Training run feedback

[Murky]

Let us know what you learned at the training run.

Do you have questions, suggestions, kudos?

[Blinky Purplemuffin]

That was an awesome training run. I learned a lot about where the gear shower's placement is, and how to avoid it. Thanks to everyone that organized this.

You guys are great!

[Blobber]

This was an awesome training run! What a blast it was too. The pie-ers learned bunches, and everything went smoothly. These training runs never get old no matter what! I love them and always will Thanks for making this once again Murky, and as for me I learned a ton more on how to teach.

Remember, practice makes perfect. Keep practicing you guys and you'll be good in no time...

[Rhinoflipper]

Originally Posted by coolzach1994

This was an awesome training run! What a blast it was too. The pie-ers learned bunches, and everything went smoothly. These training runs never get old no matter what! I love them and always will Thanks for making this once again Murky, and as for me I learned a ton more on how to teach.

Remember, practice makes perfect. Keep practicing you guys and you'll be good in no time...

You took the words right out of my mouth . The learners got a lot of stuns in. I counted about 8 or 9

[BlueSky]

Team 4 The Crazy Creamers !! Woot Woot!

Elliemay Reports that on:

Apr. 26, 2008 1730 CST
8/8 Danced for Barnacle Bessie Nice Prize!!!

+*Elliemay 82 HW50
+Jedthrow 82 HW50
Obsidian 128 HW50
Cultured Pearl 110 TF
+*Silly Furball Fuzzymuffin 131 HW50
+Big Fireball Fumblebumble 131 HW50
*King Oscar Whiskerton 110 TF
*K. Jon Kit 112 HW50

+ Together in Cog Round
* Together in Skele Round


We had a fantastic group here!

K. Jon Kit was making some nice shots at the back & Cultured Pearl was doing awesome in the front!

Thank you to our awesome teachers who gave some great pointers in there & thanks to all the healers for making sure everyone stayed at a safe laff throughout the training. I had alot of fun and I hope you all did as well.

Thanks Murky for taking the time to set these training runs up! It's always alot of fun to participate.

I've attached a few screenshots below to show some of the action!

1) Jedthrow trying to figure out how to get the pies in the first place haha!
2) King Oscar Whiskerton doing a great job making sure everyone is healthy!
3) K. Jon Kit in action with some nice shots to the back! Whoo hoo!
4) Obsidian giving some pointers to Cultured Pearl in the front.
5) Silly Furball Fuzzymuffin & Big Fireball Fumblebumble making sure Elliemay doesn't die hehehe.

[Little Fancy Pedalwhip]

Prince Zany Megazilla Reports that on:

Apr. 26, 2008 1930 CST
8/8 Danced for Flim Flam

+Rhinogadget 92 TM6
+Rhinoflipper 119 HW50
+Silly Candy Sparklemuffin 118 HW50
*Blobber 106 HW50
*Silly Rainbow Funnygoose 107 ND3
*Queen Cranky Pedalflapper 100 GH5
Deputy Snuffy Kookymuddle 127 HW50
+*Prince Zany Megazilla 112 HW20

+ Together in Cog Round
* Together in Skele Round

I thought you all did fantastic! Keep practicing guys and you will be fantastic stunners in no time.

Thank you Deputy Snuffy for filling in at the last minute. I'm sorry I didn't know how to respond when you asked "Which way?" I was just glad you stayed and followed us to the back-up district. Thank you so much for keeping all the toons smiling, you so rock!

Thank you to all the healers and teachers and special thanks to Murky for planning this. I know a lot of work goes into these and we all appreciate it so much!

[Frostimom]

Great training run!

7 or 8 Danced for Madame Chuckle

Princess Raven / Teacher
Mr. Stinky / Teacher
Lady Gigglesnout / Healer
Miss Petunia Flippernoodle / Healer
Dawn Ov Anudue / Healer
Princess Lily Twinkletoes / Student
Beaker / Student
Super Grama / Student - disco'd in skele round

Thank you Dawn Ov Avundue for stepping in...still waiting to hear what happened to Scottsman.

This run lasted forever, and our two students go in tons of practice. They stunned and stunned. Teachers were great and comments heard from them: that Beaker and Princess Lily Twinkletoes knew what to do they just needed practice!

That's what this is all about...a chance to perfect your skills while someone watches your back.

Great job everyone!

Thank you Murky for planning this...you did great!

[Super Grama]

Originally Posted by Frostimom

Great training run!

7 or 8 Danced for Madame Chuckle

Princess Raven / Teacher
Mr. Stinky / Teacher
Lady Gigglesnout / Healer
Miss Petunia Flippernoodle / Healer
Dawn Ov Anudue / Healer
Princess Lily Twinkletoes / Student
Beaker / Student
Super Grama / Student - disco'd in skele round

Thank you Dawn Ov Avundue for stepping in...still waiting to hear what happened to Scottsman.

This run lasted forever, and our two students go in tons of practice. They stunned and stunned. Teachers were great and comments heard from them: that Beaker and Princess Lily Twinkletoes knew what to do they just needed practice!

That's what this is all about...a chance to perfect your skills while someone watches your back.

Great job everyone!

Thank you Murky for planning this...you did great!

My apologies to Team 3. My computer put that dreaded message saying I was disconnecting from the server.

I really am disappointed because I really went in tonight feeling that I would do better. Spent lots of time reading techniques and watching the video.

And then --

As I said, I really am disappointed and frustrated. Seems I spend more time reconnecting than I do playing.

Suggestion: I like the idea of the white squares. I am a very small duck and all I could see was black and brown disguises.

[Dawn Ov Anudae]

Originally Posted by Frostimom

Great training run!

7 or 8 Danced for Madame Chuckle

Princess Raven / Teacher
Mr. Stinky / Teacher
Lady Gigglesnout / Healer
Miss Petunia Flippernoodle / Healer
Dawn Ov Anudue / Healer
Princess Lily Twinkletoes / Student
Beaker / Student
Super Grama / Student - disco'd in skele round

Thank you Dawn Ov Avundue for stepping in...still waiting to hear what happened to Scottsman.

This run lasted forever, and our two students go in tons of practice. They stunned and stunned. Teachers were great and comments heard from them: that Beaker and Princess Lily Twinkletoes knew what to do they just needed practice!

That's what this is all about...a chance to perfect your skills while someone watches your back.

Great job everyone!

Thank you Murky for planning this...you did great!

First off Thank you Murky for taking the time to set up these runs. We all appreciate all you do!! Luv Ya. I wasn't really sure on what to do, so I never pass up and opportunity to smack some toons with pies. This was a great group, lots of practice. Beaker and Princess Lily did a fantastic job. I had a few good laughs with Lady Gigglesnout, she tossed a unite so I just had to toss the gag up toon up . When you have a lil 17laffer 2 track uber you tend not to worry about your own laff. I enjoyed this run and would be happy to board the elevator with each of you anytime. Thanks for the fun and laughs. Again if anyone feels they would like to learn to stun, this is the way to go. Couldn't ask for a better group of people to teach you the ropes. Or smack you with a few pies.

~Melissa~
(Dawn Ov Anudae)

[cputnal]

I had a great time - I have one comment...I was standing back on the hill, watching Cultured Pearl chuck them inthe front, and realized that my laff points were going steadily up.

Now, I was standing there alone down about 20 laffs......I literally turned around twice to try to figure out how my points kept going up...at first I thought it was some kind of an unexpected glitch.....then I realized it was Jedthrow (I think) throwing looonnnnnggg distance at me...and hitting me really low, so with the angle of the hill, all I saw was the +1s over my head - no pie hitting me....it was pretty funny...I said "I think this place is haunted."...normally we are so busy driving him over the edge that no one would have the inclination to try to pie you from across the room....lol...great throwing!

Craig

[Doctor Nickelphooey]

Team Leader and back tread teacher: Scout, Amazing Grace
Front Tread Teacher: Dawggie
Front Tread Teacher: =CareBear= , Noisy Coconut
Happy Hearted Healer: Murky, Egor
Snappy Stunner: Jofamart, Birght Red Mouse
Snappy Stunner: Blinky Purplemuffin
Snappy Stunner: Doctor Nicklephooey
Snappy Stunner: Krazy Kiki


I believe these are all that were with us. I want to thank you all for making this a great run. With my history of utter and complete sadness during vp runs, I really needed this practice.

I got a little confused as to when someone was talking to me and not just someone near me. So I apologize to teachers if they thought I wasn't paying attention....I'm use to friends yelling 'Doc' when they want me LOL

I learned to be at an angle to the door instead of right in front. To watch the blue pie bar and get it just right so your throw will go where you want it to. I think that if someone starts throwing pies at you, just start throwing them back at them! At the near end when I was still in back, I was partly inside the VP near the edge! STrange way to move out into the 'air' with nothing under me in order to get around to the others.

The teachers and healers were amazing...thanks so much for helping me.

Doc

[Tromos]

Had a maaaaahvelous time!

My deepest thanks to all those great toons on my team. Our teachers did a superb job and I no sooner saw red text than the healers were right there to push that laff back up.

By the way, Dawn, how did you get down to 38 laff? We were carrying on when suddenly Mr. Stinky shouts "Dawn needs TU!" We all converged but, of course, that miniscule mouse is far harder to hit with a pie than the monstrous VP. I tried a few times but realized I'd never be able to hit you

I was really bummed when Super Grama disco'd. To get that hyped up, to get almost all the way through the skelecog round, and then *poof*. A couple of the big suits freaked because they were afraid one of the trainees went sad on a training run (wouldn't that look good ). We missed you

Overall, we balanced that VP on the middle platform for a good 20-25 minutes while Princess Lily and I threw pie after pie after pie. I'd guess I took at least 20 attempts from each of the four corners. Boy that front right corner is a pain!

I'm surprised no one has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Toontown programmers for not offering a left-handed toon! Where's my DDL-ToonTask to become an ambidextrous toon for 30 days, huh?

I'm so glad I was able to make it and I learned tons! Thanks everyone!

[Princess Lily Twinkletoes]

Thanks to everyone that was on my team! We had awesome teachers and healers! Thanks to Frostimom for being there for us and many thanks to Murky for organizing yet another great training run! I was able to get lots of practice in tonight. I know I still need to work on avoiding the gears, otherwise I feel much better about close stunning.

~JEN~

[K. Jon Kit]

This was an awesome opportunity, thanks to everyone for all of your help!
The thread with instructions/tips was great. Applying the stratagies in a
real time safe environment was incredibly beneficial. Everytime I bumped a
tread and lost 1 laff, I would get hit with 3 pies to toon me...too funny, but
as a result, I was able to relax a bit and concentrate on my placement and
the blue line. I was concentrating a little too much perhaps and kept
forgetting to dodge the gears. Then when I focused on that, "Rusty" would
back up and ding me again..."thwap, thwap, thwap" and I was tooned!
It's magical! Can you guys come with me on every VP run?
I really appreciate all of you taking time out to help us hone our skills.
Let's play again!
Regards,
K. Jon Kit

[Murky]

Kudos to all who signed up to come and learn, come and heal, come and teach. You all have the heart of excellence and caring and teamwork that drew me into the CCG.

This was the first time I've gone as a healer and I had so much fun pieing toon after toon after toon around the room. I couldn't quite keep up, but our instructors were watching laff while they were giving tips and often were pieing as well. Thanks so much! Awesome teamwork! I learned that healer is a wonderful position to be in to watch everything that is going on. I highly recommend it.

One thing that might not have been posted recently and was evidenced in the training runs I've been on. When we all go out of range of gears and have a tune up pie splat party, the VP gets real excited and wants to come to. He goes into a hopping mode, and trys to chase us up the ramp. He does that in VPs, which can have deadly consequences. The way to stop him, was exactly what Dawggie did in our run, leave the tune up party and go right close and land a pie in his gizzard and he quiets right down. Those who were learning to close stun can use that in any VP that has a hopping tinman; get close, gum up his innerds with cream pies, and save the whole team from going sad.

I saw that in our excitement to practice, we often don't take a good long look from several angles at the teacher. I saw some really great demonstrations from our teachers, but I think it was often missed by the students because they were very busy concentrating on their own blue bars and movements, aiming, etc. I recommend reading the writen material, and trying it a little, then get back and just watch as the teachers demonstrate. It will all come together much faster.

Another thing that Dawggie suggested that was a great tip: stand way off to the side for a couple minutes and observe exactly where the gear spray goes. From the healers view, out of the way, it's very clear where a toon is standing results in no damage or a lot of damage. The training run is a great time to relax and back off to different vantage points and just watch what is really going on, where the gears are going, and where they are NOT going.

Feedback to myself: Next time, post the run in all the time zones. I heard how much fun it was to be on the team with M. T. Head and she was playing this training run at 2 am. My not posting the time zones caused a toon to miss the run. I'd be happy to be as helpful as possible to get all the folks who want to participate a chance to be there.