Toxicity Rant

I can relate well to toxicity as I am under a 2 day ban for it. Calling people lobsters or noobs doesn't help. Everyone was there at one point. You insulting people doesn't help. It just upsets me that people get enjoyment out of deliberate frustration towards other player. Please don't do it.

dat hypocrisy,lol what a lobster.

quote: It just upsets me that people get enjoyment out of deliberate frustration towards other player.

what upsets me is noobs

also 2 day ban for this is stupid, I call my friends cunts all the time, it is normal British

wtf drone thats hilarious

Aquanim come on!
Who's in right mind BANS player for talking shit??? mute them u lobster!
ban is totally unjustified imo

Yo. Hold up. Dignity check.

OP pointed out that he was aware that he was under a 2 day ban so this isn't clean cut hypocrisy. What he goes onto to say is more telling and probably describes what frustrated him enough to start lashing out in the first place - AKA he's partially a product of the environment we have. He sees other players being dickish and obviously lowered himself to that standard in anger.

It's not an excuse for him but there is something to learn from what he is saying. There's a lot of well known players here who spam lobster, lob, noob (in addition to real insults) who think that they're just memeing or being a funny guy, but don't realize that the joke died a long time ago. Newsflash if you're one of those guys (who also complains not enough players): You aren't making anyone, let alone new players, feel more welcome to Zero K. We can do better.

...Loob.

Enough, snoke.

quote: We can do better.

Speak for yourself. I'm not trying to "save ZK" with good behavior. There is no team game on internet where people arent going to rage at bad members of their team. I think this game gives you the tools to retaliate if you think your team mates are dicks. The only problem imo is when mods get involved.

Personally I've always loved the environment of online games, people giving each other shit for every mistake etc.

quote: Casual teams and FFA - this is the problem zone.

I don't think FFA applies either. In FFA it's mostly you vs everyone. Sure, alliances (including suicidal kingmakings) can get it more heated, but in the end it's still you who's responsible.

quote: Well, here's a super simple idea for anyone who feels frustrated: Take your other serious mates into a different lobby and stop playing 26 player shitstorms with people you never wanted to play with in the first place.

Lobster stomping with a taskforce of clanmates also works. Lobster pot is such a disorganised system that having a stack of 4 players who trust each other and have an unified plan usually disrupts it.