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Aerialbot Commander wrote:

Absolute Zero wrote:

Aerialbot Commander wrote:

Burn wrote:People may look at the missions screen and see 1 vs 6 and run. But if they see 2 vs 6 they may be more inclined to think "if I join, it'll be 3 vs 6, that's better chances". And someone else may come along and think the same thing and suddenly it's 4 vs 6.

Sadly I have tried this quite frequently and it doesn't always work. The down side tho is that at level 0 it is not easy to win outnumbered matches so I can see why some people would run from them. My biggest issue with the arena is that people will leave their 'Bots there (or 'Cons) when there are plenty of mission that can use their help. Even worse they will load up in one mission, giving it 1 vs 6 odds, instead of jumping in on a mission that could actually use their help.

Sadly, that is the unfortunate side effect of our Autobot faction. For the most part, we wouldn't know teamwork if it jumped out and bit our collective arses. But I wont give up! I will argue for joining missions where your brothers are out numbered. If you die, it is better to die together then to let them be slaughtered alone, for that is what will undoubtably happen, if we don't support each other. Dieing alone.

I admit there were a few times I would have giving up on the game. Usually right around the time I scrap one of Naval Strikes lack...er I mean Decepticons is when I feel better and get back into playing the game

Taking out a rival feels good, and gets you on the boards to brag about it.

Oh, I just sent you 300k energon. It's half the energon I won from DS's hunt. Put it to good use.

Psychout wrote:Dammit, don't the mods do anything around here???

Well I did pull Alldarker up over his large sig yesterday.

And you know how much of a serious problem sig violations are!

Burn wrote:

Psychout wrote:Dammit, don't the mods do anything around here???

Well I did pull Alldarker up over his large sig yesterday.

Give a hand to our new hero Burn, people...

good ol Burny

This argument is as old as the game is. And it's always the same. The vast majority of the cons say 'man up', and the vast majority of the bots just cry in the arena....

And it's boring.

And it makes me want to break my one and only HMW related promise to myself and defect to the Bots to show em how it's done.

Whilst I'm at it, level 3 bots, get your pathetic exhaust ports into missions already! It's ridiculous, my higher levels are getting slaughtered by what feels like the entire might of the Autobot war machine, meanwhile the level 3s are twiddling their thumbs waiting for some Bots to turn up....

Psychout wrote:

Name_Violation wrote:

Psychout wrote:

Name_Violation wrote:and for the record, getting rid of the arena makes repaiers unusable.

I think you meant missions, but you're absolutely right.

maybe one day you'll post here when sober - then we're all in trouble...:-p

right on both accounts

You have 2 accounts?!!

Dammit, don't the mods do anything around here???

other than post and play?
no

Redimus GTS wrote:This argument is as old as the game is. And it's always the same. The vast majority of the cons say 'man up', and the vast majority of the bots just cry in the arena....

And it's boring.

And it makes me want to break my one and only HMW related promise to myself and defect to the Bots to show em how it's done.

Whilst I'm at it, level 3 bots, get your pathetic exhaust ports into missions already! It's ridiculous, my higher levels are getting slaughtered by what feels like the entire might of the Autobot war machine, meanwhile the level 3s are twiddling their thumbs waiting for some Bots to turn up....

Hey some 'Bots do give the good fight in the missions Joking aside, I do try and do what I can for the missions but being only at level 0 there only so much I can do and only so much people in the forums can see. I do wish we could get more level 0 'Bots and 'Cons in the missions to even them out more often.

Redimus GTS wrote:And it makes me want to break my one and only HMW related promise to myself and defect to the Bots to show em how it's done.

Consider your options very carefully...defecting to the bots will eventually result in your leaving the game. It is well-documented that con players who turn bot mostly disappear....i think it's b/c we are a happ-go-lucky group who don't care about organized mission battles & prefer to sit in the long arena lines...

It's the same fate as those programmers...so when you're ready to retire, then you may defect.

you know what would be nice...

more basic weapons like a pistol or w/e

devast8or wrote:

Redimus GTS wrote:And it makes me want to break my one and only HMW related promise to myself and defect to the Bots to show em how it's done.

Consider your options very carefully...defecting to the bots will eventually result in your leaving the game. It is well-documented that con players who turn bot mostly disappear....i think it's b/c we are a happ-go-lucky group who don't care about organized mission battles & prefer to sit in the long arena lines...

It's the same fate as those programmers...so when you're ready to retire, then you may defect.

I'm still here. And I'm still RDD. >D

It's kinda weird. The first RDD member to defect to the bots is still reviled and hated, yet now we're actively encouraging it!

Interesting deja-vu for me .. hmmm

Redimus GTS wrote:It's kinda weird. The first RDD member to defect to the bots is still reviled and hated, yet now we're actively encouraging it!

Because he did it after DT when the bots cheated their way to victory.

Absolute Zero wrote: when the bots cheated their way to victory.

such a great time!

Absolute Zero wrote:when the bots cheated their way to victory.

How else would they win?

Redimus GTS wrote:

Absolute Zero wrote:when the bots cheated their way to victory.

How else would they win?

Superior numbers and fair play? Honestly, they probably could have won playing fair, simply by sheer numbers at the lower end of the game. They didn't need AS leveling down 2 levels for the mid range and Starlock making crap builds to take a spot in the con missions on the high end.

AS never levelled down.

If you lot aren't going to remember what actually happened then I suggest that you stop talking about it. It was years ago, it happened, we don't see that sort of crap any more so we don't need to keep bringing it up.

ok I have a real idea, how a "activate all" thing, I'm getting annoyed that I click multiple times

You are only allowed to activate 6. So can't activate all, and if you could simultaneously active 6 how would it know which six?

That's the dilemma you see. If you activate 6, you have 6 and activating 6 leaves you 6 to work with, now if you would activate 6 randomly then that would be 6 too and in reality you now have 6 to work with and because you have 6 to work with then you can use only 6, but the fact is those 6 were already 6 to begin with and because they were already there means they were 6 to fill the 6 slots and because those 6 slots were filled you now have 6! Isn't that amazing!?!?!

I just got home from work and if you really want to know what I think of that post? here:

He's trying to be witty, to bad he rhymes like a whitey.

Is it wrong to admit that I'm actually finding the idea of a real Autobot 'spammer' kind of amusing? That last statement of his was almost clever.

AZ's never close to clever OR witty.

With you being in OZ and me in the UK, Id say he's a few thousand miles from both.