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[BadAsh]

�What we have here is a failure to communicate�

My experience with this sort of thing in online gaming has pretty much been my experience with posting on various message boards. Communication can be difficult at times and this causes all kinds of problems.

Usually someone writes or does something and then someone else misunderstands and feels slighted in some way� and so it begins. In games it�s a little worse I think.

The other day, I�m patrolling a base with my lightning tank and I venture into the courtyard. I did not see that someone had just deployed an AMS there and I partially passed through the cloaking bubble. Once I realized �Oh crap an AMS� I hit the breaks and came to a quick stop. At this instant I hit a teammate that just grabbed some gear. Since I braked it did not kill him, but it still took over 50% of his health down. I back up slowly so as to not smush anyone else and send a /tell player-joe �sorry man, I did not see the AMS�. But before I can move my lighting and get this typed out, �Joe� decides to fire his decimator at me. I get out of the tank and debate feeding Mr. Decimator some MCG ammo.

It�s gotta end somewhere, so I just repaired my tank. Anyway, my point here is that this was just a communication problem. An accident happened, an instantaneous apology was not issued, and someone felt wronged and decided issue some �retribution�.

The key here is to just not escalate the situation. I did not return fire, and so it ended. If I had maybe his friends would have chimed in and then maybe mine would have too. Then you have 2 squads on the same empire grief locking each other. It can get pretty lame. Just man up and let it go.

BadAsh