i know komo will come here and say its just my opinion, and him and hundreds of others love bng blah blah blah....
Nope avirex, you pretty much said everything better this time
There are a few things I don't agree with in the 1st part though:
i agree with you here, to a certain degree... we might have more players interested in league, but how long would they last for? if we cater to newer players, and make it ok for them to not learn, and master the greatest scheme in the game (roping, and all its variations) then there will be no longevity to those players...
Without a doubt Roper WAS the most popular scheme, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back then...
But honestly, it's been 17 years, I don't even think you could say Roper is the most popular scheme of all time, I would personally guess Shopper would be the most popular scheme of all time(guessing it's the most played?)
It would be interesting to find out once and for all what scheme has been played the most since WA started back in 1999, but, we can't, can we?
I don't understand why you associate longevity with just Roping, what do you base this assumption on? Do you have evidence we don't? I think if you combined every scheme played in TUS(rope based vs non rope based), you may be surprised at the outcome?
I think it's a combination of everything possible, that keeps players interested in Worms, they can Rope one day, then Hysteria the next, then Mine Madness another day etc, they can do whatever they want lol, granted, for guys like us, it was Roper/Warmer that got us hooked immediately, these days it's more Hysteria, Aerial, Kaos, Darts etc.
Things change mate, don't be upset about it, it's not like you have no one to Rope with lol.
but, im sure 90 out of 100 wormers would agree with me that roping is was really drew them to this game, if it was not for roping, they would not have got so attached to worms, and invested nearly as much time.... sure, after the roping drew them in, they discovered other schemes, and invested time into those to master as well... but roping was the main reason.... i already touched on this a couple pages back, and komo tried to disagree with me, only because he likes to debate...
but before he comes here and says the same old thing.. let me just say, in W:As prime, roping was about the only scheme played... its was by far the most popular scheme.... the more and more we catered to newbs, the less and less popular it came, IMO... and hyst is the death of w:a i truly believe that.
ok komo, have fun.
The last time you STATED it was roping that kept 9/10 players here(as a fact), this time you are suggesting 90/100 wormers were drawn to WA through Roping, and even though I think it's more like 70% of players, I do believe it was roping that got most players hooked, but it's not the SOLE reason they stayed with the game.
I disagreed with you before because of the way you worded it, passing off things as facts instead of theory, that annoys me, this time you worded what you thought more carefully.
Definitely without a doubt back in the days of WACL roping WAS the most popular scheme, but there could be several reasons why, not because it's the greatest scheme of all time, but it was the most fun available at the time.
Many of the schemes people love now weren't even available back then, if Hysteria/Kaos/Darts/TTRR etc were available immediately when WA began, I think Roper wouldn't even exist as a League scheme lol, it would be replaced by TTRR/WxW or something.
And honestly, you keep saying you think Hyst is the death of W:A, but don't you remember that period sometime between 2004 and 2008 when WA was really dead online most of the time? I feel things like Rubberworm and schemes like Hysteria saved it, neither of us can prove the other wrong about that can we?
EDIT - Oh, and a personal note - I think Elite is the greatest scheme of all time.