Ieldra2 wrote...
This is getting ridiculous.
(1) Miranda actually gives good advice most of the time. Except once. If you'd follow Jacob's advice, Thane would be sent out the airlock, if you followed Tali's advice, the quarians would go to war against the geth and Legion would be destroyed. People make mistakes. And in her case, it's your understanding that contributes to that mistake as much as the way she says it. See my reply to Markinator for details.
Actually she doesn't most of the time and she is way too overconfident when she does. Another example (and there are many) of Miranda's bad advice is to delay with the Suicide Mission if even one major mission remains undone. In fact, you can do the suicide mission with as few as two loyal squaddies with difficulty and four without too much trouble. Miranda's advice costs you your crew.
As for her 'suggestion' on Mordin, it wasn't a suggestion, it was a directive. A renegade Shep has the option (which I always take if going Renegade) of slapping her down hard. (Besides, TIM already made that suggestion) Also one of the first things she tells you is that she wants a control chip planted in your brain. I don't know about you, but that doesn't qualify as being very polite to me. You can (and should!) call Miranda on her female-dog attitude early.
(2) She's reasonably polite to everyone, except to Jack, which may be not as professional as you might wish, but I find it perfectly understandable. And don't mention the prologue scene, I do not find her b*tchy, but perfectly reasonable in her rebuff of Shepard's intrusion into her personal space. I'd have done exactly the same in her place.
Read Redcoat's post. He explains it better than I have. People Skills =/= Polite. In fact having "people skills" does not mean you have to be either soft spoken or even all that nice. It does mean you know how to handle and read people emotionally which Miranda clearly doesn't do very well.
(3) The game shows us, while she's certainly not on Shepard's level, she's a enough good leader to lead both fire teams. And don't pull out your meta-reasoning - I already pointed out why that doesn't work. Which means, while she does have her self-esteem problems, it doesn't affect her efficiency enough to fail at her tasks.
So, IanPolaris, could you stop your ridiculous crusade and accept that other people experience the game differently than you do?
Redcoat had nothing to do with me and his post was even harsher than mine was. Point in fact I like Miranda and I don't have a "personal crusade against her". However, she is NOT a good leader. I know because I have experienced (both ways) leadership training and have seen both good and bad leaders, and Miranda is not a good leader.
The ONLY reason she survives that second fireteam leader slot is because she has plot-armor until the very final part of the suicide mission because Bioware was too cheap to have other voice actors give lines that prompt you to chose key suicide mission personelle. This can be firmed by hacking the conversation files.
-Polaris
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...thats if anyone took her to the final battle, you know what I be talking about
