[quote who="ReD-RubY" reply="902" id="3293221"]I think you overestimate them a little. All of them are good, sure. But noone of them are tier 1 players. [/quote] Sorry, didn't mean to imply that they are tier 1 players, but I think several of them have shown strong tier 2 abilities.
Mostly we are trying to get a game finished before minidumps end it for us.
[quote who="Greg30007" reply="901" id="3293138"]Yeah they are good but so far they do not posses 5 skilled players in loong clan. We (skilled ICO regulars) played a bunch of games with them few weeks ago and they lost all of them. At that time they weren't really working as a team and their weaker players dragged them down.[/quote] That may have been early on. They constantly improve, and are frequently top picks in 5s
[quote who="Yarlen" reply="13" id="3290695"]As an update, I'm investigating the possibilities right now for what may be possible.[/quote] Thanks Yarlen! And I will say (as has been said before) you guys truly do a much better job than MOST game producers at continuing to improve and balance your game after it hits release. As far as ICO goes, I really think just being able to see who is in a game/room without having to leave the one you are in would be a huge improve
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[quote who="Traivegrace" reply="56" id="3292559"]I think i really started something by asking how i did vs the AI. I don't want to learn how to beat the AI, i want to learn how to play well. Practicing against the AI is just because i don't always have the time to play for a couple hours straight and sometimes i have to pause or save and come back. I want to learn a good early game strat for the AL and then how to be competitive against Vasari in the late game.[/quote] This br
Some of the chinese players are quickly showing themselves capable. I don't remember all their names but they are all pretty solid, even if they talk in squiggles (kidding!) Lazystar Suzjian (or some variation of that) LooanAng (or some variation of that) There are at least 2 or 3 others but I can't recall their names at the moment.
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[quote who="Bama498" reply="52" id="3292547"]Quoting GoaFan77, reply 48 Quoting Mr_Book, reply 47 3) Fully upgrade SB 3.5) Build as many repair bays as possible around starbase. 3.5.1) Get Docking Booms on the starbase if you are TEC. I've gotten run over too many times by high level AI's because my repair platforms ran out of antimatter. If you are facing a TEC or Advent opponent, you have to watch out for the anti-st
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How to beat AI 1v1 (any difficulty): 1) Find chokepoint 2) Build starbase (before ANYTHING else) 3) Fully upgrade SB and surround with repair bays and a few turrents 4) Save up and build titan while opponent sends wave after wave of ships to be eaten by starbase 5) Level up titan off a couple waves of enemy attacks 6) Win *EDIT* Fixed step 3
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You know, after posting that I went back and looked at the damage table vs. various armor types and it certainly seems to support your approach. I had assumed that the higher overall damage of the bombers made for a faster kill than with fighters even with the multipliers but I'll have to test that and adjust. Never too early or late to learn something new and help your game play!
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I always make bombers on my caps and send them specifically at the LRMs followed by the siege frigs. EDIT: for colonization purposes.... against occupied planets kill the constructors first before anything else.
Looks good. I noticed it was suggested somewhere earlier in the thread to link the instructions on where to put the files to watch the replays. Might also be good to include in that OP.
Red - great thread. One suggestion: move your replay rating system (H,S,R,L) to the original post so people new to the thread don't have to dig through the whole thing to figure out what the letters mean. Keep up the good work!
[quote who="Howdidudothat" reply="867" id="3286450"]Added Mr_Book to tier 2, but I think personally I'd put him at tier 1. Nayru moved to tier 1 and JakeMac to top of tier 2 out from WildCard slot. He is no HuyMac. Anyone else I'm missing?[/quote] Very kind of you to say Howdid :-) I am not vain, I'm very comfortable sitting at tier 2, most of the guys at the tier 1 level I would be hard pressed to take on 1v1. There is a new player na
There have been well over 250 players online every time I've been on in the last few weeks. It's still a small number compared to other MP games but it's certainly a base that could be built upon with a better interface. ICO is not user friendly. Why can't you see who is in the lobby when you are in a game room? Why can you not moniter your game room chat while you are in the lobby advertising? Why can you not see who is in a game until you join the room? <
Thanks Proto! Was a fun game and I'm sorry you guys got the short end of the stick. 3v7 would have been vastly one-sided against me, JJ and whoever our 3rd was, but given the group we had I thought the 4v6 allowed for the most even match.
Wouldnt mind seeing my name up there somewhere, we've played together a few times.
SttC was absolutely an overpowered strat pre-nerf. It needed a fix to bring it into balance. Making it require 8 labs was not sufficient. But I contend that the devs went too far in its adjustment. Taxing it at fleet upkeep rates and vastly increasing the time it takes to mine has effectively killed this as a strategy in the game. I find this unfortunate. The ability certainly added a very different play style and flavor to Sins and now it's nothing m
My guess is it dropped me a bit before you saw me drop in game. However, you make fair points in your analysis. I won't say you had me beat, but I do look forward to meeting you again and finding out :)
For the record I did not rage quit. My SB was still up and I was pumping sentinals into the fight while upgrading the SB. My connection has been ridiculously inconsistent for several weeks now and it has led to many MD's and "disconnected from ICO" events. The disconnects are frustrating, playing a skilled opponent (win or lose) is far from "rage" inducing, it is the reason I play this game. I hope you and I can face off again soon Ekko, it was a tight fi
[quote who="dvvdsfasfa" reply="785" id="3202536"]Top Tier should be for those that can consistently win playing as all races, not just vas loyals/rebels. Sad that so-called top players only know how to play a sixth of the game competently. Auqia, playerslayer, starplayer and others I may have forgotten were exceptions in this regard[/quote] I'd agree with this if "random" was the only way to pick race. Players that focus on a single race can be just as formidable (or more so
Ah didnt know Kenn was JohnJames, that figures. Also, I second Carpetbomb. Played a couple games with him yesterday, he is very solid.
Kenn belongs at the top tier, he is plain scary. Bloodlust may be a smurf, but he is also a top tier player.
Just had three in a row occur. One of them was even a no vasari game.
Axxo2 have you ever actually played SoaSE?
It's only worth it if you like being able to build 10 capital ships, your titan, starbases, and a cannon or two before most players have their 3rd capital ship out. Otherwise it's crap.