Iron Butterfly wrote:lord voldemort wrote:its annoying cause half the time when officers + lose its to bad dice or sheer dumb luck...and then it costs us 50 ish points...
The other half of the time is when they make a stupid move or a combination of the three? Your point being? Being an officer doesnt make one more intelligent or lucky then a stripe. You just lose more points. Big Whoop!
When officers were stripes im sure they reveled in the points they gained from officers. Its the circle of life of CC.
Im here to play not protect some meaningless tripe that means nothing to anyone except to folks who play this game, which is meaningless in the grand scheme anyways.
This is going to come off as elitist but, so be it. While I understand that some people of high rank are there because they specialize in very specific formats that they've mastered or feast upon noobs in team games, that doesn't change the fact that high ranking players tend to be better. Hell, even the ones who take advantage of the short cuts I mentioned are at least better at the formats that they choose or it wouldn't work.
Those with high ranks are hardly flawless but I can assure you, as somebody who plays with both high ranking and low ranking players, those with the lower ranks are far more inclined to either make really bad moves or, at very least, lack the vision to make particularly good ones. Often times it's nothing hugely obvious like trying to take out a player you have no realistic chance of getting or exposing a buried large army. It's usually something much smaller but systemic, like routinely doing the dirty work of the stronger players or routinely taking spots that they can't hold rather than saving up and striking at a point when they're likely to succeed.
In general, I don't see higher ranking players do this sort of thing and I can almost count on lower ranking players committing one or more of these. So much so that I'm pleasantly surprised when they don't. This is not because of some preconceived notion, this is merely from playing. Obviously, everyone was ranked low at some point. Some, perhaps, were always as good as they are now and just needed to earn the points. However, I'm guessing that number isn't very big. I played enough risk and possess the aptitude to be good at this sort of game, but, nothing like playing a bunch of games on a bunch of maps against a bunch of players, nearly all of whom are better than the siblings that you used to beat up on back in the day to hone your skills. I know for a fact that I'm a better player now than I was when I joined CC and it's not like I was all that shabby starting out.
So, I hate to break it to you, but you're wrong. Higher ranked players are, in fact, generally better. There's no legitimate argument to the contrary. Certainly there are exceptions on both sides of the fence but they are just that, exceptions.
Now, this doesn't mean that they should be pissy when they lose. Of course, I also think that's BS as well, at least in terms of a sweeping generalization.
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:25 am