- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I was just going to start this thread today but then I see it up here. I don't think that it is red that wins, it is the last score. Imagine if hockey or football or basketball adopted this system. Everyone would say that it makes no sense. As it is, it makes no sense. And before you go flaming me because "oh but you love it when you win". No I don't and I really haven't met anyone oline that does. It truely cheapens the victory for everyone but rank-whores. Everyone breathes a sigh of relief when they see that they are on the red team because it gives you a significant advantage. Now I know the next thing you are going to say - "learn how to play defense better". Quite obviously if you played defense well enough to tie, you should deserve the tie (or somekind of overtime round or a tie breaker that makes some sense - most kills, most medals, kills-deaths, flag or bomb kills, fastest time to score - I can list a dozen more that would make some sense if you want me to.
Don't get me wrong, this is not another "Bungie, you're terrible, you should have done this." post. I am a huge fanboy of Halo and I doubt many of you spend as much time playing, reading about it, reading the books, involving myself with various halo communities etc., as I do. But this does not mean that Bungie is infallable, they are in fact human.
Since nobody is going to agree 100% about what the tie breaker should be (and I'm sure that some people find the current system fine), I think the best solution would be to have a sticky with a poll up for a bunch of different tie breaker options and let the community decide by voting. One IP address per vote, of course.
One last, off topic, comment. Bungie, you would make my life and the lives of alot of other people who are regulars to these forums a lot easier if you would add some search functionality to the forums. This is the only forum I can think of that doesn't have a search.