Tips for DM

[Beebs]

If you want to fire off 3 shots and leave your initial spawn point, WHY NOT.  It's the same as firing them at the barrier behind the spawn point and then
jump to the upper level.  You might hit someone who is on the left/right lower level spawn point and get a double.  Don't get mad because I catch up
to your established 70 + points in 15 minutes.  The true spawn shooters are the ones who stand behind the spawners on the pads and wait for them to
respawn and they receive an instant decap.

___I'm sorry Pix, but I do not see the difference between "true spawn shooters" and the type of spawn shooting you exercise because both types give the spawned user absolutely NO time to react as they spawn. Whether it's from across the map or camping in front of the spawn point, you are doing the same thing because you give the user no chance to orient themselves once they've been spawned. I do agree that you can still use it to catch a player who is landing on a 1st level pad from a 2nd level pad, but when you're simply firing off discs JUST to hopefully hit spawned people that IS the same as camping right in front of the spawn points and holding down the decap button.

Don't get mad because I catch up
to your established 70 + points in 15 minutes. The true spawn shooters are the ones who stand behind the spawners on the pads and wait for them to
respawn and they receive an instant decap. People who have been playing ricochet for a couple years now don't need a lesson in manners. That's as inane
as saying the people doing the repetative bounce on the top bouncers and keep firing single shots to the opposite sides are being rude. It just makes you want
to slay them even more but it's not out of line. Has the game gotten so pale that we have to publish documents and documents of self-instituted rules now?
Just play the game and enjoy it like we used to.

___Heh, if I got mad everytime someone caught up to my score I would have stopped playing a year ago when I first ran into [CAKE] players. I really stopped caring about the score a long time ago. I'll have matches with other DM'ers such as first to score 10 points off the other, but that's about it. Believe what you want to, but that is the truth.
___I am sorry to all (including you Pix) if my post on etiquette seemed as if I was trying to change the way the game is played. These "manners" are simply the way that myself and the regular DM'ers play when we get together. Sometimes we don't follow these guidelines to the letter either, but it's the basic unwriten rules for our matches. If you don't want to follow some of the rules that ask users to be polite, fine, don't...I'm not chasing down a dream of a utopian online gaming community that is filled with butterflies and peppermint candies and where we all hug each other when we make a mistake; let's be realistic. There are some that I believe, as RushJet1 pointed out, are very important.

Hm... I don't agree with all those rules.... such as...

1. Sry and Np - If you accidently knock someone in arena, it matters since they lose. If you do it in deathmatch, it's only a minor inconvenience and is part of the map. It's really both of your faults if you think about it.

2. Spamming - I can see the multiple powerup thing, but it's not impossible to kill people with this-- it just takes skill. Also, regular spamming shouldn't be looked down on.

___You're completely right RushJet, it doesn't matter if you fall in DM1 since your score is unaffected. The only real reason I do it is because when I force someone to fall, I feel like I've screwed up a move for them. Most of the time we just laugh because it usually catches us off guard and we're probably stunned at seeing the models so close that we forget to shoot. If you do not feel that way, don't feel like I or any other reasonable DM'er will get mad at you. I know it's a minor thing. It's just a matter of preference.
___I don't think I said regular spamming (using just plain old push discs I'm assuming) is looked down upon. I do that too. I use it to 'drive' people to where I want them to go. Because DM1 is such a large map spamming in this manner is relatively much easier to avoid than Arena. Sorry if I didn't make this clear.

___I might as well say this now to avoid future misunderstandings. I am NOT someone, who has only played for a year, trying to bust into your Ricochet world and dictate to you what the game MUST be. There are some basic rules I hope people can see to avoid unfair advantages (double-killing, spamming spawn points, 'use' key exploits). The rest are simply a question of being considerate. If you don't want to follow the latter type of rules, then do NOT follow them. I am not trying to assimilate anyone into being a happy-happy nut that never says a bad word. Most of you have played this game a LOT longer than I have so when I make these posts on strategy and etiquette, I bring it to you not as, "Here, this is the where the best Rico-crap is!"...but as, "This is what I've observed, what do you think?".