Come online and rape newbs with me! ^^;

Boardwalk and Park Place are some of the worst properties on the board. Especially early in the game. Your strategy is suspect.

FWIW I dont worry about stats but have been playing on pickup teams for months. I had a 70% win ratio with Rook before the stats reset. He's already substandard so that means PUGs aren't so bad. Maybe you should play more Pantheon.

It problem is common in higher level games too. It's rare to get to lvl 14, because you'll have ripped down all the towers on the map and purchased giants by then. The game still last 30 minutes, but you just can't level up against higher level players. Making the tower tougher doesn't really help much either, it makes the game last about 10 minutes longer, and you'll maybe get to lvl 13-15.

This is an inherent problem in the game. 

Part of it could be resolved by adjusting citadel upgrades.

For example:

1.)  Towers lose their strength midway through the game, thus there is little to no incentive to invest in upgrading towers beyond the first health and defense upgrade.  Late game citadel upgrades need to be much cheaper and the bonuses need to be greatly increased and diversified to counter late game damage and minions.

2.)  The Graveyard upgrade needs to be cheaper (e.g., 500, 1000, 2000) and tied to reducing enemies' experience and gold gained upon your team's death (e.g., 10%, 30%, 50%).  Additionally, the graveyard option should only be open to the side that has the most deaths, so that the side with the advantage cannot benefit from this upgrade.

Also, the money and experience gained upon a demigod should be dependent upon level difference.  A level 15 demigod slaying a level 10 should get little experience and gold, but a 10th slaying a 15th should get a sizeable amount.  Currently the game does not promote a losing side to catch up.

As of now, if you get outpaced by your opponent in accruing gold and war score, you will fight an uphill battle that will likely end up in your loss.  There are some ways to come back, but it's extremely unlikely to happen.  The game simply needs more options in place for a losing side to close the gap in money and war score for most issues to be solved.  Locks help, but not much if your side has no money.   Bumping up the amount of gold returned by mint could possibly help.

I've seen other suggestions on the forums, but it's been a while.

Haha, good point strangler, some friends were just talking about the "talkers".  If they don't talk, don't bother.  Fail.

I got told "You talk too much"... and we failed.

actually grimunk.. it's not the same in higher level play.  Last high lvl game I played.. it was 45 minutes in, either side could have won even though my side was up about 5 kills, and then someone dc'd.  Easily set to be an hour+ game due to the great defensive moves on both sides.  Near impossible to get a portal for either team.. would have come down to artifact choices and most gold to wipe out a team entirely just to get 1 portal.

I think the main problem is people THINK it's over after 4 minutes.  With equally competent players, the game is almost never over after 4 minutes unless dc.  Early kills can be reversed with ease.  There are also numerous games where my team has come back to win even being down 7 deaths at some points.  I've won games where we were lower level and had less kills than the other team.  Another game, after a few minutes we had a teammate drop, but with the lower ai gold value, we kept going.  We were slightly up on the other team at the time.. and lost a little bit of ground, but ended up winning clearly even with an ai.  The other team weren't complete noobs either.. all 60% ish with at least 10 games since this epoch.

Deaths happen.. 

"I've never seen a strong commitment to their timely release."

This made me chuckle Obs. and if there was a strong commitment?

Im not trying to bash GPG, but i think they have a track record of being a wee bit late

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X-fire is also a free solution.

disagreed.. I continually fight against the same people over and over... not including noobs.. there might be 1-2 ppl who enter my lobby who I don't know.

What makes you think Demigod can make a better voice chat than Blizzard when they can't even afford to code a toggle for "rank / unranked" into the lobby?

How is Vent in WoW a non-issue?  Our guild uses it constantly for guild stuff.. and it's vital for pug raids.  Every pug raid we just spam the vent info, people take a minute and hop on.  Everyone who plays endgame wow has Vent because it's become required for almost every 25 man raid.  People could just start requiring vent in demigod.. several players already use it.. even more have the program installed.

But I don't really ever see this happening... most of the time vent is used for bullshitting and having fun.  Too many people in demigod WANT to be strangers.. they hate premades because imo it means making friends in a video game.    God forbid more ppl have online friends and make teams.

How about for hooking up with bitches HorseStrangler, do you recommend vent, WoW voice chat or steam voice chat?