refuting common wisdom on scales everybody knows

[JimMorrison]

Sombre said:
Therefore 'I have done well with it and so have a few other people' is an equally specious argument, if not worse. After all for every player that has won or done well using nonstandard scales, there will be more who have won or done well using standard scales. You can't have it both ways.

But there is a difference here. If you ran a poll, and 90% of the experienced players ran Order3 in their MP games, and ran another poll to find that 80% of the winners had Order3, then it could be argued that NOT taking Order3 is twice as good as taking it, in a well arranged strategy.

Obviously, accurate polling on this subject can't be attained, because you reasonably have to cull out the really newbie players who are learning MP and simply will NOT ever win a real war against another human in that particular game - their scale choices are irrelevant because there are other factors determining their chance (or lack thereof) of success.

My argument though is that I think O3 is SO prevalent, that you might be surprised to find a disparity between the use of that scale in practice, and the use of other scales in success.