It speaks volumes about the state of the game (or at least the people talking about it) when players are essentially defending bad behavior in favor of being able to save time on clicking. Guess that's all I have left to say on the matter.
Nobody's defending bad behavior.
Actually qaccy is. He's saying that doing something explicitly within the rules of a strategy game, taking a spot on a GB that is open, is 'bad behavior'.
qaccy, you're the one endorsing bad play two ways. Not teaching players how to avoid an easily avoidable mistake. Worse, encouraging players to have a victim mentality by falsely blaming someone else for the player's mistake.
As long as players blame others for their own mistakes they won't take the steps necessary to correct those mistakes. Years of the Pllunder progress thread and the Help I'm being plundered thread prove this.
The parallels between getting pushed out of a Reward slot and getting plundered are remarkably similar in the respects that both actions are explicitly within the rules of the game; as long as the player thinks they are being 'bullied' they won't take the steps to mitigate; and the steps available to mitigate are effective, easy to learn, and encourage good play.
Continue your sanctimony, continue to not encourage good play, continue to misplace the blame.
I don;t blame you for bailing on this conversation, I wouldn't want to try to defend that position either.
The good part of that though, at least new players won;t be reading more of the awful attitude you are facilitating.
