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The gravity is zero and the worms float

	W:A replay: A Snooker match with DumbBongChow and FoxHound
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If the worms reach the Stratosphere, they die

Snooker is a bizarre RubberWorm scheme without gravity. The worms float on the blank map and there's a break system for the inertia (that would crash the game, because the worms and the objects would be in movement forever): the air viscosity that activates friction in the air. The physics of the game is so different that requires the players a new way of moving: float to the left or to the right, jump to go up, bungee to go down, rope (only works attached on a girder) to better placement, jet pack to go faster and parachute to stop moving instantly. Except for bungee, fire is the only thing which is not affected by the absence of gravity (acting as if in standard gravity) and it is indeed the only thing that is affected by the wind. The unlimited Aqua Sheeps don't explode, but are useful to collect crates.

There are three ways to kill a worm in this scheme:

1. Damage
2. Plop (twice in a row)
3. Reach the stratosphere

Tips when using the weapons

The handgun is very powerful in Snooker

• Kamikaze is interesting in the scheme because it can damage opponents without loosing the worm that used it. How? Antisink prevents the explosion of the kamikaze! On areas off the main area (where the girders are), kamikaze will act like the Suicide Bomber but without poison.
• Unbelievably, the Handgun can be very dangerous in this scheme, because it can push lots of intersected mines to worms, killing them.
• Sometimes the aim of the weapons is not appearing. Press up/down to make it appear.
• Some weapons like the Napalm, the Jet Pack and the Select Worm may not work when you are floating. To use them, jump and use parachute first, then use the weapon.
• Napalm and Petrol Bomb may plop worms if used twice in the correct timing.
• Minigun is rare but can easily plop a worm near the water. Also it can be useful to push worms up.
• Sheep Launcher can be aimed to the left or to the right to kill a worm that is near the stratosphere. The sheep will jump in the air and will reach far places in the sky.

History

The scheme was created by FoxHound, starting on January 2011 and releasing on 22nd May 2011 on this page, being several months of scheme edits with a lot of help of the following players: Fighter and DumbBongChow, that contributed with several ideas, suggestions, tests and even creating a map for the scheme.

The name of the scheme tributed without intention the real-life sport Snooker, but that's because the author thought at the time that this was the correct name for Pool (the other cue sport), since many bars in Brazil have signs written "Snooker bar" (probably because if they had written "Pool bar" people would think they would have a swimming pool), but the sport played in them is always pool (almost nobody play snooker in Brazil, it's very rare), and this explains why the icon of the scheme is an 8-ball. So, thinking Pool, the name Snooker was chosen due to the linear movements and because the objects are pushed by explosions, this way it is possible to fire one grenade with 5 seconds first and then fire another grenade with one second to push the first grenade. Also, the worms can receive multiple attacks before they stop moving. As it is perceptible, the scheme gameplay is a battle without gravity, being completely different from the real-life sport, despite the inspirations described before.

Right after the release of Snooker, the community Warehouse of Scheme Creations was created. Click here to read a TUS post about the scheme there.

Primitive Snooker

	W:A replay: The beginning of Primitive Snooker testings with DumbBongChow and FoxHound
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When Snooker was being developed, the scheme used to be played on closed WxW maps with two or three layers. This primitive version had a system to fix the inertia too: a small value of rubber (bounciness) to paste the worms on the wall, requiring closed maps. But the WxW maps had a problem: the graves take too many time to stop. So, specific maps were required to play using that scheme, and Fighter created this map to solve the graves problem without disturbing the use of Bungee (that needs a height to be activated). Creating those maps would be very complicated, the scheme was requiring very complex maps, so the idea of the Air Viscosity came and worked, so the scheme became playable even on blank maps that are perfect for it. Some adjusts were done and finally: Snooker was complete!

PX version (abandoned)

Another version of Snooker was in development, using not only RubberWorm, but also Project X features to fix (lots of) problems and increase the possibilities and movement of the scheme. Some of the new PX weapons would be included, but the project was abandoned.

Similar ideas

Cueshark's 9-Ball Pool

The idea of a Pool scheme named 9-Ball Pool was proposed by Cueshark on 7th October 2010 on TUS website (before Snooker scheme). The idea uses RubberWorm features like multishot and also wkIndiMask, but uses normal gravity (not zero gravity). The objective of the game is to pot all the worms/balls in one turn. The video he made is available here.

Relation with Pool scheme

When SiD first devised the Pool concept; he thought someone must have had the same idea about combining zero gravity & limited viscosity, and actually FoxHound had this idea one year before with his Snooker scheme. However Pool scheme and Snooker scheme are completely different games, even though they share similar names (based on Cue sports). Pool is an adaptation of the sport, Snooker is a battle game with no gravity. SiD and FoxHound talked each other about this situation in 2013 on Pool's release map WMDB comments. Clearly, both had similar ideas independently in a gap of one year.