Meh. There are a core group of people in my group who maintain vendettas. They carefully initiate the new players. This is one of the first things we are "taught."
"These dudes: X, Y, and Z (but we call them "@#$@head, @$#@face, and @#$#weed) are on the kill list. Hit them whenever you can."
I see some of the new players initiates immediately picking up on this with "I hit @#$weed! Knocked him to 12!" Which is immediately rewarded with praise.
Only one ever bothered me, and it was only a couple of times whenever he got a new toon and "tested" his squad by sniping my payout. I do not hold anything against this dude, at all. This gave me a look at the new toons and made me come up with a way to beat the new squad, whereupon the sniping immediately stopped once he saw I could beat it and that I knew how to use the clock. I think most of my group really never learned how to defend themselves. They just learn how to cry to mommy and get a vigilante posse together. One guy can't screw up your payout unless you s#%k. A group of buddies and their noob initiates, otoh, can ruin anyone they feel like, under guise of being "the good guys."
The other guys, I have no clue why they are on the list. I take no joy in hitting them. And whenever I have, and they are active, I notice they climb around me instead of retaliating. It's like they have no clue when my payout is. If they knew, they would have climbed back thru me as the biggest jump... I was just using an extra battle, dude. (this is exactly what people IN the group do to each other, all the time, lol. Dunno how many times I burn a battle and the guy in the payouts after me attack right back.. nice) Or maybe they have been cowed to the point they are just trying to scrape by. I don't announce it when I do hit one. I don't participate much in the group chat, at all, really.
Just cuz I play nice and respect other peoples' payout (and my own payout cohorts) doesn't mean I signed on to the deputy posse to fight other peoples' grudge battles. I've seen first hand how I was campaigned to be added to this list..... despite playing nice. I don't blindly join in on hate to get a high five.
If there is a current issue with one of these guys sniping u out of his zone, and u are too weak to deal with this urself, ill hear u out. Just cuz he has history of doing this months ago is not gonna get me on a bandwagon with a pitchfork. The hatfield and mccoys? They were all dumbazzes.
