I am compiling a list of excellent players - beyond exceptional for those seeking a challenge.

Thank you but are you talking about me ASAD or the bot Asad? lol

We have the rank ladder. Those who want to gloat can climb it.

FRESHSpaghetti-Gandalf is currently ranked #1.

DI purple monkey isn't in the top 100.

There are multiple "theDude", none really stand out.

wasa (not Wasa) is ranked #5, below Asad.

ASAD should be Asad, currently ranked #4. Asad came out as a painful AI bot not too long ago. The devs have stated elsewhere in the forums that they may 'ban' painful AI bots from competing in the ladder.

Griezell is currently ranked #26.

I am Purple Monkey.

Between the non stop crashes where you need to surrender, and inbalance if you are substrate and they are phc. I kick nearly everyones butt.

I beat ASAD. for the one time I played him.

As far as gandalf goes.

I played him yesterday

I was was substrate and he was phc he beat me.

I was phc and he was substrate, I beat him.

phc vs phc the same, however he is indeed better than me.

But I still beat him 2 out of 5 games with phc vs phc. =/

I dont play bots, I can destroy the AI. I even beat the AI on insane once !! serious

Griezell is a good player, but he is not on much anymore

The Dude is an awesome substrate player

If the game is "non-stop" crashing for you you I would recommend making a separate post with as much information about your location, hardware, internet connection.

If you look at the stats, I have played a lot of MP games and I've yet to crash since Beta 1 was released (including the game where you and I were in together against a guy who claimed he was "brand new" who proceeded to beat us both).

FRESHSpaghetti-Gandalf

I cannoot beat this guy

No cheap tactics work, no shortcuts. This guy is amazing

FRESHSpaghetti-Gandalf (15 Wins)

DI Purple Monkey (1 win)

He uses power amplifiers at the start and builds quantum relays to tech out.

Crazy as this guy, crazy.

Also, my friend who programs told me there is a console you can open that you can use to power build (instant build) units in game. But this guy is not this person, just saying.

I did post my crashes. The whole Q thing going on

I was there.

Yeh Spaghetti is new as well. I believe they are new. I tend to go for tier 2 too early. And, the spam with tier 1 is effective.

One time I crashed 7 times on MP.

When I play spaghetti it does not craash, there is no reason I can see.

Whether people have NVIDIA or AMD, it still crashes all the same. I wonder if it has something to do with Into CPU's. People who have amd say they do not crash,

I have an Intel i7 CPU which is getting old and has recently put both feet out the door (unstable BCLK fluctuating between 90-98MHz), which is constantly running at 100% video encoding in the background. AotS hasn't crashed for me yet.

Spaghetti Gandalf is an old friend of mine from PA.  He's got quite the ego and likes to climb ladders for the hell of it.

Solid player, but he has his...weaknesses.  

I am not a bad Player i just haven't played, my job and GF are killing me and are leaving me without time. :'(

And I am making a small Mockup idea For the Dev's to look into, so i Hope to get into Ashes Next week and play a few games per day.

You guys will see ASAD Beating Asad soon really soon.

Are you sure they dont use cheats , because its really easy play with files and have all you want for free...

But how can you know right,,, no replays !!!

I will only trust that, when multyplayer synchronize files that, when there is a diferent file to a cheat player will say  [x player is cheat] or just crash before start.

Right now anyone can modify the files, and play anyway without being detected.

I already post how but was clean and i understand wy, but dont belive the stats at this moment, might be correct but also might be by cheaters.

If it runs off the server then they won't be cheating, so there is no need to crash or brand people. Some people might use mods for single player and forget to turn them off.

They have said it is not synced/run from any server at the moment so it is in fact easy to cheat if you want to and know how. However there is no reason to think people are yet and all the ranked stuff will be reset around release when they have the cheat blocking server stuff up so it doesn't concern me.

Wow I made it to the list.

But seriously I play ashes on and off and cannot really say I have never played versus a cheater. 

There have been some strange issues where enemy units do not die due to the lag but other than that it has been pretty standard.

BTW why aren't more people playing ladder matches?

???? lol you have around 30 games! that's very hard core. I guess you do have a lot of free time.

7 and a half hours of gametime.  I would not call that extreme but I do have a lot of free time^^

What? lol so your games are around 15 minutes? that's really fast. I hope to play against you in the near Future.