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Reply to [Suggestion] New favor item setting in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

[quote]I know pros play with favor items off[/quote]nonsense

Reply to Can't log in. in Demigod Connectivity Help Demigod Forums

Sounds like he has never successfully logged on, so that's probably not it hack78. Here's a bump for your post brownie, good luck!

Reply to Upcoming Patch ? in Demigod Multiplayer Demigod Forums

[quote quoting="post"]Ok this will be a fairly large post and i hope i cover all of the particulars here, Demigod which has been an aove avergae game of it type at launch had over 120000 players logged in playing, no mind you only 18000 of those were legitmate connetions creativeg server hell for the 50000 the server was actually capable of supporting with less lag. There have been a suprising number of patches but have there realy been any serious improvements? I will say both yesand

Reply to What a game labeled as 1vs1 Beginners only means and why .. in Demigod Demigod Forums

If you need favor items you can do single player games online and unlock achievements. Every DG has a few super easy achievements which take practically zero time to get. End-game rewards don't count, but the achievements themselves do.

Reply to Pantheon - Can a new lobby solve the problems with matchmaking? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]Honestly, I don't think so. Right now your chances are you get dropped into one of the less popular game modes and you will hear: 'A player has left the game'. So now his team will probably quit too. I don't see how that is better than one player leaving the lobby, somebody else joins instead and the game is actually played.[/quote]This is some hyperbole. Today wa san average day for me; I played a handful of pantheon games and the only time anyone quit was when I bailed on a game that

Reply to Balance suggestions for next patch wanted in Demigod Demigod Forums

Honsetly I think we need more low % proc items, not less. They seem specifically designed to combat minion swarms.

Reply to Under rank 200 as a pugger... what I've learned about stats in Demigod Demigod Forums

Nah, pantheon/skirmish are a different beast entirely. I usually get a drink, make some food, or browse the internet while I wait on connections and my memory isn't as reliable on bad players as it is on good ones. Also it takes so absurdly long to get games going at times that it wouldn't be worth the effort. As for being a light TB, I initially found out how it works when I got dark rook on accident... that was funny at first but when I ended up with roo

Reply to Under rank 200 as a pugger... what I've learned about stats in Demigod Demigod Forums

That particular permutation might struggle against minion swarmers depending on how aggressive/good they are. Still though it's a super fun build and the orb is amazing. What do you think of the early siege hat? People knock it, but I like it quite a bit. It's 500 a pop on buildings and 200+ on low armored DGs, I think it's really underrated. Also beware of trebuchets. A pure tower build really, really struggles with them on fortress mode. I had a crucible game where the guy got

Reply to [Suggestion] Lord Erebus Overhaul in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

Don't be so hard on yourself. No one agrees with anyone on balance.

Can Impulse be made to relay stat info? in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

I was thinking about premades, stats, and all that stuff and it occured to me that the way we used to check stats back in the starcraft days was with a simple /command charactername (I forget what the command was). SD says that interace changes have to be impelmented by GPG, but I believe SD runs both the game stat database and Impulse... would it be possible to set it up so that you can just do shit+tab and then /stats playername to get a brief synopsis from the chat server?</p

Reply to Under rank 200 as a pugger... what I've learned about stats in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]This would also help against "unbalnced" pre-made situations. You join a game with 3 guys in the top 100 on one team, and the other has guys in the top...10,000, you could atleast atempt to balance the teams based on the ranks shown. People will then know what they are getting themselves into instantly instead of having to do the alt+tab search over and over.[/quote]I'd thought about this quite a bit. The premade vs. pug thing right now is kind of a layered problem because not only doe

Reply to Pantheon - Can a new lobby solve the problems with matchmaking? in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote] Player name field : As you can see it is empty for all players but yourself to make it harder to play with premade teams. I'm sure some people will find a new way to get into the same match and stuff but at least it will help a little[/quote]Impulse chat. Just coordinate a DG switch, it would be extremely easy to identify your partners. The ready check option would stall out the already long process of matchmaking. Players would get much less attentive on

Reply to The Hall of WIN! in Demigod Demigod Forums

Pacov, Kokujin, Coss, MrWhomp, Zechnophobe, and MSNT all played really well, Coss was especially nice and I know there's half a dozen others that I could list if I thought about it some more. and Over the past two weeks almost all my experiences have been quite positive so any omissions aren't intentional. *edit* haven't played with him lately but I had a really fun match against a premade with lethstang on my team, he's a very solid player.

Reply to Under rank 200 as a pugger... what I've learned about stats in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Fearzone" reply="13" id="2314587"]Cherry picking ranked games based on other players stats = FAIL.[/quote]

Reply to Is A Constructive IRC Dev Chat Feasible? in Demigod Demigod Forums

Honestly I think that saying the forums are full of trolls and unproductive is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Just ignore who needs to be ignored and ban who needs to be banned and continue the dialogue.

Reply to [Suggestion] Lord Erebus Overhaul in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

Also making him vulnerable to AoE during mist wouldn't really be all that fair against a DG like rook whose primary damage combo (hammer+boulder) is Aoe.

Reply to [Suggestion] Lord Erebus Overhaul in Demigod Ideas Demigod Forums

I think that minion builds in general are overpowered atm, but let's wait and see how they play after the horn fix, assuming that's going to make it into 1.2.

Reply to Putting "NO PREMADE" in the game name, but playing as a pre-made team yourself in Demigod Demigod Forums

I think there's a miscommunication here. :)

Reply to Under rank 200 as a pugger... what I've learned about stats in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="AstarothLBC" reply="9" id="2314444"] As a long-term goal removing custom game rankings make sense, but only when team auto-matching is impelmented. Weren't you arguing against this before? I only read the TL:DR part. Not trash talking, I'm actually surprised you changed your perspective on it. Glad we can agree on it. [/quote]I would say that I've changed my mind in that I accept rankings as a more effective matching tool than I did befor

Reply to Under rank 200 as a pugger... what I've learned about stats in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]So yeah, there is predictive power in stats, but its not as straightforward as you might think. A key thing about stats is that they arent dominated by how good a player is.[/quote]I'm not trying to say that I can, as a third party, predict the outcome of a match by players' stats (except in the most obvious cases). I'm saying that the stats, even as-is, are sufficient to enable players to pit temselves against challenging but not unbeatable opponents. In ot

Reply to Under rank 200 as a pugger... what I've learned about stats in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote]I don't see any reason to stop ranking custom games even with matchmaking, just make sure all stats/rankings are separate and independent by type.[/quote]Here's some reasons why, as a long-term goal which coincides with team mathcmaking or comes afterwards, I think custom game rankings should be removed: The top end of custom game ranking is not about competition and likely never will be There are too many types of custom games for a coherent overall rank. This

Reply to Putting "NO PREMADE" in the game name, but playing as a pre-made team yourself in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="pRoneG" reply="24" id="2313676"]Why do u cry for premades?[/quote]Are you retarded? Did you not even read the thread title?[quote]They didnt write no premade or noobs only so its ok when a bunch of friends play together its no fun to play without friends.[/quote]Oh, my mistake, I could have sworn the title of the games were "EU XvX no ts teams..." Oh wait, they were, I linked them.[quote]I wouldnt play the game if i had there no friends.[/quote]No one cares about whether yo

Reply to Balance suggestions for next patch wanted in Demigod Demigod Forums

One thing I'd like to see tested, and by all means lemme know if this is retarded, is for QoT's open form range to be reduced fairly significantly so that when she chases a target she stays in range to use spikes. Currently she falls out of range and then maintains max firing distance which makes the followup difficult. I think Rook's armor is fine btw. Yes he has less armor than UB but he only has 400 less at level 20 and has about 600 more HP, a fair tradeoff in my opinion.</p

Under rank 200 as a pugger... what I've learned about stats in Demigod Demigod Forums

Not long ago when Frogboy announced that accurate stat tracking is at the top of his to do list I balked, and when he said that custom games should no longer be ranked I was delighted. I was wrong on both counts. Proper stat tracking seems pointless when you look at the top 100 and see that the majority have well over 90% win rates, when you see the rank 8 player joining "no premade" games with a premade, and in a way it really is. The current system offers no insight into wheth

Reply to Balance suggestions for next patch wanted in Demigod Demigod Forums

I really don't think a direct nerf to mines makes sense. If you had to nerf it I would prefer to see something more interesting like making boulder roll set mines off, deep freeze make the temporarily inert, that sort thing, but it's really not necessary. The problem is that if you nerf mines you need to start giving reg some other basic features like a real interrupt and a direct damage attack on a reasonable cooldown (no snipe is not a suitable direct spit/hammer slam/fireball