GrimThorne
GrimThorne
Since 6681 Days
My 3rd tier of Captain begins and I've once again got that mountain climbing feeling.

The temporary ban on quitters has produced a new annoyance..................Betrayal Sprees. Players who don't want to get banned but instead turn on their teammates, hoping to provoke a boot from the game. I noticed this happening a few times last week, but it's happening with a great deal more frequency now. I saw a team just cutting into each other after a match wasn't going well for them. My team just looked on and was like "WTF?" And then I saw it happen a few more times, and then again and again. This of course leaves just one player left........the one who couldn't boot himself! LOL!

Hell I've wanted to quit before Infection and Rally games, but it's just such bad form. I really don't understand it either, even if you lose the match still rewards you with cRs. Why not just slog it out and finish the game?
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roxwell - PuS3Y
roxwell
Since 6757 Days
I'm going to try to get on this weekend but 7pm pst is 3am for me :/
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Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 6809 Days
Posted by GrimThorne
My 3rd tier of Captain begins and I've once again got that mountain climbing feeling.
It's not half as bad as WO Grade 3. Well, I guess technically it's more than half as bad, but it's still not that bad and it goes quickly! I haven't been able to play nearly as much this week, and I missed some challenges, but I'm still almost through it anyway! If I do play tonight, I should be Major by tomorrow.
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deftangel - Hot stuff!
deftangel
Since 6677 Days
Posted by Acert93
OK, so we may need to plan this some. But I say we make this happen in the next month or so. Are people game to this idea?

A Saturday night works for me most weeks if it is later. Sundays during the day as well.
I'm game. 3am on Saturday might be a bit of a stretch though. Perhaps a weekend afternoon is doable for people both sides of the atlantic? We could steal the humpday template that Bungie use. Three games etc. Someone nice can write it up :)
Posted by GrimThorne
The temporary ban on quitters has produced a new annoyance..................Betrayal Sprees. Players who don't want to get banned but instead turn on their teammates, hoping to provoke a boot from the game. I noticed this happening a few times last week, but it's happening with a great deal more frequency now. I saw a team just cutting into each other after a match wasn't going well for them. My team just looked on and was like "WTF?" And then I saw it happen a few more times, and then again and again. This of course leaves just one player left........the one who couldn't boot himself! LOL!

Hell I've wanted to quit before Infection and Rally games, but it's just such bad form. I really don't understand it either, even if you lose the match still rewards you with cRs. Why not just slog it out and finish the game?
Blimey, that sounds annoying. Not encountered it myself. I would have thought the matchmaking bans apply to serial betrayers as well as quitters. If not, I hope that is implemented in short order to stamp that out.

I got left on my own in an Invasion game as a Spartan. The Elites then decided to spawn camp the single spartan spawn and have a "gangbang" as they put it. Bloody annoying because they were giving it johnny big bollocks over voice chat despite it being six to bloody one. It didn't occur to me to just quit because I still had Halo 3 in the back of mind with the EXP penalties. I tried to use Evade and managed to get a couple of sticks but ended up with 25 deaths.

I wish there was a selection of spawns and/or at least an option to spawn with a sword in these circumstances. It would have made a much more interesting file share video. I left them bad feedback largely because they were being dicks, but they also didn't stick around to play me again with team mates!
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 6809 Days
I was wondering if the temp bans even worked. I've still encountered plenty of quitters.
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deftangel - Hot stuff!
deftangel
Since 6677 Days
Posted by GriftGFX
I was wondering if the temp bans even worked. I've still encountered plenty of quitters.
I think when I read about it they need to build up the networking profile first to account for people with bad connections. That seemed to take me a lot of games, at least 50. Then the longer bans only kick in for repeat offenders.

In my experience there has been less quitters than Halo 3 so far. I can think of a few games where the odd person has quit but literally only 2 so far where there was a lot of quitting or it really affected the game. I play a lot of Big Team mind so it might just feel less.

Today's challenges are over 5000 cR but I can't play tonight. That alone would nearly see me into WO3. Rubbish!
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Frozpot
Frozpot
Since 6567 Days
Yeah, I've had a few games where everyone but me quits on my team. I take a bit of pride just TRYING to go down swinging. I don't quit unless there is an emergency. That whole betrayal boot tactic seems like it will backfire eventually, plus you loose points for killing teammates.
I loose a bit of faith in humanity when I see how many genuinely shitty people there are online...
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Oooh, Profound, isn't it?

Ronsauce
Ronsauce
Since 6794 Days
Posted by Frozpot
I loose a bit of faith in humanity when I see how many genuinely shitty people there are online...
Seriously... What compels these folks to quit? Is it borne of some weird fear that their e-peen will shrink by adding another loss to their record or something? Honestly, I'd rather get the points/creds for completing a match while getting slaughtered than quit.
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Zapp Brannigan: If we can hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards...Checkmate.

Tinks
Tinks
Since 6738 Days
Posted by Acert93
Would we get boulet'd for life if the mods lost though? :p
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ManThatYouFear
ManThatYouFear
Since 6752 Days
First of all i know his fucking anme acert, i just could not be arsed to type it..
And PS3 comment really ? yes because i was hoping that it would make it to the ps3...

I see this place has not changed, your opinion overides others, we cant touch "360" games and hate them because that makes us fanboys and all that shit, let alone i did not even say i hated it just said it was "meh", not my bad the game played like a ODST/Halo:CE hybrid

I would quote you people but your just not worth that much effort..search the original comments yourselfs if your sad enough.
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I want my games room finished now :(

GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 6809 Days
Posted by ManThatYouFear
First of all i know his fucking anme acert, i just could not be arsed to type it..
Acert didn't say that. And really? You couldn't be "arsed" to type a whole extra "O'?"
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Posted by Acert93
Would we get boulet'd for life if the mods lost though? :p
Why boulet when we can ban! ;)
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ManThatYouFear
ManThatYouFear
Since 6752 Days
*stares at massive collection of soundtrack, including the prized halo 1 and 2 (disk 2) soundtracks by Marty o fucking donnell*

That make you feel better ?

sweet fucking god.
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I want my games room finished now :(

Acert93 - Mr. Bad Cop
Acert93
Since 6780 Days
Posted by Tinks
Would we get boulet'd for life if the mods lost though? :p
Nah, you could even make a video via Bungie Pro and link it in your sig about how you beat the mods.

But seriously, who said you guys have any chance of winning???
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Pwn'd by Phaethon360.

Tinks
Tinks
Since 6738 Days
SO what are the stakes
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GriftGFX - He can also<br>ban your ass!
GriftGFX
Since 6809 Days
Posted by Tinks
SO what are the stakes
Why does there have to be stakes? We can play for fun, right? Or maybe there should be STEAKS!
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blmbox
blmbox
Since 6140 Days
I'll play for steaks.
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Acert93 - Mr. Bad Cop
Acert93
Since 6780 Days
Posted by Tinks
SO what are the stakes
If Forumites Lose: Tinks gets a 2 week ban.

If Mods Lose: Tinkers get a 2 day ban.

Wow, I am great odds maker :P

We could play "Sigs." Losing squad takes on a Pwn'd tag with a link to the most humbling of the matches. Something like:

"Team Gamersyde was owned by Tinks, blmbox, Ronsauce, Op, Frozpot, and My Little Pony. Hail to the kings!"

We could even post the match ...
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Pwn'd by Phaethon360.

Tinks
Tinks
Since 6738 Days
Who is this Tinkers fellow I have yet to meet

I was thinking we'd wager Ronsauce for Acert to serve as forum butler
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blmbox
blmbox
Since 6140 Days
* If we win you turn my lower case 'b' into a capital 'b'. Because I'm boss.
* If we lose you can rename me 'blmbitch'.
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LEBATO - IS WRONG
LEBATO
Since 6931 Days
Hey guys, I'll be down to play some reach on either Fri: After 7PM Pacific, Sat: Anytime, Sun: Anytime.
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Mods, stop changing my SIG! I'm going to end up banning you!

dcdelgado
dcdelgado
Since 6669 Days
ok so who won?
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** Yes We CAN!! **

Acert93 - Mr. Bad Cop
Acert93
Since 6780 Days
We need to schedule a time. Something about mods being in another country (I thought only American's mattered?) and needing to schedule something.

Maybe next Sunday, middle of the day PST? Like 3pm PST?

Who could be there. That is the only non-evening I could make it.
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Pwn'd by Phaethon360.

Tinks
Tinks
Since 6738 Days
You should probably figure out timezones first. Like I am EST
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Frozpot
Frozpot
Since 6567 Days
Mountain Time...
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Oooh, Profound, isn't it?

deftangel - Hot stuff!
deftangel
Since 6677 Days
Posted by Acert93
We need to schedule a time. Something about mods being in another country (I thought only American's mattered?) and needing to schedule something.

Maybe next Sunday, middle of the day PST? Like 3pm PST?

Who could be there. That is the only non-evening I could make it.
That's doable for me. 11pm BST I think.
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