{"id":116,"date":"2003-05-14T05:43:55","date_gmt":"2003-05-14T05:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2003-05-14T05:43:55","modified_gmt":"2003-05-14T05:43:55","slug":"fair-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Fair Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gah! I&#8217;m at a cybercafe, battling in 1942 (Electronic Arts&#8217; excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battlefield1942.com\" target=\"_BLANK\">Battlefield 1942<\/a>) when I realized that lame gamers aren&#8217;t limited to say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counter-strike.net\" target=\"_BLANK\">Counter-Strike<\/a>. Seems that any multiplayer game that has two teams or sides can have the same problem &#8211; unbalanced teams. (Having 1 more on your team doesn&#8217;t count as imbalance.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no longer fair when you and one unknown poor sod have to take over flags controlled by 6 enemies. They are humans, mind you! Is it any more fun playing when you greatly overrun the enemy in terms of artillery? Fun, maybe&#8230; challenging, no.<\/p>\n<p>All I can do is type &#8220;(<i>insert-enemy-team-here<\/i>) is lame, come join <i>my-understaffed-team<\/i>) and hope for someone to switch over. Of course, in cybercafes, most of them don&#8217;t know how to do so. Why doesn&#8217;t <b>Battlefield 1942<\/b> have &#8220;<i>auto team balance next round<\/i>&#8220;?!?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s worse is that some intentionally switch over. I was one-on-one with this guy and was obviously winning (by taking his flags, not by finding the sorry camper) when he switched over to <b>my team!<\/b> How lame is that? Then, I switched to the other team, and took back my flags (and still won!)<\/p>\n<p>I know, <b>Battlefield 1942<\/b> is a hard game to learn. I don&#8217;t care if you crash the plane taking off, crash into teammates, shoot me, camp at our base&#8230; just play fair, dangit!<\/p>\n<p>That said, humans are a heck lot more fun to play with. Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gah! I&#8217;m at a cybercafe, battling in 1942 (Electronic Arts&#8217; excellent Battlefield 1942) when I realized that lame gamers aren&#8217;t limited to say, Counter-Strike. Seems that any multiplayer game that has two teams or sides can have the same problem &#8211; unbalanced teams. (Having 1 more on your team doesn&#8217;t count as imbalance.) It&#8217;s no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}