It's pretty clear that the battle lines have been drawn, the opposing rationales have been reviewed, the horse has been beaten into a bloody pulp and sent for conversion into proverbial glue. The "furballers" and the "toolshedders" know where each group stands, and they know what they other "side" thinks. Nothing more to see, nothing more to accomplish.
Except deepening rifts and increased animosity.
Additional threads, whines, or rants will not change things -- and may hurt them. So stop already. Lets each allow everyone else to enjoy the game their way, without trashing each other or placing excreta in each others' breakfast cereals.
Check out the map rotation listed in another thread. Notice that one of the very few maps that only appears once is the Donut. This is not an accident, but a deliberate decision by HT -- and here's why he made it:
originally posted by Hitech
...if the donut map were to leave, it is because it creates sutch a rift between the different type of players.
Quote came from here Well, we've proved his concern correct once again. Another appearance in the rotation, another spate of acrimonious threads, attacks, and counterattacks. Even though I personally think the donut balances the interests of all players better than any other map, I dont blame him.
So lets stop yammering and yapping. Cut each other slack, let each go his own way, and find a
modus operandi that works. A few thoughts....
Furballers. The bombers have been here, they will continue to be here, and they will continue to drop bombs. They will sometimes kill FHs and they will interfere with the fights you like, because the capture people look at a sector and see the bases instead of the equal DAR bars. Tats how its gunna be, so dont whine. If you want to, do a cap and buff hunt just liek you sometimes like goon hunting.
Buffers. The fighter guys are not likely to care about capturing that base you've been working on for half a day, so yelling louder isnt going to get their attenion. Just go about your business, and if you need fighters -- up them yourselves, or make a fighter sweep mission to interest the guys who are less die hard furballers. As a matter of courtesy to other addicts, try to amke your attacks have some real goal, whether it be to capture or to create a tactical diversion. Dont drop hangars if you dont intend to do anything afterward, and if more needs to be done try to take the trouble to organize it too. (After all, for those who profess to like strategy, it would be idiotic to create an advantage without planning and providing for its exploitation.)
And for all of us: rather than rant, lets be proactive. If we see soemone behaving in an anti-community manner, report it here -- and let the community work.
Take the FT brouhaha as an easy example. In a positive way, the cooperative rooks+knight capture of fighter town bases last rotation was amazing for its unity and commUNITY spirit. On the side of ...ummmm... social sanctions, i would think that posting the folks who actually ran the dysfunctional captures of the FT bases in the first palce would allow the community to exert...negative pressure....that might prevent recurrance. (Need help from the 0600-1200 GMT crew for this, since thats when the stuff seems to happen.)
We've heard it said that insanity is continuing to try the same thing while expecting a different outcome. So, blabbing on the BBS about furballing vs toolshedding, or fighters vs missions, would clearly be insane -- since it never has and never will change anyones mind.
Instead, lets step out of the nuthouse, and take actions that can actually change the environment.
