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Often I see players get upset they were attacked by a teammate or leaguemate. Sometimes even over people hitting them that aren't connected to them in any way. First off, this is a fighting game. Fighting each other is part of what we do here. It isn't personal. It's just game play. Fighting helps toons gain experience, which in turn helps make the toon stronger. You want your toon to get stronger. Likewise, you want your friends and teammates toons to get stronger too. Avoiding each other doesn't serve this purpose. It only penalizes you. Instead of hitting that toon, you have to hit one that gives fewer experience points. Now that's fine if you aren't trying to level, but if that's the case, you probably shouldn't be attacking anyone above level one anyway. If you are leveling though, and you avoid all your friends and teammates, before long you're missing out on hundreds or even thousands of experience points a day. I estimate that if I avoided all my teammates and friends everyday, I would probably lose out on a good 10k in experience points a day. That's a lot. Now, lower level players will miss out on less. I'm level 750+. But I think you get the point. Furthermore, losing a fight when someone attacks you, outside of events and tournaments, in no way harms you or your ability to grow and succeed in the game. The only thing it does is changes the vs score between your toon and that toon. That's it. That's nothing. Certainly not something to get upset about. In the top levels of play, friends and teammates attack each other all the time. They do this for experience as well as to test gear setups, and just generally hone their skills and knowledge. In fact, if I am testing a LWs suit and studying the fight feed to look for where it needs tweaking, it might be a better idea to attack a friend so my tournament opponents can't analyze my suit before I use it on them. If none of this still makes little or no sense to you, let's put it into a real world perspective. When sport fighters train for big matches or tournaments, they practice and spar with their teammates and gym trainers, their friends, guys they know, a LOT, before they ever step into the ring with their intended opponent. Those guys are friends and they're really hitting each other. Why? To get better for when it really matters. The same holds true for police and soldiers. They train against each other....... a LOT........ BEFORE they go fight the bad guys. If they didn't, the bad guys might wipe the floor with them. If you're not training with your friends and teammates, you're not properly preparing yourself to fight those that are.
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