,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, An interview of psy (kuski of month on November 2001): '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' -= When did you start playing? =- I first tried the game in december '97, played through all the levels, and then got bored and deleted it. When 1.2 came the same story happened, and I really started playing it much at early '99. -= Ex-teams and why did you change teams? =- DL and Fed., because they were inactive. FM because of distrust and some other matters. -= Current total =- 41.53.36 I think. -= Across Career briefly? Any WRs?, World Cup I and II and so on.. =- Started hoyling total in early '99, got my first WR on labyrinth pro. After that some other WRs. In World Cup 1 i tried so hard, but couldnt manage to get any good results :) Wc2k went alot better but it required much work too. -= Do you still like Across? Why/why not =- There're only a few things in across that are done better than in Elma. First is the static kuski that doesnt move anywhere. Second, I don't have to tap the page down key. And it shows if the level file is locked. -= How did you get Across/Elma? Was it your worst mistake? or the best? =- My friends showed it to me at school and I loved it. It takes a lot of time but that's not necessarily bad. -= Favourite internals / most irritating internals =- Of course the best one is ermm.. hard to say, there are many brilliant ones. Most irritating is a lot easier, zig zag, enigma and animal fram, and many others :) -= Your own best WRs? =- I was kind of proud of the tricks abound thing. -= Best WRs in your opinion? =- Jokkes WRs are incredible, somehow he manages to find new stuff all the time and reducing times second after second. -= Who in your opinion is/was the best player in the world? =- Jokke, of course :) If Joni or Nikke still played they'd be very good too. -= Are there some kind of external contests you like? =- I like to fill some record tables sometimes, but defending some old records is pretty dull. A cup every now and then is nice too, but at these times there are too many cups for one guy to play. -= Best lgr in your mind? What lgr do you use? =- Across.lgr of course, bugman is also quite nice. -= Mention some good things you have gotten with Across/elma? =- The feeling when beating a record after some hard driving, though every time it gets weaker. -= Mention some bad things you have gotten from Across/elma? =- Bad shape, a site to update (should). -= What is the most frustrating thing you have faced in your career? =- It's the cheating, there will always be new ways and ppl are getting more paranoid all the time. And it really takes the meaning out of the game. -= The biggest mistake of your Elma career? =- Hard to say, maybe being in the same team with norwegians. -= Cheating in Elma, what feelings? Do you use level unlocker/nitro etc? =- I hate it. I don't know why some ppl think it's funny to take away records some sincere driver has worked a lot for. I don't use nitro, some levs I've unlocked. -= Best kuskis and teams? What are the things you value in another kuski/team? The only present world class kuskis I respect are Jokke and Karlis. I don't believe in teams anymore so I don't mention any. I value a kuski who is a pleasure to speak with in IRC, makes great levels or invents nice styles. I don't like those "I iz"-hoylas. -= Your best achievements? =- 2th place in wc2k, or at least that's the one I tried really hard. -= Do you do any other neat finger-related stuff like playing violin, repairing watches, pick pocketing etc? I have played acoustic guitar since I was 10 years old. -= How much did you play in your sickest period? How much these days? =- Summer '99 was really crazy, I had a few weeks that I played like over 8 hours a day, and it was really fun back then. Because of work I can't really play much, at weekends I might hang at #across and play externals all day. -= Best memories with elma? =- Playing it the first time. Going under 50min before others at #across, aye that was something to brag about ;) -= Best Elma friends? =- Sathy, Abula, Jokke, Karlis and some others. -= What do YOU think should be improved in an eventual new version of elma? =- Get the static kuski back from across grave. Stop making the shortcuts harder and place some extra apples so I don't have to do those enigma, animal fram, freefall tricks :) -= Do you have a life when playing elma? =- That's an odd question, I guess not. -= How about battles? =- I love battles. I wish I could play more mopo's 30min battles but because of my work I can't. -= You've got some negative feedback about playing elma from your friends? =- The usual "how can you play that silly game all the time" etc. -= What games do you like beside Elma? =- I play a lot of crpg and adventure games, with both pc and console. -= Have you thought about if you could stop playing Elma soon, or anytime? =- Not really. -= What gets you still playing Elma =- It's like smoking, a bad habit, gotta do something. -= Are you at the top of your career now? If not, when? =- I was in the late across days I suppose. -= Was it a surprise to be voted for the kuski of month? =- Yeah, I really didn't do anything special to get it. -= Mopolauta, any opinions? =- It doesn't interest me much. -= Opinions about Elma Crime, MUe's animations and stuff like that. =- Haven't seen elma crime yet. Picnic and Elmabahn are funny stuff. Most elma related songs are terrible, that kgp song is really great though, and some mc studios' across-day. -= You are the updater of psyte. How it's feeling? =- It feels good when there's someone playing the levels, I'll try to get the site ready before 02, can't promise anything. -= Your relation to OLP =- I recently played through all the levels, my total is something like 35 minutes :) I might hoyl it down if I have time. -= Why that nick, psy? =- Well, I used to be a fan of x-com ;) -= Your real life. Do you have it (school/work, other interests etc)? =- I have a job, other interests would be music. -= Write something about the game, fellow kuskis, moposite, #across, whatever =- Ho ho ho, merry xmas. psy, 1 December 2001