To those angry about my 2400+ points in the Big Game:

Bacon_00 · Post by **Bacon_00** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:06 pm

Please find something else to be angry about.

`yt

jgbaxter · Post by **jgbaxter** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:06 pm

hax! /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

CronoDroid · Post by **CronoDroid** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:15 pm

I suggested that someone sit by the tele with a bomber but Bacon went ahead and did it with a fig, PU'ing all our pods.

That extra ten seconds saved wasn't too bad either.

OTDT_Hunter · Post by **OTDT_Hunter** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:39 pm

April Fools! Bacon never got 2400 points

Cadillac · Post by **Cadillac** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:05 pm

He got 2475!!!

Death3D · Post by **Death3D** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:31 pm

Must've been a boring 2+ hours, huh, Bacon?
And it's not like you could just leave your ship right on the tele and have a cookie while you watched TV... you were always 200m from where I ripped for some reason. Unless you wrote a script in 30 secs (or at all, since it is still heretics for me).

Bacon_00 · Post by **Bacon_00** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:08 am

Nope, I sat there and clicked on every pod and told them to come to me! It was actually mildly amusing, for some reason.

But yeah, I got a few rather angry PM's, and that sort of made me chuckle, because, WTF is there to be angry about? I always really like it when somebody does that in big-games, because it ends up saving quite a bit of floating time in the long run. That, and I thought it'd be hilarious to have like 2000+ points, lol.

CronoDroid · Post by **CronoDroid** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:05 am

McW didn't bother to PM you, lol.

Ksero · Post by **Ksero** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:41 am

Let's guesstimate the distance between the garrison and the home rip to be about 1500. Bios pods travel at 50 units per second. To estimate the time spent on rowing bios pods, we must also estimate how often people are podded. Looking at a few recent games, I get an average of .115 ejects per pilot-minute. Thus the total time spent rowing pods is:
numPilots * .115 * 1500 / 50
Thus if that number is greater than 60, you get more pilots in the air if you dedicate one of them to sit on the tele, which comes out as numPilots > 17.4. As a comparison, if the home rip is 2000 units from the nearest base, the point at which a dedicated pod picker is a net gain moves to numPilots > 13

Kumquat · Post by **Kumquat** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:09 am

I read that and my head asplode