Sorry if I'm a bit terse this morning- it is Monday and all Hell has broken out in the server room.

I'm not into what if's. I am into what happened.
Banter is fine when kept civil.
Even Mike Tyson had nice things to say after he got his arse handed to him, especially considering his pre-fight smack talk included his assertion that he would "Eat his children".

Yes, a lot of people that lose tend to tone down thier attitudes some. It sort of gives that "wounded dog with a limp" effect. It gets sympathy from the crowd.

Yup, we have a weird affinity for underdogs, and we don't like bullies or sore winners.

This was just a practice game, but in a Tournament there is no player swapping. You commit with the players you come with. Chaos wanted to play red, when with his connection he would have been better suited to play farmer. I will always encourage players to stretch themselves and not get pigeoned holed into a position just for the sake of winning.

This is a game, we play hard, and we play to win. But, we also allow people to choose how and what position they want to play. This is how we learn, and this is how we have fun.

But most importantly, this is how we grow the player base. I've heard players who have been "trained" on a perma-corp who only felt as if they were nothing but a bot. They weren't allowed to run their own turns because winning a game was more important than having fun.

That's not the kind of corp I run.