11-22-2019, 09:22 PMMayuu Wrote:

11-22-2019, 09:17 PMnotorioustig Wrote: The delay has nothing to do with it being illegal, it has everything to do with trying to make the sim as balanced as possible. It was perfectly legal and arguing otherwise is missing the point

We test simmed something that worked REALLY well, acted on it, and left it for the rest of the team's to counter, only for it to be discovered that it really doesn't have a counter. Calling it a loophole is dumb frankly @Samee, it wasn't a loophole. It was a discovery made during test sims that no one including us knew was as broken as it was until other teams tried testing against it. We just found something that worked and rolled with it expecting the competition to adjust, which is just strategy really  Literally the entire site's worth of GMs test sims all the time looking for advantages. Punishing a team for running into this with zero malicious intent would be ridiculous and anyone calling for punishment is being equally ridiculous

This is why I don't think there should be punishments, we should't try to limit people trying to get better at the game via strategic edges.

Sadly it just so happened that this "strategy" kind breaks the simulation engine and makes other strategies moot.
But on the other hand it also makes so that the league has to progress, it sucks right now since everyone is scrambling but I think it will put the league in a better place once this settles.

Yeah this is the reasonable take. We weren't trying to break STHS, we found a successful strategy and coordinated a ton of people to try and make effective use of it. Had we known it would set all of this into motion of course we wouldn't have done it, but over time someone else would have. Now we know, HO has made a plan to make things as balanced as possible on a shitty sim engine, and are working towards the future. If people want to come in here and act like Hallsy and Aaron fucked their wives and then shit on their porch, that's on them.