[Poll] Future Winter Tournament

[Ugrilainen]

Well true but I think if we just did it for fun people would still play.

I disagree, the 300$ was an incentive for players to show up, register in mass and be there for their next round game. It attracted big names too.

If I had the $$ I would organize another with pleasure, even a smaller one. Maybe later if donations allow.

[ReFlekKt]

Well we've done no-chat and anon FFA's, so the only ground that hasn't been covered that's also found in ladder FFA is PM. How about a PM-only FFA? It should be a lot of fun since you have to choose carefully who to PM when calling for help since you may not have time to ask everyone. Also since it's PM-only you're going to be pretty suspicious about who is PM'ing who in case (you think) you've made an ally. Might be even more interesting if it's anon as well lol. Also I think the game could end up being interesting enough to watch from the POV of each player just to see what each person was saying to everyone else during the game.

[FML|Renaud]

THAT sounds like a lot of fun, I would definitely sign up for that

[FML|WorpeX]

Yeah that sounds cool. Good idea reflekkt! Persuade, get on this!

[Jey_s_TeArS]

it s a pain clic and choose or to type the full nick of someone, it s better just to allow priv chat in that case imo


I prefer oppenent's heroes :D

[FML|Renaud]

nah, simply allowing private chat would not be as fun
Now crying gets harder,
p1>p2: "HELP IM DYING"
p1>p3: "HELP IM DYING"
p2>p3: "should we stop? p1 told me he's dying"
p3>p2: "mb its manip, did you scout p4?"
p1>p2: "OMFG IM DYING"
p1>p3: "OMFG IM DYING"

[Pinballmap]

Im not really a fan of the  only pm chat rule, sounds a bit boring especially for observers/replay viewers, you can not see the chat.

nah, simply allowing private chat would not be as fun
Now crying gets harder,
p1>p2: "HELP IM DYING"
p1>p3: "HELP IM DYING"
p2>p3: "should we stop? p1 told me he's dying"
p3>p2: "mb its manip, did you scout p4?"
p1>p2: "OMFG IM DYING"
p1>p3: "OMFG IM DYING"

The chatlog u posted here reminds me of old  Sky_fireice battle.net ladder replays, he was master of manipulating via private chat - a really annoying guy.

If we'd make it anonymous + pm chat only it will look like an old battle.net game - so im against this idea.

[FML|Renaud]

you can see all the pm in the replays if you download it from the bot!
But since it will say
Renaud[Private]: Help!!!!

you won't actually know who the guy is pming too, but I'm guessing it will be easy-ish to figure out

[normalice]

how about a RoC tournament?

if anything can level the playing field, having completely different armor types and no TFT units would about do it.

Or a 'pot war' in which everyone must be stoned off their ass - or drunk if preferred.

[FML|Renaud]

I would gladly give up on my panda and my tank's air attack to get rid of bats and purge orb

[ReFlekKt]

I only played RoC a handful of times and from what I've seen it'd feel like having to learn a new game entirely, but that could make for a fun game because of that very reason =)

I admit a PM-only game could be boring to some people but I don't think it would play like an old bnet game. The players in the experiment games up to this point have all been solid unlike in most bnet games, and adding the factor that no one else will hear your manip to a given player seems to have a high chance of producing results unlike allowing both all-chat and PM. It's true that if a player isn't used to shooting PM's regularly to different players (or at all for that matter) it'll seem like an annoyance at first, but receiving them will probably make those players slow down other parts of their game as they feel obligated to answer, and get them used to PM'ing quicker than they think. Of course it could end up having the opposite effect where no one takes the time to PM very often and it plays like a no-chat game.

[Jey_s_TeArS]

I would gladly give up on my panda and my tank's air attack to get rid of bats and purge orb

what about a "no-air" game? (damn those undead only have destroyers to dispell)

[FML|Renaud]

I would assume that orc would be very imba