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So let me get this right, people who quit games with over 400 minerals (300 for zerg) and a worker get blacklisted in starcraft?

Someone should schedule a weekly match or something.

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I heard someone say once that it was a normal random but i never verified it.

[quote who="ZombiesRus5" reply="12" id="3291021"]Is there a strategy for scuttling your capital planet? I've done that a couple of times [/quote] I believe it's called the Smurf Stratagem somewhat popular among some of the more skilled players; I believe the main purpose behind this move is to make your opponent underestimate you so you can entrap and destroy him in the future.

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="15" id="3271356"]Imho we have to think about generally nerfing phase missiles sooner or later. Advent are way to vulnerable to them, giving them only poor changes in late game. [/quote] Phase missiles where nerfed when rebellion came out 1. Max upgraded phase missiles did decreased damage or take additional techs to upgrade (depending on reb or loy) 2. Fighters ceased to use phase missiles resulting in teching it benefiting less one less type

its like taking a detour around a closed road

I have yet to use the stream to spy on you or your team, in the 2 games that I can think of that I had the stream running while were were playing vs one-another I turned the monitor off in one and completely ignored it in the other.

what does -20 armor do?

I heard tick tack toe doesn't have many variables; some even consider it a competitive game.

It depends on a few things like: How big/rich is your empire? the cost of searching for artifacts doesn't scale while the benefit does How long is the game going to last? if the game is going to last another 30 min you have less time to reap the benefits than if the game is going to last another 10 hours

Maybe disable TAR in colonized wells?

Hold position and auto attack off isn't the same thing. What probably happened is the titan needed to finish firing the volley and all the armament on the way was enough to kill the ships, even though the titan was about to stop attacking.

Good idea the top 8 players can make it look like there are hundreds or even thousands of intensely competitive highly skilled players, that will create the appearance of *winning a tournament means you accomplished something/you wont be up vs the same players every time/other people are doing it so you should also*, then after a few months (cough years) those 8 tired/haggard/completely exhausted players can slowly decrease the number of smurfs they play while other *pros* join the battlefiel

According to my guesstimates, with the current player base of my knowledge, the top 8 players would probably win ~90% of 1v1 elimination tournaments, even with random maps; with the remaining ~10% split among the remaining online players, compstompters, and lan players. So unless you want to watch the same ~8 players brawl it out every pro competition we need more *pro* players.

[quote who="RiddleKing" reply="6" id="3116846"]Only masterial can defend the advent[/quote] It's called a trump card, I can always say "let's play a game and find out".

I think it's funny that the AI uses its abilities effectively, and people assume it's a bug.

Do you have steam? Do you have beta access? Do you have space on your hard drive? Have you told steam to install the game? Have you had any problems installing other games with steam? Did you have an internet connection when you tried to install it (with steam logged in)?

It can be as simple as disabling it in grav wells that are colonized.

The *bug* with snipe is that it takes shield mitigation and armor into account. Honestly what the AI does in a 10 hour game can have little to no relevance in a usually shorter then 1 and 1/2 hour PvP game. If Ironclad wants to focus on single player balance it's their choice I was just giving my opinion as a almost solely competitive PvP player.

^^^ That is me I guess I had multiple accounts with the same email address and it decided to log me in with the other one. [e digicons]8|[/e]

Night if you think everyone should be as good as you are at everything, you can always spend your time teaching those willing to learn rather then mocking peoples shortcoming.

Just zoom in next to a unit instead of exactly on top of a unit

selecting all of a type isn't the problem, its getting them all to use the same ability that's the pain.

When I want to do something like this I use a program called Sandboxie http://www.sandboxie.com/ BTW controlling more then one player is harder than it sounds.