Originally Posted by
smercjd
Thanks for clarifying. That makes me feel a lot better on your stand point.
Strat0 said it right - I was speaking out of emotion. I heard that a friend quit because of jerks and I was angry. I still am, but I don't mean to make it worse by calling everyone a-holes.
As for playing less than an age, and taking it, etc...I think you've got me confused with someone else. I don't "take it" - I hit back, so long as I have the resources/capabilities to do so. And it's not "smaller kingdoms" - it's "ghetto" there's pretty significant difference. Ghetto entails inactivity and people who don't build properly and aren't able to retal. Small KDs that are still good can do so. I'm not trying to take away from any of the "experience" or awesome that is the people that play in top kds. It just seems to be a blanket response from people from top kds "oh well you just take it so deal with it" -- but that's not at all what's going on. 1) I'm not even talking about top kds hitting into us - those I retal the most when I can. I'm talking about the 90% of the other kds out there that are randomly hitting. They hit into ghettos because it's easy to pick us out. When 90% of Utopia is hitting you, you have to play differently. And I think that's the disconnect. Whereas, I played for 2-3 weeks in a top KD and made VERY VERY stupid hits that should have been retal'd, but none of them were retal'd just because of KD status = top KD. THAT aspect, only that one, is what I'm referring to as "easy" -- obviously I know that is not at all the only aspect in existence. The growing, the strategy of how to approach it, picking races/personalities, who to war and when to do it, sizing for wars, notices, diplomacy, etc...there's a lot - and probably much more - to the top KDs that are IMO quite difficult to perform perfectly. But in regards to the tranquility of OOW random hitting - it's a breeze.
Anyway, the real intent of me posting anything at all in here was to support Palem. My emotions carried me away into something totally different. If you read this, Palem, know that I'm sad to see you go - and that if/when you come back, let me know and I'll be there. :)
