,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, An interview of CSabi (kuski of month on September 2001): ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' -= When did you start playing? =- As I can remember I started playing across in the summer of 1999. I had played for only 1 month because i couldn’t finish Expert System. :) -= Ex-teams and why did you change teams? =- My first team was Lule Crossers [LC]. I’ve left it because it wasn't a real team. Now I am the member of The Elastic Aborigines [TEA]. We are the best! :P -= Current total =- Not so good: 45:10:xx. But I am satisfied with this time. -= Across Career briefly. Any WRs?, World Cup I and II and so on.. =- I’ve never had WRs. I was rookie in World Cup: 61th place. :) -= Do you still like Across? Why/why not =- I still like Across but i don't play it :P. I play only Elma now.. -= How did you get Across/Elma? Was it your worst mistake? or the best? =- In February of 2000 I started playing again Across and I finished Expert System. After this I wrote a letter to Balazs and he sent me the shareware Elasto Mania. I finished the first 18 levels and Balazs sent me the registered version... -= Favourite internals / most irritating internals =- My favourite internals are Warm Up and Flat Track. I hate Headbanger! I also don't like the speeeeedy levels (Sink). -= Your own best WRs? =- I’ve never had WRs and I think I’ll never have any WR... -= Best WRs in your opinion? =- Maybe Labyrinth Pro or Headbanger. -= Who in your opinion is/was the best player in the world? =- I think there isn't a best player just best players. They are Karlis, Jokke and psy. -= Are there some kind of external contests you like? =- I liked World Cup, Middle European Cup and the Elasto Mania League. League was a very very good idea! I am playing Hungarian Cup now. -= Best lgr in your mind? What lgr do you use? =- I use the default LGR with low detail. I think it is the best choice. :) -= Mention some good things you have gotten with Across/elma? =- Everything! To play internals and cups, to talk to others on irc, and to meet the players in the real life. -= Mention some bad things you have gotten from Across/elma? =- Nothing. I think this word (elma) reports: GOOD. :P -= What is the most frustrating thing you have faced in your career? =- Playing for weeks only on the same level, without any good result. -= Your best achievements? =- 1. 3rd place on Middle European Cup. 2. 4th place on Hungarian Cup. 3. I could have seen my Enigma rec (30:68) on Moposite... :) -= How much did you play in your sickest period? How much these days? =- Once when I was playing Warm Up I played about 15 hours in one day. Nowadays I am playing only about 6-7 hours a week. -= Best memories with elma? =- My first hungarian record (on Warm Up). And later 54 (!) internal records on one table... :P -= Best Elma friends? =- The firsts are my team members: MGen, MUe and TomCat. I have lots of friends from Hungary: CovBoy, Tibity and the others; and from Czech Rep: TonyLee and mrickx. -= What gets you still playing Elma =- I like very much when I can see these words: "Best Time". :) -= What do YOU think should be improved in an eventual new version of elma? =- I think the game is great. I don't like the editor because it is very difficult to manage, it needs some extra feutures (move/copy/paste polygon, etc.) -= Do you have a life when playing elma? =- When I am playing elma the the world is stopped around me. I don't hear anything, I don't see anything. I am just playing... -= How about battles? =- I don't like battles very much. I always try tricks about for 1 hour, and it is too much for battles... -= You've got some negative feedback about playing elma from your friends? =- No, I haven't. My friends are playing or played elma too. But my mother always repeats: "Oh, do you ride a bicycle again???" :P -= What games do you like beside Elma? =- The 2nd best game in the world is: Heroes of Might and Magic. No comment... -= Have you thought about if you could stop playing Elma soon, or anytime? =- I stopped playing Elma at november of 2000. I don't know why, but i didn't want to play that time, I was playing only on cups. In April of 2001 I thought I stop playing after the Middle European Cup. On the cup I was the 3rd, and I didn't want to stop playing... :) -= Are you at the top of your career now? If not, so when? =- Yes. I think I am at the top of my career now. I can't be better, I can't improve. -= Was it a surprise to be voted for the kuski of month? =- Yes! It was a BIG surprise! I got to know it only about 20th september.. :) -= Mopolauta, any opinions? =- I always read mopolauta, but I have never written even a single line into it. Why? Because I have terrible english... :P -= You were one of the actors in Elma Crime. Tell something about it. =- My name is Steve Corner in the crime: "36 years old inspector. His mission is to find out who or what stands behind all these strange murders." :) The shooting was a very good party in the warm of august. I wore a black jeans, a black shirt and a hat, so I perspired profusely... We joked a lot, we had a nice time. Nowadays the main theme on the hungarian elma forum is: "Elma Crime Winter Edition"... :P -= You are the updater of HUN elma page. How it's feeling? =- It is amazing! The Hungarian Elasto Mania Page (www.extra.hu/Elma/english.html) was established in 8 June 2000. At that time there was only about 3-4 visitors per day.:P Now we are over 11.000. At the first time there was only a TOP-5 and a total table. Later in July the page was modified. The present appearance developed then. All the tables are generated by an own created program, so I can update every day. I want to redesign the page, but everybody accustomed this appearance... -= Your relation to OLP =- I played all the levels, but I prefer internals and cups to OLP. My OLP total is 31:20:xx. :) I’ve written an useful program for OLP: "OLP time Xtractor". I think nearly everybody know this prg who plays OLP levels. -= Why that nick, CSabi? =- "CSabi" is what people used to call me in the real life. -= Your real life. Do you have it? Tell something (any girlfriends? school, work, other interests etc) =- Do I have a real life? Hmmm. I have. I am a nearly 25 years old computer programmer. I like my job. If somebody want to know where i am working then see this page: www.szintezis.hu. Oops! This is hungarian.:P I live in the west part of Hungary in Gyor. I live with my beautiful girlfriend (Aniko) and with my friends. We rent a flat. I have an interesting pet: a ferret. His name is Marton (nickname: Marci). In september he jumped out of the window. We live at the 4th floor... He was survived the fall, and his nickname is Saint Marton now. :P -= Please write here something about the game, fellow kuskis, moposite, #across, whatever =- Moposite is the best Elma page! There are everything on mopo what a kuski needs: informations, recs, contests, links, etc. I want to thank to everybody who voted for me. Thanks! Elasto Mania Forever!!! :P CSabi 17 october 2001