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NecromancerAnne wrote:

Naloac wrote:people can be robust in different ways, just because one person is good at clicking it doesnt mean they are the best. A good social engineer will almost always win alot of things by convincing others to do what they need without themselves lifting a finger. Someone with alot of niche knowledge will probably use alot of that to escape bad situations. It all depends really.

Sometimes talking works. Sometimes the other guy will kill you regardless. Don't let it deter you. Even the most skilled and well-prepared players die or fail due to unforeseen or impossible circumstances. That's just how the game goes.

There is no point chasing a pipe dream of robustness to the expectations of others, just look to do what makes you happy and lets you enjoy the game. The fella who killed you is probably doing exactly that, but you don't have to imitate him. He might not be everyone you meet. Even if that person dictates in that moment the longevity of your play time.

That's maybe the biggest strength and weakness of the game. The possibilities are endless as a sim game goes, but the limitations of it being a social game is that people can act or behave in an extremely one-dimensional way.

confused rock wrote:me

also

wesoda25 wrote:

NoxVS wrote:

wesoda25 wrote:Probably someone on terry, no one on bagil strikes me as overly robust nowadays.

Someone on Bagil once told me being robust was speedrunning every source of gamer gear, so this doesn't really surprise me

Robust has many definitions but being an efficient power gamer is none of them

based.
my opinion of what Robust means is that if there is a bad situation, and there is a way to get out of that situation, a Robust person will get out of that situation. A robust person doesn't need to prep, because as long as there is *some way* to do what they want to do, then they will do it.

cacogen wrote:Latency and skill trump all that. You don't need to manipulate and lie if you can just kill everyone wordlessly. And you don't need niche knowledge of game mechanics if you can just kill everyone with the basic shit everyone uses.

Stickymayhem wrote:the biggest advantage I've found over the years is that by not using hotkey mode I can talk and run and fight at the same time and I can't tell you the number of conflicts you can win as an antag by shouting lies while attacking someone to get bystanders on your side

Stickymayhem wrote:the biggest advantage I've found over the years is that by not using hotkey mode I can talk and run and fight at the same time and I can't tell you the number of conflicts you can win as an antag by shouting lies while attacking someone to get bystanders on your side

Timonk wrote:

Stickymayhem wrote:the biggest advantage I've found over the years is that by not using hotkey mode I can talk and run and fight at the same time and I can't tell you the number of conflicts you can win as an antag by shouting lies while attacking someone to get bystanders on your side

Ever heard of arrow keys

Stickymayhem wrote:

Timonk wrote:

Stickymayhem wrote:the biggest advantage I've found over the years is that by not using hotkey mode I can talk and run and fight at the same time and I can't tell you the number of conflicts you can win as an antag by shouting lies while attacking someone to get bystanders on your side

Ever heard of arrow keys

I use arrow keys in non hotkey mode specifically so the keyboard is free for typing at all times

tinodrima7020 wrote:All the robust and decent players left long ago.

So no one

cacogen wrote:Latency and skill trump all that. You don't need to manipulate and lie if you can just kill everyone wordlessly. And you don't need niche knowledge of game mechanics if you can just kill everyone with the basic shit everyone uses.

Naloac wrote:

cacogen wrote:Latency and skill trump all that. You don't need to manipulate and lie if you can just kill everyone wordlessly. And you don't need niche knowledge of game mechanics if you can just kill everyone with the basic shit everyone uses.

barely anyone wins if you convince abunch of people to rush them together

NecromancerAnne wrote:

Naloac wrote:

cacogen wrote:Latency and skill trump all that. You don't need to manipulate and lie if you can just kill everyone wordlessly. And you don't need niche knowledge of game mechanics if you can just kill everyone with the basic shit everyone uses.

barely anyone wins if you convince abunch of people to rush them together

Famous last words before the entire station is a pile of corpses in a single 3x3 bathroom stall.

Naloac wrote:

NecromancerAnne wrote:

Naloac wrote:

cacogen wrote:Latency and skill trump all that. You don't need to manipulate and lie if you can just kill everyone wordlessly. And you don't need niche knowledge of game mechanics if you can just kill everyone with the basic shit everyone uses.

barely anyone wins if you convince abunch of people to rush them together

Famous last words before the entire station is a pile of corpses in a single 3x3 bathroom stall.

maybe if your talking to 2 hour RP only people

oranges wrote:Robustness is understanding that combat on tg and byond is and always will be maximally retarded

oranges wrote:the idea of being robust was a joke, a play on words.

oranges wrote:True robustness as tg players understood it was when you are willing to sacrifice your player for the betterment of the shared story.

cacogen wrote:pretty boring better than thou take honestly

robustness is a sin

cacogen wrote:

oranges wrote:True robustness as tg players understood it was when you are willing to sacrifice your player for the betterment of the shared story.

He just made this up

Fiz Bump wrote:Is Robustin still around? If not then Pax I guess.

IcePacks wrote:

Fiz Bump wrote:Is Robustin still around? If not then Pax I guess.

there are hundreds of thousands of people more robust than me and millions more robust than robustin

Timonk wrote:im npc

Timonk wrote:Seed more like
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