,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, An interview of Zweq (Kuski of Month on April 2006): '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Writing a short interview, better than nothing. Wrote a long one halfway already but then I lost the .txt. Might be some outdated stuff in this one, because most text are from 2k6, some 2k7 :(. Uploaded this once to sveinr 2k6 december already, but he sucks as we all know. :* -= Ex-teams and why did you change teams? =- TTT,WNO,IC,DZ and back to WNO. Story? Short version: Tried superteam that didn't work out, then joined back with friends. -= Current total? =- Let's see...looks like 36:46:60. -= Top5 newest and oldest personal records? =- Uhh I really can't be bothered, because the only ones that would interest slightest bit are the old ones and I don't have the replays. -= Elma career? =- Started elma around 2000 spring, played maybe average 2-5h a day until around 2002 autumn when I went totally crazy as I started checking moposite records on daily basis. Played avg probably 5-8h a day aside school, then I increased the playing time to probably 10+h a day 2003 summer - 2004 summer. Then my interest died after 24h tt attempt in 2004 december. I didn't play at all for 1½ month, started playing world of warcraft 2005 february, did only 1 wr 2005, played maybe less than 50h elma that year. Slightly getting elma interest back these days. I have no intentions of quitting elma. -= Favourite internals / most irritating internals =- At the moment I find jaws probably the most fun and framework and pipe the shittiest. -= Your own best WRs? =- Warm up is so good I sometimes don't get it myself either. But of course someday it gets beaten. -= Best WRs in your opinion? =- Hard to define "best", I guess the ones that are hard to beat are best and those are short höyl levs. -= What's the limit of WR times? =- I'll just say straight I don't know, but I do know wr tt will go under 36 without a new version. New styles simply don't stop popping out. But you wanna hear some speculation, don't you? Basically there is 1. technical limit without bugs 2. technical limit with bugs and 3. human limit. In case 1 you simply have to drive every pixel perfectly, on longer levs maybe ~5% off human wrs, shorter <1%, for example lab pro 2.09. In case 2, well you figure it out. Case 3 is what gets updated every week (almost) and as long as skills evolve and people have patience to hoyl every 0,1. Under 36 is possible, even under 35.30 is possible with current styles, I wouldn't say under 35 is impossible but the interest in the scene towards internals is very low. Might be because of how hard wrs are. -= Are there some kind of external contests you like? What kind of contests do you like? Are there any new competitions you would like to see? =- At the moment I have zero interest to externals. -= Best lgr in your mind? What lgr do you use? =- Default and Default. -= Mention some good things you have gotten with Across/Elma? =- Simply enjoyment of driving around. -= Mention some bad things you have gotten from Across/Elma? =-' Eye sight sucks and some back problems, but I'll manage. But who says those came from elma, I blame commodore 64. -= What is the most frustrating thing you have faced in your career? =- I really hate the fps requirement for certain tricks in elma. Sending in 1.27 AH wr and tor name shows up on the table 1.26.90. I also get very frustrated with zig zag mid bounce. -= The biggest mistake of your Elma career? =- I guess leaving WNO once, but it doesn't really matter. -= Cheating, what feelings? Do you use level unlocker/1.11hb/1.2 etc? How many cheaters do you think there are in the top100? =- I hate cheating when it affects others, I mean anyone is free to go iddqd idkfa for fun but...yeah don't cheat times for moposite. Trick your friend if it's so important. I don't think there are cheaters in top100, if there are, congratulations for making top100 by cheating in ELASTOMANIA. I use 1.2, mostly because of fixed lag issue. -= Map on/off, timer on/off, resolution, centered camera on/off, sounds on/off, animations on/off, high/low details? =- Map off (battles first tries on), timer on surprise surprise, 800x640, centered on, sounds on sometimes, but most often listening music, animations off, low detail. -= Best kuskis and teams? What are the things you value in another kuski/team? =- John and tor are the best but I play only internals so I don't know about others, axxu the åbo rocket is mentionable and old farts from FM. But there are a lot of good players I just don't bother mentioning because they would probably not care anyway. -= Your best achievements? =- I guess the everlasting and neverending totaltime project and anything related to that such as wrs. -= How much did you play in your sickest period? How much these days? =- I'm playing quite much again. 18 hours (only sleep in between) straight on AF around end of 2k6 has been one of the "sickest" periods, although I don't see anything sick in it. -= Have you had Elma dreams? =- Some, very often about new style on warm up for some reason -= Best memories with Elma? =- First wr, bumpy, 36.84 or something, haircut and what the heck wrs, felt like a dream to cut wr over 1 sec with a style nobody else knew. Every total time minute break, especially 39 and 38, multiplaying with juzam like crazy 2003 february or so. Some irc stuff like first battles, getting banned from #across by karlis or crazy chat with veezay. Good times indeed. -= Best Elma friends? =- People in WNO, magicman, people in quack. Haven't been in contact with other scene that much lately. -= Thoughts about Elma meetings? =- Cool stuff, I often think about playing multi with john or tor. -= What do YOU think should be improved in an eventual new version of Elma? How are your feelings towards there coming a new version? =- Better statistics, equal circumstances for everyone, mostly those. -= How about battles? =- Very nice stuff, one of the best things in elma scene. -= What games do you like beside Elma? =- I don't like any games, in fact I hate gaming, I notice it everytime I try a new singleplayer game, I stop after 5 min and delete. It's all about internet and addiction. -= Did you buy Elma? Why not? =- No I didn't, because I don't buy things I can get for free. However I'd like to donate balasz some. -= Have you thought about if you could stop playing Elma soon, or anytime? =- I tried quitting back in the days, but lately absolutely no intentions of quitting. -= What gets you still playing Elma? =- I like doing WRs. Ok I just played 7 years and it's still fun, do I need to say more? -= Are you at the top of your career now? If not, when? =- 2003-2004 was my top but maybe I'll rise another day again. -= You have won a KOM award before, in April 2003. How would you say the scene has changed since that time? =- Seems a bit dead on IRC but mopolauta is going on like in the old days, or maybe not. Not many WRs these days but that's probably because not many can do them anymore. -= Which award do you value the highest? This one or the first one you got? =- The first one. -= How high would you rate yourself as an Elma player? Top100? Top10? Honestly. =- I used to be one of the best, 'honestly'. But nowadays I don't know. I guess one of the best internalists/battlers shouldn't be far off nowadays either even after the long break. -= What are your goals in elma these days? =- I'm just trying to do nice wrs every now and then. -= Forecast the future of Elma. How the scene will be in five years? =- Two different sights, that's a new version and no new version. New version has two sights as well. Let's start with an elma2 that is based on same physics as current elma, I'd call that a success and the current fans of the game would be around after 5 years I think. Another sight is a fucked up elma2, such as 3d or bad physics, there would be new fans while the old ones quit or similar. The last sight is no new version, as I have seen, elma still is alive. Feels like most of the scene were finnish swedish norwegian before, but that has changed alot lately. Anyway it seems like elma is not losing players yet, which is a good thing, but the wr making machines still mostly come from the north europe and the new players from other continents are not much into the nolife wr hoyling (with some canadian exceptions). Either way it looks like elma is going steady, cya at 2k12. -= Was it a surprise to be voted for the kuski of month? If it was who should have won in your opinion and why? =- Nope. -= Mopolauta, thoughts? =- It's a nice channel for the whole community, a bit strict, but nice. -= Opinions about BarTek's and others' animations, Elma movies like Elma Done (Fairly) Quickly, Elma-based games like AMLE and ribot's adventure game, etc? =- I saw some animations and found them fun. AMLE I didn't like, I couldn't bounce. -= What's your favourite Elma website (not moposite)? =- umm aside moposite? none. Look, all elma related stuff I do these days is play the actual game, browsing various teamsites is so 2k3. -= What are your feelings towards the annual awards show; Golden Apple Awards? =- They are actually quite important to me, winning pretty much anything was and is important for me always. -= How much do your parents know about you/elma/the scene? =- My mother knows 'mopopeli' (mopogame) but that's pretty much about it. -= Your real life. Do you have it (school/work, other interests etc)? =- School mostly, trying to work summers. I play guitars. -= How did this interview make you feel, like a moviestar? =- It's fun I think. -= What keys do you use for playing? (own question) =- I use åöä'pn . Zweqqi 8) 4th of April 2007 and 31st of December 2006