First to Engage: Exploiting the mechanic?

[Tanthallas]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In this type of thread when people don't drink the koolaid the OP is offering, their disagreement = shitting up the thread. It sounds like your pushing for a variation of 15 on spawn. No, just no. Large numbers of people who log in to an area without FTE (or the mob even being up) shouldn't be entitled to anything.

There is nothing more or less 'fair' about having whatever is deemed a sufficient force at the spawn or getting FTE. Things are not the best they could possibly be merely because they happen to be the current status quo.

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

DA stalling benefits both sides. Poop socking gives an edge to the side that can tolerate doing it. The side that simply tracks is at a severe disadvantage for obtaining FTE. How is this not completely fair in the current system?

You merely restated how things currently are and attached some notion of fairness to them. While thoroughly impressed with the depth of your ability to state the obvious, once again your claim that it is 'fair' is completely subjective and irrelevant. Just because people have a chance by taking extreme measures does not mean the system is 'completely fair' - it may as well mean the opposite in most cases.

Regardless, fairness is not the issue here; we dont do these things because they are fair, we do them because the state of competition on this server has degenerated to the point of having to do them. 'Fairness' in the current system is simply stretching the rules as far as possible to win. This is the case because we are incapable of engaging eachother like rational fucking adults and setting up some standards between us.