Piestar wrote:Is it even remotely possible that some people join a team game, without know that it is a team game? I'm talking about the player who never posts in the chat, and wanders around the board.
The cynic in me wants to assume players lame to put a ' dead ringer' into the opponents team, but I also have no doubt that there are people who don't even know they are in a team game. After all, if you don't click anything from the Game Type column of the game search, you get everything.
Perhaps team games should only pop up if specifically chosen?
I also wonder if it is on the to-do list to allow 'random teams' as an option (not mandatory, I explain, at the sound of an army of people who want to be able to choose their partners.) Personally, not having found many good team mates, I would be glad to see such an option for the team games.
i have been in games where people don't realize it is a team game, until it is expressed to them in chat or a pm... and as far as random teams go. no thanks. i play with my real life friends, and a few people i have met and enjoy playing with on the site. it is all about communication OR knowing what is going on with the map/turns/objectives. i am not interested in playing with someone that i do not know, risking them not wanting to do what is best for the team, or understanding what should be done for the team. most of my turns i talk with my partners on skype... not to discuss what is going on, but to just shoot the crap in the middle of the work day and to catch up. sure they'll be a "are you really going to deploy there?" or two, but most of my interaction in team games is personal and not game related. however, when it comes down to it,if i need an opinion or someone has an idea, communication is very important. i play on about 4 regular teams from dubs, to trips, to quads... it took us a long time to get good and competitive, and i'm not willing to randomly get screwed in a game by some player i don't know. perhaps you should do what my best friend did.. he made me join the site, taught me how to play dubs, and we have never looked back. he couldn't find a good partner, so he found a friend he could hoodwink into joining the site...-0
p.s.-i'm always open to playing with new people, just people i select or people that ask me. not some random person in a game that i have never interacted with...