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Default 01-03-2002, 05:56 AM

Good post. Unfortunately it supposes that somebody can be 'good' at a game like this.

This game can't simulate real combat to any great depth. It mimics it in a very crude way and anyone playing it is constrained by that fact.
New players make easy targets to old hands, but after a while EVERYONE, to a greater or lesser degree, reaches a broadly similar level of ability in it.
Of course there are those who simply never improve. And there are those who get a real knack for it. But on any given day, on any given server, it should not be possible for one player to rack up a 200/30 score against a variety of other players as they enter/leave the server. Unless that player is cheating or something is amiss with the server/connection.

To put it another way, player abilities average out and so do scores. In real life a person can reach a special level of ability, because real life offers an almost limitless number of parameters. A game does not. It offers only those parameters that are coded into the program.

To use an analogy...a game is like a test. If you give a test containing five simple questions to a group of grads, it would be fair to say 99% of them would score at least 95%. No one of them would out-score any other by any appreciable margin.

Conclusion: If you find yourself with a score of 200/31, assume something is fucked in Denmark (connection, server, whatever)...unless you know different, ie that you are employing 'special powers'. What everyone else calls cheating.

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