So lucky. I ate almost $200 on mine.

i will not be on tonight. I am away for work. Not sure if "number 2" is playing tonight or not. he was a little discouraged after last week. he kept telling me that he sucked. have fun tonight though.

We all sucked royally at one time or another. Hell, some of us still do quite a bit of sucking on a weekly basis.

I honestly thought he did better than any of the newbies that have joined since I have hopped in, and he definitely did a lot better on his first go than I did on mine. Tell him I called him a punk bitch.

Alright, I am going to try this tonight. I will not get in a warhawk at all unless we are losing...if we are winning I will just play defense and if we are tied then I will play either offense or defense. Any other ideas?

Yes, don't shoot me.

I don't think it would hurt for you to get into a Warhawk, just remember this is casual. If the game is even, or you're up by a point or two just hang back and ball random people who aren't in chase or capture mode. I think that should be a general rule of thumb, no team should try and dominate a match, if you're more than two points ahead you're being way too aggressive and competitive, keeping a one or even a two point lead is far enough I suppose.

Yeah, this is what I have been doing for the past few weeks and that is not working I don't think. The main issue I was seeing last week is that even if we were down there was grumbling when I got too heavily involved and then even after we tied it up and I hung back it seems that the damage was done and momentum swung completely. My theory is this is because the assumption was that I was going to continue playing the way I was when we were losing which made people give up assuming all hope was lost even though at that point I was already flying around off in the distance. I am hoping that maybe making it more obvious that I will pull back if we are tied or winning then that will at least prevent that scenario. Maybe not though...

Either way, I never try to dominate, although if we are losing then I assume that all is fair.

I think the problem is you guys enjoy winning, and it's not so much that we don't enjoy winning as we do hate losing. We don't really want to give it full effort, but we don't want to lose either.

I don't care about winning or losing, I just don't want to get TOW'd and sniped all night.

So you're a Draw man?

I think that if something's way off in the team balance, chess should call a TO to reorganize the teams as best we can. If we just take a minute to balance, it should help with frustration and prevent digi and chess or Z from idling above like Greek gods while the rest of us go through the motions, knowing that any minute the gods might get angry and unleash a TOW.

Bazinga.

In this game? With my "skill level"? Yes

Thanks, Sheldon.

i am not gonna be on tonight, I have to work late, then i have a 9:30 dek hockey game, and then i have to close my mother's pizza shop because she is away for the week...in the past 5 days, i have worked 62 hours and played 2 dek hockey games...I have been falling asleep all day at work...

I will be sure to pass on the "punk bitch" to him...i may call him a punk bitch as well, just for shits and giggles...

ok, i just texted him and said:

"slider said you are a punk bitch for not playing warhawk tonight"

and he texted back:

"who the fuck said i wasn't playing? That's it, he mine tonight!!!"


You're welcome...

Nice!

Balance isn't just about the score, but it's a start. I just ask that folks (especially the better ones) ask themselves "how will this affect how much fun people have in the game" and also, take a look at the teams in the beginning of the round. I can't always balance them as it's not always possible, and you sometimes have to balance them with your play.

Let number 2 know that he probably got nic's share of TOWs and BALLS last week just out of sheer confusion on my part.

Nic set me up!

what?

Tricked me into provoking your brother.



Also, I'd like to point out that I love getting called out for doing things numerous other people do in other games. 'Turret camper', for example.

I wish you had a mic...we're mostly just messing around with you about your playstyle.

I've got no beef with turret camping for that matter...just please don't TOW people from off the map. That's kind of cheap.

Apologies to all for my behavior tonight. I had a buddy over and was a bit saucey.

Lots of terrific games tonight. I can only think of two that got lopsided.

Noted tonight:

Chew is getting really good on the ground.
Sean was kind of holding his own tonight.
Chew and Sean > Flip and #2...didn't see that one coming.
It was kind of fun giving digi a slightly lopsided team...happens to me all the time.

Had to leave a bit ealry tonight but had fun the whole time I was playing!

I had a great "taxi" moment with you last night where you were running from a Warhawk, and I showed up just in time to hit him with the machine gun on the jeep...he splodes, and you jump in the driver's seat. Cool stuff.

Last night was the best night I've had in a long time, and by best, I mean "most fun".