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Mzyxptlk · 19 Feb 2015, 18:13

If you want people to play differently (and there are legitimate reasons for why you would want that!), you need to provide incentives that reward those different behaviours. If you have a game in which helping out random newbies was actually the best strategy, then people would fight each other for the opportunity to do so. If we had a game in which engaging in symmetric warfare was the best way to do well, then we'd see more alliances duking it out 1-on-1.

But PA is not that game. PA is the game in which ruthlessly manipulating the politics while appearing innocent is the way to win. PA is the game in which finding joining forces with 3 other alliances and just gangbanging a fifth is the way to win. PA is the game in which the gathering together half a dozen or more minions to help you cap roids is the way to win. PA is the game in which exiling the eager newbie to make room for your buddy is the way to win.

If you don't like that, perhaps you shouldn't be playing this kind of game.

19 Feb 2015, 18:13	#469
Mzyxptlk mz. Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 8,587	Re: R60 mid round turmoil If you want people to play differently (and there are legitimate reasons for why you would want that!), you need to provide incentives that reward those different behaviours. If you have a game in which helping out random newbies was actually the best strategy, then people would fight each other for the opportunity to do so. If we had a game in which engaging in symmetric warfare was the best way to do well, then we'd see more alliances duking it out 1-on-1. But PA is not that game. PA is the game in which ruthlessly manipulating the politics while appearing innocent is the way to win. PA is the game in which finding joining forces with 3 other alliances and just gangbanging a fifth is the way to win. PA is the game in which the gathering together half a dozen or more minions to help you cap roids is the way to win. PA is the game in which exiling the eager newbie to make room for your buddy is the way to win. If you don't like that, perhaps you shouldn't be playing this kind of game. __________________ The outraged poets threw sticks and rocks over the side of the bridge. They were all missing Mary and he felt a contented smug feeling wash over him. He would have given them a coy little wave if the roof hadn't collapsed just then. Mary then found himself in the middle of an understandably shocked family's kitchen table. So he gave them the coy little wave and realized it probably would have been more effective if he hadn't been lying on their turkey.