I take this one on my head. 50% we lost because of me.

Although most of the game i was either doubled or for a few moment had 3 people attacking me I think what tipped balance to your team was me loosing 40 long range frigates to auqias flak. Although most of the time i played without HW and with culture at 25 percent after loosing those 40 lrms I couldn't really recover since after that feed was almost nonexistent or very small and ended up being just a number without any real chance to change the outcome.

I must say that i don't agree that teams were stacked in our favor since we had complete noob playing on other flank which colapsed as soon as it was attacked. 

Auqia is one of best players around Devious and Slackah are quite good as well and they were doubling together whole game. 

But yeah if i saved those LRMs we might have a chance but after they were gone it was basicaly 2.5 v 4 in team players. 

def was not stacked lol

we had a complete noob who didnt even know how to colonize

2 of his planets he got he never even took the tax out of negative and never built the mineral extractors

u also had the better map positions as huymac got doubled hard enough early that we lost him

so it was a 4v5 with one of the 4 being complete noob (so 3.5 vs 5)

i actualy think the fact we held out so long was a miracle

and you had the best player in there (auqia)

my mistake was picking that guy i thot he was smurf (aggravating)

I thought you were just being nice by letting us have Kbroke.  I do agree that your team got screwed over by HuyMac's and Chiken's starting positions.  My team got lucky in those regards.  The cheap POS 5-button mouse that I'd been using to game on a single core Sempron rig (and my laptop) at my folk's house (MSI Sniper laser mouse) started acting up, and I ended up having to use a three button Microsoft Intellimouse.  So, I spent some of my time early on adjusting the mouse pointer sensitivity settings and then I had to use two keybinds on my keyboard for move/attack (instead of thumb buttons).  That's why my opening movements look retarded, btw.  If I had been in a fighting spot and not an eco spot I would have been rolled quickly.

No offense but if you are going to be deceitful in the first place by hiding who you are by smurfing then you are certainly capable of fudging the truth about your skill level.  There are a few that straight out lie and say they are noob anyways when they are not(Star Player).  Who is to know if you are honest until you show your true colors.

[_]-Greyfox

Losing in a 3v1 situation is no shame whatsoever (unless you were getting crazy feed, which it sounds like you weren't).  I've been there myself; it's a moment of triumph when you pull it off, and a noble struggle when you don't.  You'll always kick yourself for the little mistakes that made the difference, but in a position like this you just have to take it in stride.  The fact that you were able to distract more than half of their team for a time means you were doing your job very well.

I've been able to sniff out star player many times, I can smell him through the signals .

You know how you log into your Ironclad Online account first, then you can create "players" for online play? According to the manual this feature is intended for family or friends who would like to play online on your computer without being forced to create an ICO account of their own, but it is also possible to create multiple profiles for yourself for a variety of reasons. To do this as an experienced player in order to trick other players into thinking you're less skilled than you really are is referred to as "smurfing, and it's a frowned-upon practice.