Posted by Sinakil on February 29, 2000 at 09:56:55:
In Reply to: But you too is missing the point posted by Joshu on February 29, 2000 at 04:32:36:
> All the "anti-trigger" people are angry and afraid, because they think they're going to get their asses kicked by those that use triggers extensively.
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But as Challen said, nobody who's any good ever used that many triggers. It is simply too hard to write any trigger scheme that is better than fighting "manually".
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One fight between Athrakagar and the then warmaster (I can't remember his name) comes to mind. The warmaster had a trigger for attacking Athrakagar whenever he saw him, but Athrakagar was a polearm spec so after fleeing and coming back a couple of times, Challen saw the trigger and charge setted the warmaster to death easily.
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And that's how it will always go.
Challen is a good player, no doubt, but just because he states something about the way HE plays, doesn't necessary make his way the best way for everyone. The warmaster was a blind fool for allowing his trigger scheme to get abused by charge set. A smarter trigger writer would have the targetting system turned off automatically the first time he was charge set. I'll be the first one to tell you, it'd be damn near impossible to write any sort of bot pk code for CF, however, triggers can help automate a lot of things. Clearly the non-trigger people think they're playing against a robot, but they aren't. They're playing against a person who is turning different parts of a robot on and off as the situation dictates.
In the long run, two players with identical skills, one familiar with a complex trigger system and one using nothing but aliases, I think the complex system will come out on top.