Originally Posted by
morella888
Cook, you know I like you as a person. My passion hasn't dwindled - my patience has. From talking to at least a dozen other people who have moved on, decisions to do so aren't primarily gamer adhd, it is because people get tired of being called out for not having painted models, for running a faction people just love to bitch about, for fielding an army that violates someone else's notion of fluff-appropriate, for running things that some set has arbitrarily labelled OP. Basically, a lot of people are given sh*t in the group a lot of the time, and the 'people need to stop acting like little girls' retort is not only not helpful, it is one I personally just don't wish to hear ever again.
If there is a desire to make a space for a hobby/fluffy event, then I see no reason why that can't be done. Just write the criteria in such a way that would discourage all perceived d-bags from wanting to participate. And give it a different name than 'tournament' because that is apparently code-word in geekspeak for bringing out the balls-hard crap. Then create another space for the d*ck-kicker lists/players as well.
But the constant giving of sh*t to people for playing the armies they want - maybe one or two people deserve that (and the people I am thinking of deserve to be treated badly anyway just for being terrible sacks of excrement in all manner of human interaction) - the rest are fun, friendly people who are totally open to changing things up if anyone were willing to have a respectful discussion with them. But nobody bothers having that talk in that manner. Instead we get gossip, complaining, and a general unwillingness to sit down and have adult conversations. I don't think I can be any more clear than I said first - disagreements aren't the problem, those are a natural result of human economy. It is the utter lack of decorum and respect that I find appalling.
I get that you say it is respectful to give people their space, but in the many many messages I have sent to people who don't come in, not one has ever indicated that I was in any way intruding. And most have been more than willing to explain to me exactly why they dropped 40k, which was really the reason for me saying anything at all.
Also, as far as the campaign issues I have: allowing the ports to give planet wide striking ability is a huge mistake. It makes it impossible to determine which areas need strengthening and basically makes any movement across land a moot consideration. Just grab a port and strike wherever you like. And by turn 4, any group that holds the shield/port combos will have a lock on that. There will be absolutely zero reason to try and move on those targets in turn 5/6. So groups put their strongest player to the task of attacking and defending those targets for the next two turns then move on to grabbing as much land area as they can in the final two, and since the have unlimited reach, they get to control the entire map. I see this as being tremendously unbalanced and likely it will go in Chaos's favor as they have had the best positioning. Had I been aware of the change, Xenos would have had a completely different list of targets turn2 in anticipation of the above. Plus the team captain thing, which I never wanted, was too much effort with too little feedback. So the decisions I spent a lot of time considering for turn2 and had to make on behalf of my team turned out to be bad based on lack of information regarding these changes. It made me more tired and unable to enjoy the campaign. Add that on top of the general frustration I feel knowing that to play games with several people I like will mean having to travel all over town to different stores, and yeah, just too much aggravation would be involved in continuing this thing.
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