Played with LeonXRoss this morning. He saved my day. Seriously.
Was introducing a friend of mine to GoIO in his TZ, not mine, so my friends list was offline. Which meant that MM gave us level 1-1-1 pilot after lvl 1-1-1 pilot. After an endless parade of trying to convince pilots that a gat/merc pyra wasn't as awesome as it looked, we eventually got a high level captain. Who disconnected right when the match starts. I understand, shit happens. No hate. Next match we get another high level captain; who subscribed to the "verbal abuse is training" school of thought and was unable to grasp that half his crew was new, still needed simple concepts explained to them, and perhaps would perform better if he explained instead of yelled. FYI, in case you didn't know this, mashing the "MAN FORWARD GUNS" audio button over and over again doesn't extend the range of my weapon. Perhaps that doesn't sound that annoying, but I was pretty frayed by the rest of my morning.
I enjoy training new players, but at this point I was done. Instead of exercising teamwork, I had spent a session fighting bad luck and shitty personalities. But my buddy wanted to go for another round.
And we got LeonXRoss, whose competent captaining, pleasant personality and ease of conversation saved my day. We got in a couple of matches before we all had to go, and it was wonderful. I don't remember if we won or loss, I don't care. We worked as a team. The crew taught each other and worked through issues. It was exactly why I play GOIO. Made my day so much better.
As for the MM; I will no longer fly with lvl 1-1-1 pilots. I will quit and play another game if nothing is available. I will not eat shit because Muse allows players who don't know heatsink rounds from a buff hammer to make major, game deciding choices.
