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Offline James T. Kirk

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Why We Need Kicking.
« on: July 18, 2013, 07:12:55 pm »
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Engineers, Gunners, and Pilots, I now bring up the age-old topic of kicking.

Many group Kicking with Boarding, saying it will "Break the game mechanics" or "dis-inspire teamwork."

I strongly disagree.

I would like to preface this thread with three pieces of evidence as to why kicking is a necessity.
I invite you all to mindlessly support me with evidence of your own.

1) New people: Why should I bother training new people when a kick function will replace them with a more experienced crewmen in twice the time, with less than half the work?
Common, people, this point is just basic math.

2) Annoying others: We all know that there is no greater pleasure in this world than causing pain and frustration to another human being for no particular reason. Now, imagine with me, if you would, a situation where the Captain is taking his role WAY to seriously. As in, like, welcoming people to his ship, giving orders, or even going as far to start some sort of clan or something. Now, in the heat of battle, kick the poor guy outta the lobby and crash the ship into the ground.
You'll be able to feel the rage through the Global chat.

3) Finally, I present you all with the highest quality recording of one of today's FINEST minds in relation to "kicking."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S102Bxlng9A

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Re: Why We Need Kicking.
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2013, 07:14:34 pm »

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Re: Why We Need Kicking.
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2013, 09:05:39 pm »
Whenever someone talks about needing a kick mechanic, all I hear is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMNJuSl91qY

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Re: Why We Need Kicking.
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2013, 11:36:40 pm »
I disagree with points 1, 2, and 3. Maybe I'm not supposed to take this thread seriously but, I personally like being a serious captain. I enjoy welcoming crew to a ship because it's nice for immersion. also the community is what comes first and foremost, training newbies is something of a task we should all undertake at least a bit. To make sure we keep growing and getting more new players, perhaps they will be experienced soon enough with our help. Also you just blatantly want to troll by kicking a captain who may or may not be an amazing pilot. If you kick pilots off their ships then you don't deserve to sit on their ship either.

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Re: Why We Need Kicking.
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2013, 11:40:52 pm »
I'm going to make this point here, this is the pit, nothing is serious here.

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Re: Why We Need Kicking.
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2013, 11:42:30 pm »
Eh well. Still, I take things like that kinda serious. I could understand perhaps trolling with a weird ship or something but honestly kicking would ruin the game.

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Re: Why We Need Kicking.
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2013, 11:57:19 pm »
My apologies if I sounded serious in my post btw, I meant it in jest, too :P

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Re: Why We Need Kicking.
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2013, 12:09:58 am »
Yes. This is ALL in jest.

Sort of my tounge-in-cheek way of saying how kicking is like boarding:
We only get it if we donated 10 mil to the Kickstarter.

I tried to solidify my joking tone with calling Patrick a "great mind" but no worries.

I'm a serious captain myself, and all those examples in point two were pointed at me. (Cake clan is recruiting!)

We've actually made it part of our mission in Cake to help new guys, and I've done quite a few training runs.

I agree with everything you said, as that whole first post was so heavily coated in sarcasm, you could swim in it.
Hard to convey that with text, though.

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Re: Why We Need Kicking.
« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2013, 12:14:39 am »
Kirk next time we get in game together I'm calling you Picard just for the sake of it.

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Re: Why We Need Kicking.
« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2013, 12:24:52 am »
Kirk next time we get in game together I'm calling you Picard just for the sake of it.
Call him Janeway, I'm sure that'll go over well :D

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Re: Why We Need Kicking.
« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2013, 06:10:02 am »
Kirk next time we get in game together I'm calling you Picard just for the sake of it.
Call him Janeway, I'm sure that'll go over well :D

Where would Archer get us?

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Re: Why We Need Kicking.
« Reply #11 on: July 19, 2013, 09:34:29 am »
I disagree with points 1, 2, and 3. Maybe I'm not supposed to take this thread seriously but, I personally like being a serious captain. I enjoy welcoming crew to a ship because it's nice for immersion. also the community is what comes first and foremost, training newbies is something of a task we should all undertake at least a bit. To make sure we keep growing and getting more new players, perhaps they will be experienced soon enough with our help. Also you just blatantly want to troll by kicking a captain who may or may not be an amazing pilot. If you kick pilots off their ships then you don't deserve to sit on their ship either.

This is like when Shink took my nerf WASD thread seriously.

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Re: Why We Need Kicking.
« Reply #12 on: July 19, 2013, 09:44:05 am »
heh..... Yeahhhh that >.>

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Re: Why We Need Kicking.
« Reply #13 on: July 19, 2013, 09:55:06 am »
heh..... Yeahhhh that >.>

To be fair, you were new to the forum.

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Re: Why We Need Kicking.
« Reply #14 on: July 19, 2013, 11:54:41 am »

Call him Janeway, I'm sure that'll go over well :D

Where would Archer get us?

Gentlemen, take your pick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAWnDksru4g
Well, except for number 8.