right or wrong?

[sillyzannyboing]

you get on the elevator with a toon who shares your interests. We are all 100+. We all have different tasks. But the norm is to battle the cogs on the WAY to the cog foreman. If the two toons you haven't played with in the past decide to battle cog group after cog group I don't feel I should be obligated to help them. I assume, and tell me if I am wrong, that they will catch up. I will wait as long as the timer lets me but at that point I don't feel wrong for proceeding. UNLESS we establish some type of agreement in the beginning. Therefore should I feel guilty when these same toons continue to berate me for going on? This is what happened when I asked a ? about points on the last battle. They thought they were getting me back by defeating the last battle alone.

[Big Buster McMonkey]

I am going to guess this was a response to some other message that accidentally got put into a new thread of its own.


yes?

[Beaniemonkey]

The best you could do is ignore them. I'd do the same thing. If I didn't feel like fighting cogs, I would wait somewhere. I only do long runs with friends, or I'd expect the same thing. As for the timer, I wouldn't start a battle without quite a wait. I'd give them some time to catch up, before I said screw it, and started a battle. THEN I would let the timer run low, and if they're not there.. lure. If they're still not there when the timer gets low, they took too long.

If I didn't feel obligated to help.. I would allow a little bit of time for them to kill atleast a few extra cogs..

[Loosy Goosy]

We now have an alarm telling us when someone enters the Center Silo. I'd
say anything goes, and if you have to run to get to the Center Silo, run! If
you make it to the Center Silo before everyone else, they have to hurry if
they want credit.

Having said that:
1) The Foreman warning is a message to all of us that sticking together is the
best way to avoid ANY problems in this regard.
2) Try to go only go in the factory with your buddies so that you go only
where you need to go (parts vs. merits).
3) The highest laff toon dictates the direction of the party. Read on while I
'splain : I enjoy doing random factory runs all the time. Most of the time it's
with 30-50's'things (yea all you laff snobs, I'm helping them *eg*). After
defeating the Boiler Room, inevitably, they run straight to the Warehouse
barking "This way" all the way into trouble. Meanwhile, I'm taking out the
skellies in the Pipe Room and the cogs in the Side Entrance. It's usually
around the time I'm in the Oil Room when they all come bumbling back to me.

It's great fun! Just because they know a 103 laffer is going with them doesn't
mean I'm going to do their bidding

[Sally Kat]

Yes, generally the lower toons follow the highest toon, since they quite often need their high gags to get through the foreman.

As for splitting up, I hate it, I missed out on two Hollywoods that way when the only reason I was in the factory in the first place was to hunt for Hollywoods.

[GurlCogFighter]

Originally Posted by Loosy Goosy

We now have an alarm telling us when someone enters the Center Silo. I'd
say anything goes, and if you have to run to get to the Center Silo, run! If
you make it to the Center Silo before everyone else, they have to hurry if
they want credit.

Having said that:
1) The Foreman warning is a message to all of us that sticking together is the
best way to avoid ANY problems in this regard.
2) Try to go only go in the factory with your buddies so that you go only
where you need to go (parts vs. merits).
3) The highest laff toon dictates the direction of the party. Read on while I
'splain : I enjoy doing random factory runs all the time. Most of the time it's
with 30-50's'things (yea all you laff snobs, I'm helping them *eg*). After
defeating the Boiler Room, inevitably, they run straight to the Warehouse
barking "This way" all the way into trouble. Meanwhile, I'm taking out the
skellies in the Pipe Room and the cogs in the Side Entrance. It's usually
around the time I'm in the Oil Room when they all come bumbling back to me.

It's great fun! Just because they know a 103 laffer is going with them doesn't
mean I'm going to do their bidding

ROFL You've got that right! Highest laffer leads! (although when its 2 ******** 102 laffers who won't tu me, things can change.) Loved your post, Loosy!

[sillyzannyboing]

I guess my main question got answered. I agree about staying together but after 15 minutes of them gathering beans, cones and entering another battle besides the ones needed to complete the factory me and the other toon decided to go on. Of course we would have waited for them at the top. But they freaked out and ran off together towards the west silo screaming you stink, finished their side jumped into the last battle and finished without us. I mean all of this is silly to begin with but I was left wondering if maybe I was wrong to continue the game while they "played" around.

[Loosy Goosy]

sillyzannyboing, yea you just have to play and enjoy the game. There are
several things that can happen that can be a source of grief in this game,
so whenever possible ya have to just take the bull by the horns!

[Puppy Dog]

Before you go in the elevator, say I need to defeat some cogs! Sometimes that works. Toons that need lots of merits will stick with you and follow you to the back door away from the maddening crowd.

[ruca]

Originally Posted by Sally Kat

Yes, generally the lower toons follow the highest toon, since they quite often need their high gags to get through the foreman.

As for splitting up, I hate it, I missed out on two Hollywoods that way when the only reason I was in the factory in the first place was to hunt for Hollywoods.

I hate spilting up also. Last night on a hq run we had two 80 somethings and two 100+ we split at the center silo and my 80 just stood in the back round and watched my lure miss three times. Down to 26 Laff I f4ed out of there. I hate to leave a battle.