Originally
posted by
silentwolf:
A retal is a retal. If you want to ROR.. please go ahead. Also taking on grudges from reset to reset shows maturity :)
and Xin is right. getafix, braden, superfly, me, bonesaw, gogy and et all use the same country name all the time across servers for a reason.. you play nice, we play nice.
I too get retalled and i dont whine.
amen to that bstrong86
Originally
posted by
silentwolf:
Also I don't change country names each set so those that hit me.. have a very high chance of getting retalled.. either way.. getting topfeed or not is not the question here.
Plenty other targets that don't take initiative to retal.
all I want is to do an all-x.. and try out strats. But noooo.. someone has to grab me.
Same here, silentwolf.
I play same name for same reason as well and to build a network of friends (or enemies). As TDA mentioned, some can be 360+ turns behind others and I have been one of those lately due to work schedule and new strategies. If someone is going to hit me after having the opportunity to see that I am sitting on turns, they deserve to be retalled. I credit my man Vic for teaching me this.
A few months after I started playing Express, I went down the score list grabbing people after looking at their military without paying attention to their strategy. I didn't know it was him I was hitting, but he knew it was me (you dirty dog lol), he retalled me but rightfully so. But more importantly, he taught me a lesson in a single grab and I have paid more attention during my spys ops since.
I was focused on him being an easy break and didn't notice he had not played a bunch of turns. That was his strategy and who am I to attack him for having turns and low military? I should have moved on and found a better target. Now, I look at the turns left in my spy op before I look at anything else. That is actually a better defense as far I am concerned, at least to those who pay attention.
Last set, a player hit me ten times without any regard to the fact that I had not play my turns. As part of my strategy experiment, I let him slide...until the end. That was very difficult for me because my style, personality, and principle is that I retal most hits and flatten anything over a double tap. But I was focused on all-xing, playing peacefully, and trying to get my best finish....which, by the way, I had my worse finish in awhile. So that part of the experiment failed and I will not allow the multi-tapping again in the future regardless of goals, rank, etc. I am playing the same name again, but I bet he isn't.
I want to play peacefully and learn to net. If I get hit, fine, but don't complain if I retal or when I choose to do it. If I happen to have some turns stocked, that doesn't make me a cheater or a noob. (IMO, it is more of a noob move to hit the person with that many turns; quite pompous, too.) I think some mistake me for a noob because of my networth, which usually sucks. But I was a warrior the first 15 years I played, and never learned how to net.
I am trying that approach now and, you know, almost every name mentioned on this single thread has helped me at some point.