twifightDG

Well I might aswell try to give this thread a positive spin again so: Does anyone else think the "not satisfied, money back" guarantee is not well known enough? I had seen frogboy mention it unnoticably once or twice before, but didn't really know about it till this thread. I think they should advertise with it a bit more. Maybe they don't do that on purpose, as many people might play it for a month or two and then ask a refund. But I think it's a unique selling p

Indeed it was news to me too. I think the game industry would solve half of the piracy problem as you could just play the game as a demo and then decide if you want your money back or not. Problem would still be singple player games which most game junkies play all the way through in two weeks tops. To the one quoting me, it's not a twisted justification I was posting, it was simply my reason for pirating. The point is that most game developers would do good to actually

Well I share half of your concerns. I haven't played enough to know about 'balance' issues as far as AI goes, but sometimes it does act plain rediculous. I play easy AI while learning the game a bit and expect them not to be all that clever, but my teams AI players tend to just stand near the citadel for 2+ minutes, the same at flags, not attack enemy DGs shredding our towers, walk past enemy owned flags while no enemy is around (in other words: easily cappable), or just all swamp one side of

[quote who="SyDaemon" reply="2" id="2214851"]While I question the justification for your acts of software piracy, I find it encouraging to know that Stardock's approach to their consumer base is yielding fruit. Many others would not have such a code of conduct though, which is just the reality of the human condition. In any case, welcome to the game! [/quote] Justification or not, I 'pirated'* this game to check it out and I bought it. I would never had bought t

[quote who="si1foo" reply="14" id="2214773"]how about all the dota people who think it is better and love it more go back to it and leave demigod alone [/quote] Err I thought we were bashing the yankees, not the game?

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="7" id="2212808"] Quoting SThaler, reply 4 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). What is "very fast"? If you have to ask, you probably don't have fast enough. [/quote] Fib

[quote who="BFBeast666" reply="22" id="2212889"]I hope the SD and GPG guys are actually reading this. Lots of good input. [/quote] More than they bargained for I guess :p This will last them till version 1.9 [quote who="angryandroid" reply="17" id="2212737"]Please, SD and GPG, focus on fixing bugs and getting things ironed out before you start adding new stuff. [/quote] This is the way developing works. If you only start to gather ideas when the previous patc

* More content (demigods, maps, especially) * Better AI (sometimes demigods stand near the shrine for 2 minutes doing nothing, make them respond to portals that have been taken, etc, they don't seem to care much) * UI improvements, as to make the game more intuitively commandable (I bet that isn't proper english). See the irish dude for some tips.

Hmm I kind of agree with you, but don't think they will implement it. We live in a 'winner takes all' world. Though only 10 favor points seem rather harsh for such a long match. I could imagine implementing some favor for time played might also do the trick, let's say 5 favor for every 10 minutes played.

[quote who="Sly_Squash" reply="19" id="2210224"]so worst case ("complicated reaction") it's 384 ms, half of the 800ms that was posted. The point is, it doesn't take any flipping 800 ms to respond to stimulus no matter how you look at it. Being off by (at least) a factor of 2 is pretty darn significant, and generally that happens when you pull numbers out of your arse. 75% of all statistics are made up, you know. I'm still not convinced seeing something on the scre

[quote who="Sly_Squash" reply="7" id="2209646"] Quoting twifightDG, reply 6 Duuuudes stop crying about ping times. The most laggy thing in the game is your brain, as it takes an average person about 800 ms to respond to anything happening in the game. Too bad they show ping in some games as ppl think it's the 'holy grail' of multiplayer performance. I especially like the "I had a 250 ms player once and the game was laggy so it must have been him and i'll never let

[quote who="OrleanKnight" reply="11" id="2208940"]Not every Demigod can heal/provide defensive abilities to other Demigods. Therefore, not everyone will have access to this gain in favor. This is why it is not a favor reward, and it would be very problematic. [/quote] It's not a gain, it's an equalisation. Review this simple lay out, using simplified numbers: A random damage god doing 100 points of damage gets 100 favor points. A Sedna doing 100 dam

Duuuudes stop crying about ping times. The most laggy thing in the game is [b]your brain[/b], as it takes an average person about 800 ms to respond to anything happening in the game. Too bad they show ping in some games as ppl think it's the 'holy grail' of multiplayer performance. I especially like the "I had a 250 ms player once and the game was laggy so it must have been him and i'll never let anyone with 150+ in my game again" posts. Way to go. Base all of your knowledge of DG MP on one e

As stated before ping says nothing about the quality of the connecting, just something about routing (distance). It's a simple calculation of how long data at it's traveling speed takes to cover the distance from peer to peer. This has nothing to do with gaming, it's universal in all networking. When you type in google.com in your browser you also have a short delay equal to how long the data packets take to get from your pc to google's server and back. Ofcourse that's not the whole story, yo

[quote who="InfiniteVengeance" reply="1" id="2209526"]No one deals with Linux, ever.[/quote] iD does.

[quote who="angryandroid" reply="8" id="2208772"]Exactly, so you make a choice. Do I go for raw damage, kills, support or a combination of builds? ..."if I go for support, my team may win but I won't get as much share of the rewards of some do. At least this is better than losing"... That's my view, obviously others don't agree, which is fine. [/quote] I don't agree :) While your opinion is fine, I think it'll have the effect that no one wants to play a hea

[quote who="rhymfaxe" reply="4" id="2201723"]Please make this available through the game options as well. [/quote] Hear hear.

[quote quoting="post"]Don't think that's too difficult and I'm sure I'm not the only impatient/lazy one who finds it inconvenient to fill the slots one by one. [/quote] Yep, present! Though for me it'll be Easy AI for a while (meh sue me, I have no skills :p). I know the devvers still have a lot to fix but I'm sure it can be implemented in a patch sooner or later. Just dotting the i's :)

I agree with all your points, especially the heal-by-icon and having all your heroes onscreen and also to be able to see if they are dead or not (with countdown). You can probably see the hp bars of your minions with the ~ key, but it'll still be hard to see how many you have under control.