In Review: Best Fleet Strategy

[Cylapse]

Hate to be a damn noob, but whats UBER? *LOL* sounds like a term for someone who dont play right... like one of them cutthroat overkill abuse the system kinda people... Am I anywhere close to right?

---EDIT--- Nevermind, I see that GUTB is a user, not a general term. What about UBER? *l*
((No offence GUTB, if ya caught the non-edited Version of this post))

[ 21 March 2002: Message edited by: Cynapse ]

[Val]

Uber is Ultra-mega-super-totallyabusingeveryruletothemaxadvantage.

[Gryphin]

Uber - From the German means "over"
I'm sure Mephisto can expand upon this "uber" simplification.
Mephisto?
EDIT:
Found this as well:
uber-whatever = Something that is highly superior, e.g. uberplanes, uberguns... uber is derived from the german word "uber" meaning "super-whatever".
Probably a "modern" evolution of the word / prefix.

[ 21 March 2002: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

[tesco samoa]

I knew it was c3p0 just not the exact words so I keyword searched star wars esp 4 script and found one with the words. Took 20 seconds... with a little help from google

[Texfire]

Surely not the only, but maybe the most famous, use of the prefix "uber" was by Hitler in his writings and the Nazi party in the word "ubermensch". It literally means over-men but is more correctly translated as supermen. It was used in refering to the supposed superiority of the Aryan race over all others and used to justify horrible acts by the same.

Fortunately "uber" here seems to have a more benign connotation meaning a super or ultimate strategy. It does come out of the tradition in Role-playing Games of "munchkinism", or the maxing of stats and skills to make the game as easy as possible and ignoring any role-playing in the process. Mind you I have given in to "munchkinism" myself from time to time, and found it a useful method of play when testing the limits of AI. Fortunately the games we play lend themselves to many styles of playing. There is no need to look down at those who play differently than us.

Please excuse me if I bored you, I started out explaining some German and ended up preaching.

Texfire

[Cylapse]

Very interesting...
I had no known that about Hitler and 'uber', that one's new

Thank you for clearing that up though...its funny, for the longest time the acronym PBW got to me, only coz Im used to seeing "PBEM" (play by email - I was a vga planets/stars man before I found SE) instead of play by web, and for the life of me I couldnt figure out what that W was for...*LMAO* Damn I can be such a dumbass when Im sober.

[Gryphin]

texFire,
Thanks for the full background. I love word derivations.
I also loved the granet hills around Austin and a place called "Inks Lake State Park".