May 8th 2019, 3:34:40
I just donno. I come from a state of mind where player lgs can do a lot to start a war, and if you can back them up (as in with a c/i on express and team) with solid netting, can help you win.
People who do them for no other reason than to make fluff difficult for top 10 players are just worthless trash.
Organic growth (as in recruiting people who havent played, friends, neighbors) always brings people, like newbs, that are interested in learning the ins and outs of the game, how to net well etc. That even goes for newbs within clans.
People who used to have power positions in the old game, or were wardogs, tend to act like this. Sure, i want the old players to come back too. Im glad servant and z stuck around after the LCN reunion despite spooge. It's not all bad that comes from reunion but man there's a pattern that's too obvious.
People come back and act like griefer behavior should be accepted because we "need them." The fact is we don't. The admins are doing jack fluff to improve the game or the audience. Thus our only growth comes by way of people who come back with a chip on their shoulder... If the admins dont give a fluff, why should i? Ill enjoy the game regardless.
I think the best way to describe it is this. If you've been here shaking my hand and breaking bread with me for 20 years, you don't act like a fluff to me. Even if we end up on opposite sides mostly, you probably still rank in the top 200 people ive talked to in my life. The game never stops and neither do the relationships.
When you come back to a formerly hostile politics game to a rather amicable politics game, acting like a griefer is just a fluff move and everyone who's been here can see it plainly. Plus without a lack of direction by the game toward playing decent, or even making players aware bots exist, makes the old guard assume griefer behavior, as it was in old times, is acceptable.
I typically don't blame the player, i blame the game. Outbursts at the player are meant to shape them and largely it works. That's generally my intention and opinion on this fluff.
But I'd be lying if i didnt say i think reunion sets are super fluffing annoying because of fluff like this.