"Oh, it's BoG75! Let me go find my Magic 8 Ball."

Not finalizing orders during gunboat games. Just finalize! What are you waiting for? Grrrr...

Juggernauts!!!!!!!!!!!! damn you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"We have to attack you because you've got more points..."

"I don't want to stab him, he's my friend..."

"I don't want to stab him, he's my friend..." - that, and players who are playing with objectives other than winning in general.

"We have to attack you because you've got more points..." - I think this is perfectly reasonable, actually (though it would be better if they looked at ghost-ratings). It's like preemptive balance of power, I don't really see anything wrong with it.

Yeah illogical players are a pain, but I think they may just be more emotionally driven. For instance if you break a promise over some SC, say, Belgium, they lose their minds and decide you must punished for no matter the cost. To them that's just justice. Or maybe you said something to insult them or so on. Those are usually my only guesses. The worst part is, even if you correctly identify what it is about yourself that they hate, they still refuse to cooperate with you in any way, even verbally. So trashy.

People who take personal offense
I tend to give them a taste of the idiocy back writing an equally immature reply to show how "offended" I am by them telling me to suck their dick.

When I saw this from the home scree it was:
"People who take personal offense I tend to give them"

@Stukus - I do that a lot. Often I'll think of a game plan and come back to it with a fresh perspective and realise that I should be doing something else.

My biggest pet peeve in life is grammar, so it is no surprise that it translates over to webDip.

"lets be ally k lol... u can hav bel."

No, fuck you. You send me those types of messages I'll stab you just so you stop communicating to me.

To quote Hank Moody: "It just seems to me it's just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with a bunch of other stupid people in a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the King's English."

Queen's, we have a Queen now... ; )

Agreed Flashman- if you are referring to the message above yours.
I'd like to see him in a 5 minute game, all grammatically correct- yeah RIGHT

You don't have to write in length to be correct in grammar.

The difference in time to type, "u" or "you" and "2" or "to" is so astronomically small that you cannot call a lack of time the excuse.

@masterninja, are you always this pointedly hostile? And to answer your wish, I have played in 5-minute games as a winner and a loser, I enjoy them all the same, but they are not my favourite.

@Geofram
I concur. I feel like I'm playing preteens when I get messages like that e.g.

"can i haz tyrolieste kthxbye? =-P"

Geo, i just don't like your tone, when you say that those who are not engineers, ro technically minded, are idiots?!
Even technically minded can have no EQ... IQ is not everything.
And my IQ is a sound 159 thank you.

I read your other message in a separate thread somewhat like your response here, and took it upon myself to answer both here.
Apologies

If you keep the answers seperate, you'll notice I've responded to your remarks in the other thread. And again, I never said that you had to work in an engineering profession to be intelligent. Though if you refuse to acknowledge that I never said that, I'll be forced to argue as if I did. But I will only answer in the other thread.

masterninja, what's your EQ?

I hate it when people are illogical and/or stubborn.

I hate CDs. It ruins the balance of a game.

nonsensical, stubborn, pushy behavior, mixed with offensive comments and drivel - each of them individually i can handle in small portions, but when they are combined in a player/players, it's too much to handle and totally ruins the game, both in terms of fun and in terms of my chances at success.

I hate the fact that some players bring emotions into the game. It's impossible to keep emotions away completely but I feel like some players get pissed when they get stabbed. (i.e, They strap a bomb to their chest and blow up in my face because I stabbed them, how unsportsmanlike)

Refusing to communicate.

"You stabbed me so I feel like I have to take you down with me."

"And my IQ is a sound 159 thank you."

the internet told me mine was eighty bajillion

Ninety. But I don't remember if that's ninety bajillion, or just ninety.

@Geofram
Like it or not the language is changing.

@StevenC. re: "You stabbed me so I feel like I have to take you down with me."
I think this is perfectly reasonable. If I'm going to lose a game why not try to bring down the player that made me lose?

Anyway, my pet peeve is players who drop at the first little setback. "You took my SC! Well, I'm not playing anymore."

I hate it when the other players try to win.

^why not try to form an alliance with someone and live? especially in a points-per-supply center game. To me the object should always be winning.

rofl @ ppsc...

I hate being bounced out of a game by the computer. I missed one turn and now some other bloke is controlling my Turks!