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Bad Team Bingo

Amerikatt

By Amerikatt,
Posted on: 2010-06-07 19:47 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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I saw stuff that made me go "Hey, why is..."

Then I realized it was all just for laughs.

Then I laughed. Good job.

 

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Originally Posted by StormSurvivor View Post
I love this. I think it'll always just be 'PuG bingo' in my head to justify all the 'is that actually bad teaming?' arguments, but I do have a question;

If we're actually playing this as a game, (which I'd love to), does each card last one playing session, one team, or as long as we need? I do like a challenge, but I don't want to cripple myself by making it just too hard.

Edit!: is "y u did it" meant to represent someone not understanding and constantly asking about something, or just bad grammar alone?
You are free to play it as you like but our intention was "one teaming session". If you were invited to a pick up group (pug), and stayed with that group for 4 or 5 missions or so we'd consider that ideal for "One game of Bad Team Bingo." Another rough estimation of "One game of Bad Team Bingo" would be the time commitment for a Task Force. Maybe 1 to 2 hours is a good time is a good guideline. You are free to set your own game rules, of course, but we expect 1-2 hours, a TF, or teaming with the same group for a while -- ish -- sorta -- in that ballpark.

As stated in the first post achieving a BINGO! is a rare and noble achievement worthy of epic bragging. Four and even three in a rows also earn you much respect. Also, if a teammates satisfies a square in an amazing way that is so obviously "Yeah, you earned me a Bad Team Bingo Square there" way you are free to shout out "BINGO" and come brag about the epicness here. Just make sure you differentiate that you merely satisfied a square in an awesome way and didn't achieve the 5 in a row BINGO.

I'll give an example of a shout out worthy occurrence and explain "y u did it" at the same time Chriffer, once, had a teammate who always team chatted in text message style. After a teammate did something ludicrous, suicidal and "bad" the text message chatter said "y u did it". Chriffer and I found that outrageously amusing. The square was one of our favorites from the original Bad Team Bingo. Yesterday, while making up the new version, we intended to cut "y u did it". However, a Bad Team Bingo regular mentioned that just recently he was on a team and someone said, exactly, "y u did it" and it was the highlight of their CoH experience. If someone says "y u did it" exactly, and you have it on your card, that's worthy of an immediate shout out of "BINGO". The "spirit of the square" can be satisfied by a teammate using obvious text message style chat in team talk.

 

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Ha ha ha, great stuff! [Walk] made me LOL!

--NT

They all laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian.
But I showed them, and nobody's laughing at me now!

If I became a red name, I would be all "and what would you mere mortals like to entertain me with today, mu hu ha ha ha!" ~Arcanaville

 

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Originally Posted by Amerikatt View Post
But you lose those Bonus Points (and your weight in Interwebz) because you did not make a witty comment about my (scratching) post, which is right above you!
My wit is overshadowed by your awesome.


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Originally Posted by Primal View Post
Perhaps I just don't get the point here. Are you going for badge credit? Zerg rushing out of desperation? Fulfilling a rather unique concept? Purposely fighting way over your abilities in the hope that you'll win and therefore feel a high? Just that bored and over it all?

I don't think Smurphy's talking about throwing yourself into a crowd with your team right behind you, that's simply aggressive playing. He's talking about players who jump in and get themselves killed while the team is still loading into the map, or have all gone afk. With bonus points for jumping into a crowd of purples, find themselves approaching death from the alpha alone, then run back past the group and get everyone else killed instead.
It's not intentional. It's just how I play. Maybe it comes from years of playing video games, and this being my first MMO. Dunno, but there it is.



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This is harder than I expected...I keep being unable to get even five on a single team, let alone five in a row! But I had some ideas for other things to add.

-Constant Team Splitting-
When for some reason, the team can't manage to all go the same way

-Mystic Fortune Spamming-
Either some one casting it on you over and over when you keep denying it, or people spamming it on you when you ALREADY have one

-Always out of heal/buff range-
This mostly applies to people who feel the need to constantly hover out of range of Tranfusion, even when they're dying, but also people who are constantly out of range of targeted heals and buffs

-Indecisive Leader-
When some one forms a team or TF...and can't decide what to do. Whether it be what mission to do or how to go about it. It's one thing to let the team decide, it's another to be completely directionless...

 

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*facepalms*

I am so imcompetent...

Generated a card... then went missioning...

Was only able to fill one square... (scouting)

** Guardian�s Crazy Catgirl **
************* 22 XxX 10 *************

Yes. I can get lost on a straight-line map.

 

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Think I'll make a catgirl with the name D0ct0r Ch33t4 D4rk that is a Martial Arts scrapper, goes off alone and is suicidal of course, hollering for "SB plz!!1!!1" and see how many BINGOs I can get from teammates in a day.



Or maybe a peacebringer with that one healing power they get...

or a blaster that uses snipe (but I do love snipe!) as much as possible...

.. say, was there one that had "blaster with Medicine Pool powers"?

 

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I was so pumped earlier. I happened to find myself a dreadful PuG of four. Level ten, doing some missions in Kings.

I hate to say it, but the Bingo card was way above them. I was so pleased I might actually have a chance at doing okay at Bingo, but they were the type of bad that asks 'wher are u guys' every time we enter/leave a mission/zone. We had a suicidal blaster, lots of dreadful typing, and despite my friendly attempts to help, a team pretty much entirely incapable of using the nav system or team window. One guy kept asking me, personally, for a tp, even though I told him last time that I didn't have it, and our controller would run wildly into rooms, waiting about twenty seconds before fighting back. The defender on the other hand kept asking me what power I'd just used, and then would sometimes ask where I had bought it.

I only got two squares, which after that team seems impossible. I'd have loved to have a pure empath rocking the aura, a suicidal scrapper, all lead by a slow-travelling peacebringer who insisted we needed a Granite. But we're just not all that lucky.

 

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Originally Posted by StormSurvivor View Post
I was so pumped earlier. I happened to find myself a dreadful PuG of four. Level ten, doing some missions in Kings.

I hate to say it, but the Bingo card was way above them. I was so pleased I might actually have a chance at doing okay at Bingo, but they were the type of bad that asks 'wher are u guys' every time we enter/leave a mission/zone. We had a suicidal blaster, lots of dreadful typing, and despite my friendly attempts to help, a team pretty much entirely incapable of using the nav system or team window. One guy kept asking me, personally, for a tp, even though I told him last time that I didn't have it, and our controller would run wildly into rooms, waiting about twenty seconds before fighting back. The defender on the other hand kept asking me what power I'd just used, and then would sometimes ask where I had bought it.

I only got two squares, which after that team seems impossible. I'd have loved to have a pure empath rocking the aura, a suicidal scrapper, all lead by a slow-travelling peacebringer who insisted we needed a Granite. But we're just not all that lucky.
You must have had an unfortunate card Those all fit... except the last one.

'How do I get there' "they were the type of bad that asks 'wher are u guys' every time we enter/leave a mission/zone" "a team pretty much entirely incapable of using the nav system or team window"
Blaster area rug "suicidal blaster"
'im drnk' possibly or 'y u did it "lots of dreadful typing"
'TP pls' "One guy kept asking me, personally, for a tp, even though I told him last time that I didn't have it"
Wanders off and dies "our controller would run wildly into rooms, waiting about twenty seconds before fighting back"

Sadly we don't have a square for this one: "The defender on the other hand kept asking me what power I'd just used, and then would sometimes ask where I had bought it." Maybe we need a generic "What the hell is wrong with you" square.

Clebstein, some good suggestions. I think one of two of those might get squeezed in

 

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The tank stays next to the blasters

(a friend told me a hilarious story about the towers in cim )

 

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This is a riot.

The people I normally team with are off playing DnD and probably still will be when I get home from work. I might be able to get it a PuG or two when I get home.

I think /petionable would be another likely square.



Edit: Well, got on a PuG first thing last night, 6 players. Other than they controller dying a few time, I'm afraid I couldn't check a single square...

 

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What's wrong with Frostfire?

 

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Grrrr...I was on a team with an afk martial arts stalker catgirl, on a character with a snipe, and I didn't get ANY of those on my card. x_x

 

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Hey now, snipes used to be COOL!

 

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after seeing some of the disturbing costumes....or ideas players have, Im sure 'ruined sleep' has a whole other meaning.