Post by Rune Lai on Jun 8, 2023 21:08:08 GMT -5
This is an online PvP vent, so feel free to ignore if you don't relate.
I don't play many team-based PvP games, but if a PvE game offers it on the side, I'll occasionally play, particular if it's with guildmates. So my guild entered a 3-team match which involves protecting/capturing/holding resource towers. Pretty standard stuff.
Sometimes one team will call out in public chat "Hey, how about a truce?" in regards to our spawn point's resource tower, so everyone who plays is guaranteed a certain number of resources they can take out of the match for other activities. Any other towers would be up for grabs as normal. Some people like truces because it makes it easier for weaker teams to come away with some sort of reward, but it also hampers stronger teams who want to move up the ladder because of how points are awarded at the end of the match. It's a real pain for attackers to have to maneuver around the resource tower since it's at a nexus point in everyone's home base so if you want to cap all the other towers in an opponent's base you actually have to go back outside and path around to another entrance to get the other side. Also some people just don't read chat and which results in drama as someone breaks the truce and everything falls apart.
My guild as a general rule, never asks for a truce and will very rarely agree to one. (Generally we only agree if we are extremely outmatched and would otherwise remain trapped inside our base, but even then we don't ask.)
Anyway, our guild leader who normally handles these agreements was afk when the conversation came up (these matches last two days in real time so people aren't there the whole time) and it was getting close to the gates' opening time so there was some guild chat about it. Most were not in favor, but one person brought up an excellent point that the other two teams had already agreed so they might gang up on us, and we were currently in third place, though we weren't down by much. We actually held more towers than anyone else at the moment and were earning more points per minute than the competition. So we decided to agree on the condition that the truce was over two hours before the end of the match and then it would be a free for all, because holding towers at the end of a match is the most important part to move up the rankings and a good chunk of our most active players are competitive. It seemed a reasonable way to allow people to collect resources and then for stronger teams to grab what they could.
So I made the executive decision to speak for the guild since the guild leader wasn't around and tell the other teams "We agree under these conditions." The other guilds were pretty rude about saying no conditions and we had two hours to agree, which made me annoyed, but I was mostly "whatever" since there's a reason I don't normally read public chat. I'm not a trash talker and don't like to listen to it. But then this one guy from the other team started making a crude threat that required him spacing out words to avoid the chat filter so you know he's spending extra effort to be an ass. (I mean, is talking smack a good way to get someone to agree to a truce?) I probably would've been like "whatever" as well but something made me want to look up his name so I checked the current leaderboard to see if he could actually vendetta us into a bad position. The gates to enemy bases open after the first full day, so the leaderboard is well established by then, and the rude threat was coming from Mr. Rank #31 out of 60 players.
Suddenly it felt like I was being barked at by a very small dog. I was not impressed.
(Given the two day time period of the match, anyone who places in the bottom half of the rankings is someone who either completely sucks and/or barely shows up. The guys who check in every hour tend to make up the top 10. I usually end up somewhere around 15-30 which is how I know you're barely there if you're below rank 30, because I get rank 30 when I'm barely there.)
Anyway, I hope we end up kicking their butts, and if I have an equal opportunity choice between mowing over a random person or the small dog for my next target, I may choose the dog.
I don't play many team-based PvP games, but if a PvE game offers it on the side, I'll occasionally play, particular if it's with guildmates. So my guild entered a 3-team match which involves protecting/capturing/holding resource towers. Pretty standard stuff.
Sometimes one team will call out in public chat "Hey, how about a truce?" in regards to our spawn point's resource tower, so everyone who plays is guaranteed a certain number of resources they can take out of the match for other activities. Any other towers would be up for grabs as normal. Some people like truces because it makes it easier for weaker teams to come away with some sort of reward, but it also hampers stronger teams who want to move up the ladder because of how points are awarded at the end of the match. It's a real pain for attackers to have to maneuver around the resource tower since it's at a nexus point in everyone's home base so if you want to cap all the other towers in an opponent's base you actually have to go back outside and path around to another entrance to get the other side. Also some people just don't read chat and which results in drama as someone breaks the truce and everything falls apart.
My guild as a general rule, never asks for a truce and will very rarely agree to one. (Generally we only agree if we are extremely outmatched and would otherwise remain trapped inside our base, but even then we don't ask.)
Anyway, our guild leader who normally handles these agreements was afk when the conversation came up (these matches last two days in real time so people aren't there the whole time) and it was getting close to the gates' opening time so there was some guild chat about it. Most were not in favor, but one person brought up an excellent point that the other two teams had already agreed so they might gang up on us, and we were currently in third place, though we weren't down by much. We actually held more towers than anyone else at the moment and were earning more points per minute than the competition. So we decided to agree on the condition that the truce was over two hours before the end of the match and then it would be a free for all, because holding towers at the end of a match is the most important part to move up the rankings and a good chunk of our most active players are competitive. It seemed a reasonable way to allow people to collect resources and then for stronger teams to grab what they could.
So I made the executive decision to speak for the guild since the guild leader wasn't around and tell the other teams "We agree under these conditions." The other guilds were pretty rude about saying no conditions and we had two hours to agree, which made me annoyed, but I was mostly "whatever" since there's a reason I don't normally read public chat. I'm not a trash talker and don't like to listen to it. But then this one guy from the other team started making a crude threat that required him spacing out words to avoid the chat filter so you know he's spending extra effort to be an ass. (I mean, is talking smack a good way to get someone to agree to a truce?) I probably would've been like "whatever" as well but something made me want to look up his name so I checked the current leaderboard to see if he could actually vendetta us into a bad position. The gates to enemy bases open after the first full day, so the leaderboard is well established by then, and the rude threat was coming from Mr. Rank #31 out of 60 players.
Suddenly it felt like I was being barked at by a very small dog. I was not impressed.
(Given the two day time period of the match, anyone who places in the bottom half of the rankings is someone who either completely sucks and/or barely shows up. The guys who check in every hour tend to make up the top 10. I usually end up somewhere around 15-30 which is how I know you're barely there if you're below rank 30, because I get rank 30 when I'm barely there.)
Anyway, I hope we end up kicking their butts, and if I have an equal opportunity choice between mowing over a random person or the small dog for my next target, I may choose the dog.