[Fyron]

Have you ever read the quote in my sig? It is not a joke (in regards to game playing, anyways). [edit]Damn it... stupid habit of disabling sig.[/edit]

Well, Fyron, I have no way of proving it but you seem to too "grown up" to be 19 or 20. IF you are that age, then you are much too serious.

Forum posting is not a very good representation of a person... All that it tells you is how they post on that forum.

How do the games get repititious? You mean like chess? Same "ships", same "systems" same "settings"?

Because when you play enough of them, there is little left to surprise you. It is the same old routine every time.

Each game is a challenge to try to make work for you.

For a time...

My guess is that you like to give help and display your knowledge but are afraid to "put it on the line".

That would be a wrong guess. I have no such fear, I simply do not wish to compete. I have nothing to prove, I have no ego to break or inflate, I have no need to know that I am better or worse than anyone at playing SE4. I have no reason to "compete" in SE4.

I can understand the RP aspect of the game some (God knows I spent too many sleepless nights conned into GM'ing yet another D&D game!) but since it is a game of testing your skill against another, I can't understand why the reluctance to "measure" it. Of course, that's just me and my outlook on gaming.

It is such a game, to you. This is because you have made it such a game. To me, it is a game to build an interstellar empire, no more, no less. You do not have to have the biggest, baddest empire around, or come out on top.

And, I might say, the outlook of gamers who compete against each other the world over.

And what about the majority that do not turn games into competitions?

Forum Ratings... People, IMO, who allow themselves to be rated, lay their conduct, actions, assistance, (and whatever) on the line for others to comment upon.

I personally have no use for silly stars to "keep me in tow." I am perfectly capable of regulating my own behavior without the artificial "penalty" of a low rating. You can quite easily comment on someones behavior without an anonymous rating. Now, if Ratings had a name and message attached to them, they _might_ have some use. I will continue to judge people by what they post, rather than how many stars they have. If you could change your rating of someone, they might be more useful. But as it is, once you rate someone, that rating is stuck. What if they apologize for offending you and amend their ways? They are forever stuck with that blemish. That serves no purpose. Everyone makes mistakes. Or what if you give someone a 5 because they made a great mod, but then you find out that they are a jackass and might rather deserve a 1? No way to change that. Also, how do you say just what a rating means? Is someone with a 5 somehow better than someone with a 4? No, they are the same person, regardless of their rating. These reasons are essentially why I turned my rating off, and I no longer rate people (except to give newbies a 5 that some arse kept giving ones for a few months... noone needs that). There are a lot of people that have disabled their rating, and I would bet that most of them feel similarly to how I do about them, not that they are afraid of being rated low or anything like that. I urge everyone reading this post to do the same.

To me, anyone who has it turned off has something to be afraid of.

Not to be offensive, but you seem to have some ego issues IMO... everything comes down to fear in the end with you.

It's a foreign item to me to think it doesn't matter what other people think of me in any forum I participate in.

Refusing to participate in a Ratings system is in no way indicative of whether you care about what people think of you or not. There are plenty of people that participate in the Ratings system that obviously do not care.

Actually, I find it more fun to spend time gaming but each to his own.

So do I. It does not take much time to write most Posts. I do not have any desire to play SE4 in single player mode, so playing it is entirely dependant on when PBW turns are available. And yes, I do play other games.

Suffice it to say, in my first remark, you are a bit bewildering to me. I understand a lot of people here because they are like me in thought in gaming. I don't really mean that is a bad thing that I don't understand you...it's just that when I was making my initial post, I thought of your name (among all the others that came to my mind) and associtated that thought with it. That you were a "question mark" to me.

Glad I could confuse you.

[ January 05, 2004, 04:32: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]