Gunbound!

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If you visit the site, the owner gives the reasons behind the decision.

For myself, I am having a hard time enjoying Gunbound lately. I had been taking refuge in aduka 2/ss games. A lot of the players seemed to avoid them because they weren't sure what they were or how to play them. The games tended to be more civil than the usual. Lately, the Gunbound cesspool seems to have backed up into these games too. Invariably, after a long ready delay, someone will have forgotten to switch to shot 2. It used to be that courtesy dictated that the person offered a quick "sorry" and then skipped a turn to give back any delay advantage. Now, after the same mistake, there is suddenly an uproar of "cheater" and people start blasting shot 1 because "if he did it I can do it too!" Also, people decide that, because their team is down a man or just plain losing, it is ok to change the rules. They start using the wrong shot and, oh so cleverly, follow it with an "ups" or "I don't know how that happened". Uh-huh?!

The game is also getting overrun by keyboard generals. I had one self appointed idiot the other day that was berating everyone else on the team on how to play the game and what idiots we were if we missed a shot or didn't follow his "suggestions". After a few games I finally got fed up. I don't anger easily but this guy got me going. He let loose on me with something like "will you listen to me for once and dual her". I had already had the shot set up but thought about doing something else just to get under his skin a little more. On my next shot, after he tells me how I only make the easy shots and my being sure we had the game in the bag, I turned around and planted one square on him from a screen away and half a screen down. He then proceeded to miss a fart shot on the guy next to him. After I congratulated him with a "nice shot there" his only retort was "whatever".

I will probably keep playing a while. I have my 50 point money suit and am one piece away from my 50 point armor suit. Once I have that, I'll probably give up on the game. Gunbound could really be a great game for a quick online diversion but they need to try to figure out something to try to improve the software and the community that plays it. A start would be to fix the servers and to plug the wholes that let other players hack the games they're in. They will never be able to go to pay-to-play if they don't iron some things out first.