Thinking about the coding that went into any game will make you better at the game

[Naer]

i thought about the programmers, the frustrations of their work. and the overall coding architecture, I imagined all the lines of code that went into building the game, and thus became more successful in the game. Once you empathize with the making of a game, you become Neo at the game. per example.

Once you see the lines of code while looking at the game, you begin to respect the game, and play accordingly

 

[John Connor]

For me personally, when it involves a full battlefield like BF2 or BF2142, years of playing has made me a better gamer. I know where all the perks are in the AIX mod, what I should be patrolling while in a jet or Heli. Watching my teammates on the radar and helping them out. Know that if I take a flag to neutral I'm bound to be bombed so as soon as it's neutral I high tail away and wait for the bombing run and run back unless I can hide in a bunker. Don't light up the foe's radar that I'm on his tail till the last second and fire two missiles when I have a good bead. Then there are the glitches I take advantage of. I used to pod surf my ass off in 2142. That was awesome to get from the titan to a silo in no time.

Pray and spray games like COD piss me off. As soon as I press the mouse button to fire, within one and I mean 1 millisecond he's already dropped me. I didn't do too bad after hours and hours of playing. But I haven't played Modern Warfare in a very long time.

 

[OverVolt]

In runescape I turned 1.3mil into 4.7b investing and such. At one point I had 100million shark, you get around 55 shark an hour fishing them yourself so I had 1.82 million hours worth of other people's efforts in my bank or 45,000 weeks of fishing sharks 40 hours a week or about 874 years fishing at 40 hours a week.

So I think I did good because I logged in maybe an hour a day. It was maybe 1/3rd of my game monies at the time anyway.

It was pretty mind blowing the kind of power you had with money. I could influence markets on a whim. I passively bid on a class of armor for 2-3 months until the market suddenly realized there was a shortage (yea, called all the armor was in my bank) Good times.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I was kind of like that when playing Ultima Online, because I actually WROTE some of the code. Well, only server side for my own server, but even so it gives you a general idea even if playing on another server too. There's so much that goes into a game though even as a coder you don't know everything off hand like in-game details of where quests are, drop rates etc.

 

[ImpulsE69]

For me, it's all about seducing the system. Casually stroll up to it..put your arm around it, chloroform it.