Originally posted by Time Trial
You are an elite GLB player. Fantastic. That means that I owe you the respect of being good at GLB, not that you are some GLB Oracle.I am not just an elite GLB player. I'm someone who has repeatedly pointed out issues and proposed solutions for the many flaws in GLB, many of which have resulted in an improved game. I'm someone who has an understanding of the player base and sees potential problems before they occur. I'm someone who grasps the GLB zeitgeist. I have proven myself so many times in so many ways that someone like you should feel genuinely conflicted about whether or not to argue with me about something, both because I'm almost always correct and because someone who has done as much as I have has credibility that you lack.
Originally posted by
you'd better realize who you are talking toOh I'm pretty sure I covered that already. You're a guy who was honored to be chosen to test GLB2, who wants to be prominent in GLB2, and thinks that a way to insure that is to be an apologist for GLB2. Which is fine because I really don't give a shit about GLB2, but you arguing with me about GLB1 is comical. Don't do it.
Originally posted by
If you don't want your arguments characterized incorrectly, you should do a better job of establishing them.I articulated my points clearly and correctly. Your attempt to mischaracterize them so that you could argue against them is your own doing. No one had any trouble understanding what I was saying.
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Lolminors become the lolminors in large part due to ALGs. Period. Why? Because they created an environment where you had to build in such a way as to ignore "present" success in order to create future success.Nonsense. I know I started slowbuilding with my s4d0 dots and the minors continued to be entertaining long, long after that. Moreover, how does slow-building even impede early enjoyment? You push speed or strength really hard at the beginning of a dot. Guess what works well even at low levels? Pushing speed or strength really hard at the beginning. Sure, early dots could theoretically perform better by investing in SAs and stamina, but if the elite builders chose not to do that then wouldn't that just mean it gave an opportunity for other agents to have success? That's the part people like you have never been able to explain. Regardless, you're still dodging the fundamental truth, which is that minors didn't become "lolminors" until well into the game's lifespan. It clearly had nothing to do ALGs and you look obstinate for insisting otherwise. The minors became "lolminors" because dumping regions robbed the lower levels of what made them even a little bit interesting, and because once you're used to high level dots doing a lot of things it's hard to be interested in dots that can't. The latter is unavoidable in any system where players progress, including GLB2.
Originally posted by
The endgame killed GLB1. When people only began caring about the last trophy, they were forced to choose between winning that first trophy and winning that last trophy.
Plenty of WL teams won trophies on their way up and even more farm teams did. The choice between winning and not winning in the minors had nothing whatsoever to do with ALGs, it had to do with whether or not you wanted to put forth effort. WL coordinators like me are already exhausted just handling the WL and Pro jobs we have. I'm sure I could win lots of minors trophies if I cared to, but it would mean turning GLB1 even more into a job than it already feels.
Originally posted by
Building wasn't fun anymore. It became a chore. Focus on the long-term, cap this, train that, leave enough room for 3 AEQ... nothing has changed in so long that the whole thing is stale.You would agree that I am a vastly better builder than you are, correct? Yet even I haven't "mastered" it. There are not only new things still left to try, but quite a bit of debate about what approaches produce the best results. It isn't stale whatsoever, you've just given up on trying to get any better.
Originally posted by
I guess I'm to assume that you have, because you are GLBGODELITE, so I'm to assume that you have already done everything possible to improve your PDs.This kind of thing just pisses me off because it is so deeply, deeply stupid. When you make utterly moronic comments I take it as an insult because I consider my time to be valuable and you are wasting it with worthless drivel. Idiot, I provided statistics showing that
no one is getting many PDs in GLB2. It is a problem with the game there, not builds. But for the record, yes, every single one of my points on my coverage LB over there have gone to what I thought would be PD-relevant skills. I just had the misfortune to try building something that has absolutely no purpose or value on GLB2.
