Re: The view over the fence
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 2:25 pm
woot gj
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^_~ wrote: By attacking players with that type of game style, they are trying to force them to play the game in their own way.
Severian wrote:^_~ wrote: By attacking players with that type of game style, they are trying to force them to play the game in their own way.
The same sort of thinking can be applied to you. All you people are trying to force everyone else to make this stargatepeace and a passive player's paradise where more proactive and agressive players have no place or purpose and have to play your game by your rules.
Funny that you try take the high horse without mentioning that by labelling anyone who attacks without YOUR approval or extent of justification as bullies [who shouldn't be that way or deserve to play], you are doing the exact same thing you are accusing them of.
What right in the rules, do Passive people have that if they don't tread on toes, they can't magicallly be attacked? This is a wargame, you knew what you were signing up for. Here is a post I made a long time ago in the Educators thread [Who are a collection of players with the same line of thought, not TLE so don't confuse the two.]
[spoiler]If You Build it, They will come.
This is a Strategic war game where things built are meant to be destroyed. If you are massed for any reason with or without justification, I don't see why you should complain as thats what the games meant to be about. Blowing things up. War, conflict, an ever present danger and just general chaos. You can fight back, ask for help but to tell someone that an agressive playstyle is wrong or bullying is just absurd in my opinion.
Somehow the notion of massing became taboo without full justification, people become too content and passive with watching numbers grow and replaced the spirit of the game with ironclad moral protection going completely against the nature of this genre. To protect the new, to make it pointless to be strong, to condem bigger players from ever using their strength making it a small players game and to limit those who have worked hard, limit war, limit agression and generally change this from a wargame to something akin to a bank account watching the interest/stats grow over time.
In which case you are better off dragging out a calculator, hitting 1 and typing +1 hitting enter for hours on end watching your number incriment all day without fear of retribution.
Now Stat Building is a style of play and is a valid style don't get me wrong. But then so too is random massings or agressive behaviour, a valid style and has every right to be just as accepted. For Too Long people have tried to Tame the game and server. For too long they have grown decadent and content and soft.
The Beast has broken its chains and been unleashed once again. DDE was the first and most consistent to see the reasoning behind this but others are now seeing the light in which the game should return to.
Your realms will be Disarmed
Your people will feel Dispair
Your armies will meet Disaster
And Your generals will know Defeat...
For The Educators are comming to teach the Server some lessons...[/spoiler]
Now as for calls of general bullying and power corrupts I had to have a giggle. It's rather convienient to not mention that small to mid strength alliances using your terms, "bully" other small to mid strength alliances and enmass if you actually see whats going on. That players in almost every alliance are willing to be "immoral" and "agressive" and that this behaviour is not restricted to just TLE and FUALL. They hit without reason, they hit for something they caused, they use double standards, they are vocal and use their position to have their way with another alliance.
If you went through every war this server has had, you'll quickly find that the whole server is generally guilty as sin a hundred times over of the things you accuse the two super powers of. It's a funny thing that everyone tends to forget this and instead uses this excuse on the two superpowers to fill in their own inadequacies and sense of powerlessness in that they won't hit them ingame and instead seek out forums to mass with words and try to tar their image instead for a sense of false gratifiction and pride in that you sure showed those superpowers with that post.
Are the SuperPowers knights in shining armour? No. But they did work aufully hard to get where they are and it took extreme organisation, time, work and most of all friendship and loyalty that lasts the strains of time to get where they are. The reward for that? Being afflicted with the tall poppy syndrome in which they are in the spotlight and their actions and put out of context and judged by a community who are just as guilty.
I can't speak for FUALL, but in TLE for each public thing seen, there were perhaps 10 that were solved in a friendly and diplomatic manner. Now thats a damn good ratio but every time we do something good, that isn't posted and the one time something is "immoral" or "agressive" by your standards, its as if thats all they do which is a woefully inaccurate statement. They have set and fair policies for those select events which again are utterly ignored by the apparent victem when he cries foul.
Again more false assumptions and a case of if its moaned about loudly enough, it must be true. The high pedistal we are supposed to be on was never a position TLE chose or preached. Blahh and Svarun made TL(E) and they know the reasons and I find it funny that others actually tell them why it was made as if they're some professional with insight. People saw TLE as an opportunity they desired and sook to use TLE to achieve their own ends and complete their own agenda. When they realised that TLE was an independant group playing for friendship, and not dancing to their tune, they cry foul again based off assumptions that they themselves have projected onto the community.
Instead of moaning, why not be proactive?
If you are massed, why not ask their policies and deal with it diplomatically to the best of your ability, weighing up your options and making an informed decision instead of running to forums right away without having tried anything and often after having been abusive to them.
Instead of complaining about the superpowers, and never being able to catch up, why not talk to other players and alliances? Go about forming your own coalition or superpowers. Is it a lot of work? Yes. But the other two were willing to do it and you can't really complain unless you put in the effort and at least try.
Instead of saying Agressive is bad, and trying to make everyone play their game, take a step back and think that those players feel the same thing and frustration when bound by your views of a passive game.
Instead of seeing a thread of xyz massed abc and assuming thats all they do, have a moment of open thought and think about the sheer amount of things they have to deal with and just how many are resolved with positive results that never see the light of forums.
Most people are closing or more like slamming doors shut by themselves and then complaining that they can't make it to the second floor like this alliance or that player.
To me, it appears a lot of people are expecting a silver bullet to drop out of nowhere and make all their problems go away if they scream loud enough. Not many people seem willing to put the large amount of work it takes and try to achieve things and instead choose the easily option of just moaping around on forums all day, waiting for another hate train which they can take an easy ride on for pot shots at person x or alliance Y to get their kicks and just expecting their way to happen without any effort or energy.
Go out and give it a try instead of feeding only on the heresay on main forums. There's a whole galaxy of opportunities and experience waiting for you and you never know, 6 months down the track, you too could be the next rising star.
Edit: Apologies for the bad english, pulled two all-nighters and the caffeine is working its magic. Will fix it up when i've had a nap.
well said!!Ifrit wrote:Severian wrote:^_~ wrote: By attacking players with that type of game style, they are trying to force them to play the game in their own way.
The same sort of thinking can be applied to you. All you people are trying to force everyone else to make this stargatepeace and a passive player's paradise where more proactive and agressive players have no place or purpose and have to play your game by your rules.
Funny that you try take the high horse without mentioning that by labelling anyone who attacks without YOUR approval or extent of justification as bullies [who shouldn't be that way or deserve to play], you are doing the exact same thing you are accusing them of.
what an amazing post
well said!!
Eomund wrote:Brdavs wrote: And noone in TLE ever backed down from a honest 1v1 so no real need for them. So if any1 is claiming around to be having one do tell us and if he was out of line he`ll be facng the music
I once hit pipi one time, I had not hit any other TLE members in my 10 day attack log. He went to Galen (Thufir_Hawat), and got him to mass me. If that's not backing down from a 1v1 I don't know what is. Nonsense like this and other stuff like double standards, extortion, and bullying that I've personally experienced is why I turned against TLE. This is one of the reasons I've descended TLE members, farmed and massed them, and TLE members like SatyricoN is down to 500m and won't be back up to 2b to farm other people for 2+ weeks. I would also like to think that this has some role in 5 TLE members being on vacation mode in ascended and I suppose perhaps maybe also in main.
Riposte wrote:I would like to see what the game was like if each alliance had a 30 member max limit and was allowed one training alliance. No naps or group pacts, things might be less stagnant that way![]()
And a war between TLE and 'those other people' probably wouldnt be as fun as it sounds.
REK wrote:Riposte wrote:I would like to see what the game was like if each alliance had a 30 member max limit and was allowed one training alliance. No naps or group pacts, things might be less stagnant that way![]()
And a war between TLE and 'those other people' probably wouldnt be as fun as it sounds.
you do know we started this game with no alliances and yet we still all had "secret" alliances just figuring out who belonged to who was the hard part
sorta
