I would not have joined FML if I would not have seen the bot message of that FML Season 23 applications were open.
Announcing season applications is very different from what is displayed now, which is basically empty spam. In the past it was even more stupid when the season applications announcement spam was kept indefinitely and showed still despite the entire season being already over. that meant you had spam with false information popping up multiple times every single game. apparently, the current "solution" to this issue is to still display spam but phrase it in a way that is basically void of information.
In any case, I think in-game is not the correct place for season announcements.
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From Reddit you mostly only get some players who never played FFA and who would sign up for on a whim and then probably even forget that they have signed up.
...yeah right like starshaped, rain and yaws. surely, bot noobs are highly reliable persons in comparison to these scrubs.
i think there are better ways to recruit new players than constant harassment with spam messages. mage used to make announcements on other platforms like reddit and w3arena when season applications started. simple and effective. add official blizzard forums to that and you can reach out to a considerable audience.
also how many players do you think you gonna get this way? it's mostly bot noobs and ppl who already know about fml. you contradict yourself by saying the messages are not annoying yet they are impactful when it comes to recruiting new players. when ppl are asked how they found fml in season applications thread nobody ever mentions following a spam message read during bot game. it's almost like their attention is somewhere else while playing a game...
We already live in societies where we are harassed with advertisements 24/7. Why have these constant spam messages during bot games? It's annoying and coercive since they keep popping up throughout the games. Playing WC3 is a fun spare time activity and shouldn't get interfered with by harassing the players with unrequested "advice".
@Eshan thx for reply it's true these don't affect buildings but they are primarily about their effect (stun, slow) and the damage is only of secondary importance. carrion swarm is then the only purely damaging aoe spell that affects mechanical but not buildings. i dont like tbh. would've preferred if undead also got some more utility for destroying buildings.
also i just noticed that the warden change is very bad (and should be revoked). lvl 3 blink will reduce the cooldown by 3 seconds. that's not worth a skill point. it was better how it was before.
ok thx for clarification then. i'm not aware of any other damaging ability with that configuration (hitting mechanical units but not buildings). cluster rockets, breath of fire, starfall, shockwave, blizzard and flame strike all hit both.
i agree with the suggestion to put slow on soulburn
i thought everything that damages mechanical units will also damage buildings. however this carrion swarm doesn't damage the towers. or is it just 24 players without the balance changes yet?
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