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Title: Smurfland
Post by: Ugrilainen on October 17, 2011, 11:10:35 pm
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This season, we received so many smurfed applications that I thought I'd write a little about it. Not mocking anyone here, just having fun with this habbit  :icon_lol:

The most famous : MightyMurrock

This was the buzz of S10 : who is MightyMurrock  :icon_question:

Rumored to be Wrectify by Eshan, his temper linked to his skilled human play made everyone think he was indeed the double FML champion.

Comparing ip/email information, it was revealed he was indeed Mysticalsmurf, player I didnt know about in the first place but you could see him obsing a lot of previous FML games or finals. He is a pro canadian solo player, a good friend of htrt.

Now is the 1000$ question : why did he smurfed? No idea.

1- Smurfing because I'm trolling

If we dont know yet why Murrock smurfed in S10, his huge trolling made him apply in season 11 under 2 differents identities, one being a girl named Tina who could play whenever "depending on her boyfriend"  :icon_lol: .

2- Smurfing to get a fresh start

Steppinrazor applied under a swedish identity "Stiletto" but didnt want to bother to create a new fake email and just posted his application on the website. Still, he had the same ip  :icon_razz:

3- Smurfing because players will suicide me

Ebo was explaining on a ffareplays thread he wouldnt apply because of the risk of being suicided yet applying under rygorych. We would have not detected him if he didnt revealed himself, changing his mind. It's safe to say not many people hate him and we wish him good luck in the league.

4- Smurfing failing comedy show

Gold medal : Eshan writing a comment on how he lost his bm in one of Al Pacino's game with his Dark.Messiah aka then trying hard to pretend he wasnt al pacino. Brainman was the one to point it out.

Silver medal : PInballmap faking Nline aka on bnet and on ffareplays, but posting the game under Pinballmap account

Bronze medal : tbd

Good luck to everyone in S11 :icon_exclaim: :icon_smile:




Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: FML|WorpeX on October 17, 2011, 11:23:51 pm
Wait, that wasn't the real nline? aww man. I'm sad now.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: AlPacinoReturns on October 18, 2011, 01:20:56 am
I am Al Pacino and I approve this message.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: Seksi on October 18, 2011, 01:58:55 am
LOL, nice write up +1
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: FML|Renaud on October 18, 2011, 02:04:42 am
I think the reason murrock stated for smurphing in s10, was that he wanted a fresh start where he was playing for real and not trolling.

But after a while he simply could not resist his true calling ^^

Or that could simply be a theory someone told me? I forgot
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: Q-veta on October 18, 2011, 02:07:47 am
Quote from: FML|WorpeX on October 17, 2011, 11:23:51 pm
Wait, that wasn't the real nline? aww man. I'm sad now.
Yes, I figured it out pretty quickly. Nline, the real one, showed me a picture with him on a pony so I can always bring that up to see if it's really him.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: FML|red7z7 on October 18, 2011, 03:13:13 am
lol, best thread yet. second place goes to al pacinos exit thread
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: rygorych on October 18, 2011, 09:45:20 am
Ugri = Gargamel?
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: DarKNeSSCaLLs on October 18, 2011, 11:18:14 am
I could never smurf, my gosuness would shine through whatever I do (and perhaps my DR only play would make it a little obvious as well...)
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: rygorych on October 18, 2011, 11:44:19 am
I still think you're SS smurf.

Proof:

1. There are no SS vs Darkness games, anywhere, ever.
2. You appeared right when SS quit.
3. You have same love/hate relationship with the community.
4. You use exact same heroes/army.
5. About same APM.
6. You varied a few things in the build order and you started using bats when you realized that previous playstyle was inferior, but you didn't want to just abandon SS's hard ideals directly.
7. You use about same amount of manip.
8. You both liked RT for some weird reason.
9. You both played same race same hero combo same army with very little variation for ages and ages = shows same type of mentality.
10. Ultimate proof - cannot be denied: if you deny that you're SS, you basically state that you just copied his cheap op strat and have about zero identity of your own.... so do you really want to deny it?
11. P.S. you just said you cannot be a smurf just to avert attention from this very important issue.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: DarKNeSSCaLLs on October 18, 2011, 01:31:11 pm
Sorry to disappoint but I'm not SS  :icon_mrgreen:

I've been DarknessCalls (or some variation) for all of my War3 life, starting with RoC. I was a noob at first and did 3s RT only and eventually watched some replays, got good, and switched to solo. I played solo heavily towards the end of RoC + start of TFT and was usually top 20 on Azeroth, I also was a top 2s AT player sporadically throughout the first few years of TFT.

Stopped playing and went to WoW, then came back. Didn't find solo as enjoyable anymore, and that's when I grew interest in FFA slowly through clan lone forums and ffareplays.com. Although SS's guide was an inspirition for me, if you ask those who remember me from WAY back before I understood the FFA game, I played undead at first as my main race. I then changed to orc and did the DR style I use today, although I found the land-only armies that SS use as boring, so I switched it up. I remember people laughing at me for using DR and bats, as people only saw DR with HH/land army/etc, but here we are today...

I guess the only way I could prove it is to have you talk to some old school players I used to play with or compete against, but they're all gone now. If you really think I'm SS then I'll take the honors of being him  :icon_mrgreen:

Quote
: if you deny that you're SS, you basically state that you just copied his cheap op strat and have about zero identity of your own.... so do you really want to deny it

Correct, I copied an incredibly strong cheap tactic and modified it for my own use. I don't feel any shame or guilt... seeing how nearly everyone who plays this game copies one thing or another from someone at some point.

And yeah, my smurf comment was just a funny comment... you're looking too much into it.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: rygorych on October 18, 2011, 01:38:19 pm
Just trolling. I really don't care (nor does anyone alive today, I think... SS is from too long ago to care anymore).
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: rygorych on October 18, 2011, 01:39:32 pm
P.S. 12. "Went to WoW for a bit"... just like SS.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: DarKNeSSCaLLs on October 18, 2011, 01:40:08 pm
I'm pretty sure alot of War3 players moved on to WoW for a bit... lol
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: Slythe on October 18, 2011, 02:09:00 pm
good stuff xD.
if mystikalsmurf was trying to fake wreck, he was not doing a bad job :P. but not too surprised about him doing that smurfing and even trying it in s11 :D.

btw, anyone knows the name of the super-villian in the smurfs? not gargamel but the one with the red eyes who is not appearing often and even gargamel is afraid of ! ( p.s. was not a fan of the series back then, but i still watch it and ofc know it ;-) )
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: rygorych on October 18, 2011, 02:13:43 pm
Hmm, either Balthazar or Nemesis. Shit's off the hook, I got like a full size smurf town on my fridge at home... around 50 smurfs + a shitton of props for them.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: Slythe on October 18, 2011, 03:08:57 pm
 :icon_wink: alright, i think nemesis it is.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: Murrock on October 25, 2011, 07:46:20 am
Quote from: FML|Renaud on October 18, 2011, 02:04:42 am
I think the reason murrock stated for smurphing in s10, was that he wanted a fresh start where he was playing for real and not trolling.

But after a while he simply could not resist his true calling ^^

Or that could simply be a theory someone told me? I forgot

xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: Cheerio on October 25, 2011, 10:23:02 pm
who was SS?
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: FML|Renaud on October 25, 2011, 10:34:10 pm
ShadowSou1, he was a ground orc player, the first to really use DR/TC/SH.
Also, he liked kittuns
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: Cheerio on October 25, 2011, 11:12:23 pm
thanks, and who was XX?
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: FML|WorpeX on October 25, 2011, 11:42:33 pm
ProtonXX. Undead player who wasn't really anything special at FFA but pretty much invented 4's Proto. Hence the name.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: FML|red7z7 on October 26, 2011, 12:01:51 am
who was phone?
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: FML|Renaud on October 26, 2011, 12:03:29 am
For FFA XX was one of the best wagonmancer, and he did invent the P4K mentality

P4K: Choose a target, kill him rinse and repeat

edit: Looks like we should make a thread of all the historical ffa player
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: Peregrine on October 26, 2011, 12:47:31 am
hey wait, XX was actually really good. His style made him really fearsome and he had near-top micro. He was unique for his UD hero combo which included Dk, Panda, DL i think, his perfectly timed fast wagonmancer rush, his P4K style, and he was godlike in fours AT too!

historical player thread would be cool, and if flameseeker and others can supply replays, it would be an amazing resource. like a wc3 ffa wikipedia. i suppose combined with ebo's player profile idea (which I initially resisted I know), we could really set something awesome up!
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: KiLLyoSeLF on October 26, 2011, 01:44:28 am
Anything said by Worpex about XX should be ignored. His personal hatred?annoyance? for XX isn't a secret. XX was a top FFA player, although the combo was DK-PL-PB.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: rygorych on October 26, 2011, 01:23:59 pm
Quote from: KiLLyoSeLF on October 26, 2011, 01:44:28 am
Anything said by Worpex about XX should be ignored. His personal hatred?annoyance? for XX isn't a secret. XX was a top FFA player, although the combo was DK-PL-PB.

I remember him playing many different combos actually.

His 2 main signatures were: P4K, and necropolises all over the map.

He also played NE back in them olden days.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: Rebuke[SkyNet] on October 26, 2011, 03:56:12 pm
xx was an idiot


get over it
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: rygorych on October 26, 2011, 04:03:52 pm
What I'm now curious about is what's Protocol AT and how XX invented it. Never played AT, so never bothered looking it up.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: FML|Renaud on October 26, 2011, 04:19:00 pm
Protocol WAS:
Play 4s like it was a FFA, if your ally is getting killed, that's his problem, focus on expanding and killing your enemies.  I think at first it was rt 4s strat, where you assumed your allies where noobs, and so you let them die and focus on building your FFA army and killing the others instead

The theory for at, was that ffa player are good at survival, and should be able to resist the teaming long enough to allow his teammate to kill the other's main.  And if the enemy tp to defend one of the 3 main being attack, well they still loses 2.  And if they all tp to there respective main, you can either run, or pwned them, since chances are they have a specialized army that required their teammate to be good


Protocol IS:
Mass tower, harrass, feed the undead to mass wyrm
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: FML|WorpeX on October 26, 2011, 05:03:24 pm
I just made shit up. I don't know anything about XX except that he hated FML and only ever played it to ruin games.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: Peregrine on October 26, 2011, 06:53:17 pm
protocol was awesome so much fun...the way we used to do it when i was with killinday or hydro's or XX's teams were

1 orc no barracks tech and harrass to BM/bats/wyv shaman tech, FFA style (usually me)
1 UD, power creep and get fed with tri hero FFA style (usually hydro)
1 human (usually) tower up all the expos while harrassing and feeding and doing different things with 3 FFA heroes
1 more UD or orc, doing the same as the other guy so that if one of them dies, we have a backup.

auto GG 90% of the time

Tower tech prevented early rush unless they go 4v1, and if they go 4v1, our other 3 players have expoed the map and harrassed their economy. At which point UD gets tri hero frost and rapes everything, human gets tanks, orc gets bats and fucks shit up. GG
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: Walking.TrL on October 27, 2011, 12:58:24 am
The best proto team I played on was UD (me), UD (Hydro), Lost (NE), and I can't remember (Orc) ... or maybe hydro played Orc and we had some other UD. Can't remember.

My opinion, NE > Human for the fourth.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: hydro on October 27, 2011, 01:11:40 am
I love gaming :D
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: Ugrilainen on October 27, 2011, 02:45:34 am
Wasnt Janken the orc in this 4s team?
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: FML|Renaud on October 27, 2011, 03:28:38 am
My memories of protos are 3s, Me(orc or elf or hu), Showstoppa(ud) and a filler
Near the end I mostly orc i think
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: SteppinRazor on October 27, 2011, 07:43:18 am
any of you guys ever wanna play some 3s/4s AT on bnet?  Me pinball and sparkle did the other day and it was really fun :D
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: DarKNeSSCaLLs on October 27, 2011, 11:08:28 am
4s AT is pretty much as dead as FFA on Azeroth, even with 0-0 ELL you'll be searching for around 5 minutes. Not sure how it is on Northrend.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: rygorych on October 27, 2011, 12:06:12 pm
5 minutes lol, I can't find games for hours on both Azeroth and North.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: DarKNeSSCaLLs on October 27, 2011, 02:47:54 pm
Quote from: rygorych on October 27, 2011, 12:06:12 pm
5 minutes lol, I can't find games for hours on both Azeroth and North.

I'm talking 0-0 ELL...
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: rygorych on October 27, 2011, 03:03:14 pm
Quote from: DarKNeSSCaLLs on October 27, 2011, 02:47:54 pm
Quote from: rygorych on October 27, 2011, 12:06:12 pm
5 minutes lol, I can't find games for hours on both Azeroth and North.

I'm talking 0-0 ELL...

I'm talking way worse than 0-0 ELL. Look at my Azeroth record.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: Cheerio on October 27, 2011, 03:08:05 pm
man, this is great, thanks for the explicit explanations:D

a walk-over-through-talk-about-thing would be cool about the historical players of ffa, but who would judge who are in there and who are not?
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: rygorych on October 27, 2011, 03:10:05 pm
As quite possibly the oldest FFA player alive I name myself the only one worthy of judge's title+gavel.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: DarKNeSSCaLLs on October 27, 2011, 05:05:29 pm
Why did I match you when i was 4-0 on my main account then? That's not even close to 0-0 ELL.

Remember, ELL raises a bit as you level as well, it's not based on record alone (although your record is a major part of it).
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: rygorych on October 27, 2011, 05:08:14 pm
The worst thing about ELL is that nobody has a clue about how it works.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: Peregrine on October 28, 2011, 04:29:06 am
lol ebo = master yoshi from dragonball z. lecherous old G who cant fight for shit =D
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: rygorych on October 28, 2011, 07:51:58 am
Quote from: Eshan on October 28, 2011, 04:29:06 am
lol ebo = master yoshi from dragonball z. lecherous old G who cant fight for shit =D

Correct, rather than resorting to violence, I prefer peaceful conflict resolution.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: FML|Renaud on October 28, 2011, 12:45:33 pm
however, in Dragonball, he was the most op character!
...up until the picolo saga, at that point goku/tien were close to him
and after that he got left in the dust :(
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: Peregrine on October 31, 2011, 01:42:42 am
exactly renaud. in the early days of FFA ebo was considered a top player too

then we all went super saiyan and he...didnt.
Title: Re: Smurfland
Post by: rygorych on October 31, 2011, 06:19:41 am
Yay!!!!  :icon_mrgreen: