PROGRAMMERS DESTROY THE GAME //by BarTek ======================================================================= INTRODUCTION There is several patches out in elma scene with configurative options that alove you to make supervolt easy, increase the map size and much more. Graphic cards that may effect your driving and video settings that can be altered to gain those extra hundreds. Shit i have not felt so depressed since the "Nitro patch" was realesed in elma community. Here is what i think about these patches and the programmers ok!1 ======================================================================= SUPERVOLT WAS FUN BEFORE Before the alovolt patch i had more fun playing with normal standards like the rest players out there. Before driving a level you had to plan your driving in order to make the best of the supervolt. It was also bit of a challange to make supervolt without pressing left or right before. Nowadays there aint no challange to it. It feels like months and years of training is wasted baah! What separated the skilled from the begginers was the ability how good you could control the bike, nowadays even noobs can make same results as skilled players. Ofcourse some people had problems before making the alovolt due to their computer settings and keyboard. Many thinks that its "fair" now for those who had non-elma compatible keyboards. And maybe it is but i wished there was instead a patch for the keyboard and not the supervolt itself. Atleast so everybody could make the supervolt easy without pressing left or right instead of making it into one key blah. I remember somebody even bought a new keyboard just so he could make the volt easier. Oh shit was he angry when alovolt patch came out :o ======================================================================= ELMA TUNING IS CHEATING As far as i understand you should be able to effect the bouncing of the bike and have better grip with the wheel on the ground. How desparate are you if you mess with video settings just to be able to gain few hundreds. Vsync or whatever it is should be banned, hell most dont even know what elma tuning is. Either ban the configuration or inform about it to every one. Baah most records are driven with it at this point so it would be pointless to make a patch that controls your tuning. ======================================================================= REMEMBER THE PAST Hibernatus, Milagros, MGen and others mess up the game ok. Ofcourse their are two sides of this. Programmers are good to uppgrade the game in new versions that may keep it alive longer, however they can also destroy the game. Most levels and replays out there are driven in the older versions from balasz. Now these new patches makes older replays useless due to easier configurations that exist. Years of development and perfection of world records and styles are being forgotten since the new versions enable other driving styles. For example Warm Up can be driven much easier with alovolt, ofcourse you could trottle and make supervolt before if you had good keyboard or used numpad as your controls. But it wasnt so easy to make as it is now. Being able to increase and decrease your map size aint so good idea either. There are levels out there that have searching instead of racing as a goal. "Adventure Level" is one of these for example. Or maybe the levmaker had intended you to find his secret ares or something like that. You could do this with the old nitro patch too but who did copy level, paste level and run new elma.exe just to see a secret area or anything similar. Atleast then it was more work and most people didnt make the effort, instead they drove the level wich made it more fun. ======================================================================= SAVE THE FUTURE The people that ask for these new patches are indeed the sucky noobs that want to be as good as the skilled. Too bored to start from the scratch i belive. Often in chat boards and other conversation places i see these less skilled ask programmers to make this, make that etc. However the current patches may not sound as bad as these "current" fucking requests that you may heard and read about: - Abilty to copy and paste polygons - Have some "ghost mode" while driving - Save and load option Older levels and records may become worthless if new versions keep appearing all the time. Wich i think is unfair to most people. I hope most will disregard these requests and choose to not use any more of these new patches. Even though i doubt it will be like that! ======================================================================= SUMMARY I speak as a player of a time forgotten when patches and shit wasnt wide spreaded as it is now. Maybe new generations of players will accept these things as any standard option in the game. I guess the older players must endurance this and try to accept it while they are fading away from the scene. Such pathetic end for us old timers. People with coding knowledge can good and bad at same time. Such things are good and i have no problem with: - fast search among levels - replay speed control and - extra escape keys However there are evil bastard programmers who invented shit like: - nitro patch - lev unlocker - state editor Those who programmed this kinda stuff can lick my balls. Even though i resent the alovolt patch i still use it beacuse i wouldnt be playing with the same standards as the other players who has converted to alovolt. Since the creator of the game has stopped developing his game others have taken on the role and feel they can make the game better. I agree some things may be good and improvment to the older versions. ======================================================================= //BarTek The "Elma Artist"