Quote (ElCubanito @ Mar 7 2012 10:08pm)
i wouldnt consider that somethign to be proud of, then again, when i look at the ppl pvp east considers tier 1, they all l8z for ages in order to win 1 duel
http://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win-part-1.htmlI'd read up if I were you. A few quotes below.
"You're not going to see a classic scrub throw his opponent 5 times in a row. But why not? What if doing so is strategically the sequence of moves that optimize his chances of winning? Here we've encountered our first clash: the scrub is only willing to play to win within his own made-up mental set of rules. These rules can be staggeringly arbitrary. If you beat a scrub by throwing projectile attacks at him, keeping your distance and preventing him from getting near you...that's cheap. If you throw him repeatedly, that's cheap, too. We've covered that one. If you sit in block for 50 seconds doing no moves, that's cheap. Nearly anything you do that ends up making you win is a prime candidate for being called cheap."
"A common call of the scrub is to cry that the kind of play in which ones tries to win at all costs is "boring" or "not fun." Let's consider two groups of players: a group of good players and a group of scrubs. The scrubs will play "for fun" and not explore the extremities of the game. They won't find the most effective tactics and abuse them mercilessly. The good players will. The good players will find incredibly overpowering tactics and patterns. As they play the game more, they'll be forced to find counters to those tactics. The vast majority of tactics that at first appear unbeatable end up having counters, though they are often quite esoteric and difficult to discover. The counter tactic prevents the first player from doing the tactic, but the first player can then use a counter to the counter. The second player is now afraid to use his counter and he's again vulnerable to the original overpowering tactic. (See my article on Yomi layer 3 for much more on that.)"
"Can you imagine what will happen when the two groups of players meet? The experts will absolutely destroy the scrubs with any number of tactics they've either never seen, or never been truly forced to counter. This is because the scrubs have not been playing the same game. The experts were playing the actual game while the scrubs were playing their own homemade variant with restricting, unwritten rules."
Quote (GoAGoA @ Mar 8 2012 12:21am)
Quit spamming the ladder.
No one cares about old has beens that l8z was named after. It is not something to be proud of.
Anyone currently on the ladder will receive suspension for spamming, anyone who is not on the ladder will never be aloud to join and be reported to a mod/med.
Take it to pm's.
I'm gonna be completely honest when i say no one cares.
This post was edited by Jekel on Mar 8 2012 01:34pm