grandar wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:01 am
Just my (and non accusatory, and using the non-specific you)
That's fine, thanks for explaining "your" (generally speaking) side in this way.
grandar wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:01 amUltimately, for me personally, I’d only really care if the opponent was using this info to target specific personnel or away teams, that they may lose track of otherwise.
Well, it sometimes has to do with that, yes. But it's a
right, that's built
into the rules.
And also... It's a game. People want to win. (Me,
least of all, perhaps; but I
do like to lose while keeping my opponent honest.
)
"Trust, but verify."
I think the weirdness comes from the online platform.
Of course, you're right... it's weird that the online manner of playing is -- by necessity or practicality -- different.
But IRL, I never took the liberty -- ever? (Perhaps I tried for a while, in 1995) -- to shield parts of cards. If opponent has the right to see all genders (only), I just give them my whole team to see. Did that IRL, do that in Lackey (I open the Zone for them to browse). I am used to more transparent play than perhaps is necessary; thus, the divid is rather large to people in the community playing "it (too) close to the vest". (Is that a good phrase for this?)
But I’m still going to be taken off guard, when people ask for the full team verification, because in my experience, it rarely happens.
I'd like this to be less the case, is all. I'll not ask it all the time. But when I do, it's a
normal thing.
Except, then, for the difference between IRL and online gameplay.
But I shouldn't feel awkward about asserting my right to verify because it's more difficult in Lackey, should I?
Perhaps there should be black-and-white rules for online play, about this? @BCSWowbagger, I'd like to know what the "official ideas" are, on this, if any? (And if none perhaps make them?) So there's no more confusion on either side.