Hello and good day everyone.
Many will agree, that bang is a great game. There is a considerable portion of luck in card deals, but even more significant portion of skill and depth in how and when you play your hand.
That all holds true however, only if the goals of the players playing it, are aligned. Quite simply, if they all play to win.
I have sadly seen it time and time again, that many players, (too many in fact) approach this game as if it was a free-for-all. Vice shooting the sheriff, revealed outlaws shooting and/or killing other revealed outlaws (not just for 3 cards), Sheriff deliberately killing vice, the list goes on. I have seen it all.
Worth mentioning is also how 9/10 renegades think, that the way to victory is through pretending to be vice all game long, even though this "strategy" works only with a very incompetent Sheriff, and only by super unlikely chain of coincidences.
One message to that topic for all future renegades, this game was not designed for 5 players to be Sheriff+Vice+Renegade VS 2x outlaws. As you can see, 3 > 2(1), so that is not balanced. You are the balancing part. Your ideal situation is Sheriff, 1x outlaw and you- renegade, in the final. Everything else works very very very few times for it to be pursued. Countless of games have proved that.
These players effectively ruin the game experience and defend it by alleged freedom of actions. Well, if Bang wasn't a team game, that would all be just fine, but guess what!
Bang is a team game. I'll repeat that for clarity - It's a team game. Your freedom of actions must not be superior to the goal of the team you play for. Make no mistake, I don't mean outlaws must go all guns blazing at sheriff from round 1. You can execute your secret plan all you want, just don't objectively reduce your chances of winning by going after your own.
There are plenty of players, who enjoy the competitiveness this game has to offer. But more often than not, it is nullified by the incompetence of players, who came to play this game to waste time, to troll or to play casually, at best, not really caring much for the result of the game. Worst is, they even admit to that.
So what is the problem the title refers to?
There is no way, how a seasoned player can enjoy playing this game on this site. However I wish there was, there really isn't. Most of the time, it's just agony and hope, that perhaps next game will be, forget great, normal will do just as nicely.
Many will agree, that bang is a great game. There is a considerable portion of luck in card deals, but even more significant portion of skill and depth in how and when you play your hand.
That all holds true however, only if the goals of the players playing it, are aligned. Quite simply, if they all play to win.
I have sadly seen it time and time again, that many players, (too many in fact) approach this game as if it was a free-for-all. Vice shooting the sheriff, revealed outlaws shooting and/or killing other revealed outlaws (not just for 3 cards), Sheriff deliberately killing vice, the list goes on. I have seen it all.
Worth mentioning is also how 9/10 renegades think, that the way to victory is through pretending to be vice all game long, even though this "strategy" works only with a very incompetent Sheriff, and only by super unlikely chain of coincidences.
One message to that topic for all future renegades, this game was not designed for 5 players to be Sheriff+Vice+Renegade VS 2x outlaws. As you can see, 3 > 2(1), so that is not balanced. You are the balancing part. Your ideal situation is Sheriff, 1x outlaw and you- renegade, in the final. Everything else works very very very few times for it to be pursued. Countless of games have proved that.
These players effectively ruin the game experience and defend it by alleged freedom of actions. Well, if Bang wasn't a team game, that would all be just fine, but guess what!
Bang is a team game. I'll repeat that for clarity - It's a team game. Your freedom of actions must not be superior to the goal of the team you play for. Make no mistake, I don't mean outlaws must go all guns blazing at sheriff from round 1. You can execute your secret plan all you want, just don't objectively reduce your chances of winning by going after your own.
There are plenty of players, who enjoy the competitiveness this game has to offer. But more often than not, it is nullified by the incompetence of players, who came to play this game to waste time, to troll or to play casually, at best, not really caring much for the result of the game. Worst is, they even admit to that.
So what is the problem the title refers to?
There is no way, how a seasoned player can enjoy playing this game on this site. However I wish there was, there really isn't. Most of the time, it's just agony and hope, that perhaps next game will be, forget great, normal will do just as nicely.
