On Rules, Referees, and Rewards (aka Penalties)

[Ethulin]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

I've seen penalties decide a good many matches. At GLR, my team lost 3 matches because of penalties through no fault of our own. So just because you haven't been bitten by penalties doesn't mean they aren't annoying other people who are playing the game fairly

The way my own team, team 492, was able to stay away from loosing matches based on penalties was that we talked to every alliance member we had before the match, telling them what exactly the penalties were, and how we needed them too avoid them.

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

doesn't mean they aren't annoying other people who are playing the game fairly and losing because a human player picked a foot up or a team playing their first match wasn't aware that there was a brand new penalty for putting tetras on the carpet.

That depends on what you mean by "fairly". The other team did not do those things, such as there human player picking up a foot, and they followed the brand new penalty.

I happen to agree with you that the penalties were to harsh, but as long as the were enforced equally they were not unfair.