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Hoja Lateralus:
--- Quote from: Newbluud on July 14, 2015, 03:45:43 pm ---how do you handle the inevitable rage in a game that relies so heavily on good chemistry between you and other players? I've not slipped up yet, but I don't want to make enemies by resorting to CoD-levels of expletives after those terrible matches.
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I usually I get by humming this
I may not be good example but many times if someone is making my game/day miserable (either deliberately or by accident or incompetence and/or inability to LISTEN) for me it's block + report + sometimes something like "Please do not reproduce" on chat. But that's me.
I hope stupidity of such people will bring death to them. Perhaps they will try to make some toasts while in the shower. Who knows. The night is dark and full of retards.
How to play GOIO 101:
1. Don't play with anyone below 500 matches
2. Get friends that don't have below 500 matches
3. Play 'only' with your friends (at least on your ship) or recommended friends of your friends.
I mean, seriously, playing GOIO with randoms is the worst.
MightyKeb:
--- Quote from: Mr.Disaster on July 16, 2015, 08:36:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: Newbluud on July 14, 2015, 03:45:43 pm ---how do you handle the inevitable rage in a game that relies so heavily on good chemistry between you and other players? I've not slipped up yet, but I don't want to make enemies by resorting to CoD-levels of expletives after those terrible matches.
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How to play GOIO 101:
1. Don't play with anyone below 500 matches
2. Get friends that don't have below 500 matches
3. Play 'only' with your friends (at least on your ship) or recommended friends of your friends.
I mean, seriously, playing GOIO with randoms is the worst.
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I share similiar views, but I think 500 matches is a high standard. I often come across captains/crew with around 300 matches and I find that most of them listen to me and take me seriously, which to me is all I ask from anyone around me save for some competence along the way.
o7 for filthy frank
Newbluud:
Thank you for all the honest responses!
Call me a masochist, but I try to avoid blocking anyone based on skill, purely because I fear the segregation between inexperienced and experienced might hurt the community overall. I mean, being an outsider to the core high-level friendship groups, I get to be on the receiving end of the skill concentration that creates. I even pissed and moaned about that on here too.
I think my blocks will be reserved for those truly beyond redemption, lest I contribute to something I believe hurts the player retention further than it already is by the fast breakout of novice matchmaker. I know a lot of people want this game to stay niche, as it keeps the toxicity low and the community tight knit, but, as far as the games survivability goes, I'm not so sure myself. People duck out after repeated stomps. It even demoralised me a hell of a lot. Thankfully, I took it as a challenge more than a defeat.
I've gotten better at not getting mad at losses these days, even when I'm totally outstacked or dealing with terrible allies/crew. I feel it teaches me to adapt to bad situations a little better. A meatgrind ally, for example, teaches me to focus targets based on observation rather than communication. Eh.
When I get lumped with a bad or inexperienced crew, my coping mechanism has been to become a calm teacher. I can educate at least a rudimentary set of strategies to make a competent crew/captain, although I still have a lot of learning to do myself. (Last bit comes from being forced out of my comfort zone by a higher-level captain today, who made me use the mine launcher and lumberjack; two guns I have avoided like the plague due to me not feeling able to make good use of them yet.)
When it comes to the people that won't take advice, are abrasive or are trolling, I just repeat to myself that it is not worth getting angry over. I mean, the trolls are looking for that so giving that satisfaction - even in principle - is to be dodged and those abrasive players I simply consider it a learning experience for them. Their mistakes made us lose and they'll probably have to sit and think in the naughty corner for that prior to their next game.
Thanks again, all. :)
Schwalbe:
--- Quote from: MightyKeb on July 17, 2015, 01:00:24 pm ---
I share similiar views, but I think 500 matches is a high standard. I often come across captains/crew with around 300 matches and I find that most of them listen to me and take me seriously, which to me is all I ask from anyone around me save for some competence along the way.
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Bullshit. 500 is a reasonably low treshold. Rarely there are players that know what brain is for with lower match count than that.
What's worse - sometimes even with far more matches played there's still a chance of encountering a sheer total retard. (example - my own fuckin self)
--- Quote ---o7 for filthy frank
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I recommended it to him. :D
And about the thread.
When I suffer from especially humiliating loss, I take either blenderfish or munker, gather my friends and we let matchfaker loose to meet newbies to obliterate them.
Arturo Sanchez:
--- Quote from: Mr.Disaster on July 16, 2015, 08:36:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: Newbluud on July 14, 2015, 03:45:43 pm ---how do you handle the inevitable rage in a game that relies so heavily on good chemistry between you and other players? I've not slipped up yet, but I don't want to make enemies by resorting to CoD-levels of expletives after those terrible matches.
--- End quote ---
I usually I get by humming this
I may not be good example but many times if someone is making my game/day miserable (either deliberately or by accident or incompetence and/or inability to LISTEN) for me it's block + report + sometimes something like "Please do not reproduce" on chat. But that's me.
I hope stupidity of such people will bring death to them. Perhaps they will try to make some toasts while in the shower. Who knows. The night is dark and full of retards.
How to play GOIO 101:
1. Don't play with anyone below 500 matches
2. Get friends that don't have below 500 matches
3. Play 'only' with your friends (at least on your ship) or recommended friends of your friends.
I mean, seriously, playing GOIO with randoms is the worst.
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Oh but we have to be like cool guys and teach people and blah (biggest load of crap from the vet community ever, seeing as we all do the above because we don't want to go insane).
That being said... I don't tend to join vet crew forms because I'm usually grinding achieves that most cant be arsed to help with.
now that I've hot the achieve wall though. I do now. Its freakin sad that you can't play a normal game without relying on the vets.
Every match just has to be either Jazzhands babysitting stupid buggers that can't comprehend how useless they're being simulator
When I'm with people like that. I cannot forgive myself if I won. It feels HORRIBLE when that liability lvls up. Theres already too many high lvl scrubs, me adding to that number by my playing to pick up their slack is disgusting.
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