My default is to hit nit because (and I'm not mad at all at them because of it) when I log on in the early morning (US time) they've usually run a sizeable percentage of undefended bishop and/or rook bases. It's simply a function of the numbers that time of day. Even if the tide is successfully turned, if the map isn't won at some point during the day by someone else, they will likely win early the next day. There are also a couple of nit players I don't like very much, that certainly helps lol.
All three sides get double-teamed on occasion, but the nits more often than bish or rook, at least lately. Might be coincidence, but this trend seems to me to have begun a little after finetime and clone made it a habit to take HQs down? That might have something to do with it.
A bigger issue is simply the reaction when the nit numbers half after the Aussies go to bed. "Let's get our bases back!" is the thought, and once the other teams start having success against the team that so recently dominated them, the feeding frenzy builds upon itself.
IMO, you're spot on here. Neither Bish nor Rooks are going to post here and admit it. Like some do in politics, they try to equalize things to make them sound the same across the board, to minimize the real issue.
Fact is, they gang-bang Knits, more often than not, and then complain because they had to eat their own meds. They had to eat their own meds and so they do it again to retaliate against paybacks. It's clearly a consorted effort between the two countries. 6 weeks in a row is not equal, it's not even close.
And then The morning shift comes in to take it all back and make them eat their meds again.
Another point, it's not just a gang-bang it's a LOT of 20k, every one of them will HO you every time, and if you do get into a fight, another will come snap you while you're distracted in a fight. It's really just a real POS way to play. And these are not newbies. Many of those trying to make it appear equal because they are part of it.
OTOH, If they are not gang-banging they only fight each other. There is NO medium.
I don't want to hear the whining about HQs. If that's the punishment, then take it, they brought it on themselves. Like I said before. if I had the man power I'd take both of their HQs down and then slaughter what could fly.
I've set up my own rules,.. HOed 3-4 times in a row,.. Log-off....which actually plays to their benefit, but, if it's not fun it's not fun.
We have people who do nothing but HOs, and then once in a real 1-1 they run like hell to their friends.
IMO the conclusion is, Knits are just better pilots and that's the others way of wining against them.
A lot of these guys who have high scores, get there by picking already distracted pilots, they are not 1-1 fights. Another reason I pay no attention to points, how they are acquired is what speaks for them.
That said, lets not conflate morning shift with prime-time shift, two different crowds.
It's a game
It's a War
a lot of dweebery will happen, and does.
it is what it is, they will simply excuse their way out of it. <shrug>
