You may be right pie. I would agree that each case would be different.
Quite frankly I do not know cells, munder or frosty. Apparently munder knows me from the past at some point but the others do not seem to know me. The main point for me to get across is that if someone is going to tell me they will teach me how to attack then I am going to call them out on it.
Cells did that. He called me out and said he would destroy me. He is now banking…
And the other issue is that he uses poor examples to prove he isnt a bad player. He uses size and NW finishes in a round where he was an attacker and to be quite honest, those do not matter for attackers. Family and Banker/resourcer size and NW are the items that count. It shows an attacker did his job. Something I think I was proficient at back in the day.
The other example he uses is stating that 8 of us couldn’t kill him last round in Nova. Again, this is a poor example because he uses flawed points.
- We were not just fighting him. They had an alliance of 8 as well.
- He never attacked during the entire fight. He just turtled up and defended his planets as best he could. While that does show skill in preventing someone raping you, it does not show skill in his attacking.
- Here is the more significant point that hammers down point 2. We were attacking 5+ ticks away. That gave him ample time to continue to build more fleet and make it difficult to raid him. In that particular situation the advantage is largely in favor of the defender unless the attackers can afford such a large fleet that they can just obliterate the defenses. (we couldn’t).
So is cells a bad, decent, good, great player? I have no clue. I am stating that I do not believe he is good or great based on the body of work I have personally seen so far. Maybe the same can be said about me!