Hekireky

The forums tend to be very welcome, however, the lobby is entirely different. To be completely honest, there's a large, large gap in skill between people who've only played against AI and playing online. Also, in demigod, a noob on a team will lose the game. Since people generally want to win, they try to balance things with stats (win percentage, number of games) and such, in lobby. True skill is revealed in game, and many people will rage quit if they're on a noobs team.

Not everyone's grumpy, though. I'd recommend joining a "noob" game to get your feet wet. If you have vent and are in the interest of playing with some really pro people, there's Clan Pacov (link).

To answer your question, there are a lot of grumpy people in this game.

Agreed.  Come and check us out on lagwars vent.  My group is reasonably new player friendly at this point. 

That might be the case with the latest demigod clan, GM, but they've only been around for a day or so.  If they are looking to mix things up, etc, remains to be seen.  The attitude of my clan is inclusion, not find the best premade on earth and refuse to mix things up.  Since starting my clan,  95% of my games have been with/against clan pacov and GL.  And odds are, if you join a lobby I have up, I'll ask you to join the vent to at least listen in.  Then its up to you as to whether or not you'd like to play with us some more.

I can tell you that people from GL and clan pacov play with and against each other on a regular basis.

Good & funny point Thundercles.  Now let's just say you practiced on your own in the backyard with a hoop and no one else to play with.  You learned to dribble a little bit but didn't know that a crossover between your legs helps keep the ball from your opponent. You could shoot the ball but didn't know that a fake then a jumpshot helps get your opponent out of the way.  Passing?  When did you have the opportunity to learn that by yourself?  Need coaching?  Need to learn teamwork?  Maybe some plays and traps?  That's going to be awfully hard to do all by yourself.  Perhaps the team should have practiced a bit before the game?

Even moreso, perhaps the basketball league veterans, interested in raising league awareness, amount of games and quality of games, should have taken the new players and shown them the basics?

Anwyas, Hekir, i looked at the games you played.  You did join (2) new person lobbies so I applaud you for that.

In the first game you played you had a guy on the opposing team with 160 games, which i wouldn't consider a noob.  In the second game you had a guy on the opposing team with over 325 games total (only 20 or so in epoch II).  This is probably the veteran you were referencing.  326 games is definitely not a noob status and he definitely appears to troll noob lobbies for games.  It also appears that you had 2 experienced players on your team as well.

In any case, just get some games in.  Once you do you wont have these issues (as much lol)

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It is certainly easy to forsee the outcome of some games by lvl 7.

People dont like playing with newbs on their team because usually one player can lose the game pretty easily. And they get grumpy about it because being completely destroyed by the other team because of the actions of a sole player is not fun.

I am not saying GTFO newb, I am saying don't join average-good games. Stick to the newb games and learn the correct builds for the demigods. You can do this by reading the strategy section and watching replys.  (Replys being the best way to learn how to play this game)

www.gamereplays.org/demigod   <------ good source of repalys to watch

the problem is that the games take between a half hour and an hour to complete, so if you immediately discover one of your teammates isn't good enough to compete with the opponents, it doesn't mean an instant loss. instead the game drags out for a half hour while the enemy builds up enough to take you out.

Is there any way to spectate ingame? Barring replays, of course. Live events are always more entertaining.

(please don't suggest joining a game and sitting at the citadel...)

Aww. Pity, since with the luscious graphics it's clearly a game worth watching. Plus replays miss out on the chat. Judging from other threads I guess I'd be missing out anyway without ventrilo, though.

Hmm, my avatar doesn't appear to be displaying. Wonder why that is.

That sounds promising. How difficult is it to set up?