LightInDarkness wrote:How much do you think players discriminate against each other because of their higher or lower rank?
If a high ranking player faces a number of equal opponents as well as one lower ranking opponet, is he more likely to pick on the lower ranked player?
Likewise, do lower ranked prayers like to go out of their way to cut another player down to size if they are ranked higher?
Can any of us honestly say that we do not look at rank but play fairly with everyone?
And what about those of us who have a silver ensigma instead of a gold? Do those without membership bitterly attack those with it? Do those with memberzhip look down on those without it and who only play four games?
Maybe there is no way of ever really knowing but sometimes i wonder how much this types of discrimination changes the course of events in games.
Yes, I definitely think that some people play like that, but not everyone. It is annoying when you come across them. Years ago, when I first reached Major rank, I noticed it more. People didn't just do it in Terminator games, they did it in standard escalating as well. They would target me if I was the highest ranked player. I complained about it, so someone asked me if I wanted to be added to a list for 2000+ private games. It was awesome because no one in those private games did that. They were all there for the same reason. People on the list would create the games, then send the links and passwords via PM to the entire list so people could join if they wanted.
I rarely see anyone discriminating based on freemie/preemie status. Maybe one or two people who used to think that preemies get better dice and crying about it on the forums. Nonsense of course, the dice hate everyone equally.
I wonder if a PM list is still going. I don't play standard escalating anymore. But digging the idea back up in case anyone wanted to do that again. They started with a thread in the callouts forum to get their list of interested players of course.
