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| City: | Roma  | | Personal Data: | Male, born: January 03 1962 | | Membership | 19years 340days ago. | | Last Login | 1year 165days ago. | | Last Move | 1year 168days ago. | blackstar0 is currently  | |
| | Message text HeadMMoid wrote:
blackstar0 wrote: Tornade wrote: it would be fairly simple to fix the problem
score the game like the original rules...you score points ONLY for shooting down a plane...nothing else matters Sorry to disagree, Tornade, but this would add an enormous worth to the luck of a mediocre pilot that scores a "Pilot killed!" or "Plane EXPLODES!" with his /her first shot. The scoring of each firing action is the only true test of a pilot ability. This was purposely done for tournaments. And I must disagree completely with your disagreement. You appear to have the concept of WWI aerial combat backwards. In combat the whole point was to shot down the enemy. Firing led to that objective, but was not itself the point of combat; and firing is what the current scoring system primarily rewards. In three or four shots a player is able to obtain a number of points equal to a kill - and the shots don't even have to hit the target to score! While I do believe that points should be awarded for damaging a target (not just shooting), the total for such shooting should never be able to overwhelm the points for achieving kills.
Dear HeadMmoid, I agree that in combat the goal is to kill the enemy.
In playing instead, my goal, and I think also the goal of many other people in this site, is having fun and maybe try to prove my skill in shooting my opponent while avoiding to be shot. My first care is not winning or losing, but having a good fight: the better my opponent, the bigger my fun.
From this point of wiew, I agree that Stonewall has wasted Teramaze's fun in the game, but on the other side he's realized his goal: scoring a victory. And he did this without cheating, just applying the rules.
Maybe we should organize two different types of game: one for people looking for fun, and one for people that want to be photographed while posing one feet over the head of a dead enemy.
(But this question, I think, is much more about our personal philosophy in life than about games.)
Anyone of us can easily write, in the remark of a newly created game, "just for fun" or "last blood fight".
This is not a joke, but a serious suggestion that could avoid many misunderstandings among this two different types of player.
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