MICHAEL KANE.. wrote: Bg..its good to see your passion for the game and wanting it to be a fairer game but your gonna have to decide between playing it for fun or policing it. When u have successfully taught LA that his style is not welcome another will take up the mantle.I've learned to do what I can about unsavoury characters but never at the expense of ruining my game. Now there are no mods its hard to enforce gameplay annoyances because its not possible, yes we can take a stand against it but these people dont recognise the message that is being spelt out to them I dont condone their behaviour but it will be a full time job keeping them in the fair play league, I admire your dedication to this cause but dont let it consume you.There is a lot of sympathy in your plight but dont let them take you to the dark side..lol.
In the past I have lost it witha few, but now I find I can still make a difference using more sublte tools, humour mainly. The only real way of changing it would be to enforce certain fairplay rules and I dont see that happening anytime soon, I still feel the buzz now as when I first started playing, and will not let anyones play change that,maybe just try to temper your frustrations with a clear example of your own fairplay that others around you will see. There are some clever peeps that play here it wont go unnoticed. Good luck, always a pleasure to see you in the air bud.
The situation in dealing with players like this really hasn't changed who I am or how I go about playing DF. Yes my first objective is to play the game as it is meant to be and when all do play fair the game is great. When players decide to take things upon themselves to do as they please without treating others with respect I show them no respect.
See there is no set way to go about playing the game. Each game will somehow call for different play. Being able to adjust according to each situation is how I play. If the situation calls for breaking the rules, so be it.
My last game of the night yesterday was a flag game. A dope on the red team decides to park his tank on the flag. Ok...no big deal. I kill him in tank. Then he decides to leave his dead tank on the flag so no one can pick it up. So after a few minutes of being unable to get the flag I allowed myself to be killed close to him and got in my tank. I had to push his tank away to get access to the flag. When I did that he rejoins the game and started to do it again.
That's when a red player that I respect in the game did exactly what I would have also done and that was team kill him. This cheap player is Donald Trump so everyone give him some special treatment for me when you see him. Anyway the game got messy for about 20 minutes but definitely a nice change of pace. Lol...you know what? Sometimes these crazy scenarios actually can bring out a good laugh. I have shared some laughs with others quite a few times in similar situations before.
Now what should we all have done? Leave the game because Trump decided to play like a tool in the game? No we all took action against him. He got some extra love from us all and after some time he finally left the game. That's when we resumed to playing the game as usual and honestly it ended up being a great game.
I believe everyone in that game handled this situation perfectly even though it got ugly for some time and included play that was against the set rules.
Did Trump break any rules of Dogfight by doing what he did? No!
Was he ruining the game for us all? Yes!
That's what I mean about using common sense in dealing with a situation. Times like this are when rules are meant to be broken.
Did it bring out a dark side of me? No!
Did I feel like I acted without honor when I tank spawn killed him repeatedly to prevent him from parking his dead tank on the flag over and over again? No!
Did any player in that game think my actions were wrong? No!
Was everyone actually happy to see that Trump was getting what he deserved? Yes!
Sometimes the players here seem to take this whole honor talk way too far. There's nothing wrong with it but that's how I see it. I treat all with respect here unless they don't deserve it. I have no regrets when I take actions that are against the set rules against player like this. I play as I see fit and believe me that I that I have resorted to dealing with players like this where I may have gone against the set rules over 100 times. Do you know how many points I have lost in this game from stopping players from playing like tools? Ouch!!!
No regrets. No dishonor. No shame. Nothing along those lines is how I feel.
Have I lost any honor or moral value within myself for my actions? No! Actually I feel like I may have gained some by aiding others in the game and not just ignoring situations like this.
Everyone says well I could leave the game so I don't set a bad example to others players. And what? Let them learn from tools like this and see that wow parking my tank on the flag is a great idea. I would rather teach the how to handle tools like this and follow in my footsteps. Anyone that has even an iota of an idea about the game and are in the actual game always support my actions. It did resolve the problem at hand and the final result was a fun game. That's how I like going about situations like this. I rather not leave a game if I don't have to. If a situation does call for me to leave then yes I will. If it can be taken care of, well I will give it all I got in doing so.
So this is exactly what I have been trying to say. It's not only me that will team kill or break the rules when a situation calls for it. Many other players will also do the same when it's called for and these are the players that I have a lot of respect for.
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