good manners

[griffin1987]

No offense General, but that's one of the most ridiculous ideas I've ever heard. Just think about it, under your system if one team gets 15 total kills and the other team gets 0 total kills regardless of distribution they will recieve the same amount of money in total. It's as griffin said a mechanic like this would turn btanks into a boring creepwar and I agree, especially since getting hero kills would be more "stealing money from the rest of your team" then "spontaneously generating money."

There is also one vital difference that you didn't mention beetween being a new player in Dota and being a new player in btanks. In Dota you lose money when you die, in btanks you don't. New players in btanks actually have a chance to spend their own money and ammend their mistakes. On the other hand new players in Dota will be permanently broke (or at least behind) and unable to actually play and experience the game.

I know you lose money when you die in DOTA. That's why I said "to a lesser extent". The first idea I suggested is unlikely to be implemented, but I saw a problem, so I offerred some suggestions to solve it. The point is this: the original poster (and others) recognize that many experienced players are verbally abusive to new players. That's undesirable. It's pretty clear that the bounty system contributes to the problem.

You're right on the point that flaming has become a normal habit in btank matches, but that doesn't have to do anything with the bounty system.

Bad manners aren't induced due to some scoring system - people just don't have manners. It's the same with giveup and leave. Why do you even join a game if you don't intend to play it till the end? That's something a child does - and still you can experience it regularly on btanks.

I've never given up on any of my games and most people who know me should be able to agree on that. And that's just one part of sportsmanship. Not flaming or calling other noobs is another. I don't really get why people flame or call other noobs.

I myself sometimes tell others that they shouldn't have done something they're doing. But thats ciritzism. Some people take that the wrong way and start to spout insults. But well - as much as I'd like for people to better their behaviour, as much do I know that it's neither our job to educate them, nor will they ever change.

Some people just like spouting insults more than playing - if you ask me, they should join a chatroom instead of btanks, but well, can't do anything about it. Only thing we could possibly do is alter the bots in a way to disallow chatting, or maybe filter messages, but then people would probably just start whispering, and afaik that's something you can't do anything about with the bot.

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