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Total Members Voted: 20

[Granite26]

So clear in order to clear, not because it's the goal?

What about the boxing game?  Should I be dropping pieces, getting huge strips at once, or just killing as many blocks as possible?

[Floirt]

Well, rumble is more complicated, because if you try to combo too much, you get screwed. So the two tactics work, just that comboing is way likelier to land a lethal hit.

Also, are you on? Send me a tell to get in the crew.

[Granite26]

I'm at work (so no).  Browsing forums about games = ok (or at least subtley wrong)  Actually playing them?  Not so much.

What's a 'combo' in rumble?

[Floirt]

http://yppedia.puzzlepirates.com/Rumble

For all your rumble needs.

[Sowelu]

In sailing, you'll usually want to actually clear boards at first.  Don't aim for combos above double or triple.  Then, once your duty indicator is -already- at least light yellow (maybe not sparkling), that's when you start working on the real combos.  It's sad to booch a puzzle for a league because you never actually cleared something you were so combo-hungry!

Also, in Rumble, some quick tips on the amount of stuff generated.

For sprinkles (non-charged stuff), each cleared group adds to a queue that slowly builds up, and there is NO difference between clearing three groups of four each, and one group of twelve.  (Although you send sprinkles equal to half the cleared balls, so 3 is quite sub-optimal while higher numbers are better.)  Loose stuff that gets dropped when you clear a group sends its number divided by three--fractions discarded, again--so aim for a multiple of three if you can help it!  A big take-away hint here, though, is:  If you can clear groups as fast as you can click, then clear groups, don't build up random crap to drop.  However, if you have a great shot sitting on your right launcher, and you're still looking for your next play, feel free to build up droppable stuff as fast as you can click with your left launcher as long as you won't blow your shot.

Don't send charged strikes with less than three groups together--that's the minimum to actually punch the guy.  Weak strikes are often enough to mess with someone pretty hard though, and in general each dropoff ball will give you another bruise in your punch...so feel extra free to pile dropoffs onto your combo before you set it off!

And try to keep your playing field as flat as possible.  It makes sprinkles MUCH easier to annihilate in a couple shots.

[Remalle]

EDIT: Some dude called Zenci proposed to me to join their flag. Yeaaaah.
http://viridian.puzzlepirates.com/yoweb/flag/info.wm?flagid=10002143
Thoughts?

That flag is #12 on the ocean, with 457 active members and a ton of allies, but they are willing to ask a crew like ours to join almost immediately after formation so I have doubts.

I don't think we need a flag.  Certainly not yet.  Let's deal with our own politics first, and figure out who we are!

True.

[Sowelu]

I don't think we need a flag.  Certainly not yet.  Let's deal with our own politics first, and figure out who we are!

[Granite26]

I don't think we need a flag.  Certainly not yet.  Let's deal with our own politics first, and figure out who we are!

We're PIRATES!!!

Oh, and thanks for the tips...  That was exactly the information I was looking for

[Malicus]

Well, I -still- haven't managed to catch anyone online so I can join the B12 crew...  blah.

[Floirt]

Argh!  I JUST MISSED YOU. 

[Sowelu]

Me either.  I've never seen anyone on in /cwho when I've looked, and I tend to check every couple hours from 'home from work' until 'bed'.

I should be able to help out once I get in, though...Hopefully this weekend.

[Floirt]

How do you expect me to get you in? I just missed both of you, and you all logged off! Start complaining WHEN you log ON!

[Sowelu]

Hee hee.  Sorry.

I should be online sometime around four hours from this message being posted, and then I'll put a message up on here saying "I'm here!".

[Floirt]

I won't be here in four hours. That's my "YOU HAVE NO INTERNET THANKS TO YOUR STUPID CONNECTION" moment. 

[Sowelu]

Well, I'll also be around in twelve hours, and the entire space in between.  And tomorrow, all day!  And then all weekend!