Personality of high ranked players

[Larry Mal]

He probably is masturbating though.

[Scott-Land]

I'm sure there are exceptions to the rule, but I have found many highly ranked players to be the most arrogant, pompous individuals on Conquerclub. They are the ones that use the ignore list and refuse to take players off it. They have to have their own way in a game. They call other people degrading things. Has anybody found the same pattern among players with high rankings? It's disappointing, because I wish that the skilled players would at least have the decency to be good people.

I totally agree-- are you talking about chocolate bars or privates?

[lord voldemort]

lol i like most of the high ranks i talk to quite a few...some give me advice, others invite me to games.
maybe its because no one likes you whumpy boy

[firstholliday]

I would say, there is only 1 ass in the top 20. so 95% are good and fun people to play with.

[Dancing Mustard]

People know what I look like and who I am because I don't hide behind a screen name. Go back a page and re-read what I just said.

So I am in fact making conversation with a Border Collie?

And there was me wondering why I couldn't get a sensible response...

[detlef]

Holy fucking shit... don't you people on this forum understand that the Wrestla is fucking with you? He makes up some shit, stirs up the pot, and you all come buzzing out like a bunch of angry hornets. It's god damn amazing is what it is... I wish I had the time to do it myself. He doesn't think higher ranked opponents are mean people! He doesn't give a f*ck about them, or winning, or probably playing motherfucking Risk... he's fucking with you people, and you always fall for it and get all mad and insult him. He's a fucking genius! The best player on this site if you ask me.

Thats an interesting theory to be sure but, if his sole purpose for being here is to pretend to be stupid and rile people up, the joke's really on him. Considering he's played 5x as many games and made 2x as many posts as I have, that means he's put a whole lot of work into not caring about winning or losing and spent a whole lot of time and energy goading people like me into wasting a whole lot of time and energy.

I mean, 1000 games. If he's just playing like an idiot on purpose to create an elaborate ruse that's some serious commitment.

No, I think your assessment is yet another instance of wrongly assuming that nobody can really be that stupid so that anyone appears to be must actually be a genius. I suppose I don't have such faith in my fellow man.

[Snorri1234]

I would say, there is only 1 ass in the top 20. so 95% are good and fun people to play with.

Oooh, I know who it is!

[Warsteiner]

I'm an ass

[westsidekilla6]

I'm an ass

I talked to him he really is

[codeblue1018]

You're putting too much thought into this, detlef. The best answer here is "Most high-ranked players are good people, whump. We just don't feel a compelling need to be nice to a horse's ass such as yourself."

Enough said!

[jiminski]

I'm an ass

hehe you just like showing off that red rimmed Star! sounds filthy!

[codeblue1018]

Maybe this all started on account of me huh Whump? Whump sent me a PM the other day requesting, well, not exactly, telling me to take him off my foe list. Of course, I didn't reply and I believe he received his answer. Like I said Whump, you will be on the foe list for a long long time. I don't play with convicted cheaters, period! Get over it and do me a favor, add me to your list, oh yea thats right, I wont ever join a game you are in anyway. So in short, bub bye!

[wrestler1ump]

This thread proves my point. High ranked players are jerks. Now if anyone would like to prove me wrong, I would be up for a singles game sometime or even invite me into a multiplayer game. If you don't want to lose a lot of points to my bad ranking, I understand. There are some people on this site with a modecrum of decency, but they seem to be few and far between among the high ranked players. I will say this though- warnsteiner is not an ass and is actually a class act.

I try and ignore the people that only want to spew out negativity, but it still doesn't change the fact that they exist and post on this site. It's just a disappointing scenario, because I don't know how many times I have offered someone a game and they say "get fucked" or something along those lines. A little bit of human decency doesn't hurt you know.

As for the person that said I was just getting people riled up, well l'm not. I don't take ranking seriously, but I was up to 1800 points at one point before I got stuck playing too many singles speed games at one time. 1800 is pretty damn good considering non of the high-ranked egoheads would play me. Flame wars is flame wars. And the multi was created to play more games.

So as I was saying, I'm up for a friendly game with anyone- heck even the not high-ranked players. I only inform the community of the sad high-ranked player personalities because they consistently prove to be jackasses. Sorry for flaming outside of flame wars.

[owenshooter]

Sorry for flaming outside of flame wars.

sometimes, you just have to let the freak flag fly.. there is nothing wrong with your sexuality... i think you are a pretty nice guy, regardless of your sexual orientation... people are people, right? anyway, KEEP ON FLAMING!!!

[codeblue1018]

What is sad is that YOU have to create a second account, which is in clear violation of site rules to cheat. Based on this, do you actually think people want to play this type of player, YOU? I'll answer for myself and I am certain plenty will agree, NO!

[Scott-Land]

I'm an ass

nah he's referring to me-- guess that's why he always stalks me..... he likes ass.

[TheBro]

It's not that high ranked people are arrogant. It's that people are. You're going to find arrogance whether one is 'elite' or not.

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[tiberiusaquila]

It's not that high ranked people are arrogant. It's that people are. You're going to find arrogance whether one is 'elite' or not.

Agreed.

As a chess player I know that some high-ranked players are quite happy to help those "below" them in rank. No arrogance in them.

I've had the very same experience here at CC. Good people here many in many cases wear hardware or hats.

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[wrestler1ump]

It's not that high ranked people are arrogant. It's that people are. You're going to find arrogance whether one is 'elite' or not.

You bring up a very good point that people in general can be arrogant. It is very possible I am overutilizing the availability heuristic. Just because I can think of a few highly ranked players with bad attitudes does not mean the majority of them are jerks, or that all people with low ranks are nice. There are many talented players who are also nice guys: warnsteiner, owenshooter is a good guy with a decent rank, TheProwler, Paddy the Cat, Bladin and TheBro himself. To them I've gotta say keep it up and continue to set a good tone for this site!

[protectedbygold]

The only high ranking players I've fought against have been genuinely nice. They probably put people on their ignore list because they've found a group of other players who they trust won't quit.

The only really nasty situations I've encountered so far is when people make alliances. When someone even suggests one the other players usually turn from being nice to really upset. Rank seems to have nothing to do with it.

Which makes me wonder if there could be a way to block alliances on the game setttings. Probably not but just thinking out loud.

[Zlorfik]

I know plenty of low-ranking people who are nasty

[Elijah S]

I consider "high-rank" as Colonel and up, and I think, for the most part, there's no general difference between their attitudes and those of lower ranks. (-I've been known to go off a few times in games too.)
Also, I used to bitch about the ranking players only playing in private games, but recent allainces and bullshit in some of my own games has me now thinking that it's a good idea to play only against those players you know to have a degree of integrity.

Of course, there will always be the Johnnyrockets who continually draw attention to their amazing feats in CC, but, without them and the vast array of different braggers, bitchers, moaners, etc., CC would become a pretty dull site.

[wrestler1ump]

I consider "high-rank" as Colonel and up, and I think, for the most part, there's no general difference between their attitudes and those of lower ranks. (-I've been known to go off a few times in games too.)
Also, I used to bitch about the ranking players only playing in private games, but recent allainces and bullshit in some of my own games has me now thinking that it's a good idea to play only against those players you know to have a degree of integrity.

Of course, there will always be the Johnnyrockets who continually draw attention to their amazing feats in CC, but, without them and the vast array of different braggers, bitchers, moaners, etc., CC would become a pretty dull site.

I don't normally form alliances, but I'm not against them either. If they are even number vs. even number of people, then I think it's fair.