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posted by
Gerdler:
You are making eberts point for him. He broke GDI without killing you and payed the price.
You are the aggressor here and the guy misplayed, next time if he learned his lesson he will kill you straight off, like ebert would. You want to force everyone on this server to misplay like this guy yet your play clearly demonstrates why thats not a feasible way to play on this server.
Nothing so well thought out, I was indeed the aggressor here, but it wasn't entirely unprovoked. He grabbed me twice last reset even though it was clear I was retalling each and every hit - maybe he didn't check the new, maybe he's just not that clued in.
Someone else took away my opportunity to retal by putting him in DR's. I noticed him on my score sheet this reset, and saw he was fat, I was skinny.
I gave him the FS and he chose to break GDI, he could have left it. That's the GDI-mechanic metagame :) its high risk high reward.
As for ebert I've never had beef with him I've never criticised his double-tap=>kill strategy. I double tapped him once when I was new to this server and he killed me. I quickly learned how that worked and moved on. The only contact I ever had was when I messaged him to talk about strategy. He was cool, I was cool, it was all cool.
I don't want to force anyone to do anything, people can play however they want imho, but that isn't to say certain actions won't invite certain consequences. It's all good.
I wish people wouldn't grab me because its a waste of time/resources for both of us because I *will* retal. People are different though, some people don't even realise its suboptimal play. You'd think they would learn but meh, probably they aren't even here to try and *win* (by whatever metric they choose - there is more than final NW to compete at imho)
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