*[p.a.!] = pro_of available - but not provided in order to prevent further damages]
It's the first time that I feel urged to respond to a matter about a reported player in this forum as I prefer to not report (or help to possibly ban or punish) anyone for anything if not really necessary, because I am happy about every active player (or observer) enjoying this fabulous game („Emire Earth 2“) as much as I do and helps keeping the small community alive.
The only reason why I am responding here at all is the request of my very respected italian EE2-Buddy „IndieRock00“, who I remember coming online meeting me noob-bashing him hard until he became skilled enough to noob-bash me back even harder at current status.
Revenge can be so sweet and bitter sometimes. „witch8“ (taunt).
I wasn't too shocked of Knight's first response to the matter (I hope to find time to read closer into all of the following posts of this loooong thread, later on), but even though I have never seen him being sorry about anything, I really would have been positively supriesed, if he would have shown at least some sort of instant and honest remorse this time and maybe even drop a small apology towards Mona (Or even me(?) - as I would be feeling deeply sorry to hear that my avoidable behaviour caused a player to stay absent, if I were in his place.) with sincere words of trying to change for the better in the future, but as usual he decided trying to find a way out of the back door again with his „lawyerical“ talent of denying facts, twisting words around and even making things up until it sounds better in his favor and as it seems even is insulting and trying furthermore to manipulate others to speak out for him (in the „courtroom“) instead of finally taking responsibility for his own actions and start to tackle the real problem.
Considering the lack of active players on a skilled level it's a resulting fact that players of different types of characters meet up to have a good time together online, who in reallife might never even hangout due to a lack of personal chemistry or even diverging worldviews. Actually it's a chance for a glinse out of your reallife bubble (social class), which usually makes it even more interesting, but then certainly it will also lead to some trouble and fights, which to a certain level can also be very entertaining depending on how seriously it gets or someone takes it.
I can only guess why the towards me at first very polite and friendly appearing Knight became toxic (towards some others and especially me). Maybe I did something bad to him without being aware of it? I am always open for a clarifying conversation.
I remember meeting „Vladimir...“ (or similar?) in the lobby for the very first time and how much I enjoyed the fresh breeze that came along with his unique kind of humor and his talent for sarcastic language. I also liked to see „Vlad“ (later „Knight“) improve game by game to become an established player in the long run (just like „IndieRock00“) as it sadly happens very rarely that new players have the endurance to play until considered to be a decent player, but when he finally reached that point he also seemed to change his behaviour to a rather snootily and hypocratical manner by continously bullying others about their (lack of) skills, way of playing, favourite/preferred sets or playing rated games vs. new players in order to gain „free points“, while his own words easily could have been used against himelf. I mean after all he has certain preferences of sets like everyone does and his stalent of playing with massive def spam does not hold him back from complaining about it, when others are doing it, too.
I am a big fan of free speech. So I think there is no problem at all in telling personal opinions or even critisising others in a sarcastic way (I even do appreaciate the sarcastic part), but not if it's full of hypocricy!
To give a more specific example for his hypocratical demeanor:
It felt very strange to me that he was continously mocking on the player Kiffke for his „noob bashing“ thing that he got famous for.
(On me as well as „KiffkeFake“, while I was jokingly trying to get even more „free points“ than the real Kiffke during that time)
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[He might have included himself in this specific statement already?
but there is much more and harder "kiffke" bullying proof available!]
Hypocritically Knight was also collecting "free points" from new players, though!
He sat in the lobby and when a new player joined the lobby all of the sudden he was hosting and playing rated games vs. the new player(s),
but would not play the intended rated game vs. me or other „old“ players, if we joined his rated lobby to play vs. him instead of the newby.
One of Knight's reactions, when I confronted him with his obvious hypocrisy after he was sucking point from a new player was, that it's not my problem. Right, but how come he thinks it's his problem, if others are doing the same thing?
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I simply don't like, when people measure things with double standards and as I am usually a very frank and direct person I told him about his obvious hypocrisy from my point of view.
I did not even mean to hurt his ego about it, as I already had noticed that he is taking the ranking system way too seriously. All I wanted was to point it out to him in the hope he might be able to self reflect on this fact and hange, but instead (I saw the same reaction pattern that can be observed in his responds here) he got very mad and angry and since that day (years ago by the way) he was never ever nice to me again like he used to be before. I was not upset about it – just confussed how someone could change his behaviour toward me because of such a childish reason. To me it seems as if Knight finds it generally difficult to handle critism in a positive way as some kind of support for self reflection and as an opportunity to become an even better Knight version without taking it too personally or be resentful for too long. From now on he was usually „ignoring“ me by joining the lobby and instead of joining my host to play or „shit chat“ he would just drop „Oh, no good players on.“ in the lobby and leave or when lobby was more active he would make mocking „jokes“ about me. For example there was this new player (whome I was teaching in the past as „Dr.Who“) asking: „WO IST DR WHO“(„Where is Dr.Who?“), while I was online as KiffkeFake. Knight could not resist the trigger to answer: „dr.who is a shit player who everyone hates“.
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Or when I as host stated, that it's hard to put (fair teams).
Instead of providing helpfull ideas he left to host his own game but not before dropping the humorous comment "put it in your ass".
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There have been uncountable insidences like this, but I just wanted to give a small overview of what I am talking about - I generally didn't feel personally „hurt“, though, as this bullying was not only reserved for me and it also usually came along with this certain entertaining way of sarcasm and also because it really takes a lot until I would take words seriously from an online stranger, but of course I could not really appreciate actions agaist me, like when he was trying to persuade other hosts to kick me without any necessity, which he had tried multiple times.
*[p.a.!]
So, this is not true that Gnooty quit personally because of me. I talked to him very rarely and even if we talked sometimes everything was fine. Once, maybe, we could have a problem when he joined my room, which was full of people. He became observer quickly, because didn't like teams. After I asked him 3 times to play, he ignored and I kicked him. But excuse me, what could I do, when he were joining in 5v5 game and going to observers, while I had 3 people in line, who were saying to me "pls pls open Knight". Of course, in this case, I would let another player to play.
Thanks, for claiming that everything is fine between us and that we only once had a problem.
But:
NO!!!
I would never be mad if I was kicked out of a full room as an observer!
It's common sense, that an observer should not be stealing a slot from someone, who would like to join a big team game to play.
Unfortunately these cases are very rare, though. The happier I am, if it happens and if I am not AFK I am the first willing to leave the host if I am not planning to play. I am sure players have noticed me leaving rooms myself in cases like that. So once again Knight is making or mixing things up about the incedent that made me quit playing EE2 for a while. His hosted room was not full and I testify that everything happened the way I said in the screenshoted private chat and not the way knight tries to put it now. I did not try to find possible screenshots of it yet, though.
For him the incident has probably just been another joke he probably does not even remember anymore, but to me it was the drop that made the cup run over for me.
I simply did not want to be a part or rather be surrounded by such a toxic and hypocritcal atmosphere like that any longer.
Are you able to admitt or will you find excuses again?
Four simple questions for you (knight): Is this hypocrisy or nah?
1 - Knight joking about me mostly observing, but then persuading me to observe instead of trying to figure out fair teams?
2 - Knight as host trying to force me to click ready with uncomfortable team sets by threatening to kick me, if I don't click ready or change to observer and then still kicking me, when I actually change to observer??
3 - Knight, who is not getting tired of claiming to be the more skilled player of us two, putting me in teams he would not even want to play himself as I offered to simply switch him and me???
4 - Knight complaining about the small community, but treeting active players like that????
You more than once let me know that In your point of view I ONLY observe and can't be counted as an active player, though, right?
Maybe it's a good timing to explain this to you:
I try to put myself in player position only if I know that I don't need to go afk in order to prevent others from waiting on me too long before being able to start a game. Like all the unrespectful waiting you are causing while being afk for very long, while others want to start the game already.
Also, I simply prefer 1 vs.1 games as those seem to be more balanced to me and without the possibility of blaming others for losing a game, but I obviously do enjoy to observe big matches. Why are you so mad about my obs(session) for obs(erving)?
By the way: I do play a lot, too, but mostly during other times of the day than you do.
More Hypocrisy:
„Supporting inferior players by advise and hints as observer during (rated) games“
„Zitat“
Once again I can smell pure hypocrisy!
I even do remember Knight being one of the reasons why the possibility of talking to players as observer during rated games has been closed as I mentioned how Knight was hardly trying to help Wilp („Fercho“) during a rated game vs me.
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I did not complain about it back then - I even liked that he was trying to teach "Fercho" to get better and made the specific game more challanging this way.
I was just wondering why he did this, while complaining about Mona doing it?
By the way skilled players should be thankfull for attempts to improve the skills of inferior players. At some point it might get hard to tell who is more skilled, so I also think it should be respected if a player like Knight feels that he is equally skilled as „Kenneth“ and therefore asks/demands not to help „Kenneth“ during the game. "hahaha" (taunt)
Though, I think there are two differenct styles of helping:
Helping to understand fundamental parts of the game should never be prohibited in my oppinion, but helping equally skilled players by providing information about certain weak points of the enemy (like when and where to attack best) is another question and I can understand if it's not appreciated for reasons of fairness.
Finally my humble opinion about Knights accusations of hacking/glitching in order to explain Mona's overwhelming skills:
I know this is all about a matter of preventing personal reputation destruction, which additionally may have a negative influence on how much new players will trust the patch and server, but if this assumption would have been proclaimed „privatly“ I think it even could be interpreted as a huge compliment:
Knight is simply trying to find an explanation for why Mona remains unbeatable for him, even though he is trying hard to become just as skilled.
Sometimes (especially for Players with an exaggerated ego) it's hard to admit that you are simply not capable of pressing the right buttons at the right time in order to be recognized as an unbeatable and highly skilled player.
After all, we all are making mistakes in live and I am a fan of second chances and I am glad that my „antibuddy“ (Knight, as he prohibited me to use his former nick and obviously real name "Vlad") has (for now) already received a second chance and got unbanned to join the war parties again even if only muted at the moment.
I'd be happy to see him use this possibility as there seem to be players such as "Indy" and "Wilpy" missing him and for my part I mean what can be more satisfying than a good win against an „online enemy“ in a war game without the possibility of reading bad excused for it afterwards?
„21“ (taunt)