All settings are available for you to read before you join the game, and you have been on Warlight for three years meaning you have had plenty of time to learn how to use blockade cards and the other settings.

@Smedley Butler

If only it were black and white. It's not. I won't pretend it is. However in this instance, having one blockade card per turn on a map with so many bottle necks presents a significant departure from the typical game dynamics and strategy. And it becomes apparent after-the-fact

You're free to disagree, but I doubt you'll run into such a game very often, if at all in the future.

@klarik

All you've done thus far is
1) make a series of ad-hominems, then attack me for even getting close to doing so
2) make outlandish flimsy strawmans, then accuse me of doing so without defending the claim

This is not a court of law. I'm never going to reach a the burden of a reasonable doubt, not without access to the warlight game statistics.

But I do like that you still haven't accepted my 1v1 game using the standard auto map in the lobby. That speaks volumes that you prefer to play games with handicaps in your favor.

That's within your right to do, but you don't get to also pretend that those wins are at all meaningful. Like playing golf from the women's tee box against someone who's hitting from the men's.

Edited 3/6/2016 23:21:15

You didn't look closely at the map & settings and you lost because of it. The game was weighted towards the host only through your own ignorance, which could have been cured at any point before the game which was not obligatory.

I really don't care.

@Smedley

Simply not true. Do you claim to have the ability to read previously unencountered setting/game map pairing, and within minutes understand the game dynamics for that particular setup? Of course you don't. Because the host has the advantage with unique game setups.

And again, I don't have a problem with this FACT. It is part of the game. What I do have a problem with is the way in which some people pretend this home-field advantage isn't there. And instead pretend that they must just be a better player than their opponent.

Is that ego? Sure. But let's be real, anyone who is after a win in this game has their ego involved at some level. Otherwise they wouldn't play.

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@Reborn (or anyone else)

You don't have to care. Just stop following the thread. Pretty simple solution.

For anyone else who would like to continue making meaningful contributions to this discussion, I welcome it.

You joined a game without reading the settings and had a unlimited amount of time to read those settings beforehand. Do you not have the ability to study a map and a template for , say, 10 minutes to be able to comprehend how to play the template+map?

yeah the game even took 15 mins to start anyway lel

Klarik doesn't play much on the "standard" 1v1 template. He likes playing on the one he beat you on, because it pleases him. I played one with him yesterday; it was far more fun than the strategic 1v1. Beating him on strat 1v1 is the same as him beating you on his settings.

No you dont have to bring anything, jeremy is bringing chips.

"Also, standard 1ag1 ladder sucks."

Says everyone who sucks ass at it.

Yeah, that is true, I'm kind of bad at it. But it's just not even fun. I like some gamemodes and settings that I'm bad at, but the ladder games just are boring and slow, yet don't last more than a few turns. I want long-lasting, equal games in which the tide can be turned even when you seem to be doing a winning rush.

Did he say cards in a match were uncommon?

If you want to decide it you should have one person choose the map and the other choose the settings.

"Also, standard 1ag1 ladder sucks."

Says everyone who sucks ass at it.

^ well, if you're bad at a template, it does suck for you. Like for andrescbm, Klarik's settings suck and for Klarik, 1v1 MME ladder settings do.

It's all about the point of view. It always is, was and will be.

No, in fact, when I suck at something - I suck, it doesn't. If something sucks, it is objectively bad.

For example: You suck.

Flawed logic much, mate? Nothing is objective and we both know it.

It's all about the point of view.

From a certain point of view!