Very Stupid Balance of Power

"PlayerJ;c-2446999" wrote:

"MasterSeedy;c-2446994" wrote:
@PlayerJ

The “OP Mind” is thinking the game is pure Speed Only.
You telling him the game is Speed Only does nothing except reinforce the Imbalance the OP believes exists

What? I never said the game is speed only. Not once. If you want to participate productively, you're going to have to have some idea of what other people are actually saying.

The OP came to the thread upset because his relic characters lost.
Forum players didn’t respond the best way.

After the OP shared his Ally code, the following happened:
- Salatius told the OP his MOD’s were poor due to no Speed.
- Wolverine told the OP 90% of his MOD’s need to be redone.
- Wolverine - than said Speed is King

At which point, the OP had a melt down.
OP already upset his characters lost and is being told 90% of his MOD’s need to be redone due to low speed.

Can you blame OP for having a melt down?
The OP began cursing out game.
The OP began cursing out developers.

Afterward, the OP began saying the game shouldn’t be a Speed only game.
At which point, Forum posters began responding to the OP.

- TVF told the OP he needs to join in, don’t care, or quit
- Veskasakstar told OP he is bad at game and should try playing candy crush.
- Deathbringer told OP speed is name of the game.

So you are correct Seedy.
It wasn’t you specifically who told the OP the game is Speed Only.
No one besides the OP used the term, but forum players did reinforce the idea by telling him the above.

Which is why I said what I said.
At this point, I just hope the OP doesn’t quit the game.

Hopefully, my words helped the OP calm down and realize he can still salvage the situation.
It will be sad to lose a potential teammate or friend.

Commenters were blunt to the OP because, from an inspection of their roster they needed to hear some unpleasant truths, that being that they were going to severely struggle by seemingly not focusing on speed on their mods. With a very small handful of exceptions, as noted above, speed is the focus of correct modding, and by not taking action soon they are likely to continue to struggle more and more. While you might think you are being helpful by telling the OP there are other ways is actually counterproductive to what they want to achieve. The game is unbalanced towards speed on mods. That's just a fact. Ignoring it doesn't help you and doesn't help those you claim to be helping.

Could the other commenter have expressed it in a more compassionate way? Possibly. But if they had done so is it also possible that the player would not have taken onboard the message and would have continued to mod their toons poorly. That they lashed out after being told they were not doing a great job is representative of their maturity in taking what was constructive criticism phrased in a largely positive manner.