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[EmCeeMendez]

I personally like "GG close".

[Lukoi Banacek]

Paragraphs please.

[chenkTheTank]

if someone friendly fires me, even if by accident, we automatically lock into to the death combat, only one will walk away.

When I ff someone(usually when i get no hud bug) i always tell them to unload on me, only way out is honorable death!

As for etiquette, ggs are nice gf, after a nice brawl, laughs when something funny happens, gg's when you get crushed and you can tell you were 100% out played.

Main thing i dont like is when you loose and someone says "bad team" then just dc's, but i guess BM players are just BM.

[Khanublikhan]

Neverfar, on 01 April 2013 - 11:41 AM, said:

2. Sometimes people shoot their weapons in the air when the match starts, perhaps to see the shot grouping or get a feel for heat buildup and dissipation. Don't freak out about this and don't rant angrily about it in the team chat. Even if someone happens to hit you once (and if its once it might be an accident) it's far more productive to assume it's an accident and move on instead of screaming in team chat and/or shooting back, further weakening both Mechs before the actual fight even begins.

I agree with the overall sentiment of your post: that there should be a level of politeness, give and take and forgiveness towards fellow players. That is, positively make the game fun for all with helpful comments. Some might accept that advice. Some might not. Welcome to the internet.

That said - fellow mechpilots who fire into the air make me roll my eyes. Why? Because I have seen them do it, approaching the midpoint of a map - giving away your sides position. Clever pilots fire into the ground.

Edited by Khanublikhan, 01 April 2013 - 12:03 PM.

[AceTimberwolf]

If I disarm you I won't kill you unless you try to cap . No guarantee the puggies won't kill you though. They seem to swarm to things that don't shoot back.

[Kristov Kerensky]

Neverfar, on 01 April 2013 - 11:45 AM, said:

I like that one too. I don't like when "gg" is said sarcastically. I'm a little picky and don't even like when "gg" is said automatically. If it was a good game, gg. If it was a passable game, sure, gg. If it was a one sided stomping-fest, hard to use the same.

You don't get the reference...which makes it even funnier...Goonswarm thing to say when the score is 8-0...

[Lukoi Banacek]

Neverfar, on 01 April 2013 - 11:56 AM, said:

I did an edit and unfortunately it kills the paragraphs. If you were useful you could give me a tip on how to re-divide it into paragraphs.

I was useful. I asked you for paragraphs to make it easier for everyone to read.

Normally, I'd just hit edit, go in and add a space between each paragraph and be done with it.

If YOU were ******* useful, you'd know that upfront smartass.

[IceSerpent]

Neverfar, on 01 April 2013 - 11:41 AM, said:

Argh, forget it. I can repost this at a future time, but any attempt to restore my paragraphs seems to kill them further. And because of the "wall of text lol" or "paragraphs much" generation, it won't be read anyway in its current form.

Uhm, paragraphs originated from ancient greek manuscripts, so we've been part of that "generation" for quite a few centuries...

[Royalewithcheese]

Well, I have no idea what this topic was initially about, but I think that if your side rolls the other side 8-0 or 8-1, you should always type "GG CLOSE" in the general chat so they know that they fought well even if they didn't win. The capital letters ensure that they won't miss how polite you're being.

[Gristle]

Royalewithcheese, on 01 April 2013 - 01:24 PM, said:

Well, I have no idea what this topic was initially about, but I think that if your side rolls the other side 8-0 or 8-1, you should always type "GG CLOSE" in the general chat so they know that they fought well even if they didn't win. The capital letters ensure that they won't miss how polite you're being.

Really? I thought it was peeps just being an ***. I'll feel so much better now that I know this.

[Voridan Atreides]

What?

[Royalewithcheese]

Maybe it would be helpful if this thread about paragraph structure was moved to the grammar forum?

[Ratnix]

I made a post about this in another thread.

Back when I was in school and playing sports we were taught to form a line after the game and touch hands (basically simulated hand shaking) and say good game.

It was taught to show respect to your opponent.
Yes, as the losing team it sucks to be polite, courteous and respectful to an opponent who just rolled you but in the end it is just a game.

Too many people see it as a personal attack and take offense to it. These same people tend to not use a loss as a learning experience.

[IceSerpent]

Neverfar, on 01 April 2013 - 01:39 PM, said:

By "that generation" I mean the one with poor reading comprehension. Yours. I said I attempted to restore the paragraph structure that was originally present. An edit I did to my original post mashed it all together.

Sorry, not buying this - splitting wall-o-text ™ into paragraphs only involves hitting Enter key a couple of times, there's absolutely no way this activity can make the original post any worse.

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By "that generation" I mean the passive-aggressive dismissive nonsense in your post.

For real? The "that generation" part of your original post that I quoted was referring to my response that didn't even exist at the time of your posting? Nice try.

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It's not only unhelpful, it just makes you seem both arrogant and ignorant. Pretentious ellipses don't help you seem smarter, either. Invoking "the ancient Greeks" is nonsensical if you had the reading comprehension to know that, yes, I was trying to restore the paragraph structure. But failed.

Telling you about the origin of paragraphs had nothing to do with your claimed attempts to restore the paragraph structure (by the way, do you really want to stick to the "I attempted to insert paragraphs into text and failed miserably" story?), and everything to do with you implying that only the current generation cares about structured text when the concept has been around literally for centuries.

[Grey Rabbit]

Ratnix, on 01 April 2013 - 01:48 PM, said:

I made a post about this in another thread.

Back when I was in school and playing sports we were taught to form a line after the game and touch hands (basically simulated hand shaking) and say good game.

It was taught to show respect to your opponent.
Yes, as the losing team it sucks to be polite, courteous and respectful to an opponent who just rolled you but in the end it is just a game.

Too many people see it as a personal attack and take offense to it. These same people tend to not use a loss as a learning experience.

I agree with this post 1000%. I almost always say good game. When people complain and say "No, it wasn't" or the like, I just try to type out "Sportsmanship" before they disconnect. A good attitude goes a long way.

But that's just one rabbit's opinion, what do I know?