Polynomial

Polynomial

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Reply to Stardock, Just Release the New Guys, No Beta'ing in Demigod Demigod Forums

I understand your point. However, I see serious issues with people have access to these demigods for a time where not everyone has them. Considering these demigods are supposed to be for everyone, its easy to expect people in game being annoyed when others can play as the new guys. Premades were shunned first, I don't think its a stretch for people to not play against the new guys with open arms.

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Reply to Stardock, Just Release the New Guys, No Beta'ing in Demigod Demigod Forums

Lets assume for a moment that everyone who has Ready to Play and Demigod registered is added to the DLC list. How many people is that? The point as said by Frogboy is to use Ready to Play to get those people playing together. The lesser people have access to the demigods, the lesser amount of games will be played with them. Playing as the new guys in games where there are people who do not have access to them is only going to piss them off. This is not about math in that case. And in

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Reply to Patch 1.2: Horn of Battle time for effect increased from 10 seconds to 25 seconds. in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="CosMoe" reply="34" id="2446298"]Offtopic: No matter how this ends, we will need one balance mod that at least 80% of the community will agree to use. It would be quite useful if we could get a voting mechanism in the modding forum to quickly get to an agreement of what should be modified and how. As far as I know it's rather easy to modify the price of items, which could mean a big improvement in gameplay variety. It should also be as easy to modif

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Reply to Demigod: Balance mod in Demigod Demigod Forums

All those games were during the summer unfortunately. Like I said, I can also pull up games where Regulus is doing a ton of damage. I've always been a huge proponent of TB being really good.

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Reply to Demigod: Balance mod in Demigod Demigod Forums

I can seriously tell you. I even still have proof =) I've always said there's no better TB player than Falcon505 was. I also have some nice Regulus numbers. Here's 3v3s, 4v4s, 5v5s. Torchbearer does the most damage per game consistently. Period. Notice the long game where he hits 811000 =P <img src="http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/natural/3498

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Reply to Stardock, Just Release the New Guys, No Beta'ing in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="27" id="2445749"] Quoting Polynomial, reply 25...But no one is going to play with me outside this subset. How do you suppose this small subset of Demigod players will test quickly? What about time zone differences? Work? Life? Anything? Like its been said, no one wants to play demigods they have no access to... I doubt the entire playerbase is going to have such an extreme reaction to them being released, Poly. This isn't the 'stacking issu

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Reply to Stardock, Just Release the New Guys, No Beta'ing in Demigod Demigod Forums

I feel I can offer great insight in regards to beta testing. But I do not feel this is the best way. Obviously if I would ended up testing them I would start hammering away in game again. These guys and 1.2 are EVERYTHING I've been waiting for. But no one is going to play with me outside this subset. How do you suppose this small subset of Demigod players will test quickly? What about time zone differences? Work? Life? Anything? Like its been said, no one wants to play demigods they h

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Reply to Stardock, Just Release the New Guys, No Beta'ing in Demigod Demigod Forums

That is very true. Stardock and GPG didn't exactly predict the whole premade situation and that issue is just another one to come up. There is not enough people playing Demigod AND have Ready to Play to have a subset beta test getting a ton of games in with these guys all with different variables. The best solution is just to go all in and take a leap of faith that GPG did a good job.

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Reply to Stardock, Just Release the New Guys, No Beta'ing in Demigod Demigod Forums

If they're released unbalanced you're leaving a group of people with access to them, and a larger group of people who don't. That, and you'll be annoying the community who does not have access to them. It was said from the start these 2 guys were for everyone. The more people that have the new demigods, the more different games we will experience. You cannot assume everyone will solely be playing the new guys.

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Reply to Stardock, Just Release the New Guys, No Beta'ing in Demigod Demigod Forums

I think you and I obscenitor if we had access to their full skill trees could probably point out things that look iffy without necessarily "testing" them in game. I don't see any need to do weeks of Ready to Play balance testing. They should be released to everyone and patched if issues arrise. Simple as that. Everyone remember Erebus being patched? It was done rather swiftly, so I imagine it could be done again.

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Reply to Analyzing 1.2 For Fun in Demigod Demigod Forums

Despite popular belief, I am not familiar enough with Queen of Thorns to make an intelligent comment. My team mate Scufo always played her.

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Reply to Stardock, Just Release the New Guys, No Beta'ing in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Lavosking" reply="6" id="2445502"]its not the waiting that really bothers me after all im sure everyone wants to get their hands on the new demigods, and the longer it takes the more polished they will be....however the thing that makes me a bit ticked off is that not everyone will get them right away which is very very strange because then if there are balance issues well then too bad the people that can play the demigods will be OP, but im sure the reason behind giving them to t

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Reply to Stardock, Just Release the New Guys, No Beta'ing in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="fTdOmen" reply="8" id="2445513"]So you want people to have ready to play in order to easily contact those people, fine, contact those people anyway. The people who don't have ready to play still have access to the forums, there will be ways for them to post ideas / criticisms. The larger your beta pool the better the potential feedback.[/quote] You're so right about it being completely unfair to people fighting them. These guys are supposed to be free DLC for EVERY Demigod

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Analyzing 1.2 For Fun in Demigod Demigod Forums

Patch 1.2, aside from my really strong disagreement with Stardock's decision to "test" the new guys further, shakes up a lot of stuff. We've already had plenty of talk about the favor items. So how about the other stuff? - Graveyard Citadel Upgrade: Increased bonus from 10/20/40% to 15/30/50% Still useless. Demigod is a game about not dieing. Favor Items [quote]- Samm-El's Cloak: Buffed cap from 25% to 15%[/quote] Still useless. You need to make th

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Stardock, Just Release the New Guys, No Beta'ing in Demigod Demigod Forums

I've been very supportive of Stardock's efforts over the course of this game, but this is the first time I'm going to raise a stink and openly disagree with you and hope to change your mind on this issue. And I'll approach it in a mature way. Dash confirmed earlier today that the AI will be able to use the new Demigods, but we cannot. This is completely absurd. Its one thing to be testing for bugs, which post release is not the community's job, but that of QA. But balancing is somethi

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