Hey there,
today I had a game where i ran into the enemies TC, barely survived and took a cow with me on the way out, which didn't make my opponent too happy (also wasn't to bad, we still had a friendly end to the match).
I was wondering about this before, but this is the first time it happen to me personally. What's the communities perspective on this?
I understand that most people don't like laming, because it creates an advantage, which usually has more to do with luck (positioning of animals) rather than outplaying the opponent. I don't lame for that reason and depending on how I feel send sheep to the enemies TC if I find them, or leave them where they are (I probably would consider taking them though, if the opponent was pushing deer). So I understand that thought of fair play and I actually like it.
But to more there's a difference once war has officially started - and I consider (nearly) killing my scout as a clear signal that fighting has begun. So from my point of view, once you started to fire at me, I am perfectly fine with taking sheep from you if you let me. Also at this point it's not about luck anymore, since I don't get your sheep, because they spawned poorly, but rather because you didnt leave at least one villager next to the sheep - so there would have been room for you to outplay me.
I don't really get that though of: it's okay for me to shoot at you, but I still expect your to peacefully do nothing do harm me - that sounds like a bit too much "fair play" to me.
So to me it's clearly good that intentional laming is seen as a bad thing by the community, but there's also a point in the game where it should not be seen as laming anymore, but rather as a part of fighting against each other - that point to me is when I don't get the sheep because of unlucky spawning positions, but because you either were to greedy or you messed up your micro in some way.
That's my point of view right now, but I would be very happy to hear yours and I'm certainly convincable to change my view if I hear good arguments I didn't think about before.
today I had a game where i ran into the enemies TC, barely survived and took a cow with me on the way out, which didn't make my opponent too happy (also wasn't to bad, we still had a friendly end to the match).
I was wondering about this before, but this is the first time it happen to me personally. What's the communities perspective on this?
I understand that most people don't like laming, because it creates an advantage, which usually has more to do with luck (positioning of animals) rather than outplaying the opponent. I don't lame for that reason and depending on how I feel send sheep to the enemies TC if I find them, or leave them where they are (I probably would consider taking them though, if the opponent was pushing deer). So I understand that thought of fair play and I actually like it.
But to more there's a difference once war has officially started - and I consider (nearly) killing my scout as a clear signal that fighting has begun. So from my point of view, once you started to fire at me, I am perfectly fine with taking sheep from you if you let me. Also at this point it's not about luck anymore, since I don't get your sheep, because they spawned poorly, but rather because you didnt leave at least one villager next to the sheep - so there would have been room for you to outplay me.
I don't really get that though of: it's okay for me to shoot at you, but I still expect your to peacefully do nothing do harm me - that sounds like a bit too much "fair play" to me.
So to me it's clearly good that intentional laming is seen as a bad thing by the community, but there's also a point in the game where it should not be seen as laming anymore, but rather as a part of fighting against each other - that point to me is when I don't get the sheep because of unlucky spawning positions, but because you either were to greedy or you messed up your micro in some way.
That's my point of view right now, but I would be very happy to hear yours and I'm certainly convincable to change my view if I hear good arguments I didn't think about before.