for players with less than perfect skills, opponent stacking can offer the possibility to play a leading role on the sucker side, wich can be fun, and can fruit valuable experience.
playing against the good ones is more fun, i always join the weaker team if i can. (hence making it even weaker with 20+death assured :-D)
That's actually some great advice. My first choice is always Aliens and it may just be because I've spent way more time on their side, but it seems that baby-fresh noobs always want to try Aliens first. This usually leads to a few unfortunate rounds a night where Humans get fed to s3 before Aliens can even come close to s2.
That being said, it's in those rounds that I usually get to shine the brightest... Right before my candle is, of course, quickly and irreversibly snuffed out.
A little while back, there was a stacked round on A.T.C.S. where my Mara had to single-handedly hold off what seemed to be an endless cycle of well-fed humans rushing the hallway by head-hopping for all I was worth and then letting out a zap as I retreated towards H-base, leading them back into their own default and then trying to make it out through the front alive.
Using this pattern, not only was I able to keep most of a better-equipped team out of our base until 10 minutes after SD, but also eventually netted one of my best kill/death ratios ever while an endless interchanging loop of the Rocky theme song and Joe Esposito's "You're the Best" played in my head...
And I've got to admit, even though we eventually lost, it was still one of the most enjoyable rounds of Tremulous that I had ever played. I'm also pretty sure I was a better player when the round was done. Now, when I get stacked against, I just try to make it as hard as possible (that's what she said) for the other team to win and hope that I learn something in the process.
