why public games suck.

[DiM]

i'm a strong supporter of public games. why should the high rankers play only private? they should give the low rankers a chance and accept them in their games.

the quote above would describe my thoughts from some time ago perfectly.

unfortunately i have changed my opinion. while i don't care about rank and score and play with everybody because i start many public games, i do care about meeting stupid people that ruin the pleasure of gaming. i'm not talking about deadbeats trashtalkers whiners and people like that. i have the ignore to help me get over them but when a guy has no understanding of basic tactics i'm really annoyed.

perhaps i don't get it. perhaps i don't know about tactics. so here is an example.

i have 50 troops and bonus of 5 another guy (let's call him BIG) has 60 troops and bonus of 8 and a third guy (let's call him SMALL) has 20 troops and 3 bonus.
in one round i get attacked by the big guy. that's normal. i'm the second in power and it's natural to be attacked. i retaliate. the small guy gets some terits from both and gets 5 bonus.
the next turn he attacks me again. i get crappy dice and my retaliation is poor. and the small guy attacks the big guy.
another round comes. i am down to 40 troops and bonus of 4. BIG has 60 and bonus 12. Small has 30 and bonus 8. BIG still attacks me i can't fight back Small attacks Big.
and so on until i am down to 20 troops bonus 4 Big is at 60 troops bonus 16 and small is at 60 troops with bonus 26.

i don't understand. for several turns Small was allowed to grow becoming the strongest. he keeps attacking BIG and yet BIG wasted 30-40 of my troops and 30-40 of his troops despite me being the smallest guy and the other guy attacking him.

because of such people that for no apparent reason they pick a player and constantly attack him i have decided not to start any more public games. i will still join them but only when i'm last to join and i see who's in the game.

that's all i had to say.

edit// the upper example is not the only one i have lots more. especially in escalating. it seems some people are stuck on the whole continent idea in escalating games. i've had people attack 30v30 just to break my SA bonus. so they trashed 50-60 troops just to prevent me from getting a +2 bonus. needless to say many of these times the cash-ins where in the 30-40 zone or more and that i got promptly eliminated along with the guy that attacked me.

[DAZMCFC]

and well put Dim, i know where your coming from.

[GreecePwns]

I agree with everything here.

I was stupid and joined an assassin game with 5 new recruits. Didn't end so well.

[soundout9]

and well put Dim, i know where your coming from.

[Mentos-]

The thing I hate most in public games, escalating to be specific, is when i have something around 12 armies on some place like ontario, in NA..the sets are up to 10, and some guy uses his set to kill ontario, just to get the NA bonus, however he can only defend his borders with 1's or 2's...both him and me both die soon after...This happens way too much in public escalating games.

[dcowboys055]

I love public games

[s.xkitten]

I pretty much only play public games when a new map comes out.

This is for two reasons, 1) I hate alliances, so I don't risk getting into a game where the other people will make them, and 2) I'm lazy, I don't like taking care of lots of games, so I only play games with my clan.

[0ojakeo0]

I only play public gamez and tourny games. You guyz just suck and cant win in public gamez

[The1exile]

What I've noticed very often is that when my public assassin games start up, I won't lose thanks to deadbeats, no, what I will lose to (and this goes for other game types, but not so much) is one absolute retard attacking with every freaking 3 group of troops into the nearest person, leaving themselves with about 10 territories with single armies, if they (and by extension, I, unless it's my target) am lucky.

What makes it worse is when they then don't deadbeat -.-

[borox0]

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, even if it's wrong.

[DiM]

I only play public gamez and tourny games. You guyz just suck and cant win in public gamez

mate i have 2300 points. that's 1000 more than you. i think it's a safe bet to say i can win games.
it's not a question of winning or losing but rather a question of having fun or not. and i am NOT having fun when people have no idea how to play and suicide on other players or kill dozens of armies in an escalating game just to prevent you from getting a +2 bonus or stuff like that. what would you say if i joined some of your games and suicide on you each time? would that be fun for you? i don't think so

[ParadiceCity9]

and well put Dim, i know where your coming from.

[Fircoal]

I understand what you're saying DiM. I haven't had it happen to me personally, so I'd still play public games. Though I only play private and speed games now a days. I don't have enough time on school days, I least I think so. So I don't start any games, I just join them when other players, I play with start them.