[quote]I agree with the minion experience sentiment, summoned units in Warcraft 3 gave exp and you still saw plenty of water elementals and spirit wolves running around. The amount would just need to be reasonably small so that minions wouldn't be a disadvantage.[/quote] Dota too.
[quote]Until someone bothers to make a point as to why they think any part of that article is illogical, I'm not going to bother replying further. [/quote] The article has nothing to do with fun - the primary reason most people play games of any kind. I'd go further but I don't want to debate that garbage article again as I have many times over the years.
[quote]HoN[/quote] Last night HoN crashed on me mid game. Instead of going into an hour long depression, laying on the couch and watching some TV, and losing my will to play for the rest of the night like I would have with Demigod I simply booted it back up and reconnected to the game in progress. Simply amazing.
I'm sure you loved Fastest Map Ever then.
If Starcraft 2 includes the analog of Big Game Hunters I'm sure online multiplayer will do fine.
I really hate Cataract, and the flag imbalance is one of the main reasons. Unfortunately it's not like Prison is a better choice....
It depends. Some games are *clearly* over. Many games are not clearly over when some people's "I quit!" threshold trips. Adding the concede option lowered that threshold for many players....
[quote]Because that is the derogatory term that hardcore and in your face type of gamers, the type of gamers who yearn for the ultimate and the extreme and who live their lives on the knife's edge of cool and whose e-penises are huge and always, always erect , use of the casual gamers. It comes from misunderstanding a pretty bad article by Sirlin.[/quote] I remember that terrible terrible article. [quote]I did not c
[quote]It's highly unlikely there will ever be 5 on 5 Pantheon games because too many users have insufficient Internet connections to support 5 on 5.[/quote] This is soul crushing.
You're not thinking about counters. 2 tower rooks have garbage mobility - go around them and harrass the base. They'll be so busy going back and forth you'll be able to mitigate their "we built a fortress of towers" advantage. 2 Reguli with "2k total damage snipe" is at like level 10. You should be more than well enough equipped to deal with that.
[quote]As to your second issue, the game is designed that demigods and creeps become increasing powerful until the structures are meaningless and the citadel crumbles. The lightning towers are merely a backdrop to the duels between the demigods, and to clean up early creep waves. While the advantage is important, if you make them more powerful you start restricting a players options to dart into the enemy base for a kill leading to simpler and more boring play. I realize that some hosts set t
[quote]Starcraft is average at best[/quote] Ha.
Regulus was clearly modeled after the Sniper from Dota, who too could also eventually outrange towers, and it was a powerful ability there as well. However, he needed to be at least level 5, and towers in Dota are quite a bit sturdier (though more important). Regulus can start his tower chipathon from level 2 . If anything I think he should need 2 points in range before he can outrange towers. That puts it somewhere near level 5-7, and you give up oth
[quote]Demigod has a million problems, but at the core it is the best real time strategy game I have ever played.[/quote] It's not even a real time strategy game...well, not really. I wouldn't say it's better than Starcraft or WC3. I wouldn't even say it's better than Dota. But it is pretty fun...
Well this whole fracas is based about one's definition of a "decent game"
[quote]You think it's a better mechanism to become a better player than team play.[/quote] Didn't say that either. It is *one way* that I think should not be ignored. I wouldn't say things are "better," that's impossible to measure.
[quote]Wanna see some real bullshit? http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/735538/player/24552/ Poor sta7ic got a loss for that!!! Guess what? He wasn't in the game, ItchyDustbin was.[/quote] [quote]LOL[/quote] ROFL...what hero was he? "Unknown"
Not sure where this mentality came from. I don't see any issue with any doubles. [quote]Oh yeah because you have your shield on just when you walk into an INVISIBLE minefield.[/quote] There are things that reveal invisible objects....
[quote]We've clearly demonstrated a much greater proclivity for it than you.[/quote] You've demonstrated you actively avoid it. [quote]You try to rationalize getting smashed over and over, we try to rationalize why it's so important to win.[/quote] I'm not the one using "I don't want to lose games where it's not my fault" to rationalize refusing to play as non-premade. And why exactly is winning so important to win? I gotta hear this. [quote]Yes we
If you push the other side they can still just run a bit south from the crossroads to heal for free. It's.....really dumb.
[quote]Do you know a damn thing about this game? Seriously.[/quote] Do you know a damn thing about adapting? Playing outside your premade prepicked comfort zone? That's where the fun is. Cling to your "highest level of play" bs and pick your tried and true combos. I'd have more fun than you trying something new, *even if I lose* [quote]Until this game is balanced, yes, it often is.[/quote] So why are you playing an unbalanced game? Do
[quote]The winner would often be determined the moment the game started.[/quote] *shake head* [quote]Ok, and if it came up Sedna Sedna vs LE Oak what would you do?[/quote] Outplay them? Or since you probably think the game's already over just quit since it's in 3 minutes. Clearly that's the only choice.
[quote]You've taken the level of maturity here to a whole new level. I'll be sure to avoid games with "premade only" in the title in the future. Seriously, you don't even play Demigod, why are you here?[/quote] Sarcasm not your strong suit huh. I'm still here because I'm hoping they fix Demigod such that it's worth playing. If they really want to know what to do to make Demigod awesome have one of them go check out the HoN beta and its interface and features. Being
Yesssss double post.
[quote]Playing with randoms is awful, once you play in a premade you never want to go back, having people do stupid shit, take stupid builds, and generally screw you over through incompetence isn't even remotely fun.[/quote] Playing with *BAD* randoms is awful. Playing with good randoms is a completely different ball game. Still not as good as being premade with voice chat, but not even remotely the same. [quote]No, if you lose as a premade, it feels like a genuine