Instigating a furball. How does this phenomenon occur?

[68ZooM]

I think what kind of mood your in also comes into how you play on-line, i know if Ive had a hectic day i tend do do very well on-line, I'll be very aggressive when furrballing, odds don't matter I'll dive into the sea of red and fight, dying doesn't matter to me because the enjoyment from the great fights is what keeps me coming back 

[Zazen13]

Better a picker than a porker or vulcher. This is why I have general disdain for porkers and vulchers. They effectively short-circuit the evolution and persistence of a furball. At any point, too many porkers and/or vulchers will kill a burgeoning furball. A furball can sustain an overabundance of all the other types to a moderate degree, without its life cycle being markedly disrupted. But, just a few too many porkers and/or vulchers and BAM the furball is no more.

Shameless self-quote here, but as an aside to this...This is the essence of antipathy between Fighter purists and "win the war" 'ists. Vulching and porking are crucial components in base capture, but at the same time, certain death for furballs...

[Lusche]

Shameless self-quote here, but as an aside to this...This is the essence of antipathy between Fighter purists and "win the war" 'ists. Vulching and porking are crucial components in base capture, but at the same time, certain death for furballs...

It's a good thing that both kind of purists are just a minority of AH players 

[LLogann]

    

A furball has been known to occur when Silat flies over an enemy field, broadcasting a comely "you-hoo boys".  If that doesn't work he drops a garter.

[Muzzy]

Most will do that, that's what makes a furball so delicate. If the opponent becomes bereft of targets in or immediately below their strata, the furball degenerates rather quickly. Once, the crushing weight of the higher strata munch thru the bottom feeders and descend upon a field, vulching begins and the furball is dead. Thus my life-long anti-vulching crusade....  

However, should enough bottom dwellers escape the vulch, and should a sufficient number of BnZ'ers up from an un-capped field to vulch the vulchers, then the furball may regenerate.

[Colt44]

Just a side bar....Ever see whales "bubble net" feeding......   reverse the direction of the attack and thats what it feels like to be in a capped vulch..   


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKXJbgVsyo4


The guy on the video sounds like a newb to the vulch.......

[Crash Orange]

Shameless self-quote here, but as an aside to this...This is the essence of antipathy between Fighter purists and "win the war" 'ists. Vulching and porking are crucial components in base capture, but at the same time, certain death for furballs...

How do explain the frequent occurrence of a group of "fighter purists" deacking and capping a field, taking down the VH, and vuching for the next hour while making no attempt to take the base? (This happened on a number of separate occasions at A110 in LWO over the last few days, until the nits finally took it just before the arena closed last night.)

[Guppy35]

How do explain the frequent occurrence of a group of "fighter purists" deacking and capping a field, taking down the VH, and vuching for the next hour while making no attempt to take the base? (This happened on a number of separate occasions at A110 in LWO over the last few days, until the nits finally took it just before the arena closed last night.)

Which group of 'purists' would that be?

[Zazen13]

How do explain the frequent occurrence of a group of "fighter purists" deacking and capping a field, taking down the VH, and vuching for the next hour while making no attempt to take the base? (This happened on a number of separate occasions at A110 in LWO over the last few days, until the nits finally took it just before the arena closed last night.)

What you are witnessing are the actions of the lazy-eyed, halitosis afflicted, mis-guided step-son's of fighter purists...the score ho's.

[caldera]

Which group of 'purists' would that be?

Sounds like score purists.

[Zazen13]

Sounds like score purists.

That's as good a name as any...but they are not, or at least not behaving as, Fighter purists. No self-respecting fighter purist would consciously destroy a furball at its heart. It would be like DaVinci laying the MonaLisa down on the floor, taking a steaming dump on it, then following up with warm piss.

[LLogann]

Zazen speaks...........