Fusion rifles (Destiny)

by Claude Errera , Monday, November 16, 2015, 19:30 (3532 days ago) @ Cody Miller

I take it you don't use any of the Trials buffs, then, since they specifically make it easier to get to the lighthouse without having to play as many people...

Cody's Lighthouse Purity Crew or bust, huh?

I use all the buffs. It's very challenging with them. Maybe if I get good enough one day to steamroll everybody, I'll play buffless. But right now the buffs provide help while still keeping things tough. Basically, it's the right amount of challenge. If there were some combination of buffs that let you get to the lighthouse in say, only one win, then Trials night would be considerably less fun because it would be too easy.

The goldilocks principle man.

But...

You were complaining about ONE team that suicided to give you an easy win ONCE. You didn't suggest that it was happening all the time (and other evidence suggests it's not), you complained about the ONE win you got out of it.

When Korny called you out on that, you said that if 9 of your 10 wins were easy it wouldn't be fun. (I could even buy that.) But you complained about ONE cheap win, not nine.

How about considering the way you phrase your complaints so that we understand you're worried about the abstract problem that MIGHT happen if everyone does this, rather than the real situation you found yourself in?

What exactly do you want? It happened to me, and I thought it sucked. It doesn't matter how prevalent it is. When it happens it sucks. The fact that it happens at all, because of the bounties, is a bad thing. No bounties (or different ones) mean no incentive for that behavior.

So if there was no bounty that encouraged that behavior, but you encountered it anyway (don't tell me you never encountered people fucking around like this in Halo, because I did, lots of times), would it still suck? You get a free win on an acknowledged hard journey - one that costs you only a few minutes, and one that doesn't come around very often. It doesn't happen on every run, and it probably doesn't ever happen more than once a run - how is it different from a boon (except that it was an unexpected one)?

And if that's okay - how are you sure that this one was specifically caused by the bounty? If there was a team that just decided to fuck around like this, and you happened to encounter them... how can you know what their motivation REALLY is?

I guess what I'm asking is... WHY does it suck? If you tell me that it sucks because you think that crucible bounties are bad and this is evidence, we'll just have to agree to disagree here - because I don't think you can know what their motivation really was, and I think it's silly to complain about something that, given different circumstances than the ones you THINK occurred, you'd be okay with.