Hate to think so many are playing in bad faith... Giving Outwitters a break

[Kamikaze28]

(08-12-2012 12:39 AM)Joggies Wrote:  I also take your first point about dual motives. But having said that, it's not too difficult to have a full complement of games running without starting 20 of them simultaneously. Spamming new games will get those players a high ratio of first starts. On the flipside, it's not very fun for others to have to play each match starting on the back foot. While I've been able to keep a good record even as P2, I am experiencing it more and more consistently the higher I climb the ladder. It's a game and supposed to be fun, so I think people should be conscious that using this technique makes it very un-fun for those not doing it.

There are two factors augmenting the effect you dislike:

• The higher your rating, the less people are available for you to be matched against.
• The higher the rating, the more competitive people get in general.

Like I said, I agree on the existence of this problem. There are people capable of taking advantage of this, so necessarily there must be other people drawing the short straw and getting aggravated. As I see it, if you are gaming the system for your own benefit, you are not likely to care about the entertainment value of others - the problem is, that there are bound to be people doing the mass creation of games without realizing the impact and without malice aforethought.