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[quote who="InfiniteVengeance" reply="22" id="2284418"] How do yall function without a core group of people in any game? By just...PLAYING. None of my real life friends play this game anymore (all driven away by shoddy connection issues and bad recordkeeping). I was top 20 in 3v3 Random Team in Warcraft 3 back in the day. I just enjoyed playing with random people. There's a much different skillset needed than the people who top the arranged t

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[quote]This is so...I don't know what to say.[/quote] Seriously? Where has everyone been? How do yall function without a core group of people in any game? Do you go through life completely alone? Communities have been established since the dawn of gaming. The next thing I know were going to start calling brothers hackers for putting their PC's next to eachother. Where do yall draw the line? [quote]I'd hope the default assumption is that people don't have third party enhancemen

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[quote who="Krazikarl" reply="18" id="2284310"] The reason that many games have standard VoIP is because they are launched with standard MP features that allow appropriate matchmaking. That means that premades are playing premades and PUGs are playing PUGs. And there are plentiful mechanisms for setting up those two situations. Right now, DG is in a state where you do not have the machanisms for appropriate matchmaking. That means that we as the players have

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[quote who="Charvel1" reply="16" id="2284250"] Quoting WickedBear, reply 13 People talking is not a corked bat sir, your refusal to "get with the times" is just silly. You expect people to lower their standard of gameplay to accomadate you. Sorry bud, but thats not going to happen. It's a given that people will and can use voice chat, its been a given for years. Again, why do I need to go out of MY way to accomdate people who won't use the automatching feature that

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I don't really care about my win rate, so much as to just get a game going. It already can take up to 10 minutes to start a game, adding any length to that is just so unessicary.

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We'll hopefully they'll fix that soon. Maybe you should be complaining to stardock instead.

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[quote]Premades already have a substantial advantage over PUGs. They shouldnt use another huge advantage. [/quote] Why are these people not using auto-team matchups? That's the real question here. We can use whatever voicecom we want, becuase the option is available to you as well. Talking has never, and will never be considered an unfair advantage. You are not prohibited to use it. When I come home from work, I get on vent to just talk, what game we are going to play has nothin

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People talking is not a corked bat sir, your refusal to "get with the times" is just silly. You expect people to lower their standard of gameplay to accomadate you. Sorry bud, but thats not going to happen. It's a given that people will and can use voice chat, its been a given for years. Again, why do I need to go out of MY way to accomdate people who won't use the automatching feature that is given to them for that very reason of randomizing teams?

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[quote] Premades don't join games, they make them.[/quote] I see premades join my games all the time, and sometimes we join others. It's easier to host, but that doesn't make it true. [quote] Again, what is the harm in telling them? If you do, they can't bitch at you about it. But then they might leave instead, so no easy win.[/quote] Why are these people playing custom games when they're given the choice to join all random matchup games? Why do I n

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[quote who="Shadow_Avenger" reply="6" id="2284159"]Heh, it's not about feelings or what not, it's about constructive criticism. Getting all up in arms just cuz you hear "premade" does not help make the thread or game any better. Why argue for the sake of argument when we're all trying to make the community better? [/quote] Argueing I find exposes the reason's for issues that exist today. It often fascinates me, it's just who I am. I wasn't all up in arms trust me.<

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[quote] And witholding that information prevents people from making an informed decision - but that's what you wanted, right? [/quote] You're whole arguement is moot, becuase the host also has no idea if the other side is a premade. When people ask, I tell them, thats it.

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[quote who="Shadow_Avenger" reply="4" id="2284135"] Quoting WickedBear, reply 1 I said the 95% was not a true reflection, it was in SUPPORT of the OP's overall claim. The only point that post was making was that I believe you could have a high % without a team. You CAN, but doesn't mean that on average it's true. I'm willing to bet the OP was speaking in general terms. "Refuting" a generally made point by pointing out anecdotal irregul

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[quote] I'm all for premades (obviously since half my games are premades). People should be able to play with friends. But have you tried playing against a premade as a PUG player? Based on your game stats, you haven't. So you have no idea what a pain in the ass it is to play a PUG with crappy teammates against a premade. This isn't some game where you can carry a bad player.[/quote] You can also see that we always carry a public player

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[quote]So you always give the enemy team advice? Bravo to that Regulus but most people feel like joining a game where they have a chance to win, not lose several times.[/quote] I give advice to anyone who asks for it. I don't claim it's the best advice, just from my expereinces which seem to work for me. People may want to join a game where their chance of survival is near 90%, but lets face it, thats not how you get better at this game. Facing premades should be a good thing, as you

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[quote who="f1do" reply="23" id="2284049"]what are you guys talking about? just because he plays UB and rolls with a friend who healbots him with sedna everygame is not the reason for his 19-1 record.Chemisty had nothing to do with it...hes just that damn good!! /sarcrasm off [/quote] I never claimed I was great at this game, but I am better than average. And never did I say that my 95% was accurate to my ranking in demigod players. I'm suprised at ho

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[quote who="InfiniteVengeance" reply="14" id="2283923"] This is nonsense. Playing with your friends allows you to learn how they play and their tendencies. They will do things without you having to tell them to and you will also know what they are doing without having to ask them. And they'll also ALWAYS listen to you where a random player might not. [/quote] If you think friends will ALWAYS listen to you, and not feel insulted when you tell t

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I've never denied the fact we are a "premade" and yes, I still get complaints. Actually, we had so many people on DOTA that we could often do 5v5 of just us. So by that logic of more concentrated advantage through premade, I should have won more. Since most of my friends have old computers that can't run anything past wc3, it is currently only 4 of us. Two of us which really really play. To be honest, I carried alot of my team through the DOTA days, having them on my side was more oft

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Woca, stop being a moron. This post was made before my response there. Again your failure to use basic logic and reading comprehension is astronomical.

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Lol I don't feel like a cheat at all. My point is simply this, most "PuG"'s if we want to call them that, are capable of the same communication. Yes the odd's MAY be against them co-operating, but that is marginal. It is all in how you talk to people. I have one friend I play with, who goes OUT OF HIS WAY to communicate to people not on our vent server. I tell him its futile, and you can't teach an idiot whos unwilling to learn anything, and he OFTEN proves me wrong. last night we pla

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I play around 9 central with Char, you can add me. We ussualy have a slot for one.

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[quote who="Sinzer" reply="8" id="2283831"]LOL @ Wickedbear for completely unnecessary flaming and completely missing the point. Shame you cannot add a numbskull point to peoples records. The guy is just saying that stats are useless and they are useless. Nothing to do with the OPs skills, he is not crying about his stats, he simply finds it funny that people get so mad about them. [/quote] Wow there's a whole lot of stupid on here today that certainl

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[quote]ps- when you say stats are meaningless wickedbear and then say your record - you seem pretentious and dumb, why point something out that doesnt matter?[/quote] My point in saying my stats was to agree, that they don't matter. I would figure somone with high stats would be AGAINST the grain, not with it. You're obviously smart enough to read though. [quote] And if your teammate doesn't want to communicate? Excuse me if I don't feel like having a long chat with a

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We have random players on our team over 50% of the game, so what is your point? How do you account for that rogue element? We win because we play smarter and communicate . You lose because you don't even attempt teamplay. This is a TEAM game, not a SOLO game. You never considered the fact maybe I'm just BETTER than you? Is that not a possibility? [quote]Most experienced players can sense when they're facing a prema

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Lol, depends on your professor Aviyur ;). I've had a calculus professor that gave no partial credit at all. You either got it or not. But my point is this, hes a professional representative of his company. If I went to work and made no results, but REALLY TRIED HARD! I doubt they would keep me long.

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See my post about premades, not a very good post overall. Pretty much just wahhhhhhhhh I have a low record heres an excuse because everyone else has friends. Yes, stats are meaningless, but it's not because of premades, its because of glitches and bugs. Yes I have a 95% win record, so I can say that.