Scurry, on 17 March 2013 - 05:47 AM, said:
To be honest with you, I think that flaming is probably going to get a negative reaction. You can offer good advice, but insults mixed with advice is not going to help much. The reaction you describe (writing that most are ******** apes) is exactly what I am arguing against.
I don't care about "idiots", as you say. What matters is what I do in response. There are 3 options:
1. Offer advice - Might require effort, but has potential for letting the other guy learn.
2. Stay quiet - Perfectly fine, at least you don't make things worse.
3. Insults - This is what I'm arguing against. They may make things worse, and they certainly do nothing to help your image or the other player's competence.
If I were to be, as you say, flamed by someone (assuming you mean insults), I doubt I would go off and think about my build. I would probably assume that that person was some egoistic a-hole (no offence to you, but that's the impression I get from people who are so aggressive). However, if you said something like, "Hey so-and-so, did u fill out ur tonnage? looks a bit light", it would probably get better results.
Oh, and firing PPCs under 90m, contrary to popular belief, does some damage. It's just a linear dropoff from 90m. So, with a Stalker, not being able to run, that person will have no choice.
Option 2 is no longer an option im too long quiet and saw so much idiots.
No offens but i dont care really if you say im a ***hole its fine for me. But i play so long mp games so you cant ressist sometimes to flame the biggest idiots out there. Sometimes you will lose you faith in mankind when you see how stupid some players are.
I write so often in chat that ppcs have min range same to the lrms but they dont care. So at some point you dont give any helpfull advice anymore.
The lemmingtrain is a good example. If i play with a friend and we say we go tunnel at start everybody will follow you let the other flank wide open for the enemy. I dunno why maybe they dont want go alone or they afraid to hold a flank with only 2 or 3 guys.
Its like driving a maus tank in wot 2 years ago. They followed you all the time they dont use the speed of their own tanks. So the lemmingtrain crawls with 18kph over the map. Nobody spotted enemys nobody hold the other flank but everybody wonders why you lose. And they say but we had a maus we should win this ;_;
So for me there is no hope for the noobs and i flame they all the day long. And when they leave the game i dont care. Maybe it reduce the numbers of apes in my next team so we can win this.
And for the ppcs, i stand close in front of a stalker with red cent torso and he dont do any damage and i give the player the advice of the min range for the ppcs after i killing him. So maybe they do damage under 90m but it must very little next to nothing.
I have no problem to give some advice or if a players say he is new to the game in the first secs of a match. But guys which resist every helpfull advice and play like the biggest idiots on earth they should flamed all the day long. Maybe and maybe they will go to this forum read some guides and then maybe they switch their playstyle to something usefull.
So its not my job to make better players cause in i dont see this guys again. And i dont belief that a advice given to them would be change their playstyle. Its the big casual question. Everybody which is active in this forum is a good player or a better player compare to the guys which dont care. In every game the forum is the key to get better. You can read here the game mechanic you can improve your loadout or discuss or you find a clan which teaches you how to play better.
But their are guys out there which have no interest or no time to read here so they will be bad players or so called casuals.
Edited by 4b4dd0n, 17 March 2013 - 08:25 AM.
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