This is just pathetic. I'm sorry, there are no other words for it. You spent so much time crafting a "happy noob utopia ruined by people who know how to play" in that post, you forgot 3 things.
First: Online rank doesn't mean anything. I'm sorry, it doesn't.
Second: There are no "professionals" at SC. Nobody makes their living playing the game. So your sports comparisons are off-base.
Third: The game is built on the premise of head to head competition. "Going easy" is the best way to stunt someones growth. If they want to get better, getting an ass beating is the best way to encourage growth. If they don't understand why they lose, they can ask, and most players are more than happy to help them level up (myself included).
If people want to have casual games, then they can kick people, make private slots. They have the power and the control to control their own experience.
We have words for people who make social services out of games built on clear cut winning and losing (as the ends of the game) where I'm from: Ignorant and Pathetic.
So Very Sorry IdleMind, didn't intend to offend you. I see some of your points. You are definitely correct in terms of making private rooms, kicking people and such. No problem there., Just so we're clear and I understand where you're coming from and the kind of player (and consequently person) you are.
You personally enjoy demolishing beginning players who are new to the game and players who you know you have considerably more skill than and don't stand a chance of winning? Correct?
You are the type of player who intentionally looks for rooms that have players with much less skill than you, so that you can show how great you are by crushing the considerably less skilled players into oblivion one by one over and over again. Correct?
You enjoy going into a room obviously full of noobs and by your sheer power and pitbull knowledge of the game shutting the room down. Is that correct?
You could care less whether you intimidate a noob from ever picking up SC again after a few sessions with you. Because if they're too weak to be humiliated by a great player such as your self, too bad for them, they wouldn't make decent players anyway correct?
As far as you're concerned the Internet is a cruel place and if you can't take getting your ass whooped, or getting humiliated in front of your friends then why the fuck login right?
As far as you're concerned this game is built on head to head competition
and good sportsmanship has absolutely nothing to do with the online
experience or SC. Crush the weak, kill the women and children. Correct?
There are many thousands of ppl on SC5 right now that are properly described by the above statements. This appears to be exactly where you are coming from also. Am I correct?
In fact, IdleMind you are in the majority if you agree with the above positions. but then again the Internet is full of bullies and cowards that hide behind the anonymity of online. They prey on the weak and run from the strong. And then rationalize that rank doesn't matter. Bullying is a way of life for many ppl around the world, so I'm not mad at you. I just want to make sure we're talking about the same thing. In my posts I'm describing the behavior of online bullies and cowards. Now if that describe s you, its all good Bullies and coward are real and a normal part of real life, and the little punk ass weaklings that log into SC5 for the first time can learn a lot from a good ass whoopin at the hands of someone such as you self. Hey if somone gets their ass whooped online don't come crying to you. Right?
I just want to know so I won't ignorantly and pathetically barge into your posts anymore, and so I know what to expect from you if we meet online.
And IdleMind you're right about me, I'm definitely a bleeding heart, I don't pick on the weak, I don't beat women and children, I help the poor, I keep my word, Honor is important, I tend to the wounded and down trodden, and respect the agency of others. Its a thing all of us Samurai have in common, its called the 'code', Bushido the way of the warrior..... Like my father before me, and his father before him, I am Samurai....