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To milk or not to milk - that is the question

from BeeJay (bjohnstone@cardinal.co.nz)
Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows..... oops wrong board.... ;-)

I see that I'm one of many who have been "pinged" for milking points in Discs of Tron. While I can't comment on the other recordings since I have not watched them I thought I would examine my example of milking. In my case I happened to be lucky enough to stun Sark and then keep stunning him anther 5-8 times. In all it took 25 seconds to dispatch the first Sark of "Stage 1" and a total of 40 seconds to dispatch both Sarks from "Stage 1".

I guess the real question is was this really milking/points leeching? By our new definitions of this subject it falls well within the bounds of the suggested < 60 seconds and 2 lives. More to the point on some of the later levels where it's desperately frantic trying to even hit Sark you can spend a considerable length of time trying to destroy his disks, chasers etc just to avoid being killed yourself and I would hate for this to also be considered milking.

In my particular case it really makes no difference to me because it did not alter my position on this game anyway so I'm really just bringing this up for discussion. But as the Judge co-ordinator, Pat does of course have the final say.

BeeJay.

(posted 9206 days ago)

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