meh, this subject really does not seem to generate anything but flames. so no need to fan the flame.

Terrible players rarely check the forums.

(If they checked the forums they wouldn't be terrible)

Been asking for player rank for some time, I think it will be much easier to set up more competitive games when they do that.  Then you can take one 15-45 player on your team if the other team has a 13-33 player or what not and still have a nice game.

Also I'm not really complaining, I just wanted to post a counter post to the countless topics of premades and people purposely stomping lower level players, when those players themselves constantly are joining (and sometimes ruining) what would otherwise be a very competative premade or good player game.

maybe you should rename topic to Stop Playing Demigod if you are terrible player?

Very good point here. I hope people read this. But they probably won't as they are not reading games' title anyway...

LOL so true.

And yeah Kok, this isn't brand new, but honestly there are so many crying threads about premades that I thought maybe the people who are so worried about that should consider that the opposite happens just as often if not more often.  In fact in a pro game I'd almost say its worse, since there are good players in the game, that terrible player that join dies even more making it impossible for his side to win (unless the other side has a equally terrible player).

@twif - The definition of noob might be subjective in some ways, but the games I'm talking about and the things I've noticed are people dieing 10 plus times.  Even against good players you should be adjusting, falling back faster, staying closer to D, learning what they did that killed you, not being out of position etc.  Feeding them another 1K plus gold is only going to help widen the gap.  Early on a few deaths can be overcome, but if you start having too many its a downhill battle.

Also again, I'm just talking in supposed good players or pro games, there are plenty of other games so of course I'm not suggesting bad players not play the game at all.

Seriously if you're not rank 1,500'ish or better you just shouldn't be joining pro games. The ranking system isn't perfect, it's good enough.

I am sure mines pretty high 2 but I can play with any "pro"

U both have +50% W/L, thats a good indication, at least for me. Course there r exceptions.

And yes, Noobs join Pro games 100% of the time, really, 100%, if the host dont kick players theres gonna be a noob playing. I have hosted premade games at the topic and noobs joinned the game and didn't know whta "premade" meant, I had to explain, and still, they wanted to play against my premade.

Ps. I always let the "noob" partner to know about the noobish of his team8. If they want to be stomped, well, ok. What u gonna do, right?

I stand by rank 1500 as a reasonable filter so long as you don't enforce it mindlessly.

Rank is still bugged. I have nearly a 70% win ratio, but my rank is somehow still 22,000. Going on rank doesn't necessarliy mean you'll be playing good people.

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/rankings/ladder/player/49186/

Wow for real?  A personal attack?

I really shouldn't defend myself but its human nature I suppose.  The first two you list were when I was brand new to the game, didn't even realize I was playing with AI teamates back then, just though (oh they aren't talking).  The other losses were unbalanced teams or leavers on my team.  Not that I'm so good that I couldn't have lost those games, just that really it didn't matter if I was good or not, those games were losses for anyone.  I remember 2 of them were me + 2AI versus 3 players near the end, notice I stayed and got the loss (before I knew you could leave in the first 3 minutes of the game).

Speaking of which, obviously you know the leave within 3 minutes of the game rule.  Since you do it all the time, 6 NA's on your first page alone.  Anyway I play good but never advertised myself to be great or amazing or pro even.  And the OP still stands.  Have fun picking and choosing which Panth games you want to start (probably staying in the ones with enemy AI) while I actually play with people I met in the game or friends in real life.