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Reply to Demigod's Current Biggest Problem: Heart of Life in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Kitkun" reply="11" id="2249419"] Been there, done that. Got a skirmish as Reg+QoT against dual Oak. One of the most pointless games I've played yet, as we had no decent interrupt.[/quote] He was referring to a 3v3 battle, as was I. Also, Kitkun, you should know better then to take on a double Oak team with no way to interrupt through their shield. They can also teleport or potion up through it, so this argument is not directly pertinent to the HoL anyways.

Reply to Demigod's Current Biggest Problem: Heart of Life in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Zechnophobe" reply="9" id="2249386"]1) "I got better, and no longer think the HoL is good anymore." -- This isn't much of an argument, since you are attempting to factor in player quality as part of what makes an item strong or weak. I have raised points such as how the item effects the tempo of the game, and how it accents too strongly a team with an advantage.[/quote] It's definitely a valid argument. If an item feels too powerful because your opponents are not good enou

Reply to Demigod's Current Biggest Problem: Heart of Life in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote quoting="post"]1. Erebus chases someone all the way back to their health crystal trying to kill them, (failing, I might add). First he goes into mist form for a second. Then when he pops out of that, he activates Heart of life + Orb of defiance for 5 seconds, healing 1500 health and 2250 mana. At the end of that 5 seconds, he bat swarms away.[/quote] I'm sorry, but this is patently ridiculous. If someone chases you all the way back to your health crystal and t

Reply to Will the community grow, or shrink? in Demigod Demigod Forums

If they: * Get all of the community features done correctly * Continue to improve their systems until downtime is well under 1% with no sustained un-announced outages * Get their proxies rolled out properly throughout the world * Get replays working * Enable modding * Do all of the above expediently and then spam the gaming press WHEN IT'S READY I believe the community will stay healthy for a long time.

Reply to Demigod's Current Biggest Problem: Heart of Life in Demigod Demigod Forums

I hate to interject an opinion here, but I think it's fair to say that the ability to host public games with unit restrictions was one of the worse decisions GPG ever made. It fragmented the community into many different sects of noobs (who ONLY played "no air no rush", "land wars", "no game enders", etc) and everyone else who wanted to play the actual game with all of the options it was originally designed for. Yes it makes some people happy that they can turn off this or that feature t

Reply to Heaven's Wrath in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="germ0nik" reply="12" id="2249206"] The real power is in how decisively it changes early encounters, not in your guranteed kills. Before you have your decent +HP pool against a team like this, you need to back off at about 1000 HP at the absolute least. This item is absolutely amazing for getting early flag locks up via the power of that simple tactic. What I am saying is that, yes, you will only kill people being overly-risky wit

Reply to Demigod's Current Biggest Problem: Heart of Life in Demigod Demigod Forums

I remember when I used to think the HoL was an essential item. As soon as I would reach 4250 gold I'd be back to base getting it. "Ooh boy I'm uber now!" As I've gotten better it has increasingly become a POS waste of cash. Good players interrupt it constantly and I'd much rather have two pieces of nice gear plus a full complement of locks, teleports and mana potions then the HoL. In fact, the only time I get it now is when my gear slots are full, I have 4k cash to waste

Reply to Heaven's Wrath in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="si1foo" reply="9" id="2249084"]so illegal ur saying if your whole team buys citadel upgrades and no player items ull win yh sure and pigs eat cows[/quote] That's not what he said at all. Dustbin: if the creep dies nearby, you get the XP regardless of whether you touched it or not. If you get the last hit you get the gold, no matter where you are. If you do 25% or more damage, you get to share the gold as long as you are nea

Reply to DemiFail in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Spooky" reply="14" id="2248727"] 1) Frequent random crashes - alt + tab anyone?I do not experience them. But I would suggest to simply try the windowed mode.[/quote] No offense directed at you Spooky, but that's complete horse shit when the only way to play a game safely is in windowed mode.

Reply to Game is way to unbalanced in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Murth" reply="5" id="2248838"]4 regulus team, take Heaven's Wrath. With a well coordinated team, you win. Yes, I've done it. Yes, it's nigh-unstoppable. The ability to turn the tides of battles from across the map, in addition to killing towers for free, is just too much. Regulus is not balanced.[/quote] You've never done this against a decent team. Furthermore, no decent team is going to play against four Regulus.

Reply to Wake me up when you have a tutorial-new and frustrated in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="dphulgin" reply="2" id="2248382"]yup, have no idea what im doing tried that, like i have said never played a rts before only shooters, so its alittle baffling what im supposed to be doing but thanks for your suggestion, maybe i will just log into games online and learn that way let me know the next time your playing so i can click randomly and you can have fun too! I can't even beat the first thing on easy btw, hell even a video tutorial would be helpful.[/quote] Rule #1 i

Reply to Wake me up when you have a tutorial-new and frustrated in Demigod Demigod Forums

Oh stop it. Play the single player tournaments all the way though with a few different demigods. Once you can win a game against hard AIs you're more then ready to start your online experience.

Reply to How to fix the invalid username/password bug in Demigod Demigod Forums

Deleting the game.prefs about an hour ago let me get back in. It wasn't working last night, though.

Reply to Thats boring, quit boring everyone in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote quoting="post"] Okay, this may sound strange but, on this forum only, Homer Simpson keeps saying, "thats boring, quit boring everyone". This is slightly worrying. I take it from the lack of people complaining about this, its just me? Doesnt happen under Internet Explorer, just FF. [/quote] The Homer sound is from Aroddo. I cannot believe Stardock is allowing embedded script in forum posts. Unbelievable.

Reply to [NOW FIXED] Stardock, if you haven't noticed already, your servers are hosed atm! in Demigod Demigod Forums

Still broken. Both accounts locked out now too.

Reply to Hamachi network up until the servers a fixed (EDIT: not up anymore) in Demigod Demigod Forums

I applaud your initiative.

Reply to [NOW FIXED] Stardock, if you haven't noticed already, your servers are hosed atm! in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Blitz64" reply="5" id="2247023"]well, there are a record number of people and games tonight. I have never seen this many people, 5000+ people online right now. I also can't login anymore after the crash. the number of people who can't log back in after the crash is like 50 people. So it's 1% can't play [/quote] Hehe, no. 116 open games, lol. Try joining most of them. The vast majority of the games in the list

Reply to [NOW FIXED] Stardock, if you haven't noticed already, your servers are hosed atm! in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="TheGuildfordStrangler" reply="1" id="2247006"]In case you havn't noticed, everyone has. [/quote] Except for Stardock, obviously.

[NOW FIXED] Stardock, if you haven't noticed already, your servers are hosed atm! in Demigod Demigod Forums

EDIT: ghosted games are now gone. Removing game.prefs is necessary to log back into locked out account. OLD: There are dozens of ghosted games up right now and anyone who crashes out of the lobby cannot log back in. This is not a one or two user anomaly.

Reply to Tried to play with four friends tonight--nothing worked in Demigod Demigod Forums

Yeah something's hosed right now

Reply to 5 Kill Rule in 3v3/4v4 in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="IllegalDustbin" reply="1" id="2245248"]I try to stick around to the end even if my team is doing badly, unless I'm the only non AI left on my team then I (usually) bow out, occasionally there's some great matches where one side sticks around even though they're losing hard, only to make a huge comeback resulting in a lot of fun for both sides. If you quit as soon as you get spanked by the enemy perhaps you shouldn't be playing a competitive game? [/quote]

Reply to 5 Kill Rule in 3v3/4v4 in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="InfiniteVengeance" reply="23" id="2245186"] You must have misquoted because my point was the human brain is programmed to reward behavior that results in positive outcomes And I'm saying that even were that true, what defines "positive outcomes" are learned. It's an arbitrary game - it holds absolutely no consequences regarding your survival. Whether you view "winning" in that game as the desired outcome was completely learned. People told y

Reply to Unclean Beast + Spit OP in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="ZeratulTheDT2" reply="13" id="2245012"]I don't find Spit as much as just the "whole UB package" to be OP. Maybe it's because i'm not an expert yet, but I often still have problems vs. UB even after over a month of play. It's often too tempting to chase a wounded UB, over-extend yourself, and get Spitted and melee'd into oblivion. The reason it's so tempting is because Spit is an incredible all-around ability, allowing both harassment and a raw DPS advantage in a melee fight.

Reply to Unclean Beast + Spit OP in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="si1foo" reply="10" id="2244849"]i found spit is op when there is a reg on the same team as the ub[/quote] It's definitely OP against noobs. Fortunately, it's not against good players.

Reply to 5 Kill Rule in 3v3/4v4 in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="InfiniteVengeance" reply="18" id="2244833"] People who feel compelled to blindly impose their own morality on others. There is nothing blind about it. There are numerous compelling reasons why ruining games is wrong. [/quote] At least you admit that's what you're doing. [quote who="InfiniteVengeance" reply="18" id="2244833"] Maybe you didn't shake hands with the other little league baseball team after the game, but many of us did.&nb