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wrecking Ball:
what is the generally accepted etiquette when it comes to retaliating a land grab by someone with significantly more networth/land? naturally the retaliation is likely to result in significantly greater gains over what was lost.
Who would R the R to balance the loss? or is it just taken as an acceptable risk to bottom feeding?
wrecking ball - for starters, as absurd as it is to apply the term 'etiquette' to such an uncivil environment, it is a term that has always been used in earth (since the 90s, actually)
and while it is true that express is chaotic and indeed every man for himself, there are important qualifications to make when saying "there is no etiquette". for instance, there is certainly etiquette between two netgainers that hope to finish in the t5 but of course there isn't so much between the war types that actually play express just to get into conflict. there are, however, war types who sit around and are STAUNCH ADVOCATES OF PROPER SERVER ETIQUETTE ... i.e. guys who let 50 people on the server tap them once, but as soon as someone taps them twice, they drop the gloves. gets kind of annoying but frankly I respect that. at least they follow a code that can be learned and identified (which makes for better gameplay)
so yes it is also true that departure from etiquette (again this is just a term that has always been used here to refer to overgrabs, unwarranted suicides and the like, but it does not fluffing refer to the actual concept of general etiquette. in fact, my social etiquette in game is quite poor, but my SERVER ETIQUETTE is exemplary, imo) is a calculated risk.
and you will find rare occasions to break this server etiquette, but as a general rule of thumb don't go out of your way looking for excuses to do it. you'll end up being a scrappy express player which is like bench players on a JV high school volleyball team that has a bad varsity team to begin with.
-if you are grabbed once, grab once back.
-if the grab is a blatant topfeed - drop the gloves imo.
-if you are RoRed (someone grabs you, you successfully retal the grab and the guy grabs you again, after your retal) drop the gloves unless you have a decent set and want to let some twerp get away with that (which most of us don't)
-if you are 2:1'd on a non topfeed (i.e. you grab someone and they retal twice) drop the gloves