by Burn » Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:10 am
emeraldbeacon wrote:At this point, the game is becoming less and less fun every day. I'm about to walk away until HMW2, and hope that the updated version of the game will have some *effective* balancing elements, to prevent the kind of runaway growth that some factions have acquired...
I say this not as a Moderator or even as a Decepticon Commander, I say it as a fellow player who's seen a lot of this stuff over the years.
And I also say this with absoloutely no offense intended, but that is probably one of the worst attitudes to be had.
If you walk away, you make the situation worse.
Now for a long time, even before the reset, everything weighed in the 'Cons favour. But then, and even now, we're not invincible. I remember a few players like Hoistimus, CJB, and even crazyfists coming along, they started at the bottom of the ladder when the tops were around level 6+. These three Commanders, all Autobots, clawed their way into the top 100 over time. Know why? Because they never gave up, even against the odds.
Hell I took great pleasure in beating them down. But it didn't matter what was thrown at them, they never gave up.
Now I look at guys like Nickolai, revengeofstarscream and neliz, the odds are often against them but they fight on and have clawed their way into impressive positions.
And if people are going to sit there and say "oh Burn, you don't know what it's like because you're in the most powerful faction and always have backup", well,
WRONG! I come home from work and find myself constantly outnumbered, by Autobots at that! But I fight on even though 9 times out of 10 I end up running an energon loss.
At the end of the day though, you simply cannot give up. Emerald, you're here on the forums, these are one the best resources ANY player can have. Keep an eye on who's joining you in missions as well, find them, talk to them, see if you can get together to arrange to join the same missions (a concentrated effort is better than scattered forces) but simply do not give up!
[quote="emeraldbeacon"]At this point, the game is becoming less and less fun every day. I'm about to walk away until HMW2, and hope that the updated version of the game will have some *effective* balancing elements, to prevent the kind of runaway growth that some factions have acquired...[/quote]
I say this not as a Moderator or even as a Decepticon Commander, I say it as a fellow player who's seen a lot of this stuff over the years.
And I also say this with absoloutely no offense intended, but that is probably one of the worst attitudes to be had.
If you walk away, you make the situation worse.
Now for a long time, even before the reset, everything weighed in the 'Cons favour. But then, and even now, we're not invincible. I remember a few players like Hoistimus, CJB, and even crazyfists coming along, they started at the bottom of the ladder when the tops were around level 6+. These three Commanders, all Autobots, clawed their way into the top 100 over time. Know why? Because they never gave up, even against the odds.
Hell I took great pleasure in beating them down. But it didn't matter what was thrown at them, they never gave up.
Now I look at guys like Nickolai, revengeofstarscream and neliz, the odds are often against them but they fight on and have clawed their way into impressive positions.
And if people are going to sit there and say "oh Burn, you don't know what it's like because you're in the most powerful faction and always have backup", well, [b]WRONG![/b] I come home from work and find myself constantly outnumbered, by Autobots at that! But I fight on even though 9 times out of 10 I end up running an energon loss.
At the end of the day though, you simply cannot give up. Emerald, you're here on the forums, these are one the best resources ANY player can have. Keep an eye on who's joining you in missions as well, find them, talk to them, see if you can get together to arrange to join the same missions (a concentrated effort is better than scattered forces) but simply do not give up!
