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Reply to What was the design rational behind DG minions not awarding exp? in Demigod Demigod Forums

Then I wholeheartedly support a major minion nerf. The DPS on snipe is one of the lowest of any direct damage spells in the game because of its range. Fireball does less damage than spit because of its range and has a 1.0 second cast time. Hammer Slam does the same damage as Spit in a significant AoE because of its limited range. Short range abilities have DPS dramatically superior to ranged abilities unless they have a major secondary bonus, aka lifesteal+armor debuff, slow+armor deb

Reply to Just Saw District 9 in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote]The need for such gruesome experimentation (didn't anyone learn that Mengele's work was useless and certainly more torture than science?) [/quote]I'm not sure if this is the right word for it, but it's more about personhood. Those experiments weren't so brutal because of a lack of understanding of their scientific value, it was because jews had lost their status as people. I don't think it's unbeliebable that non-humans could suffer the same fate.

Reply to Phenomena observed as a Demigod 'Pro' game host in Demigod Multiplayer Demigod Forums

[quote]But what if you're like me? (an intermediate player, not noob not Pro) I only have one RL friend who playes this game. The rest of my clan plays FPS games. It's rare when I play with the same team more than once. We're constantly facing the issues that i mentioned above. Does that make us bad players? Is our win percentage so lacking that we get kicked out of games when they are the only games available? (Just so you don't have to look it

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote]As for fixes there has been discussion on Tort reform for decades now. The problem is that advocates for lawyers have a TON of money and political influence. Our elected "leaders" never seem to have the guts to take on these groups when it means these groups could mobilize and threaten the politicians re-election which, make no mistake, is the number one goal of all these creeps.[/quote]This is particularly sad because I have never met anyone online or offline who's against tort reform

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote who="Loqucious" reply="190" id="2345569"]Forget all of what you have heard for a mintue and ponder this: The main reason we are told we need health care reform is because of rising costs. Two of the MAJOR factors that contribute to these costs are the expenses due to litigation and the costs of taking care of illegal immigrants who can't and/or don't pay for their services. These are facts. Now, ask yourself this question. If rising costs ar

Reply to What was the design rational behind DG minions not awarding exp? in Demigod Demigod Forums

Lemme reiterate that I'm not suggesting minions be glued to your hip, I think 40-50 yards is plenty.

Reply to What was the design rational behind DG minions not awarding exp? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]The trade off to this is that the same section of my DPS is also mobile and seperate allowing me to supply healing/DPS in two places at once.[/quote]You go way out on a limb here. The tradeoff is that they pour a significant amount of mana and time into destroying your minions which you can quickly replenish with next to no effort. If they attack your source of DPS they're not attacking you, that's the tradeoff. [quote]That's the trade off of a minion build - it's purpose

Reply to What was the design rational behind DG minions not awarding exp? in Demigod Demigod Forums

You assume the intention of minions is to allow a player to demolish structures or players across the map and not to simply give them an alternate means to approach normal combat situations. I doubt that fighting across the map is minions' intended purpose. We'll see whether the next balance patch is kind to them or not. [quote]Trying to make Generals more like Assassins with less Mobile DPS removes the entire benefit of the trade off. If we're going to have minions basically

Reply to Never really thought any DG was too OP until now. in Demigod Demigod Forums

Celmare the point, which you missed, is that UB is just fine early, mid, and late game. In fact he's quite strong through the entire game. He becomes OP late late game when artifacts hit the field. Buy a dictionary btw.

Reply to Nerf flag locks a little in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]People being annoyed by flag locks in those games should really grow up fast and learn how to play.[/quote]Grow up and L2P? Gimme a break. Get a team together and let's see how good you actually are, best two out of three.

Reply to Just Saw District 9 in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote]I had to leave the movie early.....I was really enjoying it but the young lady I brought along was getting ill from the handheld "cinema verite" of the movie. Do not bring people to this movie who are squeamish or require dramamine for car trips. I am going to have to go back to the movie theater and watch it again to see the end...lol.[/quote]Bruce Willis was a ghost the whole time. Now you don't have to pay again to see the end.

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote]You couldn't pay me to receive care there over Mass General, the Mayo Clinic, Brigham and Women's, UCLA, Johns Hopkins, the Cleveland Clinic, or one of the may outstanding hospitals in New York City.[/quote]The Mayo Clinic? Why would you want to be treated by a bunch of left-wing socialist nut cases like those people? http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthpolicycenter/recommendations.html Provide Health Insurance for All One of the four cornerstones o

Reply to Nerf flag locks a little in Demigod Demigod Forums

First off let's remember that the cooldown on TP scrolls is not 30 seconds in most cases where locks are out of whack. They're affected by cooldown flags and thus are at about a 26 second cooldown on Cataract, or less if you happen to have both flags, which makes TP'ing back before the lock expires even easier. [quote]6) Portal flags are just great to make a trap (others can join defender and strike attacker from behind). I killed houndrets of players who thought it's a great idea to

Reply to Never really thought any DG was too OP until now. in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="CelMare" reply="18" id="2343119"]if you let an ub buy nearly everything you want then he is stronger then any other dg in 1vs1. yes he is unbeatable espacially with ooze. but this does not make him unbalanced. in fact, there is no balance among all dgs at ANY time. it is mostly temporal. thus you need to push when it's time for. same holds for the others.[/quote]UB is strong early, strong mid, strong late, incredibly strong late late. [quote]this game is far more complex

Reply to What was the design rational behind DG minions not awarding exp? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]Whatever may be of that, I think that making minions so that they are a no-brainer choice is bad.[/quote]Explain how snipe, towers, spit, ooze, pounce or anything else isn't a no-brainer.

Reply to Nerf flag locks a little in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]I think the towers should get more damage with upgrades and get tougher with more range. It just means that it takes more then one solo person to kill a tower, or the help of a lot of creeps. It would make it tougher to ninja portal flags, especially if there were towers at the portals on all maps.[/quote]I don't think towers are a solution. Some DGs are just much too effective at killing them and others would struggle. You could triple tower damage and health and I would still annihil

Reply to Nerf flag locks a little in Demigod Demigod Forums

I'd go all out and just make the flags you start with unlockable completely, only flags which start neutral being affected. I've won a lot of games I've had no business winning and also lost a few that didn't make sense either. Flag locks make it possible to decide a 25 minut long game in about 9 seconds, it's dumb.

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="107" id="2342653"]I'll go with the latter, based on recent reports from the UK & Canada.[/quote]They totally invalidate all the statistics from years prior.

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote who="Swordsalmon" reply="106" id="2342636"]How would the United States be able to afford public health care? We're already hundreds of billions of dollars in dept, and of course raising taxes on the rich probably won't be enough. Also considering our enormous obesity rate, I'm just not sure if public health care would be sustainable at the moment. Though of course, this is from someone not entirely educated on the subject... >__<[/quote]We've been in debt a long time,

Reply to Never really thought any DG was too OP until now. in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]In a situation like this you should have gone with all speed items and go get the health flags back. A +30% health boost is massive. If you goes to port in, just run to the other flag.[/quote]Late game every class is a DPS class. When you reach the point where everyone has ashkandors and everyone is at or past 10k HP the skill just gets out of hand since even autoattacks are activating it and pertty much every single skill does as well.

Reply to Lord Erebus. in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]There are demigods who will always beat another 1v1. You're saying we should balance those combinations too? And no, Erebus does not always win 1v1. IE: Oak.[/quote]Not really. I would say the most uneven matchup is QoT vs. regulus or TB and both of those guys can push Sedna back with the help of creep waves once priests hit the field and especially when cats are out.

Reply to Never really thought any DG was too OP until now. in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="gkrit" reply="11" id="2341771"]theres always that one game that makes u think a char is OP.[/quote]No, UB actually is OP in the rare game that everyone is able to gear up to artifacts. There's just no way to fix him without redesigning acclimation and very few games reach the point where it matters.

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else Demigod Forums

If only the right wing politicians were as honest as lugh, we could have had health care a long time ago by now.

Reply to Health care reform: The motives behind the opposing parties in Everything Else Demigod Forums

[quote]Obscenitor, you have absolutely no sense of humor. You fail at life. Welcome to the club.[/quote]Don't pull a Carlos Mencia on me. Make a funny joke before you evaluate my sense of humor.[quote]Are you saying politicians give a shit about us? I kinda think Bush Jr. actually did and was just too fucking stupid for the job in the end, but I really doubt we've had a president since Reagan that didn't have self interests first and foremost when going for the job, and he'd

Reply to A feminists complains about StarCraft in PC Gaming Demigod Forums

[quote who="psychoak" reply="98" id="2341559"]The feminists are proof that man was right to name hurricanes after women.[/quote]Are you sure it isn't because hurricanes look like big windy vaginas from space?