Yeonne Greene, on 18 December 2014 - 05:17 AM, said:
I'm not saying the insults or right. I'm also not saying everybody should use the same 'Mechs; even the Lords aren't all necessarily using the "meta" right now because they don't generally have to in order to win. But you should know that not all of the members in Lords behave terribly, and you should know that the insults are very superfluous because they tend to be pretty chill when not engaged in a team fight. If they say they want a challenge, you should accept that as true instead of trying to read their minds across the internet because your ability to interpret tone through the tubes is unreliable at best.
The behaviour one assumes when embedded into a group actually says quite a lot about the individual. And one should take the "challenge" - statement at face value without regard for the insults? Hm. No. One could actually rather see it as a further insult; though i'm not inclined to do so.
Yeonne Greene, on 18 December 2014 - 05:17 AM, said:
I also just came from that thread. I think burning out the clock or refusing to allow the enemy to engage you at full strength is a valid tactic. Refusing to open the games and picking the enemy off as he mills around inside the base is clever. You think CW is about winning your own match? No. CW has a much broader picture than that. CW is also about gaming the system so your own faction gets more wins. As such, burning the clock is a legitimate strategy for expanding your borders. People can cry about it being abusive or exploitative all they want, but being abusive and exploitative is at the core of finding the "meta" in any game so in my eyes it's fighting fire with fire.
Valid indeed; but this is not about burning Moscow to the ground while retreating to let Napoleons army starve in the winter, unless this being simulated is considered fun. Gaming the system leads back to the question as how hardcore the whole setup should be. And i kind of fail to see the broader picture when the game boils down to mechs fighting it out (now with larger superstructure) in a match system. The complaints of the JFs in the thread regarding this tactic are vocal btw., so yeah... they got a strategical challenge. Not quite in the tactical way they expected it seems. Of course this nature of system abuse will always be present; but enforcing it is a good idea?
Yeonne Greene, on 18 December 2014 - 05:17 AM, said:
Next, getting insulted or upset is a choice for most people. Unless you have a mental handicap which disallows you the ability to apply logic and can your emotional response, you have the ability to just flat out ignore and otherwise let their trash-talk pass through you. I see tons of things on this forum I feel I should reply to, but I don't. Why? Because ultimately it is trivial and it's not worth getting bunched up over. Anybody feeling disrespected by Lords should just roll their eyes, write it off as silly game egos, and keep playing without a second thought to it. If more people did that, then Lords's verbiage would be utterly wasted and people wouldn't leave the game over it.
I didn't even encounter them so far, only in solo drops. But how often or for how long is one willing to roll his eyes in something one should consider fun; especially after being stomped time and time again? Flying into a fit of rage after being insulted on the internet is quite another matter.
Yeonne Greene, on 18 December 2014 - 05:17 AM, said:
Finally, nobody has to fight the Lords if they don't want to. Everybody knows which planets CJF can attack, and everybody can just ignore them. There are more than enough planets for that to work for pretty much the entire life-span of MW:O.
Depends on the faction. I basically barely give a damn about those; but good for me i guess. For someone who is more in love with the lore than me; this might look different. Interestingly enough, my only drops were against CW so far (we lost a defense. Quite embarrassing
, but it was a fun fight). Now idea how this was possible since the FS don't even share a border with them; but as long as there are matches...