The spirit of the game...

[Kelen]

Becoming a total arse and ruining the fun for the person you are playing is ruining and violating the spirit of the game. Using some sort of outside calculator/odds generator to obtain favorable factors during your turns is violating the spirit of the game. Complaining rather than offering advice and positive suggestions over someone's tactics and misuse of game elements that contradict your preferences is violating the spirit of the game.

Using game mechanics to your advantage is your opponents fault for letting it get that far, but nothing in a sense that is violating the spirit of the game.

IMO
There is no cheese in CM, only whine
Wine is only good with cheese, not CM.

And yet upon encountering Poor Old Spike's armoured fist tactics for the first time, you did everything you've just described above, and in a very public manner.

http://www.gamesquad.com/forums/showthre...ght=cheesy

Couldn't

I find the setup "gamey" as most poeple would not go buy a dozen tanks in any game of CM unless it was known up front to be an all armor game.I wish I had known of your style prior to picking up a game, so I could have played it with you, instead of being what I call blindsided by at least 11 tanks that I can count and a bunch of snipers."

be construed as Complaining rather than offering advice and positive suggestions over someone's tactics and misuse of game elements that contradict your preferences is violating the spirit of the game.?

And isn't

"Don't trouble yourself, I've surrendered in the game and posted your win for you. It was in the best interest, as you've shown no honor in your posts IMO. Sorry I wasn't up to a good spanking by your game winning tactical endeavors."

an example of Becoming a total arse and ruining the fun for the person you are playing is ruining and violating the spirit of the game.?

And if

"There is no cheese in CM, only whine Wine is only good with cheese, not CM"

why did you email POS with "I find it rather cheesy, but it is only a game, although I would have expected better of someone of your caliber.Carry on, enjoy it while it lasts"?

I wouldn't have called RD's e-mail whineing, merely an observation on POS' tactics and his specifying the parms so that they benefited his style of play. As RD himself said, he should have known better when playing someone for the first time, (and in this case the last I would imagine!)

As for it being public, it was made so by POS when he posted a private e-mail, which he shouldn't of. Once he posted it RD had the right to make a public response.

Why would surrendering a game that you are getting no personal enjoyment from and have no interest in completing be "Becoming a total arse and ruining the fun for the person you are playing". Surely insisting that your opponent completes the game regardless mean that instead?

I would have thought that someone would get more enjoyment out of a game where your opponent is actually trying, rather than one where they are just going through the motions so you can see the clock out.

At the end of the day POS still got his victory so I'm sure he was happy.