Right.

Huh? Sounds like a kid got wooped in pubs too much and is in denial on how effective ganking is. The OP is 100% right. It's really hard to setup ganks, and even if someone isn't within view, it can be very obvious where they're going to come from because there is never more than two straight paths they can come from.

As for dota, dota has been an on-going work in progress for many years. Demigod is a rip-off trying its own thing, and it's only been out for a few weeks. My first guess is that they got rushed to release it ASAP. Regardless of how it is now, they're working on improving it. If you don't want to play it, come back in a few months and you'll see a more perfect product. Come back in a year and you'll be joining the other hundreds of thousands that could be engulfed in the awesome potential this game has yet to unleash at this time.

Coming from dota I felt that the bounty for killing creeps is a bit too small but at the same time its not like they're hard to kill either, 2-3 hits at the start of the game. On top of that the towers offer 300'ish gold which benefits other heroes, like Reg (with range, rook's syphon, etc), more than others. Relying more on currency upgrade and gold/sec seems silly to me. Against good players killgold can be sometimes hard to come by, makes for kind of a slow game IMO. *shrug* Just my thoughts.

It might not be a bad idea if they dropped the gold on kill a bit and raised it on creep kills a bit. There's all kinds of threads with people bitching about once you start dying it's a quick train to facerollville. If the kills weren't rewarded quite as heavily and creep killing was rewarded a bit more it gives people the option of just farming creeps and staying out of trouble if they start feeding, or if someone on your team is feeding their team you can farm creeps to try and get some items together to fight back.

Was always a nice option in DotA to forest if you're getting your shit tossed and hope to get a few items to make it not so bad. Then again they can just come into your forest and make you cry more lol.

Also ganking is a perfectly legitimate strategy. You're a complete idiot if you think this game has anything at all to do with 1v1 or "fair fights" I always loved the people in DotA that get butthurt and say "come 1v1 me by rosh". I wait till they show up and gank them with someone else. You're a fucking idiot if you think you're alone ever or you think there is any form of "honor" in a video game. These games have ZERO to do with your 1v1 abilities, they have everything to do with working with your team. And ganking is the highest form of working with your team.

and technically it was finished they just didn't realise how popular it was

I, too, was from the Dota club. I'm not having any trouble seeing the differences between each and appreciating each for its own merits. Some mechanics in Demigod leaves me puzzled:

1) No creep collision results in chasing down to who has stun/slow abilities and who runs faster.

2) Reinforcements are little help when defending against an aggressive demigod. In Dota, the entire allied creep wave attacks the enemy demigod when he/she attacks yours.

3) Some spells are oddly designed with effects that are too situational to be consistently useful.

That said, the things I love about Demigod that Dota doesn't have:

1) Upgradable reinforcements, towers and citadel add a whole new layer of possibilities

2) Capturable flags for extra effects.

3) Very varied builds for the same Demigod.

Some nuances:

1) Unable to see your own HP and MP exact amount till you mouse over the bars on the UI.

2) Unable to see your allies/enemies's MP/items to plan any counters to their builds.

3) Can't click/ping on minimap.

Nice post, much better than the diatribe of dota love from the OP. It's all apples and oranges. Personally I eat both happily.

Helping them test this new patch for tonight is really promising, got some 5v5 games going with ppl with 300ms pings. Dont quit, youll regret it later.

Dota?  You mean that game full of elitist jackoffs that are incredibly hostile to newcomers?  Oh yeah I remember that game. 

DOTA is hardly the be all and end all.  This genre is finally taking off and other games are coming out besides Demigod so quitcher bitching.  If you don't like Demigod's take on it, then go back to DOTA or wait for one of the other clones to come out. 

Do you have any evidence for this statement or are you just making things up?  What genre is taking off?  you mean the genre that both Demigod and DOTA belong in?  DOTA has had millions of players across the globe.  You can generally login to games that run smoothly within a few minutes of trying.  I have NEVER crashed out of DOTA and I have been playing it for years.   I have NEVER had a NAT error or a 1(me)vs2(AI) gave after queuing up for Panthenon game because more than 50% of people drop befoer getting in.  Sure their other games like Surpreme Commander and Sins wer cool but this is just a disaster.  Unless you are Blizzard it is hard to produce hit after hit because companines get complacent and think they can produce more for less.  In Summary:  P2P is a complete disaster and hasn't been sucessful in 15 years.  Learn from Blizzard and buy a damn server you cheap asses.

Are you kidding? They tried something new. Maybe it hasn't worked well, but at least they tried. On top of that, they've been better then any other company I know at keeping us updated and making sure they fix all the problems as soon as they can. The reason DotA hasn't crashed on you? It runs off of battle.net, something Blizzard has had a long time to perfect, and from what I've heard, it was far from perfect when it was initially released.

BTW, is it a coincidence that Schloob rhymes with noob? 

(sorry, I couldn't help myself with that one. You kinda set that up.)

This made me LOL:

He called me a noob.

ToxDrawace   7,003   977   370   0   142 minutes   1W / 3L

My Record:

  schloob   514   1,090   2,115   0   378 minutes   8W / 2L  (This doesn't count my other 20 wins and 5 or so losses because the retarded server doesn't perform even the most elementary task of doing a simple SQL entry into the database.)              

hush child, the adults are trying to talk. *pats head