Having done a recent survey on forum users K/D rate, I realized only 14% of forum posters voted under 1:1. I believe I was the only one who acceded to a low score in posts. This means I represent all the players out there who die a hell of a lot more than the people who post. The devs must realize without anyone easy to kill the mod will die. And they must also realize that 65% (at least) of players on the scoreboard are well below 1:1 KD. Someone has to die to give all you forum posters your mininum 3:1 KD.
These people don't bitch and whine on forums. They obviously play for fun. Or perhaps for the grind, such as I did in my early days mistakenly believing that I too, could become a hero. Time proved I couldn't, but unlike all those others, which love the mod despite their incompetence, I still post. I have a genetic defect in which I have no shame. But the point is most people die more than they kill, and yet they still play the game.
I've introduced people to this mod who quit cuz a fully loomed 2 hander can kill them in one spamming hit (oddly enough, they never bitched about cav or archers). Then they play native in which they can win sometimes, but do get bored cuz of the lack of continuity.
So, to put my thinkfulness into a nutshell, anything that favours the elite will be very, very sucky. Anything that helps support builds and newbs, is verra, verra good. And anything that pisses of those 'OMG i spent 38,000 hours in this game and I deserve my looms/gens/shild/epeen' is a good thing. They ruin the game with their arrogance, and befoul the forums with their neediness, and their bloody sense of entitlement... WTF? It's a free mod, and if they donated money, it was a donation. Not a frickin' downpayment. If they truly wanted something to show for their hours, they should have dug ditches. Less fun, but more financially rewarding. By a little.
So, in a nutshell, 70% of people who post have a 3-1 KD rate (according to my poll
http://forum.meleegaming.com/general-discussion/what's-your-kd-rate/msg548347/#msg548347 ). But ingame I'd say 70% of people die pointlessly (oh yeah, you got the pun).
So, as much as you posters wish this was an oligarchy, I truly, truly hope that the devs look at the entire gamebase, not just the consistent whiners with the highest K/D rates and (coincidentally I'm sure) the highest QQ rates (and yet, non-coincidentally I'm sure, the lowest IQ rates).
So, for the love of this mod, please, please remember the little guys. Without cannon fodder this mod will die.
So sez I.
