Why don't people just play fair?
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:53 am
Hey,
I havn't played a clan match in about 6 months but I was reading a post about the finnish always playing games on finnish servers.
I just want to say that being from the UK it is difficult to ping to finland and other countries not south of us because of the line qualities etc and that Britain was lagging behind a bit in connections speeds at the time.
Now anytime that C&C played a match we would always try to aim to get a server in Germany/Holland where we would ping usually aroudn 30-60 and our opponents would have aroudn the same ping, (unless they originated from that country where they would ping slightly better). Now as far as I remember we would play a match and try to get both maps there because it would be fair as pings were the same. But, hardly without exceptions, the opponent clan would change the server to one where they pinged around 20 and we pinged 60-80. We would always oppose on the basis that we'd get humped on their servers due to pings alone. Nowadays we don't really give a flying fuck and realise it's pointless arguing because your opponents would just piss off and not play us anyway.
Now reflecting on those occassions I still come to the same conclusion that almost every clan will try to do that to win the game - and fuck healthy competition. All of you people who do this need to take a step back and realise that it's just a game. I mean, would you play a game of tennis where your half of the grass is flat so you can rely on a even bounce, where your opponents side is bobbled which would make it impossible to play? OF COURSE YOU FUCKING WOULDNT... unless you're a twat. Effectively it's cheating and I stand by that.
Every clan/player that does this are completely up their own arse and ruining the game of action and have been doing so for a number of years. They don't understand the concept of fairness... maybe it's just a difference in national cultures. If I had one complaint about clan games it wouldn't be to do with voice comms, chasecams yada yada.. it's to do with people not playing fair as described above. On top of that you get cheaters out there who cheat all the time and don't really care... what's the point? (rhetorical question).
I suppose though the only way to play the game fair nowadays would for everyone to be at a LAN with exactly the same pc specs, equipment, paks etc because as we know it is probably the only computer game where the skills of the players are so high that even different paks with very slight amendments can make big differences.
And to get to my opening line, that if finnish players are requesting both maps on finnish servers so they can ping at 10 and others ping at 90 for not just one map but two... then they should just fuck off and go and play counterstrike and leave the fair, good and proper AQ2'ers (yes there are some out there!) to play the game properly.
Kind Regards from Scotland.
GB
I havn't played a clan match in about 6 months but I was reading a post about the finnish always playing games on finnish servers.
I just want to say that being from the UK it is difficult to ping to finland and other countries not south of us because of the line qualities etc and that Britain was lagging behind a bit in connections speeds at the time.
Now anytime that C&C played a match we would always try to aim to get a server in Germany/Holland where we would ping usually aroudn 30-60 and our opponents would have aroudn the same ping, (unless they originated from that country where they would ping slightly better). Now as far as I remember we would play a match and try to get both maps there because it would be fair as pings were the same. But, hardly without exceptions, the opponent clan would change the server to one where they pinged around 20 and we pinged 60-80. We would always oppose on the basis that we'd get humped on their servers due to pings alone. Nowadays we don't really give a flying fuck and realise it's pointless arguing because your opponents would just piss off and not play us anyway.
Now reflecting on those occassions I still come to the same conclusion that almost every clan will try to do that to win the game - and fuck healthy competition. All of you people who do this need to take a step back and realise that it's just a game. I mean, would you play a game of tennis where your half of the grass is flat so you can rely on a even bounce, where your opponents side is bobbled which would make it impossible to play? OF COURSE YOU FUCKING WOULDNT... unless you're a twat. Effectively it's cheating and I stand by that.
Every clan/player that does this are completely up their own arse and ruining the game of action and have been doing so for a number of years. They don't understand the concept of fairness... maybe it's just a difference in national cultures. If I had one complaint about clan games it wouldn't be to do with voice comms, chasecams yada yada.. it's to do with people not playing fair as described above. On top of that you get cheaters out there who cheat all the time and don't really care... what's the point? (rhetorical question).
I suppose though the only way to play the game fair nowadays would for everyone to be at a LAN with exactly the same pc specs, equipment, paks etc because as we know it is probably the only computer game where the skills of the players are so high that even different paks with very slight amendments can make big differences.
And to get to my opening line, that if finnish players are requesting both maps on finnish servers so they can ping at 10 and others ping at 90 for not just one map but two... then they should just fuck off and go and play counterstrike and leave the fair, good and proper AQ2'ers (yes there are some out there!) to play the game properly.
Kind Regards from Scotland.
GB
