Melric

Stats are imperfect but they are the best measure of a person's skill that we have. For me, I look at the win percentage. If they have a 50%+ win rating and a reasonable number of games under their belt, then they are okay by me. If they are below that, then I look at the win percentage of everyone playing. If the teams looked balanced, then I will hang around. If not, I will go find another game. I do not want to sit through game after game of people feedi

[quote quoting="post"] The pool of people is decreasing continuously...what will happen with this game? In about 2months, the number of players online was cut by half and there is no custom game, well 3-4, not a lot... Sad... [/quote] Population is fairly stable in terms of not declining, but the numbers are erratic from night to night. . . If that makes any sense. Some nights when I am on, there are only 1300 people logged in.

[quote who="Prussian-Havoc" reply="52" id="2391185"] Your thoughts?[/quote] You seriously inconvenience the "new" players on your team and the players on the dark side. You are no better that the premades that Frogboy so bitterly complained about regarding Patheon in the early days - and that really pissed him off. You preach about wanting to help new players, yet you leave them with AIs to fight? Right.... I know you wasted about 45 minutes of my time the oth

[quote quoting="post"] With Bulwark of the Ages, you become more or less impossible to kill. [/quote] I did not think that Sedna needed Bulwark to become impossible to kill.

There will be times when I hop in a lobby, make a comment like "ugh, premade", and leave. This is generally after I check the stats for both teams and the type of game is not self-evident from the title. If a premade is not kicking noobs on the other team, it is apparent to me they are just out for stomping. For instance, if the premade team has 5 members with a 80%+ win record and the 4 PUG'rs are all sitting at under 30%, yo

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="29" id="2389642"]I think the solution isn't to discourage pre-mades but get TEAM matching in which is the long term goal here.[/quote] Of course that is the solution, but hazarding a guess, team matching is not close to being implemented. I think we can all agree that, rightly or wrongly, premades will be getting fewer games after this patch. With that being the case, what keeps premades around and playing? [quote who="ZehDon" reply="40"

[quote who="Polynomial" reply="22" id="2389551"] This is a good point. Playing as a premade isn't all bells and whistles. For a game that Frogboy supposedly said was designed for premades they sure get a lot of hate.[/quote] Well, I think premades (and I am one of them) have a justifiable reputation. The bottom line is that this game just isn't made for people that want to play together. I wish it were, because the games can be fun, but it is not. There is just

[quote who="B-DalzK" reply="16" id="2388291"] Thats really being lazy. Your willing to switch Demigod windows to the DG Pantheon site and type in their name. It takes about 3 seconds extra to click "Game List" after that (which you only have to do if they have dodgy stats).[/quote] The fact that I already have to tab out to even check win rate is a pain in the ass. Not too mention that I need to run down the stats of the other 5-7 people in the lobby to make sure they can r

[quote quoting="post"] However, when a Pantheon tournament was in progress, most of the people already focused on Pantheon games. [/quote] So now that the downtime between Epochs is 24 hours (at least that's what FB stated), there isn't much point to Skirmish.

[quote who="vindKtiv" reply="9" id="2387419"] I joined a game for "average" players and they kicked me because I have only played 2 games, or so my stats show.[/quote] Is it really that hard to play several games and bring that number up? I can't tell you the number of people that cannot read and join games they should not be joining. I am not going to take the time to investigate everyone's gamelists before kicking them or leaving the lobby. I'll look at games

[quote who="Neilo" reply="19" id="2388052"] I was playing Panth today and as a 2v2 human game was launching who did i find was on the opposing team. Prussian-Havoc. [/quote] He "disappeared" from about 5 of my Pantheon games yesterday. In fact, he never made it into a single Pantheon game when I was opposite him. [quote who="ntropy" reply="11" id="2387787"]The problem is that there just aren't enough people, so AI-matches are a must. [/quote]</p

30 minutes and waiting for mine to clear up.

[quote who="Zechnophobe" reply="7" id="2384136"] You would have both gotten xp, but only you got gold . [/quote] This. Gold is pretty damn precious at the beginning of the game.

[quote who="ToxicPool_BL" reply="11" id="2382031"]you may disagree with me w/e but ur just the kinda people that would use that advantage and thats why me and about 30 other members are taking a break from this BS[/quote] That's a lot of voices for one head.

AIs in Pantheon is just stupid and a waste of time. If I see an AI name come up in the connection dialog, I will click "cancel." And can someone fill me in on this "story" that Pantheon supposedly represents? Why is there a distinction between Light and Dark when only one Demigod can ascend to godhood? I do not get it.

[quote who="Obscenitor" reply="36" id="2375960"]I agree it's very hard to get premades together, but it may get much easier when other premades aren't preoccupied with pub stomps.[/quote] I would not say that premades are preoccupied with pub stomps. Most premades I know host games and then just play whoever shows up - which happens to be pugs. This is a side effect of the fact that it is very difficult to get a premade v. premade game going. There are several featur

[quote who="Obscenitor" reply="26" id="2374276"] (level ten DGs get about 500 armor no matter what so it's not really plausible to hit a lower number than that)[/quote] That's an utterly worst case scenario. By level 10, most people have gotten the Groffling Warplate or they are at least very close to getting it. That's 1200 armor right there. If you do not have that, then you must have Nimroth Chestpiece with 750 armor. Taking UB, he has a base of 475 arm

So many threads about this already. HP stacking trumps all for the following reasons: Priests and grunts heal a %. Flags multiply your total hp IIRC, not your base. Armor items do not justify their cost. Special attacks ignore armor. Are there exceptions, yes, but those are so rare as to not be relevant. First, no one plays QOT, and if they do, they'll be dead most of the time anyway.&nbsp

Demigod is not a casual game because it is not forgiving to the casual player. Put another way, one bad player on a team screws that team over. Two experienced players cannot carry a casual player. If they could, this game would be a bit friendly. But here is the kicker, the game also does not adequately address the needs of the competitive player - predominantly because there is no robust match making service for teams. Premades have a horrendous time finding

[quote quoting="post"] Games Played (% win) Teammate Familiarity (% played together last 25 games with any player on their side) Player notes. [/quote] Insert death knell for premades. So do I find a different game to play with my brother, or is there any type of support for premades forthcoming? I think it's a great addition, but the effect will be to push most premades out of the system. I am going to get kicke

[quote quoting="post"] Just remove the ladder, and get rid of most of those grief behaviours, thus making the game a far better experience for its targeted public. [/quote] Ummm... No one cares about the ladder right now so effectively there is not one. The only thing people tend to look at is win percentage. Where the game fails for the community is the ability to find games that are skill level appropriate in a easy manner.

When I hop into a lobby I check the following: Win rate of the host. If win rate is high, determine whether I am playing a premade by looking at the hosts past games. If host is a premade, look at my teammates win records. If they are reasonable, play game. Basically, I look at win rate. It's not perfect but it is a quick an dirty benchmark that works more often than not.

My respect for GPG is undiminished. The game itself is very good and the balance is pretty spectacular considering what most games can look like out of the gate. Where Demigod lags behind in terms of the competition is everything before you get into a game - connectivity, matchmaking, rankings, lobby system, Pantheon behavior, etc. I bitch a fair amount, but that is mostly because I see real potential in this game and I am sorry that it didn't quite live up to what it could

Frogyboy, why not get rid of Pantheon and keep Skirmish? I see no justification for locking people into the "Light" or "Dark" forces for an extended period of time. Nor do I see any sense to the enforced "time-out" that Pantheon imposes. Not to mention that I think the Dark forces have a bit of an advantage with Erebus and Unclean Beast on the same side. Otherwise I agree that one of the modes needs to go. As to the game loss penalty for disconnects. I gu

[quote quoting="post"] random teams setting. we all know why. [/quote] So we can get 2 UB and 1 LE on one team and 2 Qot and Rook on the other?