x Misako
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Posted - 2006.02.27 11:03:00 -
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Hehe, the Thatcher post had me in stiches. Anyhow, I think the biggest problem with stabs is that they are a powerful tool consistently used by people with mindsets crapped up to the point where their existence is found abhorrent by any logically reasoning players.
An example: I was having some fun with my Rupture around Jan and here jumps in a Deimos. I think - what the hell, whatever, I can beat a Thorax, I can try a Deimos, I wonder how his duper tank is gonna take to my EMP. The guy charges at me, I scram -2, do the usual stuff - halfway into my clips the guys sports a sweet smoke from his ass and WARPS AWAY. Judging by the way he went down, I seriously doubt he had anything in his lows besides the med rep and the stabs.
It's that kind of idiocy that generates the hate - people like these just waste everyone's time and the stabs only help them do so, which causes frustration. And lots of it. There are times in <0.4 when you feel as if 50% of all the players were hardcore 30yr-old BDSM'ers who never had the balls to tell their girls about their little secret and now they feel so unfulfilled they just have to take it out on someone. Damn, I actually even stopped responding to people asking me "hey, you're like a one-anna-half year old char, come and help us kill that sniper", because there's no point, he's going to be stabbed to hell, so I tell all the beginners to read up on bookmarks and leave them 10 free copies of the system on ESC, because there's just no point in fighting whatsoever.
And there are zillions of these examples - stabbed gate camps in 0.0 that smack traders and miners for wcs'ing their barges and indys, stabbed gate camps that SS when you call for friends to have a nice 3 on 3 (and smack you in local), then you have stabbed NPC'ers in apocs that run from BS spawns (AND YOU) because of that, stabbed jammers that can't break your tank and smack you for calling in friends (which can take a LOT of time sometimes). Ah, Jesus, all Stab users should have to pass psychological tests first, this way we'd have stabbed friendly carebears, miners, travellers and mildly (1-2) stabbed 0.0 ratters and that would be it:). Gee, you see? Stupid stabs made me write all that pointless stuff, which is mostly repetition of others' opinions anyway.
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