Hi! Not an official member of the CCG, but I have read the guidelines, and I do try to abide by them.
A few days ago in Cash hq (around Jan 09?) ( or was it law hq?), only 6 or 7 toons got on, and as I am still a noob for those HQ's, and there were three or four other toons just STANDING there., I was really nervous.
..i jumped off to give us more time to get a full elevator.
Of course, that led to a wee bit of shuffling, cause with only 12 or 13 toons were there, plus unless the elevator gets empty, not everyone can get back into the elevator....so some shuffling happened, and it was my fault. Yes, I am blowing the whistle on myself.
However.....a minute or two of confusion, and then we got a FULL elevator.
Generally I abhor the shuffle more than anyone. But...it did get us a full elevator. We all danced at the end, I believe.
It just seemed so strange, to have a really good group of 7 toons, and three waiting there on the platform, ( a ton of people were still outside), and the clock got down to 1,
waiting for one of those other three toons to jump on board! 7 toons all standing in the elevator squeeking (oinking, meowing, etc) 'come on!', and "lets go!", and "one more?" over and over, while three toons just stood nearby. Aggravating.
Try to not hate me.
Oh! The other thing I have seen some people griping about recently, would be working their gags while in any of the HQ's. I think this happens more in Sell, than cash or law, cause there are more 'little people' in Sell.
It is an aggravation, too, altho not as much as shuffling.
I wish we had a speed chat way to say "don't hit it unless you can kill it ALL BY YOURSELF!". I know, "I think you should pass" is one way...but I think it confuses everyone except maybe the uber toons.
Craig recently had a few juicy things to say about this! So I quote:
Note: I'm not even going to say which run it was yesterday...but for heaven's sake:
PLEASE DON'T WORK YOUR GAGS IN THE VP!!!!!!
You found the CCG, you apparently can read, so please follow the guidelines. When asked to "Choose a different gag" you continued to marble or sand trap nearly every cog we lured in on the left, even after repeated entreaties to "Stop that" "Please"...you kept replying "sorry", but as I tell my children, sorry doesn't take away the bad behavior. I believed you continued this behavior on the other side. Yes, you had at least 3 or 4 SFs in the group, but that doesn't excuse you to blatently and repeatedly just ignore the guidelines.
Having to cover two cogs continuously, watch out for the obviously new 56 laffer and try to talk you into NOT using trap (and then later, you switched to your mid-range drop, instead of following suit on squirt/throw) was pretty exasperating.
LLKR
There.
Craig"
Unquote
But it does bring up a very good point.....if you lure left, and kill right, what do we say about toons who use their dynamite trap on the cog being lured? Cause then 2 cogs are killed, so the next lure cant be a $10, it hasta use up a set of goggles, or maybe even just a blue magnet, which is chancy for little toons. On the other hand....two biggish toons on each side should have 6 goggles between them....and there just are not that many sets of cogs in Sell HQ...so even with the occasional dynomite, 6 goggles ought to be enuf...
Or is it? any opinions on this?
(Plus- please congratulate me on my new gag, the dynamite trap! Which up to this point, I do not believe I have used any trap in any hq until the first time, last week in Law HQ, i used the trapdoor, which was already at 69 or 70 points, and someone kindly followed with a hose to finish the 8 off. But....one reason this gag took so long to get to level 6 was I am loath to use it when other toons are relying on me. I had cake, squirt, sound, and lure all MAXED out by 81 laff. 105 laff and I am only just now getting some very low levl dynamite.)