such a low-quality-guy myself. But it’s seductive, adddicting. It seems so easy to become a good player, and the truth can be so hard to admit. – Games should be separated by ranks, so that there is about an equal level of players in a game, and you shouldn’t rank up without meeting certain requirements in aiming, tactics, and maybe fairness.

Topic: Stick Arena: Ballistick / Training By Oafie

Hi Oafi alias J_D_D_L,
you needn’t mock me in your forum post. It’s not a fault of mine that the SAB leaderboard works with inappropriate criteria. They should consider your kdr. They should consider against whom you got your kills – but they don’t, and so any devoted amateur is free to get a high rank if he (or she) only is willing to put enough effort into it.
I’ve been playing for almost 15 months now, five to six hours a day – shouldn’t I get some reward for that? I spent hours trying and trying, waiting for the server to let me in, I lost hundreds and hundreds of kills when it threw me out in the last few seconds of a round. Living in Europe, I’ll always have a rather slow ping, which is a great handicap – shouldn’t I get some reward as a compensation? I’ve never used a hack, I’ve learned so much since I started (it had taken me half a dozen rounds to get my first five kills), and playing Quick Starts really means more than shooting helpless noobs, as you may know, so shouldn’t I be allowed to have some fun and enjoy becoming better step by step?
I love SAB, and in a way, I need it. It shows me that even with 46 years and a lousy health and no job, I still can achieve something. Vote me down if that’s completely wrong.
And if you could manage to give me the one or the other lesson for a chance to get a bit closer to what you may call a good player, I would be grateful, too.

Topic: Stick Arena: Ballistick / Unplayable - because of that ***ng server

Since they have allowed 6 people in a round, the game has become almost unplayable for me. After a few seconds, I’ll get the message the game was running slow on my pc, and my PING was to high (although I’ve already trested it and it usually is fine), and some seconds before the round ends, I’ll get returned to the menu – all hits lost. I’m from Europe, but the European server doesn’t work much better for me. Before they make huge rounds or whatever great features, they should rather look for the basics of their technique and save players from suffering a hell of frustration and wasted time.

Topic: Stick Arena: Ballistick / Server worse as ever

Anybody knows what’s currently going on with this game??? The last few days, I have hardly been able to play a round. “Stick Arena is having difficulties communicating with the server …”, all that stuff – it goes on for hours. I already faced this problem before, but never it was as bad as now. If someone could give me a hint what to do, I would be grateful for my lifetime.

Topic: Stick Arena: Ballistick / Hackers – why do you tolerate them?

People, it is no use complaining about hackers on the comments’ or the forums’ page. You must DO something against them. I already entered rounds where there was a hacker leading 14:0, running around with the sledge as if he was going to win an Olympic sprint medal. And the other players let him have it this way. Why? Leave the arena and let him fool himself. Vote-kick him – which, of course, is still better, provided it works. Report him, pressing the shift key and clicking the small writing pad besides his name and sending a small note. Banned hackes are the best hackers anyway. Just make sure before you report, that he really IS a hacker – and it’s not you trying to hit him in motion over half the area’s distance before having had your second cup of morning coffee, and missing him.
Hackers will go on as long as they are successful with their cheat. It is up to each of us to teach them a lesson and tell others to do the same.
(But, please, keep those nice guys who are able to walk through walls, but can also be hit through walls – they are the most comfortable targets you can think of.)

Topic: Stick Arena: Ballistick / (almost) un-lagged

To all who got problems with lagging and /or getting disconnected from the server on SAB: Have a look at the web how to change your MTU value. You’ll find some manual instructions, there are also programs (I recommend you to search for TCP Optimizer) which can do that. I’m from Europe, and I often would have spent hours trying in vain to get into the arena, or I got disconnected during a round. Since I lowered my MTU to 1400, I hardly ever got difficulties any more.

Topic: Kongregate / Is an honest opinion a "bad comment"?

Just read a comment “under rating threshold”: There was a guy who said he hated a certain game. Three “-” for him. What’s wrong about his note? As for me, I loved the game, as did most of all players, but I would never give anyone a minus rating only for not agreeing with me. Of course, I don’t think it is especially helpful to say “I hate it”, but you have a right to do so, and sometimes you feel just a need to. It gives some relief when you are utterly frustrated and maybe there is someone who shares your feelings and will feel understood when reading your note. Please, save your minus ratings for comments that are insulting or off-topic, but don’t vote down your kongregate comrades for honestly expressing their thoughts!

Topic: Cursed Treasure: Don't Touch My Gems! / Newbie Guide (and more)

To Oreno5257: Of course, it depends form the situation. Just use your brain: Evileye is only effective at the start of the path, when the enemy will be affected by a decent number of hits. Chilling crypts make most sense when the chilled enemy has to pass a couple of towers, while if during a level you find you run short of mana, you should choose the ghost upgrade on next try. As for the orcs: I found the rocket launchers pretty reliable – and they make such a great impression burning big wholes into the ground ;) They also have a wide range, so I would warmly recommend them – but maybe I was just lucky. My favourite (although you can never rely on any single sort of tower) are the chilling crypts. On a higher level, you will push a level 6 champion around for four, five starts, additionally freezing and hitting him with some rockets. You’ll have blown him up him before he’s reached the middle of the path, without even using a meteor. – Keep playing! Once you got enough upgrade points, it’s plain fun!

Topic: Kongregate / Does kongregate suck or rock?

Until recently, I would have said: 10/10. Since they have introduced the top-comments system, it’s a not-so-sure 9/10. I hate reading the same handful of super-wise comments again every time I return to a game, and I hate the fact that any spontanous reaction of joy or anger now will be censored by gamers who apparently expect to read nothing but deep-digging analyses. Sometimes when I finally get a badge, I just want to share my relief with anybody, and vice versa I like to share others’ happiness when they do – without opening a different page, and without finding some schoolmasterly minus sign telling me that “Wow!! I got it!” was not an undispensable comment. Must every move we make be watched under the aspect of usefulness? And even if so: Are our emotions and the sheer fun with games really so useless?

Topic: Kongregate / About the new comments system

To put it briefly: With the new system established, any vivid communication in the comments has become practically impossible.

Another glorious side effect: Minorities are almost muted now. But why bother about the possibility that things could be seen in a different way? Of course, you can look it up on page 386, 23rd place from bottom. One opinion fits all …

Topic: Kongregate / Top rated comments problem

Okay, a useful comment deserves some acknowledgement. But the best comment will no longer be a best comment for me if I’ve read it some dozen times, whenever returned to a game that took me longer to complete. What is more: If I urgently needed help on a level, in the good old times I would have written a comment, and very often there were some nice guys who would assist me. With a “Need-help”-comment really not being likely of getting a top position in the comment charts, I doubt if I’ll find an answer to my questions any more. And I doubt as well that I’ll ever be able again to do some other player a favour by sharing my experiences with him. Does this improve our community?! – Apropos community: I always thought we were, after all, not only combatants struggling for rankings, but human beings, some of those even very nice ones. It was always a pleasure just to enjoy the mixture of critics, advices, jokes, and striking nonsense that would surprise you when looking at the new comments. Now we have law and order. Poor Kongregate.

Topic: Kongregate / Rating comments

Cool idea that you now can rate other people rating games – sort of mirror-in-a-mirror, and besides it’s a good way for yourself as a commentator to get some feed-back from players who don’t like to write much, and hopefully it may improve the quality of some discussions. It could also help to get a more realistic impression of what is thought about a game: Are those five guys who say “that’s bad” representative, or are they just the only ones to write, while the silent majority is thinking “that’s all right”?

Topic: Stick Arena: Ballistick / Stick Arena Full Online Game...

There should be a top rank that can’t be exceeded any more (maybe there is – the legends of the game some day will know). After a while, it is no longer motivating always going up and going up further. In every game, there is a highest rank a maximum upgrade, so is in every real army or where ever. At some point, you need the feeling of finally got there!" When you have reached the top, you can still try to improve your kill-death-ratio, to work at your weaknesses, you can still look for the best pros to beat. The challenge will never end. But it takes other goals than always summing up kills.

Topic: Stick Arena: Ballistick / Stupid Damn Hackers

Hi cleaver, you’re right. Well, I’m no saint. I really do understand people who hack a game to reach the last level or beat that damn boos or simply have fun – but not at the cost of other players. A hacker can spoil you a round within a few seconds. And initiating a vote-kick hardly ever works. I don’t know while those noobs don’t click a hacker, they rather have themselves butchered just as one likes. When facing a hacker, I usually press SHIFT, and then the writing form symbol besides his name to send a report. I hope someone will read these reports and take measures, namely ban the hacker. Sometimes it also works when you simply write “* hacks” in the in-game chat. Some hackers seem to be afraid of getting banned, and will leave then. – Nice are hackers who can glitch through walls but also can’t hide behind a wall. There’s nothing else you can hit so easily ;)

Topic: Stick Arena: Ballistick / Noob Jokes

Hi all! Below I present you a little collection of completely silly noob jokes. Hope you’ll like it and maybe join in with some better ones. Have fun!
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What will a noob do when he gets a katana? – He’ll try to shave.

Why did that noob in Concrete Jungle break his neck at a steel girder after having killed an opponent? – Because he stumbled over the corpse.

Why will a noob leave the arena when he has got two kills in a row? – Because he is afraid he will be vote-kicked when he is too superior.

How could that noob recently 9mm you? – No idea, he just tried to pull the identification plate off.

Why didn’t that noob in Floor Thirteen take the shotgun? – Because first he wanted to drink the four cups of coffee on the tables.

What can you do to make a noob get kills in The Pit? – Change the scoring system, and accept suicide.

What’s the difference between a noob and a target? – A target won’t run after you.

Why will a noob buy a new spinner? – Because he thinks the others won’t attack him when he is in disguise.

Why did that noob once survive five minutes and keep firing with the machine gun? – Because he hadn’t realized that he was alone in that round.

How do you call an underhanded noob? – A hacker.

What will happen if two noobs make a team against you? – Each one will wait for the other to shoot at you.

When will a noob look for cover? – Once it starts raining.

What will a noob do when he has reached rank 2? – Call all other players noobs.

What will happen if you pop up with no weapon, and there is a noob with a shotgun who hates you? – He will hit you two times and then wait for you to die slowly.