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I didn't actually post this as some sort of error report. This occured when demigod.exe crashed and didn't flip the frame buffer causing this to occur.

This occured while I was hosting a game just as player 8/8 joined the lobby. 7 greens... last guy joins and...

Demigod is like a game of tug-a-war. Except the rope is 3 miles long and the pit of mud in the middle is almost as long as the rope. When losing at demigod it feels like you are being dragged through the mud for miles and none of that is really fun. Chances for comebacks seem to be limited and perhaps need to be addressed to fix people quiting the moment they start to lose.

[quote who="Ron Lugge" reply="1" id="2217919"]One strange thing that poppedo ut at me is the way my download started really faast (50+) then dropped down to a lower speed fairly quickly... anyone have any idea why that happened, and the reverse (upload initially slow, then topping out fast) happened?[/quote] This is called burst bandwidth... most ISPs allow you to temporarily exceed your limit so grandma can download the msn.com page faster, but fuck you if you ever try to actua

[quote quoting="post"]/localproxy (if you have a monster machine with a really really good network connection you can let people who can’t connect route through you which lowers lag – only do this if you have a very fast UP speed). [/quote] This sounds like a great option! I know plently of people who have enough upstream for this to be a very useful option.

I hope everyone here is happy. Due to all this bitching an moaning they aggressively nerfed erebus into an almost useless state, so enjoy chosing from 7 demigods instead of 8. While I agree with increasing the mana cost of bite I DO NOT agree with the other nerfs. If you looked at the most played on pantheon, erebus was 5th fucking place. If you looked at the most succesfully demigods in pantheon statistics erebus was no where NEAR the top. I never even played erebus that much

While the initial connectivity seems a bit better for most players, it is even worse for others. This affects us all because we need everyone working to make games work seemlessly. Last night I had a friend on my LAN and we found it very difficult to get into games together. Once in the game it seems to be crashing more than ever. People are getting randomly disconnected and there is also random massive lag spikes. There was also a NEW error we had never seen before and that i

[quote who="Mortissia" reply="3" id="2207865"]I say fix the connectivity issues first, then make punishments like that.[/quote] I simply don't think 'punishments' are the answer for rage quitting. An 'incentive' approach to having people stick it out and go down heroicly may be better. For the most part I stick even the worst losing games, but there are times where you are getting rolled so bad there is simply no fun to be had. Perhaps we could look at that?

[quote who="Melric" reply="15" id="2206384"] Quoting PunningPundit, reply 16 even while it's been "broken" they've got it working for+90% of the people who are using it. So the chances of getting a 3v3 going are .9^6 = 53%. That actually seems to match my experience. I haven't tried the new patch yet, but I have high hopes! Each time I read a journal entry I get the expectation that it is finally all working. . . then I read the comments. [/quote

Hopefully Frogboy will soon be able to replace his carrot on a stick with a working game :P Is there any word on improving people who play from the same LAN online? I have a buddy sitting next to me and going online it seems we have a hard time connecting to each other (and others) when we try to play together. Seperately everything seems to work great.

[quote who="Veshzan" reply="3" id="2205244"]TBH i wouldn't mind telling the bot what to do as well. I think that would be more helpful e.g if im fighting off the 2 DG on the right side of the map getting the bot to take the flags on the left would be incredibly helpful as supose to it siting and fighting creeps in the middle.[/quote] Who on your team would get to control the bot? But I agree with OP that bots need to be removed from online play unless intentionaly put there. M

[quote who="Jaradakar" reply="11" id="2205303"] If you sell an Idol, any minions summoned from it should be un-summoned. Fixed, no longer an exploit.[/quote] I think that is a bit harsh. The primary reason to even get minions at all is because you summon sell back and buy an item instead of walking around with an overpriced idol with a lengthy cooldown. A better solution would be for the game to simply ban having more than 2 minions of the same type. This

I also had this happen to me and and a friend of mine last night in the beta version. It seems to be a by-product to their new NAT setup.

[quote who="Dead Ghost" reply="1" id="2199290"]I agree with all, let's hope that someone is reading this...[/quote] Just wondering if anyone else playing the beta this last weekend has anything else to add?

I've played the new beta a lot this last weekend including a 5v5! so I will note my observations about existing bugs etc... 1.) Connection issues still are quite abundant. Getting into the lobby is as easy as connecting to the host, so this is an improvement. However once in the lobby things are still pretty much the same. The biggest problem I see is that when people all connect at the same time to a lobby nobody can connect to each other and it never works. I also noticed b

I've played the new beta a lot this last weekend including a 5v5! so I will note my observations about existing bugs etc... 1.) Connection issues still are quite abundant. Getting into the lobby is as easy as connecting to the host, so this is an improvement. However once in the lobby things are still pretty much the same. The biggest problem I see is that when people all connect at the same time to a lobby nobody can connect to each other and it never works. I also noticed b

[quote who="LordCarlos" reply="1" id="2196253"]im sure the method you describe works but i guess i will take some time to set it up, how much did you wait? [/quote] I fortunately joined when they already had 7 people connected so I only had to wait about 5 minutes, but I imagine the whole process takes a little over 15 minutes to get it all going. There also seems to be a bug when too many people leave the lobby/get booted that it ends up bugging up the whole lobby so n

[quote who="Neilo" reply="15" id="2196515"] If some asshole joined and couldn't connect it was much easier to know he was the problem and boot him (which only happened once). And that makes them an asshole? C'mon, this place i better than that........[/quote] Thanks, fixed it.

I know you guys won't believe me, but seriously, we made that shit work. And it was awesome. Well for the first 9 levels... then 2 people on their side raged quit and we rolled them from there. The host I joined had a system for setting up the 5v5 that I feel I should share with the rest of you. Very simply he basically closed most of the slots and slowly opened them up one by one to let people join one at a time, waiting till everyone was connected before opening another slot.

Successful troll is successful.

[quote who="scyldSCHEFING" reply="12" id="2193115"]So no proxy servers yet? ;-; I mean, okay I understand... but it's disappointing since that means I can't play DG multiplayer at all, and people don't seem to be playing legitimate games on GameRanger anymore. I'm half tempted to torrent an pirated copy just so I can play the game [/quote] I would encourage you to resist that urge. If you have been reading Frogboy's posts you know how hard they

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="20" id="2190095"]GFW Live has improved pretty dramatically from its first inception in, say, Universe at War. Compare that with today, and the difference is really night-and-day. It still has a lot of room to evolve but it's much better than what it used to be![/quote] GFW Live is a heaping pile of dog shit. I own Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II one of the most recent RTS games to implement GFW Live and I can tell you first hand that while they may have an

[quote who="bman654" reply="20" id="2186875"]Are the port ranges configurable so that if I have 2 machines behind my router I can give each a different range so both can play DG at the same time?[/quote] I would also like to know the answer to this question. A friend and I have been playing Demigod online from beind a single external IP and we have had lots of problems with connecting into the lobby and seeing 0s (not connected problem) having to leave and join the lobby several

[quote who="Lyzra" reply="16" id="2176421"]I suppose a good question is why those people quit, is the gamedesign such that it dosnt really harbour enough intrest for those not steamrolling other side to play it or what. If you crack that puzzle the quitting for sure would be dimished.[/quote] Exactly. When someone manages to create a game where losing is fun then this whole thread will become moot.

Nobody thinks this is a good idea?