Not much of a b****er, but...


Fanty

 

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So last night, in the early EST AM, I've got my new corruptor and I'm running a ToT team in Sharkhead. I've got 8 people, we're holed up just outside the hospital, we've got one person hitting the door (changing when someone else wants a few shots or the current ding'n'ditcher wants off) so we don't get multiple tricks, we're focusing on one door, hitting witches/sorcs/crones as they come out and then whatever else came with them, it's been 3 or 4 hours in the same place for me and I've replaced the whole team two or three times.. y'know, it's a working, smoothly operating Halloween salvage/inf/exp grind.

So I invite this girl onto my team, and a few minutes later, crash. (One of those lovely new 'everything freezes up and nothing responds, but you're still in the game crashes. Yay, I16. Yay, Halloween Event.) I kill the CoX program, restart it, log back in, and finally get back on the team. The new girl I invited has taken over. I'm honestly cool with this, as long as she's willing to invite people and use the system I set up I could really use the break from having half my screen covered with the Players Online window and my chat taken up with ((Hi! Would you like a ToT team in Sharkhead?)).

She hits the door, we plow the group under, just like that, and she runs off around the corner, hits the next door, and promptly gets floored by 5 mobs because none of the rest of us expected it. We go over, I rez her, the group trashes the mob.. and she does it again. Second verse, same as the first. We go over, have a little harder time beating these guys because a pack of grey miners are hooting and throwing feces at us from on top of the wall, but we do it. Before we can really catch our breath, she goes off to the NEXT door. Now, this time, we know what she's doing, and chase her - the group is strung out halfway around the block by this point, masterminds are out of position, I have to run back and forth to heal everybody, it's a mess. But this time, nobody dies (well, she might've died. I don't rightly remember.) and we pile up in front of another door around the block where she seems to have stopped for a moment.

Now, I'll admit, I've been talking to a friend or two on IRC and AIM all night long. It's what I do, play CoX and talk on IRC and AIM at night. I keep CoX in a window with the bottom pulled up so I can see the last 4-5 lines of the conversation, and I pretty much know exactly what I wanna say. I've been doing it all night (I've been doing it my entire CoX career!) and there's only been 4 deaths that weren't this girl's, two of which were rapid-fire 'corruptor clicked the door then stood there and caught 5 aggro shots' and two of which were 'Share Pain has 0.5 seconds longer between 'hit button' and 'heal target' than I'm used to.' I alt-tab, type for 20 seconds, and alt-tab back in. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but two of the team members are dead, and the new team leader has kicked me off the team and told us we're all half asleep, how could we lose track of her.

Like I said, I'm not much of a person to piss and moan, but this was highly annoying. I felt the need to discuss it with the group at large.


 

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whynchoo ask me for the new Vent address and just come visit sometime so I can tell you there?


 

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See, in those situations I just let the idiot that keeps doing dumb things just go off and... die. Don't help, don't run over to insulate said person from their own stupidity. Let. Them. Faceplant. After they rack up a good amount of debt for it, they'll either quit or stop being stupid.


 

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Wait ... you think people actually stop being stupid? Wow you have alot of faith in mankind!