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Tornade wrote: blackstar0 wrote: Tornade wrote: Templars wrote: blackstar0 wrote: DBurkeG wrote: anastus wrote: i am tired of this loser constantly going off the side board to avoid being shot down. i suggest that noone play with this loser. also the rules need to be changed, you should lose all your points and also you should be considered shot down(stats: kills and shot down diff) I am guessing that you are playing in 1v1 or 2v2 games. I cant remember the last time I saw that behavior, however, I am always in 8 player games. In small games, you must do as you did. List the opponents behavior, and try to avoid them. The problem is that it is nice to start open games, and the jerks can join. I have seen some odd behavior in my latest league, and now my curiosity is fired up. Time to hunt. Gentlemen (and gentlewoman) pilots, please, consider this: if you wouldn't have the chance to behaving, to say so, "cowardly", where would be the worth of an honourable behavior? Would you like to be a loyal and honourable pilot only because you are forced to? (Please, note that the previous opinion was issued only to honourable pilots. Not honourable pilots may obviously feel free to ignore it...  ) Here's an alternative suggestion not already mentioned; you could just get ahead of him to begin with, and force him to chase you. i just watched the movie recently on AMC...so i am pretty sure i got the quote right No one ever won a war by dying for his country... you win a war by making the other poor dumb son of a bitch die for HIS country *General George Patton* honour and heroism were outmoded concepts pretty much from the onset of gunpowder...some would say the longbow...to argue about it is to ignore the reality of war Reading your post, I suddenly realized, while sitting at my desktop and drinking a cup of tea: "My god, this is the reality of war!" Tornade, no offence is intended, but you can't seriously talk about the "reality of war" while your "fights", as mine, happen between a cup of tea and a chat with your friends, comfortably sitting on your sofa, with a lot of time available to think about the possible manoeuver of your opponent and the best counter-manoeuver you can do... I have played more than four hundred games, and lost two thirds of them, in the most cases for a "Plane explodes!" or a "Pilot killed". Can you imagine how many lifes would I have needed to be here now? I'm not compelled to struggling desperately to kill my enemy, or simply to survive, as it would be in a real war: so, please, allow me the luxury of trying to have fun in the company of nice people, and playing not to win, but just for the taste of a good game, possibly a honourable one. Yours sincerely blackstar0 i appreciate that you read the post...but it seems that maybe you missed the point of it we can play the game...but as i said in my most recent post...we should not lose sight of what war is really about...not glory...not heroism...not honour...but really a very messy and painful experience...to not do so is to do a diservice to those who have fought the real thing and possible condems us all to having more wars Hi Tornade. You're right. I misunderstood you, especially when you mentioned Patton,s words. Believe me: also if I never fought a war, for many reasons I know quite well (surely better than most of people) how horrible its consequences can be, and I don't want to provoke a new one, you can be sure. What I was meaning is that this game is no more than a sport to me: I use to play it the same way I could play chess, go or risiko, trying to perform unpredictable actions to surprise my opponents, but always remaining between the limits of its rules. These rules allow the guy we are talking about to win in a way that many other players believe not to be sporting, and I respect their opinion. But these are the rules. I think that, instead of changing them, we should learn to adapt; you can always choose between avoiding a specific opponent or fighting him with his same tactics: especially the second choice could convince him to play in a more sporting way. Last little thing: when I talk about "honour", I intend many different qualities that make a person a valuable person, like loyalty, honesty, mercy, also sense of humour, and others. I appreciate very much people who are able to lose with a smile, and to win without insolence. I surely don't intend "honour" as the obligation to avenge any offence with blood feud (just in case you could have thought such a thing).  blackstar0
i do appreciate good gaming etiquette...and half of that is to be a good winner as it is to be a good loser...playing the game within the rules is quite alright so long as one is not trying to bend the spirit of the rules or to find a way around them all of the time...
my husband has a rather interesting house rule in most all games that he plays with his group of friends...
Where a rule shall contravene Reality...the Reality shall apply
he says the damnable rules lawyers who argue unreasonably every semantic and twist of wording in game rules should be beaten about the head with a heavy blunt object until they become more reasonable
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