Learn to fucking play for fuck sake.

Yea, I'm butt-hurt.. don't mention it.

Game stats:

Defeated: 24 ( 32% )
Won: 7 ( 9% )
..........
Yes,it's SD's fault,learn to fucking play shit player.Goodbye.

Lopt, please don't speak to other players like that.

SD is a good player.
SD was defeated in that game - but so were you.
I think it's rude to say that SD's actions allowed me to win the game. It was a tough game beyond SD's early exit.

You're not impressing anyone with those fuckin stats, review the game you ASSWIPE, you suck, clear and simple!

Lol Lopt, those are YOUR STATS!

SD has much better stats - and they ARE impressive.

Well, fyi, I had a time were I cd'ed alot on low-bet games cause I would chip in and forget about it, so that's probably warping my stats, also newer then SD.

But none of those matter, what matters is the game in hand, and you cannot deny my OP, that's why he's going on about stats..

I sympathize with Lopt. How SD manages his stats despite his style of kamikaze play, is beyond me.

Just a note, CD's show up as resigns not defeats i am pretty sure, and considering it is a percentage, the number of games you have played does not really matter.

If you come back to late or even missed first turn, it is often detrimental to your survival, also the more games you play the better you get and the better your stats will get.

But thank you Putin, because this discussion is not meant to be about stats, it doesn't matter how good my stats are, it matters how good I played this game and how good SD played this game, and for the second time in a row he played like a idiot and worse then me.

sorry, not meaning to be asinine, but did you just argue that his stats are better because he has played more and is better than you, with more experience, but that the stats are not the point and the point is that he is not as good as you?

link please!!!!

I assume they are talking about this game: gameID=86017

Very funny, let me spell it out for you, usually, when people gain experience at something, by doing it more then once, they get better at it. For example getting this game.

I thus argued that someone who has played more games will obtain a higher win/loss ratio over time because he will have gained more experience then others.

However, there can be deviation from this, and for some reason SD has hit a bender and has found joy in ruining games by suiciding into other players and leaving his back exposed to the victor of the game.
Whatever his stats are, it does not guarantee that he will be better in each and every game. Saying, I have better stats than you therefore I'm better and am right about this game is just obnoxious, also completely ignoring my OP.

Ruining games is something I feel strongly about and I think is lame and stupid.

Lopt, would you please stop. If you don't like it stop playing with him, and please don't bring up the anon excuse, if you don't want to play with someone then play passworded games.

gameID=80337

Why would I stop, I'm bringing something to light, and I feel justified to do so.

Anyone can see he ruined this game, and he is experienced enough to not have to do so.

Also passworded live games are kinda hard to get on..

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=86017#gamePanel

But he's allowed to play however he want's as long as he doesn't cheat, it doesn't look like he did to me, so I don't see what the problem is. There are crappy players on this site, gotta learn to deal with it, or you're never going to have any fun.

"SD has much better stats - and they ARE impressive."

Certainly not bad, but I suspect they'd be amazing if he would get out of the habit of picking a sworn enemy to destroy at all costs in S01. I'm certain his draw numbers would go up and survive/defeats drop if so.

That is a very good point though Eden.

I think its his style of play, if it succeeds he's in a great position, if someone decides to stab him in the back, he's kind of screwed and doesn't seem to care.

I certainly find it annoying, but everyone is allowed their own style of play, and clearly overall it is successful for him, given his record. I'd be curious to go back and look at his games to see if a lower than normal percent of them are drawn, because I assume that would be the case, since often if he doesn't solo he aids someone else's solo.

The point really is, for me at least, that he grants a win, to someone, without good reason, it does not benefit him in anyway and it ruins the game for all the other players.

It's like playing a boardgame, and once you lose you wipe all the pieces of the board, or give all your money/resources to one player and whoever was ahead, or gets the resources wins.

It's incredibly childish to do so, and shows bad sportsmanship, but I will try to get passworded games going, to exclude him from anymore life games I'm playing in.

@ Lopt, to be clear, when I asked you to stop I meant the cussing and whining. I have no problem with pointing out the problems with another players style. By the way, I agree, Splits style is offensive and the fact that he has 12 resigns is a pretty clear indicator how seriously he takes the games he plays in.

It's unequivocally terrible. Inflexibility is about the only thing in a gunboat that can be categorically stated to be bad in terms of early strategy. There's this gunboat mentality of picking an enemy and going all-out... I don't like it, but it's generally understandable to an extent. The idea is that you hope that, by making a strong and surprising move on a neighbor, your other neighbor will join you in beating your target down.

The problem in my view is that it gives the power to decide how to proceed to a third power instead of keeping it for yourself. It can work, but the downside is that if you get burned by the kingmaker, then you have to try to reconcile with the neighbor. You must be flexible enough to admit fault and make up with the target.

Frankly, given his often self-righteous press, insulting arrogance on the forum, and complete inability to accept any fault whatsoever in any EOG type statements ever, I think SplitDiplomat is incapable of accepting that he made a wrong decision in-game. This leads him to pursue this aggressive strategy to the complete destruction of his target or himself, always believing his move was right, and always unable to see where it is not.

Maybe that's too harsh, but he's rather pissed me off multiple times with his sheer inability to accept fault. I don't mind stating my views bluntly here.

I totally agree President Eden, also, last game he blamed it on me attacking him 01', even though I made multiple attempts to reconcile when it was clear he had to turn around to prevent the solo.

This game, I made peace with him at the start and he moved on me anyway, so besides everything you said in the above, he is also a LIAR, and indeed, not capable of admitting his flaws.

Completely agreed Eden

"Frankly, given his often self-righteous press, insulting arrogance on the forum, and complete inability to accept any fault whatsoever in any EOG type statements ever, I think SplitDiplomat is incapable of accepting that he made a wrong decision in-game."

Is it any wonder that SD might be defensive when often the only way people write EOGs, if you can call it that, in the style of this one by Lopt. This whole thread is a nasty (and frankly extremely whiny) smear campaign - this is in no way constructive.

Fucking double standard for you all to sit behind your computer screens insulting SD and then criticising for not being the perfect gentleman to you.

I'm not so sure its a double standard, as he is more than welcome to defend himself here.

But I've at least sent him a PM after a game saying thanks for agreeing to a draw and his response was pretty sarcastic and unfriendly.

As stated, I find his style of play really annoying to play against, but that doesn't make it an invalid style of play. Just one that differs from my views most of the time.

Lol, did SD hack your account or something?

I don't care if you think I'm nasty or whiny, I believe I have a point and I see no reason not to make it.
I'm also glad to retract all my complaints if he can come with a valid reason why he did what he did.

Yesterday the reason was that I attacked him, which he invalidated by doing what he did in this game.
And for this game I haven't heard a reason, only that his stats are better then mine so I should shut my mouth.

Really, I don't understand were you are coming from?
And no it's not an EOG, so don't call it that, it's a smear-campaign because I fuckin hate his arrogance and bad play manners.

@Poozer: He is a non-native English speaker - perhaps he doesn't mean to come across that way in his message to you?