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Sunday Community Skirmish #26 (Signups for Sunday 2nd November)

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GeoRmr:

--- Quote from: Skrimskraw on October 29, 2014, 03:31:38 pm ---We dont want to turn surrendering into a legitimately tactical way to win

--- End quote ---

Am I the only person who actually has no problem with surrender being used like this? I think its a delightful meta-strategy that deserves to exist in its own right - I also find the powerful statement a team makes by surrendering to be just as interesting as additional gameplay. (Many times when the situation has been grim I've advised my own team to surrender but have thus far never convinced them - even though ultimately no good came from the extra few minutes play in these matches)

Of course a surrendered game should count as 5 kills to the enemy team, but I really see no point in the other two rules.

I remember a time when casters frequently complained about excessively long matches - I wonder if surrendering would be more welcomed if competitive teams started using it earlier in GoI history.

Alistair MacBain:
I cant remember any situation previously in competetive guns of icarus where surrendering was considered. Cant see in every teams mind but not in my time as player and not in my time as ref/organizer.
I understand the intend of surrendering a game in reserve time. Thats fine for me as reserve time might be better suited for games that are close or winable for the team on the loosing side.
However during standard time i dont see a point to surrender in the scs.
Standard time is just 15 minutes. Its not to long. This isnt a exhausting 45min-1h time limit. Its a short 15 minutes. And guns of icarus doesnt really have a snowball mechanic.
Its not like other esport titles (starcraft, dota, lol) where its hard to not possible to come back.
After dieing twice (1 with each ship) your back to full and in most situations on the upper hand as your opponent most likely took permahull damage. Yes there are a few forced meatgrinds where you barely get out but even in those you often got a slight chance and those forced meatgrinds usually end in short games anyway.
The current existing ruling ... not in the last match, not during standard time and loosing 5:x sounds reasonable and ok for me.


And i can remember alot of talks from teams that said that a win by timelimit was unfullfilling and they wouldve rather won by score and not by time.

Velvet:
On an unrelated note, forgot to make a big thing of the times this week:

The USA is ending DST this week so the time will back to normal for Europeans and unchanged for Americans.

8 PM UTC | 3 PM EST | 9 PM CET

Extirminator:
Ryders signing up!

DJ Logicalia:
The, currently under government surveillance, duo of Star Bubble Epidemic and The Bards, Starbard is signing up
STARBARD!      To boldly go where some people have gone before, but we kinda wanted to see it too

Also, the return of "The Starbard" now ft. Howie Mendel

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