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Starcraft has rushing.  Rushing ruins the game.  I would prefer to play an
island map to avoid that  OR play people I know that like to build and
conquer.

Total Annihilation has tank rushes.  They occur mostly on metal maps.  I
prefer to play a map like Painted Desert or a water map like metal
isles...etc.

Rushes do ruin these games because I feel like I just wasted my time.  It is
not a strategy to build one unit and send it into another base in the first
ten minutes of playing.  That would make the advanced units worthless.
Since there are advanced units, that means that the games are intended to
use those units.

There are ways that game designers can avoid this.  I don't know waht the
best would be, but a cannon on top of each building designed to destroy
first level units is an answer.

Jeff
je...@javajeff.com

Martgen wrote:

> Greetings avid gamers from across the globe...
>
> I'm conducting a bit of research about the online gaming community. I
> want to know which games YOU think have potentially been ruined by
> players who are, at the moment, grouped under names such as 'Player
> Killers' (Ultima Online) or 'Tank Rushers' (Total Annihilation et al.)
> and so on.
>
> Most of the time there's two sides to the argument -- or two ways of
> playing -- but the fact remains that some gamers feel multiplyer games
> played over the Internet can be ruined by players who don't 'play by the
> rules' as it were.
>
> What I would like to know is:
>
> * What games do you feel have been affected by this so far?
> * What games do you see being affected in future?
> And:
> * What do you do to decrease the chance of this happening? Are there
> certain strategies, game configuration parameters, chat zones or methods
> of game hosting you use to minimise the chances of letting 'bad' players
> into or affecting your games?
>
> Please feel free to reply here or to my email address.
>
> The purpose of this research is not to find a solution but rather report
> on the current state of affairs and the possible work-arounds many
> gamers use.
>
> Thankyou for any information you can provide,
>
> Ashton Mills
> PCPowerPlay Magazine
>
> ami...@acp.com.au