RegnorVex

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Nah, all that will do is encouage more people to rage quit.

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[quote who="Mythor" reply="2" id="2234138"] Yeah, it stinks that this guy can't play the game... but it's $40. Suck it up and move on, geez. [/quote]Don't confuse one man's expression of opinion with another's hijacking legal threats lol.

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[quote who="ElPopo" reply="19" id="2233133"]The connectivity is STILL totally flawed. There is no excuse for this after one month - they have failed and will probably never fix it properly. The game itself is awesome. [/quote]I can't think of anything to add to this. Sadly, it sums up my feelings perfectly.

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[quote who="Frogboy" reply="7" id="2233130"]Where is this mention of time off I keep hearing about?[/quote] This wasn't about "time off", it was about a post telling us that the team was taking the Memorial Day weekend off while the house was on fire. Nobody denies that developers need time off, you can't and shouldn't work them to death. Tracking your own hours isn't the point, it's obvious you've been working very hard and I'm sorry if you think this message was about my wanting an

Reply to The Strangler's guide to Teamplay. Yes, this insensitive bastard is writing a guide about teamwork in Demigod Strategies Demigod Forums

He's not on some trip, he's absolutely right. Sedna is a healer, of course, but Sedna is not designed to primarily heal the rest of the team. And he never suggested he doesn't take Heal, he clearly stated that when he can heal another he does, and I do, too. I always keep an eye out for my teammates when they're involved in a fight nearby, especially if we have an opportunity to 2x1 someone and I just love waiting for that Pounce opportunity to finish them off or

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Sydeamon, No, you're right, of course the variables are different, I know that and I'm sure there are plenty of other complexities that I'm not aware of. Look, it's not my intention to beat down the dev team any more than they are feeling already. My comments are aimed at management, not the devs. I just think that when you have this much trouble with a product, it doesn't make a lot of sense to post messages to your customers telling them that you're taking time off, and touting new

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Yeah, I knew the post would draw some heat, I'll live. [e digicons]B)[/e] As for the software management angle, I've never had to make my team work overtime to fix a problem like this. What usually happens is that team itself feels sufficiently committed to fixing the problem that they themselves volunteer to do what's necessary to get it working. Someone from Stardock posted in this thread that they've been working 14 hour days and that just signals a red flag to me. I would never ha

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Oh yeah, I've tried all the suggestions including the /proxyserveronly switch, re-setting the router, checking my speednet connection. C'mon guys, you know it's not a problem on *my* end lol. And I'm happy for those few of you who can say "No problems here". That doesn't exactly help the situation that is obviously continuing for everyone else who is still having problems, a situation that is acknowledged by the continuing posts on the topic. Look, I don't usually post rants like this, I usua

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I'm encouraged. But the reason you think this is ... ?

Is this game EVER going to work reliably? in Demigod Demigod Forums

Title asks the key question. I don't know about most of you, but my multiplayer experience has deteriorated steadily since launch. I've tried all the "workarounds" and have a high-end rig with a great connect (both UL and DL), a compatible router with working port forwarding, and yet I cannot remember the last time I played a match that didn't have horrible issues. Ordinarily I would just stfu and patiently wait for the hard-working dev team to do their job, but in the midst of all this

Reply to Enough is enough, Stardock I demand a Sandwhich! in Demigod Demigod Forums

Forget the sandwiches, I want pie.

Reply to I demand an explaination Stardock in Demigod Demigod Forums

Let me get this straight. You weren't sufficiently embarassed at your first post in which you: 1) Admitted publicly that you did not follow directions; 2) Admitted publicly that instead of trying to sort out the problem you assumed it was a scam and overreacted; 3) Got pwned by Stardock support who publicly verified your account and asked if maybe you typed in the wrong PW (lulz) 4) and then, as if that wasn't bad enough, you come back and criticize t

Reply to Builds are Stupid in Demigod Strategies Demigod Forums

To keep the chess metaphor alive, everyone knows that books on chess openings are useful and probably mandatory for learning how to play competitively, but you'll never hear a grandmaster claim that any one opening will always win.

Reply to My overall daily experience with Demigod in Demigod Demigod Forums

Do you have to use /proxsyserverlonly? Not everyone has to. When you do that your packets have to go from you to whereverthehelltheyarelocated and back, times your opponents. What happens when you don't use that?

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I have to add my voice to the crowd of folks who were not having any problems before but are completely unable to play now. That's Skirmishes, Custom games, Pantheon, nothing over the 'net. The only thing that works here now is local LAN play. The problem that I suspect is that we are three players in the same household using one Internet connection. Here are the details: Three high-end gaming rigs, one running XP Pro fully patched and SP'd, two running Vista Ultim

Reply to Erebus Nerf in Demigod Strategies Demigod Forums

When I say "class defining", I don't mean that the skill is the "primary skill" or the "favored skill" of the class, that would be circular logic. What I mean by "class defining" is that, whether the skill is good or not, it provides the function that the character is designed to perform and without which he isn't that character. The heals might be lousy, but they are the skills that provide that thing that a healer does. A healer can't heal without a heal spell. That's a class defi

Reply to Demigod Proxy Servers & Responses in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

Brad can't win: if he posts all the dirty laundry he will get lambasted for the drama; if he keeps his nose to the grindstone he will get skewered for ignoring his customers. So what else is new? You can't please everyone and it's foolish to try. Welcome to the big leagues of business. I don't think the issue of updates and transparency means all that much in the end because forum participants are only a small and very un-representative bunch of fickle folks. The small army

Reply to Back from the lake, what’s next? in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

I'll add a vote for Replays. I agree that investing time in the AI is a waste of resources. This is either a MP game or it isn't. If you want it to also be a single player game then don't bother with a half-ass attempt that simply "upgrades" the AI. Add a campaign. A real campaign with existing AI would be far better than just "improving" AI and believing that this will satisfy single players. If your idea is to improve AI in order to give MP players the ability to prac

Reply to Demigod: Scheduled Games = the eVite of death in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

I don't understand why he posts provocative messages and then doesn't come back in to discuss the issues or at least acknowledge the points made and provide agree-to-disagree closure. Instead we're left feeling like it's a monologue rather than a dialog and wondering if we were heard. I know he's busy as hell, and I suppose it's better that he's posting and not participating further rather than not posting at all, but it's a shame that he can't find the time to at least acknowledge

Reply to Incredibly devestating character comboes in Demigod Strategies Demigod Forums

[quote who="Teseer" reply="1" id="2211170"]TB and Reg[/quote][quote who="JagerJack" reply="2" id="2211184"]Rook With the Queen of Thorns as an ally[/quote][quote who="Guardian316" reply="15" id="2212668"]Oak and sedna. [/quote][quote who="OrexxerO" reply="3" id="2211462"]Erebus and UB[/quote] That's what I love about this game. Ask a question like this and look at the answers you get. That's balance.

Reply to Stats and Rage Quitting in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

Honestly, you're trying to solve a problem with technology that is incapable of providing a solution. In order to make this "fair" and avoid massive frustration, you have to distinguish between intentional quits and hardware disconnects. How on earth are you going to be able to distinguish between someone who's machine or ISP caused a disconnect, and the guy who just pulls his network cable out in order to rage quit? When you can answer that question, I'll sign up for your proposal.

Reply to Erebus Nerf in Demigod Strategies Demigod Forums

[quote who="Zechnophobe" reply="24" id="2207891"] Quoting RegnorVex, reply 7 If any one skill has a benefit that so obviously outweights its cost that every user will take it and thereby forgo other skills in the tree, then by definition it's not balanced. So if Erebus had only two abilities, Mistform and Morale, would you have to neuter mistform until it was as bad as morale? I think you cannot exclude an ability as 't

Reply to Erebus Nerf in Demigod Strategies Demigod Forums

[quote]who plays a general without minions. [/quote]I don't know many Sedna players that would spend their points on a Yeti. I tried them a few times and after I stopped laughing I understood why.

Reply to Erebus Nerf in Demigod Strategies Demigod Forums

[quote who="Extacide" reply="5" id="2200833"] Anytime a skill is considered too good to pass up and becomes part of essentially every build that uses the character, the skill is overpowered and needs to be balanced to encourage other paths. Okay, what other builds do you suggest for erebus who has no other melee skill to keep him alive, the lowest HP, and lowest armor melee demigod alive? Ignorant logic at it's best. [/

Reply to Demigod: Scheduled Games = the eVite of death in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

I love this game and most of the things that you guys do, but this idea is really loopy and needs to be retired. Adding a way for players to segregate the community is just such a bad idea for a thousand reasons, including that you're feeding griefers a great new tool. News that an official "ban list" is coming this Fall makes me shake my head and wonder why you aren't focusing instead on making the game more compelling to *play* rather than creating ways for people to keep others from playin