That’s an interesting description to ascribe to your opponents. I certainly hope you haven’t taken so much offense at the relatively innocuous comments in this thread, so I’ll assume your description of “petty cerebrates” was in jest rather than a knee jerk reaction. Personally, if I were to make fun of my own server, I would ignore the obvious myth that most players watch their mini-map and keep track of their surroundings, and instead I would make light of the fact that our overprivleged PvE server hits the 10 tag per map cap on a regular basis.
I didn’t give an earlier definition. The guy that did has a name kind of similar to mine though.
I think I’d stand by the cerebrates thing for players that aren’t using voip though, or at least in a WvW guild that’s trying to be good at this stuff (though my instincts say that there’s 99% overlap between those two categories.)
The cerebrates weren’t bad per se, they were just spending the bulk of their time keeping the swarms together instead of letting them fall apart and sit idle while important “world map” objectives were going on.
But kill those and the roaches scatter (oh-wait-those-are-from-the-second-game.)
I’m not really dissing any particular server, it is just a terrible experience trying to get a lot of people to follow typed commands- or your server has already won and you can just run karma trains that just wins with numbers; no real strategy besides “shoot at everything and tunnel vision on gates we’re ramming.”
There’s simply a lot more you can do when you actually care to do more that a 1v1 build and basically only contribute your autoattacks to getting into towers/keeps. You can play this like it’s a single player game or you can upgrade to a hero unit that actually is more useful in group combat.
But most players don’t even want to learn the sPvP stuff that’s useful in WvW.
I don’t think I understand the points system correctly. Can someone explain? Pretty much everytime I checked for the last 36hours, IoJ has had slightly more contested areas, but FA has increased the lead by almost 4k during that period. What else is used to calculate server score?
Dolyak & Sentry kills grant points
Using the point tick timer to your advantage is also key.
You also get points when dolyaks hit a door (maybe with an extra condition that’s harder to nail down.)
I’d say most of the score gap is probably from hours when sostronk isn’t looking. FA has a pretty big surge of players after midnight so they could easily be creating much of the spread during odd times of day.
Likewise the other sources of points aren’t something you’d expect to see a lot of activity on if they’re not actively trying to capture a lot of PoIs.
I am trying a character assassination on you with a carebear stare. Read the forum rules sticky and you’ll get it. You troll a lot so you seem like an obvious target.
“Do not engage in personal attacks against forum members or in character assassination.”
I think what they actually prefer is that you click the report button when I behave inappropriately, largely because if they decide to infract me they still have to remove your character snipe post. Seriously, they don’t want the forums filling up with posts about who deserves to be banned.
As for me being a troll: I mainly try to supply useful information, dispel rumors, and be kind of funny about the competition stuff. A lot of the time I totally botch the last one.
Whether it seemed funnier in my head or I’m doing Freudian slips and such, I just don’t quite get it right every time.
I think the big problem is the volume of it all, so I’m planning on throttling back to only responding to two or maybe three posts in any one go. Sound good and not-troll-y?
I’d quote the villain from the second care bears movie after they make him care but I can’t find it (it would have been funny, I’m sure of it!)
Italucuc[KH] – 80 Mesmer – Tarnished Coast
. We’re missing you out there.
. Then we’ll be giving CD a run for their money
