To all the flames on primal datacenter...

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For your first point, I never said it wasn’t our fault. A loss is a loss. We couldn’t turn it around. I simply pointed out that Adders had an unusually strong desire to chase us the ENTIRE match, despite the fact that we didn’t even have a node for them to attack.

For your second and third points, you’ve got something quite wrong. I also never said that Adders got second, or won the fights they got themselves into. We failed to take the node, yes, but we took more points in kills than Adders did. Adders did not punish us. They destroyed themselves in a horrible fashion.

After the first node set, our game plan actually was to attack Mael come second node set. In fact, most of us actually did get all the way to the Mael node (save for the poor buggers who are too slow to realize the rest of the team left), but Adders followed us. When we reached the closest Mael node Adders rammed right into our backsides about 1 minute into fighting and preceded to sandwich us against Mael. They followed our team all the way across the map to do this. At that point we ended up trying to pull out because there was no way to take the Mael node with Adders chomping on our butts the entire time. The idea was to try to get Mael and adders to fight, but they only kind of bounced off each other and Adder kept on chasing us. Mael fell back and sat on their nodes, and Adders continued to chase us around the caves.

After this, Mael secured their point lead and the rest of the Flames were too pissed off to care anymore. So we said F it and went on the attack. I'm assuming Adders were ticked off because we had killed so many of them in the first charge, but that's not really an excuse to play like idiots.

Thing is though, I really couldn’t blame Adders for this, because they did worse than we did. By the end of the match, Adders pushed us so far away from their own spawn that, once the Flames finally gave up on trying to attack Mael, we completely obliterated the Adders and took second. This was also due to the fact that Mael, unlike Adders, let us leave when our attack failed. They didn’t chase and let us take care of the Adders who were on our bums (probably because they didn’t see a point in getting involved, but still. It was nice of them.) The points were close, but Adders didn’t even clinch second place because they just would not let us go. They lost more points trying to recklessly chase us around the map than they gained off of any node captures they had.

I also realize what it probably looked like to the Adders. I’ve been in the same spot with Adders or Mael attacking us right off the bat (though not usually with such completely unbalanced node spawns). However, when the nodes are dead, it’s time to leave. There’s always a few idiots who don’t get this, but it’s very rare to have an ENTIRE TEAM play with pure stupidity. Honestly, I feel more sympathy to the few Adders that were likely on their team who were desperately trying to get the rest of the group to stop acting like idiots and throwing the match. Especially considering that whenever the Flames actually stopped to defend themselves, the Adders would take a massive dip in points off of their deaths. You'd think weak players would act more cautiously, but the more they died, the more they chased. This kind of gameplay is silly no matter which GC is doing it.

The point is, and the same point I’ve made since this thread was started, is that it happens regardless of which side of the fence you’re on. Sometimes you just run into that extra special group of people who let it turn into a grudge match instead of going for the win. It’s absolutely idiotic to take a vendetta out against one specific team just because they attacked first, especially at the expense of letting the other team walk all over you. It happens, obviously, to all of the GC’s, but it’s rare to see it get so out of hand.