On 9/29/2016 at 11:37 PM, Mecronmancer said:
You obviously haven’t played enough with Ghost then. Show that you’re a good teammate and not some DSR farmer and he will support you to the ends of the Earth.
I’m getting called a dsr farmer now even though I’m just casually playing the game. How egalitarian of you.
I go into random games never expecting support because these people are all strangers to me, they’re under no obligation to team play and if I don’t do everything myself I not only lose but get trash talked by the people who happened to get a larger skill base on their team or better matched ships and as a result, won. Whether I have these kinds of games
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(one of the rare times I did league stuff during destroyer event, I forgot how fun lower tiers can be)](<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2016_10/20161005124101_1.jpg.54f281c9eee35a0fedd108d00c379658.jpg)
or these kids of games
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(These next two were consecutive games, both three minute waits for late joins that already had disconnects and were getting farmed at spawn.)
It’s all the same to me, I just click launch and play the game and if anything really gross or unsportsmanlike sticks out at me I make sure to talk about it, and while you’re not the first to accuse me of “farming dsr” or whatever, I still get a kick out of people thinking me being anywhere on leaderboards is more than a coincidence.
It more or less comes down to this: I have very low standards when it comes to who I play with as long as they’re not strangers, as long as there’s no money involved, and so long as they try their best no matter what that best may be, and a number of really messed up losses in a row can make me more likely to call out bullshit when I see it, like waiting in queue for five minutes to get a 2v2, or people going afk five seconds into a match to take care of a baby and being gone for the whole thing, or four matches in a row with numerous disconnects on my team, or watching a captain switch off a full synergy ship to a level 3 synergy ship and suicide into the other team four or five times until the timer wears off. Sure, I have no control and no real reason to be concerned with how they play especially because we’re not on a competitive team together, but watching people make a mockery out of something I enjoy doing is upsetting and prolonged exposure to the matchmaking system while solo is especially fatiguing.
but yeah, I click on people and either I die or they do, and one of us might get mad if the conditions are right while the other laughs. That’s just how it is, and if you don’t want to play with me then I’m prefectly fine ignoring you, otherwise I’ll just wind up frustrated that every time I try to do teammate style things with complete strangers I wind up paying for it when we would have been better off if I had just sticked to a solo mentality, but that’s random battles in a nutshell. I learned this from world of tanks and it’s been very valuable. Just be strong and capitalize on the disorganized nature of random battles and you will win more often out of brute force. More effective in a squad but I haven’t played this enough to establish a rapport with a new group of regulars since my old group quit three years ago and I became despondant over a combination of that and in my opinion, a relatively downward facing spiral of development decisions that continues to this day. I try to find enjoyment where I can.
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now comes the replies I expect and already loathe from this pleasant community.
