You made my day Nice post, please keep these good jokes coming

**kidding**

seriously, if what you descrivbe here is real then i think you are just playing the wrong people or maybe just playing against AIs.

We are on #demigod-live at irc.stardock.com server. Come here and challenge anyone there at any time. You'll probably have another and different story to post then...

HF

Hey Kira i joined a random game with you the other day, I remembered it because I took every single achievement.  Anyways I think you played regulus and I remember thinking you looked decent, I'll stop by that channel you mentioned.

"Actually he's 61 in the custom game rankings and seems to be playing only custom games. The overall rankings are dominated by people who play minute-long games against no opponents, so they aren't a good indication of anything."

ok i stand corrected i never look there. 

Next pantheon starts tomorrow guys, ill see you in game.  Those stats should mean something. 

no since those are random games with random ai

no thnx

There is currently no outlet for the competitive players.  This is a team game so the lack of team oriented match-making hurts a lot.  When tournies, scrim channels, and going into patheon/skirmish as a team pop-up you will start to see better players gather.

so its like saying "since we dont have 22 players for a football match we just play 1 vs 1 in a 100m stadium"?

i understand that a good team competition is not ready yet etc etc

i have no problem about that, but ill just wait, im not gonna play a retarded 1 vs 1 mode just to prove anything

i want to find good playerS to playt DEMIGOD like it is

a team game

i dont wanna find players to play a different game, same as i dont wanna play soccer 2 vs 2 or basket 15 v15

why instead dont you find a friend and join my usual games ?

cause the REAL game is that, not a ladder 1 v1

im  not in a team  but i play with people who names i see in the lobby or people who message me

i found  the time  and what people your playing with tends to make the difference i was playing a game just know we were losing  quiet badly but they werent  caping flags so were still holding your own then we bought loads of stuff and charged them  we beat them but not by much

Are you retarded or something? What the fuck, man? Do you just randomly hit the keys on your keyboard to produce combinations of letters that almost resemble words and then concoct them into strings that almost resemble sentences and after all that make no sense at all? I sincerely hope that you're approximately thirteen or so because otherwise, man, I feel sorry for you.

Or maybe English isn't his first language. Welcome to the internet.

Translation of his post:
I've found in my own experience that the time of day and the people your playing with can make a large impact on a games' outcome. I was playing a game just now where my team mates and I were losing rather badly, however the opposition wasn't capturing flags very effectively. This helped us hold our own long enough for us to buy many upgrades at once, rather than on their own, and completely surged them on the battlefield all at once. We won, however it was by a hair!

I dunno, this game is kind of hit and miss. For a while I was insisting on playing torch bearer just because I thought he was cool as hell. It felt like for a good two days I was getting TROUNCED no matter what I did, so I stopped playing for a day (pouted a bit) and came back. Played about two pantheon games where I trounced everyone...no idea why. Didn't last long, of course.

The thing about this game is that not only are there a wide variety of players with different skill levels, but the ones that ARE good really understand the way this game has what I call a "snowball" effect. That is, once you've gotten a few kills against enemy demigods or generals, you've got a good amount of gold built up, and if you know exactly what items to buy with said gold, it'll just give your character even MORE of an advantage, which will get you more gold, and so on and so on. When you combine that with someone who REALLY knows how to play their character, you'll get your ass kicked if you're not on your toes. Also, the dynamics of the game modes seem to allow for this same effect too. If a team can manage to hold onto gold-mine flags and gain a lot more gold than your team, they'll be able to make upgrades to their reinforcements quicker, and thus get a tighter hold on the map, which leads to more gold which leads to more upgrades which leads to....blah blah blah.

Not complaining at all, it's just that the dynamics of the game allow for savvy players to REALLY rape the shit out of their opponents if they know exactly what items and upgrades to purchase.

I agree with one of the previous posters, if you're feeling so bad about it, share your tips with people who you are annihilating. I dunno how many times I've asked people in games to tell me what on earth they're doing to be so indestructible, only to have them just laugh and keep pounding me.

I sympathize with you on this one, Lem. If you take a look at the kid's profile it says he's from the UK. That doesn't necessarily discount the possibility that English isn't his first language, but I would HOPE that anyone over the age of 10 in the UK would be able to post better than that. His original post is PAINFUL to read.