What do you do when your team is losing it?
Even lower than rage quitting is rage spectating and critiquing your former team for doing so poorly.
Are you a rage-quitter?
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Re: Are you a rage-quitter?
No, I actively try not to. Too many games won in the last minute.
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Re: Are you a rage-quitter?
You left out an "All of the above depending if Xexx and Leon are on the same team" option.
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Re: Are you a rage-quitter?
What I do is actually between the first two options, as long as people aren't being total dicks*. I try not to leave during a round, if at all possible. If I'm on a hopeless team and I want to leave, I'll finish the round. Just before the next round happens, I will leave the team. Rarely, I will sandbag for the last 30 seconds of a round-- only if it's clearly hopeless (no nodes, etc.). I'll drive around beeping a horn or something.
*EXCEPTION: I only rage when people are in dick mode, e.g. the teams are obviously off at the start and the enemy team intentionally sandbags to avoid a mulligan. If that's the case, someone from the enemy can gladly take my spot on my team when I and others leave mid round. This is discourage this lack of sportsmanship. Be a dick, risk getting switched to the losing team. Lesson: don't be a dick. If the teams are uneven, just end it... I'm fine with that.
*EXCEPTION: I only rage when people are in dick mode, e.g. the teams are obviously off at the start and the enemy team intentionally sandbags to avoid a mulligan. If that's the case, someone from the enemy can gladly take my spot on my team when I and others leave mid round. This is discourage this lack of sportsmanship. Be a dick, risk getting switched to the losing team. Lesson: don't be a dick. If the teams are uneven, just end it... I'm fine with that.
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Re: Are you a rage-quitter?
You can vote for all 3 options. Or only 1, or 2.infinitecat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 03, 2022 9:32 pm You left out an "All of the above depending if Xexx and Leon are on the same team" option.
The poll is anonymous. I can't see who voted for what.
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Re: Are you a rage-quitter?
I won't sandbag as I hate it when others do it, but I'll leave if the team is shit and I've had a bad day already. This game, and the server, are my little bar after work to decompress. I've dealt with idiots who shouldn't be allowed to breed all day so I don't want to come here and have to deal with the same.
Same goes for constant unbalanced teams. I'll deal with a map or two of enyo/leon/xexx/sk/etc against the rest, but I'm out after the third or fourth map of that.
Same goes for constant unbalanced teams. I'll deal with a map or two of enyo/leon/xexx/sk/etc against the rest, but I'm out after the third or fourth map of that.
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Re: Are you a rage-quitter?
With the mulligan in play now, sandbagging really should be a bigger offense than it is. Instead of switching to the winning team, douches sandbag and stay on the winning team. If the result is the same, the punishment should be too.
Re: Are you a rage-quitter?
I've meant to "sandbag" before (if you'd call it sandbagging when team has no nodes and low core), but I can't manage even when loss is inevitable (or do you think it's never inevitable? i.e. name it and claim it). It's Pavlovian, if I've joined I have to shoot stuff. Although I do screw around on Tricky from time to time.
Freeze tag over on HoC seems very disciplined on team balancing/joining, so that has rubbed off on me.
Freeze tag over on HoC seems very disciplined on team balancing/joining, so that has rubbed off on me.
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Re: Are you a rage-quitter?
Thank you. I'm one of the admins over there and we can personally switch players to opposite teams to balance the teams. The balancer isn't perfect, but it does a decent job. Where we run into issues is when people join during the game, and we have to adjust the teams. If it's an 8-8 game and someone joins, I move them back to spectate and they will have to sit until the next map. We try to make them even as possible but that is not always the case. Honestly, it's not. You'll never get a perfect balance map / game play.DrScrotey wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 6:30 pm I've meant to "sandbag" before (if you'd call it sandbagging when team has no nodes and low core), but I can't manage even when loss is inevitable (or do you think it's never inevitable? i.e. name it and claim it). It's Pavlovian, if I've joined I have to shoot stuff. Although I do screw around on Tricky from time to time.
Freeze tag over on HoC seems very disciplined on team balancing/joining, so that has rubbed off on me.
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Re: Are you a rage-quitter?
These results are the direct opposite of what I observe on the server.
Meaning: The people replying to this poll are not representative of real life. The survey sample is too small.
For example:
1. 90% of drivers think they are better than 90% of the drivers on the road.
2. 90% of college professors thought they were above average teachers.
3. Out of 800,000 high school students, only 1% thought their social skills were below average.
This is known as illusory superiority or better known as the Lake Wobegon Effect, (Dunning-Kruger effect). And don't get me started about religious/political correctness and moral piety, LOL
Meaning: The people replying to this poll are not representative of real life. The survey sample is too small.
For example:
1. 90% of drivers think they are better than 90% of the drivers on the road.
2. 90% of college professors thought they were above average teachers.
3. Out of 800,000 high school students, only 1% thought their social skills were below average.
This is known as illusory superiority or better known as the Lake Wobegon Effect, (Dunning-Kruger effect). And don't get me started about religious/political correctness and moral piety, LOL