In your opinion. Who elected you to tell everyone else what they should and should not enjoy?
Obviously, HTC elected me with the death defying powers of typing text on this virtual BB. Equally obvious, you're the new sheriff in town, having been granted the powers of not just bold but bold-red text. Am I getting thru to you here?
I'm not imposing anything on anyone. You've proven it by contradicting me with just plain (mostly) text. This virtual BB is the same as the arenas. You play by certain rules set by HTC and the rest is survival of the fittest. Everyone who reads this BB has different tastes and aptitudes, but overall, reason is the name of the game. So, no, I'm not imposing anything. I don't mind control you into reading what I say and agree or heed to it.
Next, "opinion". It's my opinion that the sun is a big ball of plasma. My saying so doesn't make it, that's circular arguing. You know where I'm going, right? My opinion is the sky is blue. Etc. Everyone has opinions, the point is to argue them to see which one survives the dialog. Not just to say e.g. "Crash Orange, you last post is all "just" your opinion" and call it wrong per-se.
Moot, you are absolutely 200% dead wrong there. No one is imposing anything on you.
So.. When the arena's nothing but hordes going in a circle like a big yin-yang, it's not imposing. Look up "impose" in the dictionary.
The only one trying to impose a style of play on others is you.
Covered this one. Unless you mean everytime I fly e.g. a 152 and impose my e-retention on the fool trying to make the fight a tnb type of fight. Unless that's not imposing since
I'm the only one with Imposing Powers!
The map is a big place, and if you don't like "horde missions" you have a simple and 100% effective remedy: just go somewhere else on the map and ignore them.
Not always possible.. And I do go elsewhere when the type of gameplay doesn't suit me.. But then this argument isn't about just me.
Your complaint isn't that they are doing something to you, your complaint is that they aren't doing something for you: playing in the manner that brings you the most enjoyment. Well, maybe you aren't playing the game the way that gives them the most enjoyment. That's certainly your right. It's their right as well.
No that's not my complaint. My complaint is the gameplay sucks because it's too lopsided, too watered down, and a bit contagious. Noob starts his 2 week trial. Doesn't get anything impressed on him but disproportionate masses of players where the numbers decide the outcome, not any player's choice of action. And this same dynamic at different scales: Two players having a 1:1. Three players roll of nearby base, see the 1:1, clear the friendly's 12. When 2 minutes of flying would have put them in contact with 3 unengaged bandits. Comparative results of the two scenarios are respectively: lowest playtime, fun, and learning for all involved, versus highest playtime, fun, and learning. It's pretty clear what's what here.
Note how the above text isn't encrypted with any brain machine code to magically force you into agreeing with it or carrying it out. Hence not imposing.
Ask yourself this: if all those players simply vanished tomorrow and no one replaced them, would the game change one iota for you? If not, then your complaint is nothing other than that they aren't doing for you something to which you somehow feel entitled. And with a map big enough for three or four hordes at a time plus 20 or 30 other bases near the front where no hordes are flying, I don't see how the game could differ one iota for you whether or not there's a horde atacking a base where you aren't.
Nothing to do with entitlement and everything to do with discriminating between lower and higher quality gameplay. FYI I both join in on missions as escort and fly up against them.
On the first, I disagree: under some circumstances it can be amusing; see my reply to the Fugitive below.
So there's an exception to the rule.. Gotcha.
On the second, I agree with you, but that's still nothing more than a personal opinion with which anyone else is entitled to disagree.
Well, thank you cpt obvious.
For the record, I like small-to-middling sized fights and missions better too, but that's also just an opinion.
"Stop imposing on me!!"
But sometimes it's fun being part of something huge. Going to a Michigan, Penn State, or UT football game (or any other huge and fanatical football school), something I've had the pleasure of doing on many a crisp autumn afternoon, has a quality over and above the quality of play - you really have to be there to get that.
Right, and those Football games are played against a small band of cripples in wheelchairs blindfolded till the first whistleblow, right?
As to the third item, again, you're just whining that they aren't giving you the experience to which you feel entitled. Sorry, that's just not their job. They're entitled to to whatever they enjoy as long as they don't interfere with your fun - and "not doing what you'd like" is not "interfering."
LOL Whining and entitlement. That's funny. I really can't tell how biased you are, really. But let's play it your way for argument's sake. Let's say I and everyone else more or less like me flew with total disregard for other's fun, freely interfering with everyone else's fights. You know what happens? This is from Zazen's sig:
"[They] suck to fly with, they make lousy bait... It is like Bass fishing with minnows, except your minnow EATS the Bass when he strikes, then licks his lips"
Now tell me I'm imposing on others.
