Conquer Club

hwhrhett wrote:

jiminski wrote:Hey nice idea Jiminski! .... but wrong forum!
Take it to Suggestions!

lol "use the form!!"

DiM wrote:

KoE_Sirius wrote:I just wish the snobbery would stop in this community.I have never refused to play anyone because of rank.If I did then I would properly still have a crown.The crown would be worthless though.
If you can't play all of conquerclub,then it tends to limit our horizons.
Still thats just me.
I can understand why you wouldnt want to play deadbeats,but thats where my understanding comes to a close.
I'm sorry if this offends some of you,but its how I feel.

i agree with you to an extent.

first of all the goal of CC is to become conqueror (yes some people say their goal is just to have fun or just to chat or stuff like that, but the vast majority will want to hold the #1 spot at some point.

that being said, we come to the scoring system where if you play against low rankers you have to win like 90% of your games which is impossible. SO if you want to become conqueror never play people that are ranked bellow you. plain and simple.

on your way to the #1 spot you'll also want to have some fun, right? well let's see, one of the fastest ways of gaining points is playing escalating games. they end in 10-15 turns so the faster they end the more games you can play and the more points you can gain (in theory). the problem with escalating is that many people don't understand it properly. and when a cook suicides on you just to break your south america bonus even though the next cash-in is 30, you kinda get the urge to give him a piece of your mind. in short the chances of a low ranker doing something stupid in escalating games is really high in escalating games. i'm not saying all low rankers do this but merely that high rankers understand escalating better.

and since we're talking about low rankers spoiling your game in escalating , we can extend that to all game types. suicide, revenge, ignorance of other people's bonuses, or simply going for the highest ranked player in that game are all perfectly good reasons why a high ranker will feel reluctant to playing low rankers.

so you see, the main reasons why a high ranker will avoid low rankers are:
1. impossible to make big profits
2. high chances of frustration caused by the low ranker's inability to play the game properly.


i don't care much about my rank. but i do care about my fun factor. i played cooks and cadets and had loads of fun because i knew them and even if they grabbed 50 of my points in a single win i didn't care much.

i play 3 kinds of games:
1. with friends regardless of rank (good chat - loss of points)
2. with high rankers (experience gained - this is where my points come from)
3. tourney games (for fun - usually loss of points)

i only play singles games because i find them more challenging and more fun.

from the 1st type of games i get lots of satisfaction because i like playing against my friends.
from the 2nd type i also get lots of satisfaction because i learn new strategies and because i like a good challenge
from the third type i'm beginning to kinda lose my fun and gain on the frustration thing. mainly because in tourney i encounter all kinds of people that simply screw my game because they don't know how to play. probably in the near future i'll stick to #1 and #2. will that make me a snob? i hope not. to be honest i've had a lot of recent screw-ups cause by low rankers perhaps i'm a bit biased by these recent happenings or perhaps not but the point is i care too much about my fun factor to let somebody spoil it.

wacicha wrote:I am a lowly 1st Sargent lol. I have over 160 active games going I move from capt to sargent and back on a endless cycle. i do lose to some cooks and such at times. The fun is in the playing. I rarely look at the chat unless I am in with either great friends or great players. I never form alliances.

Because of the type of games I play (public) I will never make it above Major. But quite a few players believe that I am worth the opportunity to play. I play Quite a few high rankers and have only met 2 snobs. But that is better than real life.

DAZMCFC wrote:

oVo wrote:I thought this might be about the stealth chat that occurs in so many games. I've had some where players don't even bother to say hello once a game is initiated.

i think it is just common curtesy to wish them good luck.

-ShadySoul- wrote:

DAZMCFC wrote:

oVo wrote:I thought this might be about the stealth chat that occurs in so many games. I've had some where players don't even bother to say hello once a game is initiated.

i think it is just common curtesy to wish them good luck.

its possible to forget about that sometimes
especially if u are very eager to play

RobinJ wrote:

-ShadySoul- wrote:

DAZMCFC wrote:

oVo wrote:I thought this might be about the stealth chat that occurs in so many games. I've had some where players don't even bother to say hello once a game is initiated.

i think it is just common curtesy to wish them good luck.

its possible to forget about that sometimes
especially if u are very eager to play

Or you have 50 games on the go and you tire of wishing gl all the time!

-ShadySoul- wrote:

RobinJ wrote:

-ShadySoul- wrote:

DAZMCFC wrote:

oVo wrote:I thought this might be about the stealth chat that occurs in so many games. I've had some where players don't even bother to say hello once a game is initiated.

i think it is just common curtesy to wish them good luck.

its possible to forget about that sometimes
especially if u are very eager to play

Or you have 50 games on the go and you tire of wishing gl all the time!

or u want to win so badly that u wish they would all rot in hell, and that is why u dont wish them good luck

KoE_Sirius wrote:

DiM wrote:

KoE_Sirius wrote:I just wish the snobbery would stop in this community.I have never refused to play anyone because of rank.If I did then I would properly still have a crown.The crown would be worthless though.
If you can't play all of conquerclub,then it tends to limit our horizons.
Still thats just me.
I can understand why you wouldnt want to play deadbeats,but thats where my understanding comes to a close.
I'm sorry if this offends some of you,but its how I feel.

i agree with you to an extent.

first of all the goal of CC is to become conqueror (yes some people say their goal is just to have fun or just to chat or stuff like that, but the vast majority will want to hold the #1 spot at some point.

that being said, we come to the scoring system where if you play against low rankers you have to win like 90% of your games which is impossible. SO if you want to become conqueror never play people that are ranked bellow you. plain and simple.

on your way to the #1 spot you'll also want to have some fun, right? well let's see, one of the fastest ways of gaining points is playing escalating games. they end in 10-15 turns so the faster they end the more games you can play and the more points you can gain (in theory). the problem with escalating is that many people don't understand it properly. and when a cook suicides on you just to break your south america bonus even though the next cash-in is 30, you kinda get the urge to give him a piece of your mind. in short the chances of a low ranker doing something stupid in escalating games is really high in escalating games. i'm not saying all low rankers do this but merely that high rankers understand escalating better.

and since we're talking about low rankers spoiling your game in escalating , we can extend that to all game types. suicide, revenge, ignorance of other people's bonuses, or simply going for the highest ranked player in that game are all perfectly good reasons why a high ranker will feel reluctant to playing low rankers.

so you see, the main reasons why a high ranker will avoid low rankers are:
1. impossible to make big profits
2. high chances of frustration caused by the low ranker's inability to play the game properly.


i don't care much about my rank. but i do care about my fun factor. i played cooks and cadets and had loads of fun because i knew them and even if they grabbed 50 of my points in a single win i didn't care much.

i play 3 kinds of games:
1. with friends regardless of rank (good chat - loss of points)
2. with high rankers (experience gained - this is where my points come from)
3. tourney games (for fun - usually loss of points)

i only play singles games because i find them more challenging and more fun.

from the 1st type of games i get lots of satisfaction because i like playing against my friends.
from the 2nd type i also get lots of satisfaction because i learn new strategies and because i like a good challenge
from the third type i'm beginning to kinda lose my fun and gain on the frustration thing. mainly because in tourney i encounter all kinds of people that simply screw my game because they don't know how to play. probably in the near future i'll stick to #1 and #2. will that make me a snob? i hope not. to be honest i've had a lot of recent screw-ups cause by low rankers perhaps i'm a bit biased by these recent happenings or perhaps not but the point is i care too much about my fun factor to let somebody spoil it.

If you can say that you ranked over 2000 points and always played public games.Then you have achieved self worth.Which is worth 50 number 1 spots.

RobinJ wrote:

-ShadySoul- wrote:

RobinJ wrote:

-ShadySoul- wrote:

DAZMCFC wrote:

oVo wrote:I thought this might be about the stealth chat that occurs in so many games. I've had some where players don't even bother to say hello once a game is initiated.

i think it is just common curtesy to wish them good luck.

its possible to forget about that sometimes
especially if u are very eager to play

Or you have 50 games on the go and you tire of wishing gl all the time!

or u want to win so badly that u wish they would all rot in hell, and that is why u dont wish them good luck

In that case I just lie.

stringybeany wrote:There's an easy solution: add unrated games to the options mix. Then there is the option to make winning the only goal.

KoE_Sirius wrote:

stringybeany wrote:There's an easy solution: add unrated games to the options mix. Then there is the option to make winning the only goal.

Unrated games attract deadbeats!

-ShadySoul- wrote:

KoE_Sirius wrote:

stringybeany wrote:There's an easy solution: add unrated games to the options mix. Then there is the option to make winning the only goal.

Unrated games attract deadbeats!

define deadbeat plz

oVo wrote:I thought this might be about the stealth chat that occurs in so many games. I've had some where players don't even bother to say hello once a game is initiated.

KoE_Sirius wrote:snobbery

noun
the trait of condescending to those of lower social status


I'm glad you are not a snob AAfitz.