Hi there!
From a topic in the game balance subforum I got the idea to ask the community, if my impression is right, that most of the playership doesn't care for tactics, finds them boring or is simply too mentally retarded to do anything else than holding [W] and continously pressing LMB in the desperate attempt to outspam the enemy.
I for myself miss tactics heavily. I always feel physical pain when my team is losing the map with 0:3 and still simply charges towards the enemy, well knowing that this "tactic" didn't help anything the last three times. Whenever I see infantry seperating from the crowd, engaging three enemies, or archers on plain maps, trying to flank the enemy and being ridden down by cavalry, all I can do is facepalm.
I think I can blame modern life to quite a good part for this. My mother is teacher, and she is complaining that kids these days are definitely more stupid than they were some years ago, it's a fact. Some are even incapable of writing a correct date or at least their name properly. (And it's a secondary school, the kids are at least 11 years old!). In movies you can't have those shots any more where the camera is not moving for two minutes, modern people couldn't stand it. People don't read books any more, they buy audio books or the corresponding graphic novel and so on. Just take a look at what you can see on TV during the afternoon. I think this explains pretty much everything.
Face it:
This has become the awful truth already.
But still I can't (and down't want to) believe that people with brain are a dying race, so I'd like to know if there are perhaps other people out there, who share the opinion that a little bit patience and waiting is neither boring nor cowardly, but simply makes sense and often leads to successs. Waiting for the enemy to come over doesn't mean you will have less to fight, and perhaps you will have to wait a bit longer before the real action starts, but on the other hand you won't spend so much time in spectator mode, if you die at all!
And if you don't follow tactics on the servers, I would like to know why. Unfortunately I have to say that those people, who have realized that tactics help, but don't follow the commands of others as they think they don't have to, because the plan is bad, or they are smart themselves and don't need anybody to tell them what to do and so on are quite a big part of the problem, as I follow the rule that everybody following a bad plan is still better than everybody follwing his own plan.
Edit: if you are missing some options please tell me, I will add them. Because of this reason I allowed members to change their vote afterwards.
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