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Raising consciousness for "stacking" !

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Eukari:
I think we're rapidly reaching the "going around in circles" part of the discussion.

Things like unbalanced PuGs are always going to be a problem in a game that encourages teamwork and cooperation, but also mostly builds matches out of random groups of people. Some people will get lucky and build a crew/team that they work well with ... and some won't. There's no real easy solution to that issue, because at its heart its an imbalance in the players, not the game.

Rainer Zu Fall:
And that, my dear Eukari, is why raising the consciousness/awareness of the players for that problem is something I deem worth trying.

Andika:
I forgot to mention that I really like the two posters in the op.  :D

Calico Jack:
Level 1-3 players, or crews composed of players level 1-3  in a regular match, are actively choosing their matches manually. It used to be in the bad old days before tutorials and level locking that everybody was thrown in together, and the debate about stacking that followed led directly to level locking.

The other thing is new players who come up through the level locked matches don't usually come into contact with more experienced players for obvious reasons and may not have formed an objective opinion of their gameplay skills.

I believe the two situations feed off each other. 

What is then left to each player is to decide when a game is unfair, but I will point out that the first situation has been cited as just cause for stacking in previous discussions about it in these forums. For my own part if I feel that a game is unfair I will do something about it.


--- Quote from: HamsterIV on September 10, 2013, 03:41:16 pm ---I acknowledge stacking is a problem but some times I don't have the mental energy or patience to put up with inexperienced players. Once you have been on a very well run ship/team it is hard to watch people play at a less than optimal level.

--- End quote ---

Part of my gametime is given over to training new players, and when I'm not doing that there are times I just want to play. There is nothing worse than having a run of really bad matches that you know you could win but the disparity of where you crew/teamie needs to be and where they actually are is just to great to deal with in 1 match. Or two. Or three.

QKO:
I think it's safe to assume that noone here stacks for the purpose of crushing noobs. They all do it, just like me, to avoid people they can't trust. If I'm presented with a choice to play boring matches with people I know I can trust or play hard matches where I'm looking on my ship more often than in front of me, then I'll go with the first option. I'm also not going to not stack for the sake of noobs, because I'm pretty sure the people on my block wish to sleep in silence. Now you got an answer relative to this thread. If I can trust the people I play with, then it's fine, but I'm not going to test my own patience.

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