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				<title>Re:Your highest score post...</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ It comes from being an extreme medic. It's all healing xp.

Since the ExM is so weak, I have to depend on others to kill monsters while I sit back and heal. With only bots it's pretty difficult to stay alive to the end. It's only possible on a few maps. With Toy's Story, I hid behind the couch downstairs and healed the bots as they killed everything.

For these reasons, chances for healing xp go way up with just bots.
The bots:
<li> don't heal each other
<li> don't shield blast
<li> don't build walls
<li> don't build sentinals or pets
<li> all stay near making healing easier
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 29 Sep 2013 23:11:08]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Your highest score post...</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Me and the bots on Toy's Story.

Actually stayed alive and finished it out.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:59:13]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Your highest score post...</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Just me and the bots. I tell them to cover me, so they are always close. And Ironic is just about the perfect map... except I couldn't get past wave 12.

This is the highest score I've had since I could spawn three lobsters.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Sep 2013 01:05:25]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:LOAD &quot;*&quot;,8,1</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Ah, memories of loading programs from a cassette deck. TRS-80s and a Timex Sinclair 1000. And the BASIC cartridge for the Atari 2600.

When our school got a VIC-20 in the Trash80 lab, it blew us all away with color and totally awesome graphics. It was wicked. And gnarly. Tubular, too.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:25:28]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:NCAA Tournament Brackets</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ I'm currently 36 of 48, but I also have Syracuse going to the championship game, so we'll see how that works out for me.

Here's who I had winning for the rest of the dance:
Michigan State, Marquette, Kentucky, Baylor, Syracuse, Florida State, North Carolina, Kansas
Michigan State, Kentucky, Syracuse, Kansas
Kentucky, Syracuse
Kentucky
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:15:51]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:NCAA Tournament Brackets</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ So far I am 25 of 32. Luckily didn't have Missouri making it into the sweet 16. But I had Duke going to the great 8.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:49:25]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:CTF-FP-Skylink medic weapon problems</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ It's an added layer of difficulty. It's only a bit less difficult than staying alive as the last man standing in the wave while you are a 1000+ medic.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:52:35]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Summoned monsters mostly useless</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ It's best to max out experienced healing before you mess with monsters.

Even with intelligence maxed out, monsters are always dumber than any sentinal an eng can make. They will walk off space platforms, get stuck in wading pools, get stuck behind eng blocks, feed red flies, etc. And, as you discovered, they waste tons of adren. All the while you will be wasting your time trying to heal them (for no xp) when you should be healing your teammates.

Some people like the warlord or titan, but I think three skaarjs are better than either of those. A long time ago (before subclasses) I used to have pretty good luck with 3 brutes, but I think things have changed since then. The monsters seem weaker both offensively and defensively, and somehow stupider, if that's possible. And if I'm the last one alive, they are totally useless. I almost always play my extreme medic because even extreme monsters are so useless now.
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:41:05]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:What are you reading now and your area of interest in books.</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ We have a collection of classic works and we've been working through it book by book. In the last few months, we've gone through several, including: 

<i>A Tale of Two Cities</i> by Charles Dickens
<i>The Last of the Mohicans</i> by James Fenimore Cooper
<i>Moby Dick</i> by Herman Melville
<i>The Scarlet Letter</i> by Nathaniel Hawthorne
<i>The Black Arrow</i> by Robert Louis Stevenson

The kids are learning how good these books are, too, since I read to them aloud. If you have only read things published since the mid 20th century, I recommend grabbing a dictionary and reading the classics. There is history and vocabulary to be learned. Not to mention the thousands of references in contemporary literature that spring from Twain, Poe, Voltaire, Homer, etc. that are best understood by reading the source.

When it comes to 20th century and beyond, two of my favorites (being a nerd) are <i>"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman": Adventures of a Curious Character</i> and its sequel <i>"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character</i>. I am also a fan of science fiction and have recently re-read the <i>Foundation</i> series by Isaac Asimov. In fact, most of my sf favorites I discovered by reading the <i>Anthology</i> and <i>Analog</i> books edited by John W Campbell (<i>Astounding Science Fiction</i> magazine).

More recently, the kids also introduced me to a couple series that are worthy of mention. Lemony Snicket's <i>A Series of Unfortunate Events</i> are well done and quite entertaining. Also <i>Peter and the Starcatchers</i> by Dave Barry(!) and Ridley Pearson. When I saw Dave's name on the jacket, I had to find out if it was <b>the</b> Dave Barry, and sure enough Dave's own brand of humor is sprinkled through the pages. The <i>Peter</i> books are fun prequel-style stories to the J.M. Barrie novel and play.
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:12:32]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:DC Records: v2.2 and *High Score Table*</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ I was messing around and thought I would try to see how many retaliation kills I could rack up. Not sure if it's a record, but I send a challenge out there to top 62.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:26:03]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Bugs in DruidsRPG227</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ I think he is referring to those larger, mostly beige colored sliths.

As far as crashes go, I have noticed the server still crashes under certain conditions. On of them being when I am hit so hard with a rock that I ghost out of bounds. Not sure if the out of bounds thing is a coincidence, or simply a side-effect of the crash, but the last two times I've seen a crash it was due to being rocked into oblivion. Sorry, I'm not very good at recording maps/times. I'll try to make a note of it next time.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:59:46]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Bugs in DruidsRPG227</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Two more crashes in a row. Between 5:12 and 5:14 PM pacific.
Both times it seemed to be me getting damaged by a nali with a grenade launcher.

Perhaps retaliation is involved somehow.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:15:31]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Bugs in DruidsRPG227</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Now that I was looking for it, I have noticed the shield gun nalis as well. The last time I got on and played (between 12PM and 1PM Pacific) at least two of the crashes I saw happened right as shield gun nalis were hitting something. One was another monster, and one was me. But I didn't have countershove at all. 

However, I have a theory.

I believe this situation is similar to that of firing off a shell from my medic flak and then switching weapons. The properties of the shell in mid air are no longer of a healing nature to myself or teammates.

I have been aware of what may or may not be a bug for quite a while now. If there are residual titan rocks around when healing myself against the ground with my medic flak, it will most of the time agitate those rocks so they deal out enough damage to either ghost or kill me. I've been around long enough to know when rocks are normally inert and harmless to run over. I figure in this case that there is just enough of the rock left over to be reanimated, as it were, by a splash weapon and deal out damage to anyone standing on top of them. I will even attest that sometimes the rocks themselves have been idle long enough to disappear from view but are still lurking there in the code waiting to become phantom rocks that kill from beyond the garbage collection grave, with ironic help from a medic weapon.

Now I have no idea if non-medic splash damage weapons work in the same way - it isn't common to go around shooting yourself in the feet with non-medic weapons. What I am saying is, it seems possible that if a nali with a shield gun hitting me at the very same time I am hitting them with a splash damage medic gun could induce the same code circumstances as if I had countershove turned on, and if the non-medic splash damage weapons work the same way (which I see no reason why they wouldn't with respect to monsters) then anyone could set off this unintentional booby trap in the code if they happen to be close enough to a nali holding a shield gun.

Is it possible to just remove shield gun from the list of weapons a nali can hold?]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:51:14]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Bugs in DruidsRPG226</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ After talking to Dragon7350 online about it a few days ago, I also tried Extreme Medic(LM3).

For about 35 seconds. It was totally not worth it. Doing without the poison blast alone was enough to convince me. Add to that the full adren cost for the heal blast and reduced speed in healing oneself and others with the medic gun and you've simply crippled yourself by not going to LM4.

If someone wants to play the Extreme Medic with just LM3, I say let 'em. It's a trade-off, not an exploit. The xp scored could not possibly be better than a maxed out Extreme Monsters or maxed out Extreme Medic. Or at least not in my case.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:02:54]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Wierd map level reset</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Yes, thank you. Much appreciated.

Is there any word on what went haywire?]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:39:28]]> GMT</pubDate>
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