people like myself , multianna , samrec , annatar and other beta testers are gentle, don't be afraid

oh man i'm so in the same boat

Games with a smaller scope i have an idea that i grasp it fairly soon, and dare to venture online. with this game though, not yet!!

I'm in GMT+1 (holland) and would be up for a 'newbie game' for sure

send me a PM or something (is that even possible on these boards? )

Lies. lordkosc destroyed all my fleets, and defenses...ran off to let me rebuild, and this continued for five hours before I figured it out!

I mean....uh oh....

I am very much a human-vs-human n00b (but, gee, I rock against easy comps!  ).

Yesterday (Saturday), on ICO, even though 309 people were listed in the main lobby, I could not find one single game to join with other n00bs. Only 3 or 4 games were available at a time, and most were password-protected.

Today (Sunday morning in Eastern Canada/USA), on ICO, there were 99 people in the main lobby. Same situation. I asked on the chat for a game setup with other n00bs, to team-up against comps. Not one reply!

I could have tried to host a 3v3 game called « n00bs vs AIs » (medium map, normal speed, normal comps), but I do not trust my router for hosting purposes (even though I have forwarded the proper ports).

I am not complaining : just expressing that there must be a lot of MP-n00bs out there who do not find ICO very user-friendly for them. I don't have time to waste on ICO, when I could be spending it thrashing comps on "easy" all by myself.    

same story here, somewhat decent against hard AI (and by decent i mean i killed them) but i always have that fear of going online and getting pounded (which happens all the damn time!)