MJ1284
Member
I'm really getting tired to debating this ingame so I'll take this on forum.
[RANT INCOMING]
I'm occasionally getting bashed for "ruining" Public matches. How and why I'm doing this? It's complicated.
This scenario has occured to me dozens of times:
My team vs enemy team 0 - 8, Time Remaining 15 minutes. I glance through scoreboard and notice that my team has considerably lower average score (as in 3rd highest score on my team is same as enemy team's lowest score), teams look equally numbered though and hench nobody on enemy team doesn't want to switch because "it would ruin the teambalance" or some *chocolate cookies* like that.
So, I proceed looking through what my teammates are up to: 6 guys staying on defense & showing little to no interest in enemy flag (even if it sits right in front of their noses) and one person randomly skiing around the map. I try to encourage them to go on offense and distract enemy defenders so we might get the flag out of their base some day... no response, everybody is minding their own business.
Enemy keeps llamaing the flag from our base with ease, taking no damage when getting out and of course nobody seems to be interested in chasing the llama. Think this is an interesting match?
One such match ain't bad, but when playing 4th match like that I tend to get frustrated and want to skip such matches ASAP in hopes of getting better team shuffle on next map. I mean it's damn obvious at this point our team ain't gonna win, what's the harm of moving on to more interesting match?
Well, there isn't Change Map -vote, or any other vote option, so only way to make round end before clock reaches zero is to have other team cap 10 times right?
Thing is, if you EVER try to speed up the process by making easy llama grabs & tossing flag at enemy players you'll get yelled at and you get accused for "ruining" the match. How do I know this? Because I've tried it.
And before anybody asks, no I don't resort to such lameness if there's realistic chance my team can get close to tie/maybe even win the match. But no caps & no effort to even distract enemy defenders & no enemy capper chasing, that's not how you score flag captures (if someone wants to correct me I'd want to see some solid proof).
Let's try to recap this situation:
1) My team vs enemy team 0 - 8, Time Remaining 15 minutes.
2) Everybody knows damn well teams aren't fine way they are, but nobody on enemy team has balls to switch if teams are equally numbered (NOTE: Equal numbers != Equal skills).
3) Everybody can see my team isn't doing anything to get their flag and score difference is usually more than noticetable.
4) At this point everybody can determine how this'll end.
5) I decide "Hey, if this map ends now we might get more enjoyable match sooner" and start sabotaging (hell, it's hardly even possible at this situation) my team's play by ensuring enemy has easier time doing necessary caps.
6) I get yelled at for RUINING the match?? What the flying *dance*!?
Seriously, enemy team who has capped EIGHT times within TEN minutes yells at me for making the match boring? After playing seriously up to 8 - 0 I really can't see how I'M the one ruining it.
Sure, under normal circumstances such sabotage is nothing but griefing but come the *dance* on! Reason why it's 8 - 0 in the first place is because teams are totally NOT balanced/one team consist of players that are dumb as bricks and nobody on enemy team bothers to sort this out. Way I see it I'm getting bashed because clearly superior opponent refuses to give handicap in order to make game more interesting, how the hell is it my fault if enemy team is too stubborn to admit there's clear skillgap between two teams?
Is it because enemy team WANTS the match last longer so they can complain later on how bored they got? Someone explain this to me.
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Oh, and if you have better approach to such scenario do share, I'll gladly hear how other players would sort this out.
[RANT INCOMING]
I'm occasionally getting bashed for "ruining" Public matches. How and why I'm doing this? It's complicated.
This scenario has occured to me dozens of times:
My team vs enemy team 0 - 8, Time Remaining 15 minutes. I glance through scoreboard and notice that my team has considerably lower average score (as in 3rd highest score on my team is same as enemy team's lowest score), teams look equally numbered though and hench nobody on enemy team doesn't want to switch because "it would ruin the teambalance" or some *chocolate cookies* like that.
So, I proceed looking through what my teammates are up to: 6 guys staying on defense & showing little to no interest in enemy flag (even if it sits right in front of their noses) and one person randomly skiing around the map. I try to encourage them to go on offense and distract enemy defenders so we might get the flag out of their base some day... no response, everybody is minding their own business.
Enemy keeps llamaing the flag from our base with ease, taking no damage when getting out and of course nobody seems to be interested in chasing the llama. Think this is an interesting match?
One such match ain't bad, but when playing 4th match like that I tend to get frustrated and want to skip such matches ASAP in hopes of getting better team shuffle on next map. I mean it's damn obvious at this point our team ain't gonna win, what's the harm of moving on to more interesting match?
Well, there isn't Change Map -vote, or any other vote option, so only way to make round end before clock reaches zero is to have other team cap 10 times right?
Thing is, if you EVER try to speed up the process by making easy llama grabs & tossing flag at enemy players you'll get yelled at and you get accused for "ruining" the match. How do I know this? Because I've tried it.
And before anybody asks, no I don't resort to such lameness if there's realistic chance my team can get close to tie/maybe even win the match. But no caps & no effort to even distract enemy defenders & no enemy capper chasing, that's not how you score flag captures (if someone wants to correct me I'd want to see some solid proof).
Let's try to recap this situation:
1) My team vs enemy team 0 - 8, Time Remaining 15 minutes.
2) Everybody knows damn well teams aren't fine way they are, but nobody on enemy team has balls to switch if teams are equally numbered (NOTE: Equal numbers != Equal skills).
3) Everybody can see my team isn't doing anything to get their flag and score difference is usually more than noticetable.
4) At this point everybody can determine how this'll end.
5) I decide "Hey, if this map ends now we might get more enjoyable match sooner" and start sabotaging (hell, it's hardly even possible at this situation) my team's play by ensuring enemy has easier time doing necessary caps.
6) I get yelled at for RUINING the match?? What the flying *dance*!?
Seriously, enemy team who has capped EIGHT times within TEN minutes yells at me for making the match boring? After playing seriously up to 8 - 0 I really can't see how I'M the one ruining it.
Sure, under normal circumstances such sabotage is nothing but griefing but come the *dance* on! Reason why it's 8 - 0 in the first place is because teams are totally NOT balanced/one team consist of players that are dumb as bricks and nobody on enemy team bothers to sort this out. Way I see it I'm getting bashed because clearly superior opponent refuses to give handicap in order to make game more interesting, how the hell is it my fault if enemy team is too stubborn to admit there's clear skillgap between two teams?
Is it because enemy team WANTS the match last longer so they can complain later on how bored they got? Someone explain this to me.
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Oh, and if you have better approach to such scenario do share, I'll gladly hear how other players would sort this out.
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