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Reply to The dumbest thing in this community is the concept of ragequitting in Demigod Stardock Forums

The best way to handle leavers is to eliminate AI filler and drop one of their opponents to even the teams. It is pretty much the only way to salvage the game at that point. Give the leaver a loss and the guy dropped to even a win as if they'd played each other 1v1. I think that's as fair as it could get for everyone. You don't want to lose games because you get paired with someone who leaves (or just gets disconnected) like that. You probably don't want to play a lop-sided ma

Reply to Favor Items "nerf" in Demigod Stardock Forums

What if costs were very significantly reduced so that something like 300 would buy you the most expensive and rather than 'buying' favor items you'd 'rent' them for that game only? FWIW, I don't notice if favor is broken or not right now, but I have enough to buy what I want every time anyway. I just don't like the idea of discouraging new players by giving vets advantages they don't even need.

Reply to What procedure should I use for Access Violations? in Demigod Stardock Forums

You should also note that WHQL is almost never the latest driver. WHQL testing delays them so sometimes they can be several versions behind what is actually current. While it may be simplest to go into windows update for them, it won't give you the latest.

Reply to A topic on the heroes: The RAAAAAGEquitter in Demigod Stardock Forums

It always was... it always was.

Reply to ITT: THIS IS WHAT THE MODS (who aren't asleep) WANT US TO BECOME! in Demigod Stardock Forums

See, now we have to hope you also share his fate of a horrible painful death at the hands of a merciless badger.

Reply to Favor Items "nerf" in Demigod Demigod Forums

Favor items will discourage casuals if they reset. When they hover the DG icon it will be like a commitment. Either you play enough to get your favor up so you can compete on the same level or you just skip it altogether. Most people are not going to want to jump in here and there to play against people with a clear starting advantage. Hopefully matchmaking attempts pairing people with roughly even favor to avoid that. If not, I think it will detract from the

Reply to Review in Demigod Stardock Forums

Running google desktop?

Reply to Review in Demigod Stardock Forums

gfx/audio drivers up to date?

Reply to Biggest Imba's That Need Balancing in Demigod Stardock Forums

Yes, yes he is. Thuuundercaaats hooooooooo!

Reply to Blame us, not rage quitters in Demigod Stardock Forums

Amazing comebacks wouldn't be any more or less frequent. The people that can pull them off aren't going to quit so easy even if you made the concede button center-screen and pulsating in cyclic colors. Voting is a waste of time because once someone has decided to leave, they are gone. They don't care enough about W/L or favor points for any of that to change anything. Splitting leaver loot is great but most of the time those players don't have anything. More should b

Reply to [Bug] AI Rook Cheats in Demigod Problem Reports Demigod Forums

In so much as the AI can only act as a basic trainer for how to play I guess that's actually kind of good?

Reply to Can we get an option for a random selected demigod? in Demigod Stardock Forums

Then don't play those games. ++Random is needed. A random map option for custom games would also be welcome.

Reply to Restorative Scroll & UB Vemon Spit in Demigod Stardock Forums

At any rate, I think everyone would agree that restorative scroll + a few other consumables are almost completely useless. Maybe it's good to have some junk and trinkets in there though.

Reply to Targeting 50/50 in Demigod Stardock Forums

Did Frogboy say this was fixed and just unimplemented or was I just having a dream?

Reply to Please add a second favor item slot in Demigod Stardock Forums

I think two would add to depth also. You could remedy the imbalance of a dg with 2 vs a dg with 0 by eliminating the favor point system and just letting people pick two.

Reply to Erebus nerfed? Fine... Now lets all complain about tower Rooks. in Demigod Stardock Forums

If I play rook, the only reason I tend to even take towers is because hammer slam is so godawful long to cast that any DG with a stun can interrupt it and any DG without one (+ a little reaction time/run speed) can run right between your legs and avoid it entirely. Playing against a tower rook, I don't think they are any big deal at all. Just stack HP/regen. He probably won't have points in hammer so he won't be able to burst you for much dmg. Use hit and run tactics on the *Rook* and

Reply to Is back-dooring considered cheating? in Demigod Stardock Forums

It's fine in DG, but DotA's mechanics are completely different. The 'rule' exists there for a reason.

Reply to Erebus Poison blood bug? in Demigod Stardock Forums

Hehe. They should give erebus a pink cape and put a big daisy growing out of his face. On the up side... if you can kill yourself drinking the potion, you'll get some gold.

Reply to Restorative Scroll & UB Vemon Spit in Demigod Stardock Forums

I had seen that scroll and even suggested someone use it to counter spit in an old thread. Agreed that its effect as is means they may as well change the description to 'Ooooo shiny....' I know when I see two beasts against me in panth/skirmish the SoP is a given. If you take it, the beast can't do crap early game and later game if he's continued the spit line, you're saving yourself from 1K+ dmg every 30 seconds so long as you play it right and don't let him spit you while you'r

Reply to Idol Re-sell Fairness Question in Demigod Stardock Forums

Haven't they (SD/GPG) already said that it is a bug/exploit that will be fixed in the future?

Reply to Balance: Please turn down the stupid. in Demigod Stardock Forums

[quote]illumin8 you can very well argue with this numbers as its quite odd that all demigods have a win ratio bigger than 50% except for QoT which shouldn't be possible (the wins and losses don't match up) [/quote] I think this is explained by people disconnecting when they are losing... maybe.

Reply to Pleaase fix Heart of Life (and make it work the way it says) in Demigod Stardock Forums

Actually... if you can use it, it will be in the consumable slots. I don't think anything goes into the consumable slots that can't be used. I also think HoL has either been fixed or has a bug when used with other items or on certain DGs. I really don't buy it often anymore. I know that I've gone from like 100/100 to 6k/6k with it before though. The behavior seemed to basically be that unless I was hit, it was going to fill me up and top me off as though it was the c

Reply to Introducing DGBanlist.com in Demigod Stardock Forums

Do whatever with custom games really. Tie in banlists, make a TDA, I don't really give a shit. The issue I see is going to be once someone develops a program that will auto-kick people on such a global list from panth/skirmish games and auto-quit/rejoin panth/skirmish until it is selected as the 'host'. For this reason, I think it is imperative that SD/GPG get it set up so we can change names at will and that no unique identifier is provided to ensure that these efforts f

Reply to To all the ignorant Americans. in Demigod Stardock Forums

I'm sorry you will be blue in the face and likely expire before you convince the moronic masses that ping in one game is not equivalent in every way to ping in any other game. Some people will even get all pissed off and close their whole lobby if someone even suggests this is the case.

Reply to list of rage quiters, so far... in Demigod Stardock Forums

[quote]Honestly, I love how old times they'd take people like that, put them in shackles and allow the town folk to toss rotten fruit at them......good times.[/quote] Ahh yes... good 'ole 1997.