Originally posted by Oldman731
I suspect that the CT is now a victim of its own reputation. So I can understand why someone would be surprised, in a bad way, to find ganging, landgrabbing, vulching, that sort of thing, in the CT. I am also disappointed when I see it. FWIW, I have noticed an increase in this sort of thing, even among people I would consider to be long-time CT denizens.
On the other hand, I have yet to figure out what pleasure can be gained from being so unpleasant about it. The utility of the complaint itself is lost in the reaction to the way the message is delivered. Just look at this thread. So far as I can tell, this is the first post, other than Shane's, to mention the substance of his complaints. Everyone is focused on the way the complaints are rendered.
- oldman
as far as I can see, being polite about it, i.e. your comment the other day "why must you pork the base?" when there was no base operations in progress, gets absolutely no response at all.
being "polite" doesn't work, gameplay doesn't change for the better. people trot out the same old tired MA retorts, "you have bad SA" lol, i do? really? you think i never see the one that gets me? especially when it's the 3rd lazy lumpwad that comes in to pick me off while i'm already low and slow turning with 2 others?
if *i* go diving down in a big group of 4,5,6 enemies, you won't see *me* whining about getting ganged. i knew full well what i was doing.
here's a perfect example of what i mean by ganging.. i'm relatively near an enemy base, not right at it but off a bit i pull a spit away from the lemming trail for as nice little 1 on 1 (even the spit was higher than me)... in the distance fairly far off are 3 enemy dots, at the extreme end of the visual range, maybe 11k or so. so here i am turning with the spit, not easy when you're already lower to begin with... then all of a sudden boom! those other 3 dots came into the fight... so now it's 4 on 1... wow, poor SA huh? if one wanted to be "real" about it, at least 1 or 2 of the 3 that came in would have stayed up on high cover - but noooooo all 3 had to jump in... wow, such a display of skill! excuse me if i call that lame. excuse me if i call a tard someone who says i have poor SA.
lame is also refusing to try when you're 1 on 1 and you come tearing in with an advantage, probably even in a better plane, and i turn the tables on you and you end up running like hell for friends or acks. not extending to try again, pure and simple running. this is a game, jeez, try and learn how to fly an dyou might be surprised at how well a preceived disadvantage can be overcome. you die often enough while trying, you'll eventually get better and start actually winning. how many of *you* have bounced me from an advantage only to end up in tower? or have been on my 6 and suddenly find you're the one being shot at? you think i was born with this? think i have soem super PC? i fly on a p2 333 and i took my lumps to get to the point where i'm capable of flying the way i do.
another example? vulching. what's the point of vulching when there are less than 10 people on? the base isn't trying to be captured, it's simply vulching for vulching's sake. don't up a "capped" base.... lol, teh base isn't being capped for anything, it's simple vulching. "up a different base" yeah sure, charlie, most CT setups bases aren't really that close to each other, you think i want to fly 10-15 mins to arrive at the "capped" base to find them gone? and thehn fly another 10 mins to their base looking for them? sorry... vulching for vulchings sake is.... lame.
lopsided numbers? often the number balance corrects itself over time, and i'm one of the first to switch sides when an imbalance occurs. but sometimes the odds can stay out of balance for quite a while. this isn't so much an issue for me, i'll just point out how nice it is to have 2,3:1 odds on sides, but i won't go off about it.
you won't see me getting upset about the ebb and flow of numbers in a furball. it's when i'm avoiding that furball, deliberately, and *still* get a 3,4 on 1 situation that I consider lame. it's just not needed. the point someone made about galland staying out of a fight is simply not relevant to a "game."ff cap stick with their job and escort buffs to and *from* a mission, even if the low fighter sweep/furball looks so tempting and the buffs have dropped already? hmmm? the guys who claim to be running it like RL, i simply laugh at, because they're not. CT is just basically a furball arena gussied up in fancy duds.
what really bothers me is how people think throwing out a faux
somehow makes all the lameness "OK" and what bothers people about me is getting called out on that lameness - i'm simply peeling back the veneer of "politeness" and exposing the ugly MAness beneath the surface.
and my god, come on, people!! the strongest words you see from me 99% of the time are "lamer, dweeb, tard, seal" lol, even the little kids gets the good ole standby of "sticks and stones..." from their parents. lol, gawd, you're such overly sensitive lil weenies.
so yeah, MA-style lameness will get MA-style putdowns from me.
friggin babies.
