yes Muse made some very bad choices with galleon positions.
but I think what gilder is referring to is kicking muse out fo the cogs, because of their inexperience to other players who play the game a lot more than them selves (correct me if im wrong).
I had the same feeling when dover was denied access, since it was a do or die match for us, we felt like we needed to win.
I think sammy and the other guys from dover would agree that their general strategy was a failure, and if they had another chance at a rematch they would try something diffrent.
I guess what I'm saying here is, that the cogs system requires very high leveled and intense play.
Paddling master this high level play right now, where as my own team and a lot of the others realised in week 4 or so, that if we wanted to stay in the cogs, we would need to bring out the same tactics as the guys who win week after week.
So we lost a lot of games in the beginning, but we finally managed to get into the proper meta for winning vs dover.
I also think the ranking in the cogs is in the way of what a scrimmage should be.
When every game you play, is a do or get demoted to a lower rank )or stay same rank), situation, you want to bring your a-game even if it means you'll have to camp for 20 mins before getting a kill. or end up like we did vs MNS, when we were destroyed 5-0, and like mns when they were denied the 1st place by paddling.
We played muse last saturday on the test servers, right after the cogs matches were over.
And boy was I glad we forfeited our match.
We hit a lot of weird bugs:
phoebe couldnt change her ammo
I lost my balloon and hull instantly at some point
etc.
The style that cogs is running is high competitive play, like a tournament. in a game where the teams and clans right now are at the opposite ends of the skill line.
newer teams comes into the cogs, meeting teams that have played together for 2 months, and they just get sent out again.
-instead of letting them play other new teams and occasionally older teams, for a possibly "rank up" (maybe at the end of each month).
I think throwing teams out of the cogs is both humiliating and wrong, when we instead should help these teams get scrimmages every other week (maybe), and then leave the high skilled competitive plays to tournaments like claiming the fjords.
(post only represent my own thoughts)