Captain Crumb

Forgive me, I understand you are angry and frustrated at the trolls spoiling your gaming, but that sounds like a bit of a generalisation. I think the majority of truckers probably did behave themselves reasonably well, but a rather conspicuous minority decide to cause mayhem. Anyway, I digress. Like I said, I have no problem with the new speed limit. If it does have a reducing effect on the amount of grief that more serious players encounter then why the hell not. The main tragedy for me is that the choice of this, that or the next thing is now shrunken to simply this or that.

Is it really such a stretch for the mind to comprehend that some people would like the freedom of 'arcade', with some of the challenge from having to avoid collisions and behave responsibly? That some people would like to think that they are capable of being in control of their own decisions and how much risk they can take without hard limits being imposed upon them? That Euro 2 seemed to cater exactly for these types of people, and that it was why that server was so popular? Is it hard to grasp that players can exist outside this apparent binary state of 'sim' or 'troll'?

I'm not sure how qualified I am to have an opinion on this, given that my playtime includes 2 hours on my friend's computer at the weekend and a handful of runs after I went home and bought it myself. Indeed, we had a wee run together last night just to give the mp a bash and it was great fun. Since I haven't experienced much pre-rifting gameplay I'm not sure that I will feel the impact of a lower speed limit, so it's somewhat moot as far as I'm concerned whether it goes up or down or to the sides or whatever. What I would say is that how on earth can anybody argue that restriction of choice is a good thing, an improvement? It sounds like the facility for sim-heavy gaming was already there in the form of euro 1, so why the need to restrict the relative freedom of euro 2? Why are the sim players coming out in a triumphalist blaze of glory over a problem to which the solution was already present? It sounds to me, if I may make such a vulgar comparison, that it's like a cod player wanting to play search and destroy, the s+d server is already there, but instead joins the team death match server and complains that nobody is planting the bomb. So shut down the team death match server and force everyone to play s+d.