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Reply to Demigod: The Single Player Game in Demigod Journals Stardock Forums

I was very surprised to pick up Judge Dredd last month and read that one of the upper-class residential blocks is called "Peter Molyneux Ivory Tower". I'm sure there definately was something to the single-player this time last year. I'm actually very glad Sins of a Solar Empire didn't have a campaign, especially after the terribad that was Supreme Commander's later campaigns where you had basically 10 minutes to do some specific task without the scale of it being revealed until t

Reply to TB Fireball needs Splash dmg! in Demigod Stardock Forums

Only current issue I see with TB is that he can't shoot while chasing in Fire form.

Reply to Misunderstanding a great Game: More bad Reviews out there :-( in Demigod Stardock Forums

Agreed Kryo; the evil corporations(boo! hiss!) use their influence to push their bad game scores up; meaning the association between such games and below-80% scores is so strong. I hate meta-critic. It has the horrible problem of working on the basis that all reviews are equally valid, that review scores are equivilent. It further gives the impression that bad games are not as bad as they are and good games are not as good as they are and that ok but well-publicised games are exc

Reply to Reasons people in my game have Ragequit in Demigod Stardock Forums

My main problem is with pantheon games when it's 2v1. Having a bot companion is useful on small maps, but it's a friggin liability on large ones because the bugger is sucking a lot of XP and gold off you while the lone enemy player has the freedom to keep away from both of us. This happens far to frequently and I've been avoiding pantheon because of it.

Reply to A plead from Stardock: What kind of community do you want to be? in Demigod Stardock Forums

[quote]Your community will reflect the demographic of gamer that plays your game.[/quote] I disagree; this implies that each demographic is inevitably going to behave in the manner attached to them by stereotypes. It may even be a self-fulfilling prophecy and individuals simply behave according to the expecations of them. I think high expectations produce high standards of behaviour. But who listens to me: I'm the guy that wants Torch Bearer to have a poo-throwing form to comp

Reply to Top 3 weakest demigods in Demigod Stardock Forums

I've been having horrible experiences with TB. There is absolutely no benefit to mixing fire and ice spells. The best you can get out of it is to commit to just one form, meaning you only ever actually have 3 abilities and the fact that you can't shoot while moving in fire form continues to make it frustrating. It's no wonder UB and Erebus are over-used.

Reply to UB Spit should not affect towers in Demigod Stardock Forums

Point taken on the grasp. Really does make me wonder if it's worth anything more than a interrupt. Wasn't really thinking there as I've certainly never actually taken more than one rank in it. I've started finding Ooze really sexeh recently though. Quite misunderestimated it.

Reply to Why the erebus nerf is foolish, and what to do instead in Demigod Stardock Forums

If you're going to accuse me of misrepresenting statistics, please point out exactly where. I don't know how I could have been any clearer and you didn't do a damn thing to explain how the concept of regression towards the mean is relevant. Can you please explain some more because you've given me sod all to go on.

Reply to UB Spit should not affect towers in Demigod Stardock Forums

Taking Spit to a useful rank for destroying towers inevitably means completely dropping either the ooze, health drain/stun or frenzy, all of which are pointless without high or full ranks. I've had trouble getting high weapon damage out of UB from just normal shop equipment, so tend to leave the frenzy which is too short a time for the 0.5 cast time that costs so many near-kills: but is extraordinary once you dip into artifacts. That requires the dicipline of not taking venom spit to begin wi

Reply to Introducing DGBanlist.com in Demigod Stardock Forums

You people know nothing. Nothing! I don't need a banlist. I have my little black book. When someone crosses me, their name goes in my little black book. Why does their game go into the little black book I don't hear you not asking? It's because some people and their 'orrible names must be destroyed, but only when the time is right. Ah so maybe everyone should have their own little black book? No, absolutely not. The little black book serves a very special purpose, the names within rep

Reply to Why the erebus nerf is foolish, and what to do instead in Demigod Stardock Forums

Pantheon statistics do not tell you which DGs are the most efficient. If they did, then it would mean Hunters in World of Warcraft were kings of everything for the first two years and Shaman never had any advantage in the early days of PvP, but it's widely accepted that Hunters were over-used by gold-farmers and Shaman was a problem until the autumn of 2005. The context is important. If people say Erebus is overpowered, certain players will be encouraged to use him whilst a

Reply to Demigod: Tuesday 5/12/2009 in Demigod Journals Stardock Forums

Are you all thinking what I'm thinking? Yep, Demigod has at least two girls playing.

Reply to "Goes to show if enough people complain about something it will get changed...." in Demigod Stardock Forums

Ok people, please do me this one favour. Keira Knightley refuses to leave her boyfriend of four years and get with me. Complain please and change this farce. I must have Keira.

Reply to A plead from Stardock: What kind of community do you want to be? in Demigod Stardock Forums

I wouldn't mind being insulted if it were clever insulting taken from the Christopher Hitchens school of gentlemanly offensiveness. Something like "You would have to be very brave, with giant brass balls to claim this constipated, rotten, unsubtle toilet-drinking that passes for debate can be considered 'constructive' just because no one is breaking any rules" which I once said on a forum which did not allow anything but the most toothless of disagreements to be posted

Reply to A plead from Stardock: What kind of community do you want to be? in Demigod Stardock Forums

I've not really read much, but apart from the 'middle-ground' nonsense I'm just going to assume that everyone is entirely in agreement with me. I'm awesome.

Reply to A plead from Stardock: What kind of community do you want to be? in Demigod Stardock Forums

You are all apathetic quitters, GTFO my internet. Polite communities exist on the internet. This prima facie discredits the claim that the internet can not be civil. Also, almost no one is actually anonymous: we're pseudonomynous. Our actions online can be tracked without any specialist knowledge at all, this is demonstrated repeatedly. You're accountable to anyone that really wants to hold you accountable badly enough. The intolerance and flaming so often begins with the

Reply to Get the beta patch! in Demigod Stardock Forums

Well I for one am glad that people with usernames beginning with 'E' are excluded. It's about damn time too. They are immoral, decadent, lazy, obnoxious, corrosive to the public good, steal money from orphanages and they smell horrible- on purpose. But however necessary these steps were, they are insufficient. When will we get the patch that permanately uninstalls their Demigod and sets fire to their monitor?

Reply to Updrading Main Structure in Demigod Stardock Forums

The citadel upgrades have been sorely underestimated, especially for larger maps. There's a problem though in that those getting the most gold tend to be those that invest in personal stats. I'm trying to find a balance between both.

Reply to Deep Freeze/Mass Charm bug still exists in Demigod Stardock Forums

Frost Bearer is weak enough as it is at the moment. There's rarely any reason to use spend points on them while Fire is so good. Leave him be.

Reply to Striving for a better community than Dota. in Demigod Stardock Forums

[quote who="si1foo" reply="16" id="2175638"]why the hell are u argueing over little tiny things [/quote] Yours might be. Mine isn't. EDIT: in practically every game I've played, very few people have been reluctant to type 'sry' in chat when they balls something up. Those that keep *ruining*(yes that is what they are doing) games and not saying anything about it are often banned by server admins. No, the phenomenom of silence is something that occurs

Reply to Which demigod would you worship? in Demigod Stardock Forums

I am a very strong atheist. Just because they exist is no reason to believe they exist.

Reply to Striving for a better community than Dota. in Demigod Stardock Forums

A mix of muting and communicating would be nice, rather than the saturation of apparent self-muting that seems to be everywhere.

Reply to For the love of GOD fix stun/chain stun in Demigod Stardock Forums

Except that UB stun also stuns the UB while he drains. It's only ever been useful while they are taking damage from another source.

Reply to Why do some matches go 2vs1? in Demigod Stardock Forums

I've had this happen to me and the two I had to fight; playing as Rook and Regulus with me as UB, were utter twats. They were rubbish in a straight fight, but used practically every trick in the book to win and wouldn't dare go more than a few steps from each other because I managed to get quite a lot of kills out of them. Because of the map design allowing them to keep two neutral portals, my chances were too slim and I had to spend money on citadel upgrades to delay their progress(Fortress)

Reply to Striving for a better community than Dota. in Demigod Stardock Forums

[quote who="Renevent" reply="3" id="2173871"]Read both of your posts above my initial response to you...what I said was spot on regarding your attitude towards gaming and the people you encounter online. Good day. [/quote] This doesn't really give an answer. You've somehow managed to take perfectly clear English and turn it into something else, which is why I asked for you to repeat it back to me *in your own words* so I'd have some clue of how you managed it.