Not sure where to put this, so here it goes.
As most of us know, MM is doing some pretty silly things when it comes to high skilled players. This is a story of the silliness we responded with.
After about 4 lobbies that our two crewed ships were placed into by matchmaking, each of which we (by far)
outmatched the other team, we were placed in a lobby against a ship that contained a pilot and gunner with only one previous match, and a first game engi. Exasperated, I burst out "All right, that is it. I should play blindfolded to make this at least somewhat fair.... You know what, I will. I am turning my screen off as soon as the match starts. Kitkat, you will navigate."
Someone who does not know me asked, "You are joking, right?"
"Richard does not joke when it comes to silly things." Kitkat
"I do not joke when it comes to galleons." -me
Another of my crew piped up "In that case, I will play with an inverted mouse."
"And I will take a Munker." said Lambert. This was perfect, since I was taking an all flak Galleon.
The match started against a Spire with good crew, and the new people on a blenderfish (I think) on Fjords.. My screen was turned off. My crew spent the next three minutes either trying to get me to walk off the ship, or guide me to the helm. I am still not sure which. Explosions started happening everywhere as my crew hollered out directions between bouts of laughter. We ended up dying because of the amount of time it took me to get to the helm the first time, so I spawned in and got there first before turning my screen off again. More explosions and laughter, but this time I was able to direct the ship somewhat by myself by listening to the sounds of enemy guns, actually using moonshine and claw.
In the end, the score was 1-5. One kill by our foes, 5 kills by our Munker/Flakalleon team with a blind pilot and inverted engi, and I think Lambert may have been piloting with his eyes closed at least part of the time.
After that match, I decided it was time to call it a night. Hard to top that for silliness.
