Respite for a Weary Experience Level Race

Day 5,683, 03:21 • Published in Canada Canada • by Wilhem Klink

Experience Level Racing can be a long slog. The Racer, planning out how to best use energy to yield the best returns, can often focus in too much and run the risk of "Racer Stare", the vacant look of one just staring at the deploy screen. Waking up at 2:00am to unload energy, while an effective tool, can lead to unproductive days and restless evenings.

But fear not, my racing friends, there are many tools available to aid in an Experience Level Race or to unwindulax from one. Some favorites

Music
Some like to play unusual music that helps them in a long deploy session when they can't (or won't) use an damage accelerator (available for 1 gold in the Gold Store).

The Hoff's voice is magical!


Seagal's voice...not so much


They put a fence around the camp to keep the fun in


Reading into things

Sometimes people will tell you what they think. Other times its best if you just read their faces and guess what you think their trying to tell you despite the words coming out of their mouths. Hours of reading stupid forum posts, goofy message threads, and playing pointless browser-based games can further erode a players ability to read facial cues. But the Global Experience Level Racer Association of the World has put together a simple and helpful tool.
Presenting the definitive guide to reading non-verbal communication:



Some people, however are experts at hiding their non-verbal communications, their faces expressionless voids that fail to register emotions, compassion, or joy. Blank, vacant expressions more at home on a stone statue. But with practice, any Experience Level Racer can sort it out


Wait, I think I mixed up "Remorseful" and "Confused"


B-Roll footage
Sometimes a Racer just wants to chill after a long day hitting the deploy button. Watching a good movie helps, but sometimes that pesky plot gets in the way (so watchers of Michael Bay films are OK). In order to avoid plot entanglements (and Michael Bay) Racers will often just watch films made entirely of B-Roll footage; you know the long tracking shots without sound that sometimes accompany opening credits or establishment shots.

I mean really, who needs dialogue?


To be fair, its a great shot

Its so relaxing to have things happen without plot. Sort of like eRep, no?




Two race fans are engaged in an Experience Level Race :
TemujinBC - has all the David Hasselhoff records. ALL of them.
Wilhem Klink - Loves the Steven Seagal film "The Marked for Death But Hard to Kill Glimmer Man Under Siege but Above the Law and Out for Justice". That's one film, right?

The winner is the first to add 100 experience levels to their profile. Said winner gets to lord it over the loser, confident and smug in their superiority as evidenced in a dizzyingly pointless 15-year old browser-based game who's newest update on the "Latest Update" page is 430 days old, going on 15 months ago

And loser has to donate 100,000 200,000cc for enhanced payouts to the Hot Air Program (a program the entirety of eCanada loves - I mean every single True Canadian, patriots and heroes all).


The Starting point of this historic epic



Where the players stand after 19 long weeks




The Big chart

TemujinBC moves up 6, Klink merely adds 5, the lead slips to 17


A running graph


Lastly, levels per week




Mood check courtesy of Mr. Hasselhoff

Tem:


Klink




The pot is finally boiling



Sic transit gloria mundi




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