Invasion tonight was a waste. And not just because the person controlling it went all whiny and abruptly ended it.
At what point will they figure out these "bomb single maps with way too many creatures"-type invasions are a disaster in the first place? They're no fun, really. Bunch of high-levels picking off everything because they're low-level creatures, or a handful of high-levels being the only ones that can even attempt to try because it's hundreds of way-too-high monsters. In what is becoming all-too-typical fashion, the mid-levels get mostly ignored.
So the deal: The invasion got abruptly ended because some low-level creatures were getting mass-offed by higher-level fighters. "Zarin" was apparently even pulling this stunt of sending those high-levelers to IP, despite it being "her" own fault they were there in the first place.
"She", of course, blamed it on us players. (I say "us" collectively, I'd actually gotten bored and went to sto and mixed FEs. Most dull invasion I've ever had the displeasure of trying to participate in.)
The reason for them going there was quite simple: Hundreds of mid-level (considered "high level" for those kind of creatures) were left with pretty much nothing to do the entire invasion.
A tiny handful of creatures at our level in MM, gone before you hit 1-2 of them. That was it.
When this "situation" occured, there were two options available, and had been the only options for quite a while:
(1) Hundreds of seriously-high-level creatures on a tiny map, the likes of which maybe a handful of the highest-level fighters would even bother attempting.
(2) These low-level creatures that caused the whining.
Now, hundreds of people stuck between these two options. Of course they're going to go after the low-level ones, they're fucking bored!
That this couldn't be seen by the god-of-the-day is just beyond me. This was bound to happen, it was pretty much destined by the poor way the invasion was carried out, tossing all too many creatures on all too small maps is the definition of invasion disaster. For the love of all that is holy, figure that out already!
The Power That Be blamed the players. I blame the way the invasion was carried out, 100%. The way it was carried out PUSHED the players there because there was nothing else to do.
Shit happens, and shit happened as a result. I don't have a problem with it being a poorly executed invasion, that's bound to happen on occasion.
I do have a problem with the sad attempt to pin the blame solely on the players with absolutely no capability of owning up to their own responsibility for what happened.
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The amount of ass-kissing in channel 6 was overwhelming afterwards. Had to get a vomit bucket to put beside me it was so bad.
One person learned the hard way not to use my name in any way that's meant to further their ass kissing. Lost someone I considered at the least to be friendly in the process, but I have no tolerance whatsoever of people using me to push their agenda. I'd rather lose that person than for a second let them think they have the right to use me in that way.
I'll of course thank the powers that be for what they've done to make this game what it is. However, I won't kiss ass (or let people use me in their attempts to kiss ass) when it's quite obvious they're in the wrong though. Too much self-respect for that. It also does noone any good when the response given is always of a suck-up nature. Problems never get resolved by suck-ups.
