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

I can't believe all of these people are saying basically "you can't prove anything with numbers." As if their anecdote about getting creamed by Erebus because they ran into the middle of his towers when he had 10 night-walkers up and he bit them so they couldn't escape fast enough has any weight... Fact is that if you take thousands of matches by thousands of players over weeks of time, and average out the win/loss ratio, a balanced demigod should come close to 50%. Erebus comes

Reply to Flow control? in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

[quote who="Peace Phoenix" reply="7" id="2205159"] Client-Server games with thousands of players on a single server can be much more difficult to troubleshoot. Sadly, Demigod is a P2P game. So Stardock servers don't see exchanged packets during the game.[/quote] That's why I'm proposing this setup to Frogboy as a way to allow his QA team to see all of the traffic going to/from each client during testing sessions. I realize that Demigod is P2P, bu

Reply to Healing post game statistic in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Chaosnaska" reply="11" id="2204646"]Then ASSASSIN demigods will QQ because "GENERALS GET PRIESTS. HOW DOES I COMPETE?"[/quote] Shhh... don't tell them that you can kill the priests.

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

[quote]True, but there seems to be a widespread assumption that public Pantheon statistics are the only statistics that the balance team have to go on. I'd be very surprised if that were the case.[/quote] Public Pantheon stats are probably the most reliable because the random map and win conditions mean that nobody can pick the map that they're most likely to win on. If it's truly random, then individual demigod/hero imbalances will begin to show.

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

[quote who="jochance" reply="24" id="2205179"]I think this is explained by people disconnecting when they are losing... maybe.[/quote] This. It doesn't count AI wins as wins. Since the AI is stupid, you can get a greater than 50% win ratio.

Reply to Pro tips from a Pro who gives Tips in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="kerzain" reply="24" id="2202676"]What if you arent leveling very quickly because all the xp stuff dies before it reaches you and your tower?[/quote]Get to your outermost defense tower and stand there. If you're even close to where the enemy mobs are running into your towers and dying, you'll get XP. If you're standing next to your citadel and the battle is on the other side of the map, you're really a noob... [e digicons]XD[/e]

Reply to Pro tips from a Pro who gives Tips in Demigod Demigod Forums

[quote who="Protocept00" reply="15" id="2202638"]When you have two players of the SAME skill level battling eachother out, the Erebus will always win.[/quote] You're so full of it: Top Demigods QED

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

Very good post. It should be required reading before posting any "Nerf X" threads. Another thing that should be required reading before posting any "Nerf X" threads is this: http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/demigods/ You can't argue with numbers. I have seen more "Nerf Erubus" threads than any other. I'm not sure why this is. Possibly because people t

Reply to Flow control? in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

Hey we appreciate the update Frogboy. Looks like Raknet is getting replaced, which I think will be a good thing. Personally if it was my game, I would never trust a 3rd party network library unless I had tested it extensively. I wanted to recommend to you for testing network games in the future, you really need to get WAN simulators. You can buy expensive commercial ones, or make your own with a Linux box and a few NICs. Basically they allow you to turn up the

Reply to Petition: Let us host servers in Demigod Stardock Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="1" id="2199493"]One person is always picked as a host and has the option to boot the player.[/quote] I could be wrong, but I believe in Pantheon since it is a Tournament style of play, you don't have the option to boot other players.

Petition: Let us host servers in Demigod Stardock Forums

First of all, great game. Hats off to GPG and Stardock for an incredibly addictive and fun to play game. Personally I haven't experienced a lot of connection issues in Multiplayer because I know how to forward ports, however, the design of the game does create some issues that wouldn't be there on Battle.net, because it doesn't allow us to host servers. I understand that Stardock wanted to design the multiplayer component so that it didn't require users to forward ports

Reply to Demigod: Understanding RTS multiplayer and why it sucks in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

Brad, I really respect you in the industry. Your pioneering work on Sins of a Solar Empire has forged a lot of new ground. In any case, I have to take you to task just a little bit on your net code: Demigod’s setup is similar to GPGNet with a couple critical differences. First, to get into the lobby you currently have to connect to everyone who is in the lobby before getting into the lobby. However, if you enter the