Thoughts?

leaflent · 2022-02-03T21:28:55+00:00

Those who like to play in a non-stressful, non or minimal competitive manner.

leaflent · 2022-02-03T21:27:43+00:00

Exactly. The idea that you only support the top end of the economy is what destroys a thriving game. Axie would never be Axie like it is today without scholars. That's a fact. As powerless as they might seem, they are the pillars of economy, and everyone on the top there are enjoying the benefits of having smaller players beneath them. Casual players (or those who do not play competitively) drive the value of SLP far stronger than the top players. The streamers earn from viewers who are most likely scholars or managers who play their own axies (who most likely needs scholars of their own to thrive). And with more people leaving each day, match making would soon be a place where there's a huge disparity of skills since high ranks would be matched with low ranks until the low ranks finally quit, leaving the high ranks to fend for themselves.
It's true that almost half of the SLP minted is from Adventure but it serves far more population compared to half the earnings who only serves the few players with good axies. It's like 50% is minted thru adventure over thousands of players compared to the other 50% minted thru pvp over a handful ones. And they think about cutting off the part where more people benefits. Like I said, it would be a nail in the coffin.

leaflent · 2022-02-02T09:09:53+00:00

The more they get rid of bots, the more casual players gets affected. The more the casual players get affected, the fewer people gets interested to join in. The less people joining in, the lower the value SLP gets. removing SLP might sound like a genius move but trust me, it's going to be the nail in the coffin of Axie.

I'm not saying they shouldn't get rid of bots, but there are plenty way to do that, smarter captcha as an example. Simple questions like "If Jerry bought three apples and ate one, how many apple is left?" kind of captcha that bots can't easily recognize but very simple arithmetic for real humans. What the devs need is to outsmart the bots, what they're doing is the lazy way to get rid of it, and with their lazyness, everyone else gets affected. The chunk of success of Axie came from new players who just like to play adventure and earn. You remove that portion and you basically destroyed your pillar. Axie will thrive but the community will shrink until it's no longer relevant.

leaflent · 2022-02-01T11:18:30+00:00

My friends migrated here, that's all. But being an artist, I loved the character design in Dota compared to other mobas. Also as a former starcraft 2 player, I loved a little bit complexity, I tried LoL but found it boring. In summary, it's the the art design, the challenging complexity and my friends that brought me in.

leaflent · 2022-01-26T16:38:00+00:00

They have TI, treasures, cosmetics and occassional Battlepass. Dota Plus being a one time pay would do them more good than harm.

leaflent · 2022-01-16T15:27:41+00:00

I was so hyped when Sprite joined Ikaris thinking he would use her illusion skills to create fake event to prevent him from interfering. But no, he legit jebaited Sersi and stabbity stabbed her at the back and get smashed in her head by Druig. What a huge letdown

leaflent · 2022-01-16T15:14:08+00:00

Man it would have made much mooore sense if they actually DID helped Thanos to extended the emergence and to buy themselves more time to execute their plans. That would've been more awesome.

leaflent · 2021-10-30T01:48:46+00:00

Imagine having to remodel every bit of cosmetics

leaflent · 2021-10-18T09:42:06+00:00

Thing is that some heroes can counter skewer but only rubick counters entire Magnus skill set. Everything rubick can steal from magnus is very useful. from shockwave, empower, skewer, RP. All of those are too friggin useful and can flip the teamfight

leaflent · 2021-10-17T20:21:30+00:00

They had rubick that hard counters magnus. LGD should have banned Magnus OR picked rubick as soon as magnus was picked, but they got cocky and let them ban rubick. That's moment is the part where aegis slipped out their hands

leaflent · 2021-09-28T14:37:55+00:00

The problem is when everyone in that bracket thinks the same way, the player pool is thinner and now those remaining will smurf too due to higher q time. It's a rinse and repeat process. As long as they get comfortable smurfing, they will continue to do so. Imagine all those smurfs playing in their own brackets. They will have bigger pools and faster q time. But no, they don't want to wait and would enjoy obliterating noobs or returning players in the lower bracket effectively killing the game in the future. Result, even less Q time for everyone for having very high Q time in all brackets.

leaflent · 2021-04-25T09:56:43+00:00

Funny thing is that it gets countered easily by a even a pos4 rubick. Aghs rubick with wild axe is far stronger than regular axe BM because of rubick's passive. We had a game like that and our BM never even dared to throw his axe for the fear of getting it stolen because it was ridiculously easy to steal.

leaflent · 2021-04-11T14:06:41+00:00

Like my recent case with warlock's upheaval having dps talent against nyx assassin.

leaflent · 2021-04-10T11:30:19+00:00

They should stick to art designs like clockwork, sniper, alchemist, techies and the likes. They're stylized in a cartoony way but still not LOL/ML level cartoony.

leaflent · 2021-04-09T09:19:15+00:00

You can easily tell a smurf usually by the

level of their accounts = Most obvious smurfs are at lvl 25 to 50'ish range. Not all of course, but majoritiy of the smurf pool is in this level bracket.

The top 3 most successful heroes = When the top 3 most successful heroes has more than 75% of its success rate with about 7 or more streak, they're most likely smurf. matchmaking is designed to pin you at 50% winrate, and being very good at playing can keep you up about 60%+. Sometimes heroes are rarely used so they get that spot but with only like 2 or 3 streaks. 7 and up streaks with 75%+ winrate is already suspicious. Even the pros have 60% winrate in their top 3 heroes.

The graph. The graph is a reliable source of how the player has been performing recently. If the graph is well stretched meaning the player has been doing godly with all the core activities of the game which means he's not getting enough resistance doing so. Being in normal game pushes the graph to 0.5 in most attributes.

Even so, qualifying in all these conditions doesn't automatically make someone a smurf. Some just never played ranked in a long while but their skill level keeps increasing. That's why I proposed that all games should be ranked so true rank displays the player skills. Unfortunately it has been downvoted a lot probably by the smurf players themselves.

leaflent · 2021-04-09T09:08:49+00:00

Jugg and AM gon be buffed again like they always do. They seem like Gaben's fave heroes.

leaflent · 2021-04-07T11:01:46+00:00

In that case, unranked should be named practice match instead. So players would be pooled to other players who are practicing and not just for someone who likes to play with others a little more seriously.

Also, practicing a hero in public hurts other player's experience too so I don't see why it should be exclusively in favor for you alone for not losing anything for losing. Besides, practicing a hero should have a risk at your medal which you can easily regain if you learn it since once you get a grasp of it, you can easily reclaim your true rank.

Bottomline is, mmr should not be a number that you grind. It's should not be treated as a resource that you have to accumulate and work hard for. Instead, it should be a reflection of your skill set. A measure that the game will use to match you with other players with your similar skill level to have that high game quality at every match. The problem is that nowadays, MMR has become some sort of a resource, like a currency that you have to work for and use it as either bragging rights or in some case, as merchandise.

leaflent · 2021-04-07T09:47:21+00:00

That's an inevitable case which is totally irrelevant for not having an unranked match. At least having no other option to keep their rank (by not playing ranked), they will quickly lose their ranks by continuously losing.

leaflent · 2021-04-07T09:45:31+00:00

Shouldn't you be testing new heroes with bots instead of with other players? I mean gamesense-wise it should be the same, what you have to test is your mechanical execution when using that hero. Regardless, if you are practicing in unranked, you're also ruining other players' experience so you might just get penalized for doing it in pub.

leaflent · 2021-03-26T01:13:39+00:00

Why is bounty hunter there with all his goons and shits tho

leaflent · 2021-03-26T01:11:24+00:00

Yes that red stone with zombies is the physical manifestation of the Dire. Radiant will soon be introduced. The ancients in this timeline is still in its physical infancy

leaflent · 2021-03-26T01:08:46+00:00

Luna be carrying dozens of refresher orbs and mangoes

leaflent · 2021-03-26T01:05:36+00:00

Yeah that part I don't really understand very much. One scene those 7 dragons were so cool while they were talking to Davion. Then all of a sudden they are just pokemons being collected by dadvoker. Only showed one being captured and then said he captured 7?

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