Originally posted by mars01
LOL so now you have had a taste of what it is like to be a Bish or Knight over these past several months and you quit, interesting.
The Rooks have had it easy, with the numbers etc. Most of the Knights and Bish have gotten used to being overwhelmed and adjusted instead of quitting, even you yourself said but yet you lost a base, so you quit. Something doesn't add up.
No ... what doesn't add up to you is you are looking at what I posted on too small a scale.
First, from what I observed at the times I flew (evenings, Pacific time) if you removed Sunday night's from the equation the rest of the week things were more or less balanced. And even if you factor in Sunday, Mon and Tue the Rooks kind of got ganged on to make up for Sunday's gains - and then things settled down. Rooks having a 5% bulge in numbers once in a while isn't being "overwhelmed" - that only happened Sunday nights and it could have been handled without ENY and without whining.
It was the hypocricy of people saying they wanted balance and, when given it, prove that wasn't what they wanted at all. What they wanted was HT to take away someone else's advantage under the guise of "restoring balance" to the MA.
And, for me at a personal level, well that makes the MA pretty intolerable. There are so many people working hard to make AH better - not just HTC. The guys like Fruda, Citabria, Waffle, Nopoop and so on who do awesome addons. The trainers, CM guys, and people who put together stats sites. And then you have this behavior of do whatever it takes so "I can get mine." That's one thing that does NOT add up.
Next, it wasn't the field going down that bothered me. It's how it was done - by truce, by lawn-boy B17's, and with very, very little precision. It was that the feeling of "why fight it, just do like they do" started to creep into my equation.
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor. --B. Jonson.
For me, at this point in my life, it's easier to just walk away. Ten years ago I'd have probably flipped people the finger and rammed B17's on the deck down your collective throats as only I could - and still can. But that won't solve anything. It'd be like clubbing retarded baby seals; too slow witted to even sense fear.
As for my inability to deal with bad odds ... puh-lease. I can remember nights in AW and WB when we had to just about relocate the entire country to our most rearward bases. Not even because of truces - but because the country I was in was just that small at the time. It was pointless to try to defend an extended front.
The reason this doesn't add up to you is you don't have 17 years of playing, observing, contributing, and designing this kind of game in your background. What I see and what you see are completely different.
-DoK
