Tempest Strategy ("Leeching"?)

[GriggiP]

I have not watched any of the top .inps to see if other players do it, rather, I have a question about a technique I use in playing Tempest.

When things start to get hairy I will sit in one place and fire quickly.

Is this an accepted strategy or is it considered "leeching"?

Or does it depend on the amount of time you sit in one place?

Thank you,
G

[Chad]

i don't think this is leeching by any means since the # of opponents per level is fixed and if you stay in one place you don't have the opportunity to kill all the spike makers and diamonds that float up thus i think you'll get less points if you stay in one place. You'll find this difficult on the resistor levels where it becomes close to impossible to stay in one place all the time.

[Cubist]

No, that's not leeching at all. That strategy will help you get through the
orange levels, but once you get to the yellow levels and above you'll have
to move around quite a bit (because of the fuseball tankers). In fact,
staying in one place like that is bad for your skills in the long run, since
you don't learn how to handle the higher boards (it becomes a crutch
technique). I witnessed people relying on this a quite a bit during the
80s; I was a bit beyond that, and I never met anyone during those years
who was as good as I was at Tempest. Of course, there were people
I never came across who were much better than I was.