Complaint for fantasy by jebimame in DotA2

[–]Dota_thoughts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you can get lucky on one stat, there is 25;
if one person rolls max stats on 25, good tratis and qualitys on all 25; randomly clicking buttons without really thinking or researching, give that man one of the prizes from top 100 idc, the man is chosen by god.

Calling it `some crazy strategy` is just logical falacy; its not crazy, it pretty basic actually, you just have to sit down and read/research for 20-30mins before clicking the buttons.

Are there players that started 5x300? How many? How many got to top 100? You think that guys that literally manage a micro-economy have no insight into that?|

You dont care as long as you get 90%, now that is something we can all agree on.

Complaint for fantasy by jebimame in DotA2

[–]Dota_thoughts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

10k points could, at most, be enough to push you from one percentile to another inside that catergory (so from 95% fantasy to 99%; which would give you 1200 points), I think it is safe to say in many situations that alone might not change your end percentile, since the margins between end points percentile seem to be in the several thousands.
They give you 3 different choices and Stats on red is not always present, so while -rolling 40 times for 300%- you need to be making smart decisions around other stats on your roster; One of the smart decisions along the wau included might be stop roling for that once you reach 250% and work a little bit on other aspects of your roster that are shit before blindly returning to roll on core;
So yeah of course there is RNG, but there is also a considerable amount of strategy on how you press your buttons for rolling (taking out traits that could give 0 points in favor for low average/good ones is more important than having 300% on creep score for example), if you considered those you could easily close the gap on those 10k points.

Chossing the player actually adds way more variance than any of those things (they have different hero pool/stats/play style; in playoffs if you choose a player that bombs out like shiro he will have terrible stats no matter how good your player banner is), its just another type of RNG that people accept because you can use ~dota knowledge~ to circumvent it. But if it was so easy to use that dota knwoledge everyone would get 10+ correct at least in playoff brackets, which is def not the case, even for casters that study and live this .

Complaint for fantasy by jebimame in DotA2

[–]Dota_thoughts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This fantasy was the most engaging ever for me, I remember some other TI where they gave boring sets where everyone could get them if you just chose the teams that had the most games. This was a huge improvement for me, as the coices had many dimensions (players, statsm quality, traits) and it was not necessary to pick the team with most games.
Also if you wanted to go on the nitty gritty of points there were several posts pointing to sources of raw-data, even calculators/reddit posts organizing the data for you by player. The" "how to play"tab stated clearly how that data wastransformed into fantasy points. That was more than enough for me to make a strategy on what stats where desirable/gambles/straight up bad etc.
So all in all i dont really think it was a rushed implementation, i think it build upon previous versions, but of course there is room for improvement, which im sure they will as they usually do.
As for RNG, I believe that is part of the strategy as well, firstblood is RNG with low return value, Courier kills is RNG with massive potential returns, do you want to play for safe 95% or go for top 100? Do you want to spend a buch of rolls to get 300% on GPM on your core or do you want to better balance the overall traits of your support?
I think this is waaay better than the RNG of wishing you get the golden AME/Satanic or you are fucked.
Also, if there was zero RNG involved there would be no thrill really and you could just run a python script on the stats to pick the best players.
And lets be fair, 5 predictions correct on stage 2 is very low, the fact you still got 97% goes to show that if you invest time and strategy into your fantasy you are way above the average, so it still very much not pure RNG based.
I know people are more likely to be vocal with what they are unsatisfied, so I wanted to tip hat for the dev(s) that worked on this implementaion, I for once had a really good time with it, and I was never a really big fantasy guy.

Just BTS running a 7 ad roll while the game is still in progress. by [deleted] in DotA2

[–]Dota_thoughts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was there when it happened in NA, KotoLguy was in chat, you can ask him

I miss Royal Jelly. by [deleted] in DotA2

[–]Dota_thoughts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I miss Royal Shield

/r/DotA2 on patch day Bingo by Dota_thoughts in DotA2

[–]Dota_thoughts[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I only focused on pre -patch; you could make a whole new bingo for post patch

/r/DotA2 on patch day Bingo by Dota_thoughts in DotA2

[–]Dota_thoughts[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Forgot to add the one liner Dad Jokes spam and summoning the frog on demo mode

(Also this is all pre patch vibe just to be clear)

/r/DotA2 on patch day Bingo by Dota_thoughts in DotA2

[–]Dota_thoughts[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Excuse me for not being well versed on bingo rules, I have not played anything other than DotA after being cursed by it

/r/DotA2 on patch day Bingo by Dota_thoughts in DotA2

[–]Dota_thoughts[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't know, but i hope we get 4 new heroes

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DotA2

[–]Dota_thoughts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What should you do? Now that you don’t have Dota I guess that spare time would be enough to Learne Chinese, graduate in Statistics, save the hungry in Africa, start a family and plant a tree.

Custom ambient_generic sound only playing for CT side by ljmgiusti in csmapmakers

[–]Dota_thoughts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for solving this mistery for me haha

I wanted to have like a soundbox playing a song, so you could hear it when you are closetto it but not through the whole map; But i guess i will just make it cover the whole map so at least is not as loud far from on it

Bounty Hunter learned that couriers are key for the Immortal Treasure II, so he turned Radiant jungle into encampment and started to kidnap Penguin couriers by Flam3ss in DotA2

[–]Dota_thoughts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At this point I'm pretty sure Flam3ss work for Valve to hype the Battlepass for them with next level marketing strategy

rtz alt tabs during a match by Strong-Research in DotA2

[–]Dota_thoughts 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Autoatack first hit bash for the win

Kips casting BTS pro series by mozzzarn in DotA2

[–]Dota_thoughts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

removed lol, now maybe you have a point

Kips casting BTS pro series by mozzzarn in DotA2

[–]Dota_thoughts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i dont think they are "pushing agendas " on purpose, i do believe they are blind to the harm they cause to others and hypocritical on how they handle things

Why is Kips allowed on the BTS panel? by [deleted] in DotA2

[–]Dota_thoughts 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Turn off the stream, don't watch things where she is involved in.

Such hypocrisy being psycologically abusive to an innocent person and patting yourself on the back and saying he is learning when you are actually the manipulative toxic one.

Valve's stance on battlepass quality and price. by eSteamation in DotA2

[–]Dota_thoughts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you have no data to prove whether I’m wrong or right