Possible setting for next version... great idea... make it part of the game...

Oh.. can I be team leader... huh? Pretty please!

Yes, daddy... I'm sorry. Please forgive me

[quote="rem0te]Wait wait wait.... its a sport? I thought it was war! >_>

So according to this logic, 10 solo player gangin up against a 5 man corp would also be cheating?

If you really want "fair match", play in game where maximum number or corp is 2. As soon there is more than two team, there is bound to be alliance and backstabbing. That is human nature.[/quote]

lol, if it is anything goes, and it is allowed by the game, or uncontrolled by the game for that matter, then there are no rules and there can be no "cheating". If I remember right someone ptorped dock in a tournament - seems like there was a lot of "foul" calls going out, but "the game allowed it". The recent SS crawling incident brought out a flame war, but was it cheating? No, but it was funny. A "bug" in one player's eyes may just be a feature/tactic in another's.

To answer your question, no TW is not a sport, it is a game and most games have rules. The sports analogy is about a fair fight or competition, where you are equal competitors in regard to numbers.

If I had to call in more corpies than another corp has, or resort to megacorping to take someone out, then I wouldn't be much of a player. I would be admitting I couldn't play the game at the same skill level. Maybe I can't, then I lose.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

Yeh, but it's your responsibility to find your own corpies. Or, if you don't want to have corpmates, then accept that fact. If a solo player is buzzing around, and a corp of 5 come in, does that mean that corp of 5 isn't playing fair? No way, it's a perfectly fair fight because the rules allow the solo to find 4 more players. If the solo player doesn't want to find 4 more players, then that's his/her choice... for better or worse.

It wouldn't be fair if one corp was allowed more players than another, but that's not the situation.

Agreed on that if the corp of 5 starts that way. If someone starts out as a solo and he gets his bell rung and calls for help, then he/she just admitted they can't hang. I will trash talk the original player's lack of skill even as I go down in flames. If by some miracle I take them out.......

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

hell this game is all about finding new ways to have an edge over the opponent. if i'm doing something shady i know its wrong.. but i never felt wrong about calling a peace with one corp to go after another, as long as we kept it just a peace and not asset sharing. its not like alliances are a new epidemic hitting the community, when i first started playing tw it was ALL about which corps you were allianced with and was never called viewed as a shady activity back then. i'd like to know when the masses decided this was wrong. in the end every corp will be your enemy, by doing this you just have a little control over who is your enemy first. i agree it sucks losing because 2 (or more) teams had to gang up on you, but its kind of a compliment at the same time.

In a game with 3 teams, it was inevitable really. Both of us holding back just enough hoping the other is using more assets against the third so we can take each other out in the end. The one we're NOT at peace with may or may not have more skill or assets. But, they were the first to use aggression. Corp 3 didn't just attack one of the other two corps, they attacked both first. Now both are returning the favor. This is a game of skill, luck and politics. Not just programs, scripts and formulas. Humans at the keys... imagine that! A bit harder to predict than some pubic script. Roflmao!

It's good to know the scripts still need us. Mayby someday they won't