I gues another thought about the word grind is it is the social factor connected to it to make it a non-grind.

Social interactions reduced the grind, that is you always saw crafters sitting around a forge nattering whilst they where crafting. So I think if they decide to discard the grind it may because the social interaction required to make that a less uncomfortable task was no longer present, e..g the aforesaid issue with there being a reduced number of low levels to make th grind less effective on a fun (social) and functional level.

By meaning of the word grind I think it suggests an unpleasant experience. I would suggest a grind only occurs when the endgame moves, e.g. a new expansion pack occurs and you want to start a fresh charactert to get there, starting from 0.

Also, a game's population can also define a grind. How hard is it to level when the 70+% of players are at top level and you are left to run around in the lower area's LFG and finding it much harder to level. IMHO in some ways artifical ways to bump lower players up towards an endgame to avoid a repetitive levelling game are symptoms of the end goalposts moving.

I think grind is an unfair name, used to describe repetition as if it was initally unpleasent, why would people play it?

Funny. It's all not so much of an issue now, suddenly, as for some reason people don't care.

You can find these threads still if you want too, gents.

David06, accusations where made, answers where given on why the campaign by certain members of the commununity to ban people they feel are "cheating" wasn't watertght. If they could accept the fact that this is the reality, instead of mounting some form of whispering campaign, they might get somehwere.

As for the other things, ask them. But dont't try to tarnish one issue with the other when they are opposite otherwise it just looks like more "CRS ate my house and burnt my chicken down" talk.

Originally posted by Jester6

Originally posted by Stug

Plenty of people have already said that he's a damned good pilot.

However, does being a good player give anyone the right to continuously accuse other players of cheating (when it isn't actually "cheating"), to turn a forums into a cesspool of gangsta speak, troll and be generally unpleasant?

[mod edit]

Simply putting a player on ignore does not mean it isn't polluting the hangar with anti-social, gansgta-speak ridden crap, does it?

How many kills a day/month etc where JG26 getting?

Originally posted by Jester6

Originally posted by tom_servo

Have you ever read a post by Enigma? if you think he cares about you or any other person playing the game, you haven't looked hard enough. His posts are all about him, and how the game should accomodate him, and everyone else can go to hell. Unless you look good in skinny jeans, and have a different scarf to match every shirt you own, you are a peon as far as he is concerned. He has no intrinsic interest in the integrity of the game or the enjoyment of others; he just wants to protect his stats.

[mod edit]

Plenty of people have already said that he's a damned good pilot.

However, does being a good player give anyone the right to continuously accuse other players of cheating (when it isn't actually "cheating"), to turn a forums into a cesspool of gangsta speak, troll and be anti-community?

Originally posted by BodkinBarber

Originally posted by Stug

Originally posted by BodkinBarber

You got anything better than calling out a couple of grammar errors? +5 for cliqued put down

Says he who posts a thread with one line!

lol if that is some kind of put down then...well lol how long is your post?

Anyway, care to attempt to rebutt what I said or is the latest strategy to nit pick grammar errors and the amount of lines used. I wanna here about all the daily 100vs100 battles i'm missing out on lol

You do know the difference between a post and a thread, don't you?

Originally posted by kakasaki

More of a general statement to Ref's comment. I haven't played WWII online in years so don't feel qualified to make statements about its current state either way...

No worry. S!

Originally posted by BodkinBarber

You got anything better than calling out a couple of grammar errors? +5 for cliqued put down

Says he who posts a thread with one line!

Originally posted by kakasaki

Originally posted by RefMinor
I love you guys, you are the new Mortal Online, drama central

True, but I think the reason people keep beating both these dead horses is because they had so much potential and failed because of bad companies/developers...

No, that was that other locked thread.

This thread is about a squad that attempted to harry (I hope they didn't) other players out of the game with incessant claims of "cheat" for the sake of their stats.

I remember this well.

With apologies to the player who originally posted this before:

"I see one hit actually slice into the side of the turret. In fact, lets watch it a few times and see where the rounds go:

Round 1: Hull [driver kill?]
Round 2: Side Turret [glancing?]
Round 3: Miss [reticle not on target]
Round 4: Miss [reticle not on target]
Round 5: Gun Mantle Hit [PzIVG dies]
Round 6: Not seen [Gun Mantlet?]
Round 7: Not Seen [Gun mantlet?]

I'd suggest the first hit killed the driver (he goes in a straight line thereafter) and the rest missed, skimmed, until a round landed on the gun mantlet but by then he had clocked the IVG, and it was too late."

So, really, it's not as much a vid about balance but a vid showing a player who can't hit a sherman at 100ms....

I'd be embaressed to post this under my tag because it would show how much I suck. But then blaming "unfair gameplay" is the refuge of teh sucking player, isn't it?

Originally posted by JG26_Enigma
I have been more than willing to help and they ignore me. For the record MotorMouth was actually considering making me a moderator at one point. But after they ignored me over and over then appoint a person like Xoom into a supreme position?! Time to change strategy. If the Rats don't stop cheaters then I will shame and chase them out.

Time to change strategy?

Again, so earnest!

I guess you can say these things here because some of those who read this won't have seen how you and your squad members acted in the hanger, so im really intrigued by this strategy change and how that suddenly removes months and months of deliberately cr*pping in the hanger.

Remember, you said the community forums where your litter tray.

Originally posted by JG26_Enigma
They need to reach out to me at this point.

Oh you seem so earnest!!!!!

But why where you acting like a douche on the forums again last night - I saw the post you placed which was directly aimed at inciting the mods and stirring the pot.

Today the Axis pushed the Allied forces back all along the line, from Libin in Belgium in the south, to Grave, Holland in the North.

Meanwhile, in the centre, Liege is still being fought over like a bone!

Originally posted by BodkinBarber

Originally posted by Stug

1. He died - one less fighter to deal with - win for my side.

2. If he pulled the plug/avoided a kill he's a sore looser.

If everyone was a sore looser, it would be a problem, but generally they are not.

Molehill to Mountain.

 

LOL you wouldn't care if the game was a side scrolling 2D shooter as long as it was called 'Battleground Europe'

 

Stug's good gameplay:

Player saps a tank. Tank driver pulls connection. Tank vanishes. Sapper does not get kill.

Epic

 

Everyone? Who is everyone? Do you speak for everyone? You do not understand the community nor the game. Your fanboy dedication is strong to the core. You should AOL chat with silky and fans (wait just you two) about how JG26, OJ, squads, paying subscribers have killed the game.

So you are saying pulling the plug happens with armour all the time? Aircraft all the time?

Generally it is only committed loosers who can't take the hit on their pride, and whilst it could be an issue with a few names but it isn't the massive problem it is blown out if proportion to be. it's only a "OMGWTF BBQ!" problem because one squad has taken into its own hands to hunt such individuals down.

If you can't let 1 or 2 kills go, and the JG26 guys got tons, what is the problem?

1. He died - one less fighter to deal with - win for my side.

2. If he pulled the plug/avoided a kill he's a sore looser.

If everyone was a sore looser, it would be a problem, but generally they are not.

Molehill to Mountain.

Edit: Players do pull the plug when they play armour, same sore loosers that think its kool to avoid giving a death away.

Originally posted by BodkinBarber

My conclusion:

Attack CRS seems to be the running theme here.

Edited for truth, really.

E.g. OJ turns up, the MODS are the devil, CRS burnt down my poodle and shot my house etc.