Ooh, ooh, new info on patch page!

[Gandalf Parker]

Opinions become facts if you get more than a couple of people to agree with you.
Its not surprising that MPers want to balance the game for MP.
Its also not surprising that they fail to consider Solo gamers.

To get really involved in the MP games, you have to join the forum. But to Solo play its not such a necessity. You can lurk, and search, for a long time. The sales numbers, and the numbers of forum visitors that are registered vs unregistered tends to show how the numbers really compare. But in the forums its easy to get the impression that the game is mostly MPers of a certain type. If you hang around the other forums, or the IRC channel, you get another impression of a different grouping.

Unfortunately, altho the soloists are probably the majority, they will always be the minority in discussions.

[Omnirizon]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

Opinions become facts if you get more than a couple of people to agree with you.
Its not surprising that MPers want to balance the game for MP.
Its also not surprising that they fail to consider Solo gamers.

To get really involved in the MP games, you have to join the forum. But to Solo play its not such a necessity. You can lurk, and search, for a long time. The sales numbers, and the numbers of forum visitors that are registered vs unregistered tends to show how the numbers really compare. But in the forums its easy to get the impression that the game is mostly MPers of a certain type. If you hang around the other forums, or the IRC channel, you get another impression of a different grouping.

Unfortunately, altho the soloists are probably the majority, they will always be the minority in discussions.

you're being a solo gamer totalitarian. however it is a falsifiable hypothesis that solo gamers need the game balanced for them like MP gamers do. The fact that solo gamers don't MP has just axiomatically disproven that hypothesis. MP gamers have some sort of (slightly ambiguous) reference point for balancing nations in MP. What is the SP reference point of balance?

P.S. I'm just being antagonistic because you pointed out the situated nature of knowledge, and then went on to use it for your own purposes of arguing for a situated point of view.