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Originally Posted by cputnal

Dizzy - Great suggestions, which I have taken to heart. If there are positive changes we can make, we should. I for one will reread all the guides and see if there are places I personally would change, then send those suggestions to the Ambassadors. I would think that they should probably serve as a collection point for the ideas? It might be easier than multiple posts. I'll wait to hear from them. I appreciate your thoughtful note.

Thanks

Craig

I am the author of the CJ guidelines as outlined in this thread. It made it as an awareness guide, not a hardfast rule of playing. When I wrote this guide, the Lawbot HQ's was just put on open for less than day or so. I spent weeks on test with many other toons trying to figure a way to consistently defeat the CJ and we found the way. So the guideline was an flexible outline of what we used and determined to be an appropriate way to defeat the CJ. Many toons are NOT CCG members and some of them still don't know about the forums. A lot of strategies were NOT developed yet and were still under development. My guide was a general guide and the key to it was flexibility so the overall effect of battling the CJ was successful. Nobody who followed the guidelines went sad by doing so. Saduality was often due to inexperience and computer problems, not the guidelines.

Please be very flexible in your battle. Fill in where you ARE NEEDED, not necessarily where you WANT to be. Use Chief Justice phrases to do this prior to scale battle so we have an idea who will be where and where you are needed. Stay AT YOUR TASK! Do not pull back to toon other toons as your main duty is to prevent cog evidence from filling their side of the scales. Do not block evidence thrown by those at the scales, please!!! The battle is won by our side of the scales hitting the bottom.

I mentioned flexibility as a key to adaptation to a battle of the various abilities of toons present. If 2 toons can handle all 8 cogs, then stepping in when one of them leaves is a great way to be flexible. We know that their evidence will be stretched out a bit, so their going for more evidence leaves 4 cogs unattended, and that is when you step in and take care of them until that toon returns. You back away when they return and you have prevented the cogs from throwing on the scalers for a short period of time. This is acceptable as a help to the battle. There are no low places of assistance in the CJ battle if you consistently help in every way you can. No ones thinks less of you.

As to the remark made to go to the scale, shrug it off and just do something profitable for the team. A boss battle is NO place to flaunt an ego of feeling superior to other toons, as there are too many variables among computers that can limit the extraordinary skills of TT players. (This is not intended as a condemning remark to anyone). Sometimes one of my computers abruptly slows down for various reasons and it limits my ordinary skill in playing, so I adapt to that and do what my computer allows me to do until the computers rights itself. That is adaptation/flexibility. It may be found that too many scalers around the several gavels would actually put the other scalers in trouble if one of the toons is knock back by toon movement and/or a gavel hit to one of them. That is something to think about because I have knocked another toon into a gavel path when I was hit by evidence. Your toons does move another toon if you hit them aburptly enough. So I would have stayed behind the stunners until one of them left, step in and hit the cogs, then step back when they return. I would drop my ego status (sic) for the sake of their ability to do what they like. I'm there to defeat the CJ like all the other toons are there for. I want my summons, new suit level or whatever. My personal pride in playing ability means nothing really if I just do something that assists the team. Suppose a scaler was losing a lot of points due to a computer problem. What should another toon do? Toon them where they play? Toon them up at the evidence stand? You decide in that CJ battle what seems best and forget all the suggestions that will be hurled at you. Your flexibility is yours to decide but do it for the good of the team.



Deputy Dynowoof

Craig - you're post was not in vain - it sparked a lot of dialogue that is acceptable as a help to understand our position in a CJ to make for a successful battle. You had tremendous courage in the OP. My post here was not specifically to you. I used your post because I was the author of the lawbot guideline.