Mar 4th 2011, 12:55:24
I don't mean to be disrespectful, but reading more than a few of the threads here causes confusion.
I have no issue with the "this is a solo server so no teamwork allowed" idea. I prefer it. Changing the GDI to the Express version may prevent the 'Dantzig suicider' issue, but as I see it it doesn't really prevent buds from playing as a team. My 2 cents is that the fact that we can have 'allies' for defense or intel or offense is leading some to believe that teamwork btw allies is ok. There should be no allies in a solo game.
My main question, however, is the recurring point I see about hitting/being hit. Some feel that unprovoked hits are taboo and should be verboten. I see comments about reporting someone who hits the same country more than once. I see comments about reporting people for retals above what the initial hit 'took', as if WWII should have been limited to sinking 7 Japanese battleships and blowing up some planes on the ground.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining or criticizing (ok, constructively maybe). But in a game that's based so largely on the weapons and technology of war, it's confusing to see so many people saying war should be punished and even prevented through administrative means.
I know that the Alliance server has agreements between groups over how many times, and in what form, and in what time frame a retal can occur. I see a smoke filled room where one guy says "Hey, if one of my guys, he hits youse, uhhh, youse can hit him back. But only in this way..."
Is there really a place in a 'solo' game for this kind of structured play? I got a pretty nifty manual to read in Alliance that spells out what I can, ought and should never do. I see very similar, yet informal 'rules' here in Primary. Who is gonna write the manual letting all us new players know it really isn't a solo server, it's a 'solo with benefits' server?
Lest you all think I'm just a hot head warmonger, I made one hit last set, a SS. It was before I was ready to adequately defend (dumb), but there was no retal. I was hit by others a handful of times in the last set (but no more than once by anyone). I considered retal but determined it wasn't in my best interests to slap back a bigger opponent, as it could cause them to rain down on me (or so I thought).
You should never know in a solo game (well, I guess you guys who all know each other do) whether your single LG will be tolerated as 'civilized' or seen as a challenge to the death.
'If ya buys your ticket, ya takes your ride.'
