With regard to this point:
"Let's add the option. What can it hurt?"
There are, at present, 288 active conflicts. 11 are just getting started. Probably half of these are MvM or Beginner games; a few are private; a couple are championships. From my perspective, there's a distressingly high percentage of melees.
Basically, when I'm ready to dive into a new game, I have to wait a week for it to fill because there's already so many options, and much of the time I don't get a race I want. Sometimes, I'm driven to accept a replacement position as some Godawful race like Crystals, Robots, or Heaven help me the Feds.
And there's a proposal floating around that, if adopted, would restrict my best weapon to perhaps half of the games that now can use it.
Look, I like to talk. In any given game at any given time, I've probably got six conversations going. Half are with my enemies; half are with my friends -- and sometimes, the two groups don't know which they are. Which is reasonable enough; half the time, I don't know either. It'll depend on who does what and who's more polite.
That last is important. I'm not going to work with someone that isn't willing to take the time to talk and who won't bother to stay polite. Why? Because there's a decent chance that whoever that is will stop caring about the game entirely and drop. It's bad when my allies drop.
My advice? Take the time to talk. I was half-truthful before -- Diplomacy isn't the best weapon. It's actually the medium in which the game is played. People think of it as planets and ships, starbases and the build queue, but it's easy to forget: This is about people, and between people. The technical stuff is mostly just a distraction.
This is a suggestion I cannot like and would not support. And, since it'll highly inconvenience me if it goes through, I'm debating the creation of an opposing UserVoice suggestion.
Comments, gentlemen? (And ladies, of course.) |
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