i almost never read your posts cause they are so long :'(
Sorry, but some matters need to be discussed properly, which can't be done with one liners. Either you want to discuss a matter properly, or better leave it be. I don't get why people make the decision to read something or not dependant on the length? What the fuck has the length to do with the matter? I mean: some people even wrote fucking books about certain topics. Either read those books or not, but don't tell those people to write everything down on a flyer.
It's not like you would need any longer than 4 or 5 minutes to read my text, if you are a rather unexperienced English reader. Modern attention spans... ts ts ts...
You write too much for the amount of things you have to say.
You can't write less without having some smartass turning around the words in your mouth, and when you explain what you meant they react like "Yeah, yeah, sure, that was what you meant, yeah, I never falsified your points...". For the rest see above.
Also; you will never, ever find a video game where there are not people actively trying to abuse their strengths to irritate others for fun. It is supremely naive to think otherwise. There are at least 5 people in this thread who do that, including myself.
Actually the malevolent part was less about abusing or griefing, it was more about statements like those where infantry blame archers to only become archers to annoy infantry. Things like those. I did NOT say there was no griefing or abusing or whatever. It was related to the different classes, as the beginning of the sentence showed. Here we already have one of those misunderstandings I wanted to prevent by explaining thoroughly.
P.S.: People who annoy others on purpose deserve to be removed from any community. Both internet and real life. But this can't happen by balancing.
Finally, if people want teamwork they should do it on a clan-by-clan basis while they are in the server. Hook up in your TS3 and play along with your m8s. One thing I have learned being cavalry for numerous generations is that if you help a teammate who doesn't know you're coming they are likely to rear you, block your bump and eat it themselves because they looped around the enemy at the last minute, or just slash your horse down.
Teamwork can be very bad sometimes.
I hate teamspeak, I don't have the time and mood for anything like a clan. I want some kind of common knowledge in the community where everyone can work with each other WITHOUT having to be friends. I know from other games that something like that is possible, so why not in cRPG?
Btw. I think that clanmates pwning a server by the use of TS and their usually higher level of skill, roflstomping the poor random players, is not really what the community needs. Teamspeak should be for strategus and other clan vs. clan related events. You don't want professional baseball players throwing all your teeth out of your face when you go on the court to throw a few balls with your little son. Professionals and amateurs should not compete with each other. The amateurs won't have fun and the professionals only show their poor sportsmanship.
