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Post by MookieNJ on Jul 6, 2006 8:49:48 GMT -5
If you are looking for more pseudonyms, here are some I found:
Ra-17 is now Magnumm. manny is now zigga. TamCIV is now Afghan.
Also related to this issue is players resetting their stats. This could be done to avoid captaincy and stack teams, or to attempt to hide one's true abilities (especially from newer players who might be unfamiliar with some of the players in the staging room) in order to stack teams. However, I have never heard any outrage over this ... so why the big deal with a few people changing their names?
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Post by MookieNJ on Jul 6, 2006 7:40:48 GMT -5
I don't know what the problem is with people changing their names. The ladder allows each player to change their name a maximum of one time per week. Each time a player changes his or her name it is listed in the Daily News, so it's not exactly a secret. If a player withdraws from the ladder, they must wait 15 days before registering, and are then allowed to do so using any name they like.
As long as players like DaggerJones and Zvon follow these rules, who cares what they want to call themselves? They certainly aren't the first players to do this ... and if you're going to call out RaY for having Metallian and TheWiz as members, certainly it's ok if I call out Illuminati, right? How many times has Lazysmurf / Lanceuppercut / Machinist changed his name? How about the Longhorn / Pestilence / Longhorn switcheroo?
Not for nothing, but in case you all were wondering -- Elite_Fighter used to be ..A..Chris and before that =Playaz=Chris ... and that Heretic1977 guy that was running around for a week or so was really Nero. Remember NapalmNow? He came back as weaksauce.
This is really quite hypocritical to be calling out one clan when it's pretty easy to pull up some examples from your own ...
Also, it's pretty funny to see that whenever a new ladder player comes around and shows some skill that most everyone assumes it's an "old" player ... I know a lot of people who would like to know what MissLadyLuck's old account name was, and I've heard a lot of crazy conspiracy theories on that one!
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Post by MookieNJ on Jul 29, 2006 4:23:29 GMT -5
I'm in the meanest player in the world when I see my teammates leaving nothing but Knights and Catapults in their 80% defense culture bombed city. PUT SOME DEFENSE BONUS UNITS IN THERE!!!
Although if you're not on my team, it's all good.
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Post by MookieNJ on Aug 10, 2006 4:00:49 GMT -5
I have played in both Ladder Epics and FFAs. If people want to play them so badly, try hosting them yourself. If you're patient in the staging room I'm sure you'll be able to find 5 to 7 players who will want to try something different.
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Post by MookieNJ on Jul 6, 2006 23:40:04 GMT -5
25% faster? Does that mean that barracks + theology + vassalage = 8 exp will give level 3 units out of the box? Not exactly.
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Post by MookieNJ on Jul 6, 2006 17:02:03 GMT -5
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Post by MookieNJ on Jul 3, 2006 20:46:19 GMT -5
If you don't feel like playing Civ....go fish. I think it's just the opposite -- a lot of people do feel like playing Civ, but when connection problems get bad, it's really frustrating.
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Post by MookieNJ on Jul 2, 2006 13:03:54 GMT -5
I plan on playing warlords the day it comes out. The expansion is more polished and there's more depth to the game. As for connectivity issues.... many of us have learned who and who not to play with. The problem is on the player end most of the time, IMHO. I try not to play with people who have Pentium 3, 512 mb RAM and a dial up connection. Simply put zhenon, that is just not true! I connect to almost everyone, but some days i dont and sometimes people cant connect to me! Hot joining almost always has somsone you cant connect to even though you connected to them just 5 minutes ago. Agreed. While there are some people who are chronic laggers or who have chronic connection issues, other times GameSpy just "poops the bed" and players who were connected fine 5 minutes ago suddenly can no longer connect to each other. Sometimes a good peer will put up a new game, a second good peer will join, and then nobody else will be able to join ... this will go on for 20 minutes or so, and then everything will work fine again. There are definitely a lot of non-user end problems going on here. On a side note, I have been playing a little Day Of Defeat (FPS) on the side. Do you know how many ports I had to open? Do you know how many connection issues I have had? ZERO! Oh well.
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Post by MookieNJ on Jul 1, 2006 13:25:35 GMT -5
Firaxis seems to be in a very difficult situation with the expansion. If the connection issue is fixed, people will say that they are paying for a patch. If it's not, they'll complain about it not being fixed. I think we should recognize that Firaxis is in a lose-lose situation. That said, I obviously think it would be great if the connection issue were fixed. Firaxis can easily remove themselves from this lose-lose situation. If they have fixed the connection problems in Warlords, they can simply release a patch for Vanilla civ that implements the connectivity fixes.
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Post by MookieNJ on Jun 30, 2006 12:34:32 GMT -5
I'd guess that at first some in the ladder community will rush out to buy Warlords and start playing Warlords ladder games while some will hold out and continue to play Vanilla civ. If the Warlords feedback is positive, I'm sure most will swithc over. If it's negative ... then we'll probably be playing a lot of Vanilla civ.
Personally, I am looking forward to the new expansion pack. It will be interesting to see what new strategies will be possible with the new civ traits, UUs, and the Great General unit!
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Post by MookieNJ on Jun 28, 2006 14:02:00 GMT -5
Just a general tip -- you shouldn't play with the pings showing at all times because it causes more lag! That seems completely silly. Have you actually tested it? I've been told it creates extra network congestion as all the peers need to constantly ping each other to establish all the ping rates shown on the screen ... if this is an extra ping not done if alt+n isn't pressed, and a lot of people in the game are doing it, it's going to slow it down some.
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Post by MookieNJ on Jun 28, 2006 4:00:01 GMT -5
Just a general tip -- you shouldn't play with the pings showing at all times because it causes more lag!
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Post by MookieNJ on Oct 19, 2006 5:40:27 GMT -5
I love the idea of the COTs using the rules from the last CCC. They will be great practice for the next CCC and with the ability to play multiple teams from each clan, everyone will get more practice in more eras while playing together as a team.
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Teamers
Jun 25, 2006 5:28:51 GMT -5
Post by MookieNJ on Jun 25, 2006 5:28:51 GMT -5
Deyreepher ::::modified Avogadro:::: If everyone acted like you teamers would become extinct. There would always be someone every other game that would consider himself not on the good team and demand a re-pick or leave. They were probably still doing the game that long due to the fact the you left after you didn't like your team, forcing them to get new players and re-pick. But what does that concern, an oh so very important person, as yourself. Us minions just must deal with the princes decisions to leave. If CIV is such a bother, just don't play any more. I doubt any would miss you, even as important as you regard yourself. This is more than a little uncalled for, no? The guy just expressed his opinion and you start the name calling? Come on, get real. You think Dey has a bad attitude? Reading this post of your's, it's pretty apparent that you are just as bad as you think he is, if not worse. FYI -- instead of assuming the facts here they are: Dey was never in that game at any time. He was hanging around waiting to see if we were going to play a second teamer after that one finished. Obviously, 8 long, drawn out, lag and drop filled hours later, we were not up for another game.
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Teamers
Jun 22, 2006 1:01:21 GMT -5
Post by MookieNJ on Jun 22, 2006 1:01:21 GMT -5
- Elrad tends to take forever because of all the whining, so better off picking, unless the team made is Final. IMHO amount of whining is about equal To be fair, today the amount of whining was equal, and was the maximum, for about 2 hours.
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Teamers
Jun 22, 2006 0:10:47 GMT -5
Post by MookieNJ on Jun 22, 2006 0:10:47 GMT -5
- Once teams are set it is final I think everyone should get a 1 time chance to walk immediately after teams are picked -- if one of the captains just does a bad job picking or elrading, the game can be kind of screwed ... Funny thing here is, every game is different on who gets the last pick. Some people say captain 1, some people say captain 2, and some people say whichever team they are on doesn't get the last pick. Most games I have played in it was the other way around -- first captain chooses pick or elrad, then second captain elrads if that was the choice, then first captain gets his choice of the two teams. If the second captain makes a horrible elrad, I think it needs to be changed. Who wants to play on an obviously weaker team? That's why I'd rather just pick all the time ... no elrading, no negotiation, just get the game started . In the end, if I am elrading I just pretend I am captain 1 and captain 2 and pick the teams ... is it really going to be that different from picking? I think the problem here was ... how should captains be determined? Usually we just do 2 highest rank and get the game rolling. I know I have captained many times against far superior opponents ... is it fair? I dunno, but you earned your rank one way or the other, so suck it up! Sometimes another player in the game will volunteer to captain if someone is underqualified (new player, doesn't know everyone, or whatever) ... I see no problem with this, but I don't think it should be forced upon someone who doesn't want to captain, it should be strictly volunteer. In the end, I can't believe I wasted 2 hours of my life today listening to people whine and complain about teams. Just do traditional pick order and go. Thank god GameSpy was mostly kind to us today, or it would have been super insanity.
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Post by MookieNJ on Jul 8, 2006 3:22:04 GMT -5
While I haven't gone so far as to give up on the quick move, I seem to get out quick moved so often that it's a pleasant surprise more than anything when it works properly for me!
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Post by MookieNJ on Jul 8, 2006 3:26:02 GMT -5
- pointing out that we dont leave games and usually have less connection problems This is the big thing that originally drew me to the ladder. If we think we have it bad with the connection problems, imagine how the open game players must feel? I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of non-ladder players with the routers and/or firewalls misconfigured. And that's before you start to mention the players who quit because they lost a worker, lost a city, or just didn't like their land. I think both of these are huge drawing points for the ladder.
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Post by MookieNJ on Jun 22, 2006 1:24:49 GMT -5
Exactly. Mods are too hard to use at this moment. Civ should ask if we want to download and use a mod. Also, starting on a downloaded map shouldn't cause OOS all the time. Everyone should download and install C4F. Eiffel has included some great mods and C4F can launch them automatically for you.
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Post by MookieNJ on Jun 22, 2006 1:14:59 GMT -5
Speaking for myself, I honestly never set out to harass or ridicule any new players in the game. I only ask of them two things -- 1) listen to your captain and experienced teammates, and 2) if you aren't sure what to do, ask for advice. If a new player can do these things, I'm not going to flip out on them. We were all new once ... some helpful advice along from veteran players along with the new player asking a few good questions will go a long way to improving his or her teamer gameplay. On the flip side, if a new player just can't grasp the concept that in a "team" game you do things as a team ... do us a favor and go play a cton. Ignoring the captain, doing dumb stuff with great people instead of asking the team what should be done with them, etc. ... why play a team game if you don't want to play as a team? I'll always try not to flip out ... but by the 10th time someone completely ignores advice or does things blantanty wrong without thinking of the good of the team ... I can't be held responsible for my actions!
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