Name: Annie

Favorite mobile: Boomer

Main mobiles: Trico, Turtle

Decent mobiles: Ice, Armor, A. Sate, Nak, Grub, Aduka, JD

Terrible mobiles: Raon, Bigfoot, Lightning

Shooting method: Drag, except for ass shots

Introduction: I played GBWC starting around 2007, and then Gunbound Revolution on ijji (with Sarah/Seraphim) before it was shut down in 2009. I briefly moved to Softnyx afterwards, but the additional of item2s and pet abilities, among other additions, made it difficult to find fair games, but I was able to fortuitously come across Gunbound Classic Thor's Hammer in 2011, which is roughly the time that I started to play around with physics equations and formulas in relation to the game and found some decent models using Excel for various mobiles, which actually motivated me to continue experimentation with the ultimate goal of "cracking the gunbound code", to this day. I could just try and find the coding of the game directly, but that wouldn't be any fun. This is the server that I play in today and there remains an active and thriving community consisting of both old and new members. This is where I met Eric, Andy and Rachel. I'm always trying to find new formulas that work well using physical models, and I am a firm proponent of Occam's razor, the principle that the simplest hypotheses, that is, the ones with the fewest assumptions, are more likely to be correct, but of course, Gunbound does not quite exactly fit under all classical Newtonian laws, so certain adjustments must be made. Small hidden variables can only be understood through countless hours of trial and error, and there will always be some kind of natural random (human) error involved as well, because measuring distances will never quite precise enough without use of a third-party program that would directly analyze the game. For these reasons, one might say, Gunbound is an ongoing struggle to perfect the mechanics of particular mobiles and strategic principles. In my personal opinion, the thrill of Gunbound comes from knowing that your hard work and experience has paid off in the form of landing shots consistently and predictably, but also from random occurrences that are unexpected and thrilling in their novelty and suddenness (e.g. fancy tornado shots). But a third and probably, for many, the most compelling reason to play GB is that it is a very sociable game where one can directly converse with others on the Internet and make connections that will possibly last years or even decades! How one enjoys the game varies from person to person, but I think everyone who plays the game will agree that at the end of the day, it's always nice to have some other group of people on the Internet to talk to about, well, life.