Online Meetings, Pulse

[NeXaR_QroN]

Just to say thanks to Ash-Omen and Kandang for some good phantom races. But you two are way above me...

Oh and, Kandang...

STOP DROPPING MINES ALREADY

[KANDANG]

actually i prefer to play with weapons off

tough to catch up if u get bombed at start
bombed + mines/missiles at start and you can kiss the game goodbye

[zargz]

yeh, that's annoying, especially with an equally skilled opponent.
but hey, it's the same for all.

[stin]

I had a great time tonight and I would love to stay a bit longer but I can`t!

Too many players to name! but these guys are pros!

Thank you for playing....

stevie

[Frances_Penfold]

Haven't been online in the past couple of days-- too much work and time trial racing-- but I hope to be around over the weekend. Hope to see some of y'all then

Hmm this is an interesting question. I believe theres a probability system and its not as random as we think, the sheer number of Turbos the game spits out should be proof enough, when was the last time you got 2 quakes a lap from the same 2 pads for 3 laps? All those turbos allowed me to close down what was a huge lead I don't remember the opponent just the 'Where the hell did you come from!' afterwards.

I suppose there are two issues:

1. Are there equal probabilities of getting each of the types of power-ups?

2. Do the probability distributions change depending on your current position in the race?

Based on the responses in this thread-- and also my own experience-- the answer to question number 1 is almost surely "YES"

The answer to number 2 is less certain, I suspect-- but could be resolved with some testing.

Possible simple testing... two WOZ pilots go online and initiate two player matches, deciding in advance who will be the "leader" and the "follower"-- and simply tally the pickups they get in their respective positions.

Testing for more subtle effects (top vs. intermediate vs. bottom positions, for example) could get really complicated though.

[zargz]

sleh unleashed!
Good races yesterday, bazounga!

2. Do the probability distributions change depending on your current position in the race?

Just now I had a 2-3 sec lead but still got lots of turbos so I don't think so.

[Asayyeah]

i want to thx my dear mates from the zone and also other unknown pilots to me for the fantastic night i spent racing various tours or SR, during the night i saw 31 people connected which was a good number for having different style of opponents.
i ll be online around midnight CET till late for sure

[zargz]

frances, tom and instananeusJ - awseome races !!!

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frances, the tour you made after the 'epic' one was 3/4 not my favs .. hehe
but that's why we change the 'hand', right?

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the second one too..
but that's good thing coz then I'll have to pectice them all

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how about that fck-cheater guy?
tough one!
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[Tomahawk]

Indeed zargz, nice races, thanks everybody! But why bloody hell did you have to put outpost 7 black as the last track of our tour? Why not something more finger-friendly like tech de ra or de konstrukt...

[zargz]

i thought it was a good track if we are even when we get there.
to be honest I thought I'd be dead last on O7
obviously none of us had practiced that one a lot, i was lucky coz i got 2 ap for the S-es.


// stardragon

Finally a win against you!

Ya-taa!!

[sleh]

sleh unleashed!
Good races yesterday, bazounga!

Very funny ! you still the best on flash
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I really took good time last night, especially with zargz ("grand master flash")and medusa.
I tried toplay phantom class with stin, asa, rr, sox, and ...new players, but i was very very far... however, it was a pleasure to "see" again my old "kai" friends !

[zargz]

Very funny ! you still the best on flash

oh-la-la! I wish!
only today I was owned by several people amongst them stardragon.

[Medusa]

I was in a tour with zargz just now and experienced lunar's problem - "wrong way" and "everlasting leech beam" through all of Plat. Rush Black. Two players were racing under my tag. That race I managed to win despite that then came tech de ra, same thing kept happening and then, my screen whited out totally and froze my psp. Had to disconnect.

What the?? Zargz did you have anything odd happen afterwards?

[Frances_Penfold]

Hey Zargz, and Tomahawk-Tomato-Joe, and Ash-Owen, and other folks-- great races earlier today-- thanks!

And yes, it's great to meet FCK-cheaters in person.

There were a couple other wipers that passed through our games, some quite good-- not sure if they are WOZ'ers that I don't know, or if I'm just not familiar with their tags

Is the rJ-<some number> wiper our own RJ O'Connell?

[zargz]

I was wondering that too ..


// medusa

yeh, there were 2 kiTTun and not only the name but two Ships!!!
the first race that you won was kittun first AND second place!
I was 3rd
I'm not sure but for now I'll blame it on the idiots that leave the game when the countdown has started

[ZenDJiNN]

// supersox - apologies for not carrying on with the tourney last night, lost my connection just before the end of the tourney and decided to call it a night.

On another note, i had a really weird experience when racing last night. It only happened once, but i was in a single race with a couple of other racers (Whose names a can't remember but i don't think they're Zoners) and we were on Moa White.

The race started and almost immediately strange things started to happen. My ship began to do some strange stuff, warping/pulsing backwards & forwards, much like the effect that you sometimes get when using the "Disruptor Bolt" in Pure. ...... Then, as if that wasn't bad enough, another ship pulled into my view, and it was ME!!! There were now 2 of me on the screen....!! WTF!!?

Anyway, I quite the race, and carried on in other races without incident. In hindsight i kind of wish that i had carried on to see what else may have happened, and if it happens again then i'll do just that.

Anyone else here experienced that at all?

[Tomahawk]

The only thing that happened to me was the bug Medusa already described in her earlier post: Loosing energy throughout the whole race and getting the "wrong way" message all of the time. The message apperaed even when I turned my ship around in that particular race and flew a backwards for almost a full lap. Happened only once to me until today,though.
What I did experience in last nights' races a few times was that the game suddenly froze completely at sometime during a race and after 1 second everything was ok again and I could carry on with my racing. Weird stuff. I also met GOD_OF_LORD and his everlasting turbo boost in one of my races about 2 months ago, but as we all know that is no bug...

Btw. does anybody know a player called "HorstFeratu"? I played against him online a few races last night and he's pretty fast (without using any cheats).

[zargz]

yeh, I met him several times - he's a good sport afaik

[Ash-Omen]

Hey Zargz, and Tomahawk-Tomato-Joe, and Ash-Owen, and other folks-- great races earlier today-- thanks!

And yes, it's great to meet FCK-cheaters in person.

There were a couple other wipers that passed through our games, some quite good-- not sure if they are WOZ'ers that I don't know, or if I'm just not familiar with their tags

Is the rJ-<some number> wiper our own RJ O'Connell?

lol its Ash-O(m)en lol 2nd time ive seen that typo anway nice races none the less

[Tomahawk]

Sorry op3rah for dropping out of the 2 races today. I don't know what happened, but it seems I had some network problems... I sure hope it'll work next time!