[Chicken23CKC] i realised my personality doesn't do funners lol
[Syc] David I'm playing around with worms-style terrain generation, finding it very difficult to get right!
[Chicken23CKC] like its not just worms,
[Chicken23CKC] everything i spend my time on, i'm trying to build and grow.
[Syc] I'm using 2d perlin noise in combination with some dilation/erosion and flood filling
[Deadcode] hahaha
[Syc] woah
[Chicken23CKC] so games being logged in a league, its a great thing for me
[Chicken23CKC] wow
[Syc] yeah that's true it's definitely nice to work towards something when gaming
[Chicken23CKC] even apex has that
[Chicken23CKC] with kill counts etc
[Syc] well and ranks!
[Deadcode] d'oh
[Chicken23CKC] it's been awhile
[Chicken23CKC] if WA had in game ranks it would be problem solved :(
[Chicken23CKC] then community would easily get back into ranked play and make clans themselves cus that mind set installed
[Deadcode] uh oh
[Deadcode] phew nt
[Syc] yea but w:a isn't really designed to be a ranked competitive game.. even though it had it in the past I feel like there are too many variables.. it's too difficult to do it across the board
[Syc] that's why leagues worked so well with w:a in the past
[Chicken23CKC] it has become such a sandbox because of rubberworm
[Syc] because there are so many subcommunities
[Chicken23CKC] and other schemes
[Chicken23CKC] and in those days was only really 6-7 schemes and people enjoyed them as funners
[Chicken23CKC] but i think if the league allowed more schemes
[Chicken23CKC] like TUS you can pick inter and ariel
[Chicken23CKC] its just the horrible design and user experience
[Chicken23CKC] and trolls on forums
[Deadcode] vbl
[Chicken23CKC] sigh,
[Chicken23CKC] i knew i had bungee on but my fingers were already jumping.
[Syc] i agree.. but i would say even more than one scheme is pushing it.. that's why competitive games these days generally have a single game type for ranked play and then all other styles are just for fun
[Deadcode] really? that's sounds awful
[Deadcode] guess I'm spoiled on WA :)
[Chicken23CKC] well ONL is really the only competive league
[Chicken23CKC] for inter
[Deadcode] oh, you were talking about WA
[Deadcode] dang
[Deadcode] spent too much time thinking
[Chicken23CKC] damm
[Deadcode] phew
[Deadcode] you should've angled it :)
[Chicken23CKC] i thought it did! lol
[Syc] having variation is good but too much makes it impossible to simply convey skill/ranks
[Chicken23CKC] i agree
[Syc] you need a rank for every scheme since they're so different
[Chicken23CKC] WA has evolved into so many ranks
[Chicken23CKC] but in a way
[Chicken23CKC] TUS is that
[Syc] yeah and it's terrible!
[Chicken23CKC] yea
[Deadcode] I wish TUS kept a per-scheme rank in addition to its all-around. Then we could play T17s on it
[Chicken23CKC] because of the design and lack of session lengths
[Chicken23CKC] they do Deadcode
[Chicken23CKC] we could report this for TUS now
[Chicken23CKC] and just care about climbing the t17 ladder
[Chicken23CKC] at least it would bring some activity to the league
[Syc] lol yeah.. but good luck navigating the UI :/
[Chicken23CKC] exactly.
[Syc] also it's somehow slower than WL was
[Syc] after a decade of existing.. granted it does WAY more
[Syc] too much
[Syc] there's some super interesting features like the scheme and map editors
[Deadcode] wait TUS does have that???
[Deadcode] I didn't know
[Deadcode] sure, we can report this
[Chicken23CKC] yes DC
[Chicken23CKC] but its so many clicks away
[Chicken23CKC] so its not like WL
[Chicken23CKC] where we had motivation to want to play
[Chicken23CKC] as we've got to click about 6 or 7 things to get there
[Syc] maybe see if you can get DB or API access to it and write your own frontend :P
[Syc] nice
[Deadcode] ty
[Chicken23CKC] when TUS was active
[Chicken23CKC] sometimes i just played as wanted to be 1st in elite or bng.
[Chicken23CKC] i didn't care much foir the allround standings i guess.
[Chicken23CKC] mainly cus i sucked at rr lol
[Syc] my other concern is how toxic some of the tus community is.. they're a bit too lax on moderation
[Chicken23CKC] yea
[Deadcode] nice block
[Chicken23CKC] any modern day community probably should be on discord
[Syc] girder city!
[Syc] :D
[Syc] is this 7 girders?
[Chicken23CKC] yes
[Deadcode] yep
[Chicken23CKC] i do miss the sd tactics of cave t17
[Chicken23CKC] did you see the longest t17 in all those games korydex shared was a ckc match?
[Chicken23CKC] with loads of griders? :D
[Chicken23CKC] i was so proud
[Deadcode] hehe
[Syc] i look at w:a the same way as I look at warcraft 3 -- amazing engine and endless possibilities with it, and a lot of the custom games people built went on to become very competitive standalone games like dota, autochess, tower defenses, etc.
[Chicken23CKC] what happened to warcrarft 3?
[Syc] i just want to see those standalone games :P
[Chicken23CKC] i can't remember if menoryleak of dangling pointer is next
[Syc] blizzard actually just released a revamp of WC3
[Chicken23CKC] d'oh!
[Deadcode] what are bows?
[Syc] but I'm sure it's a relatively small player base compared to games like dota/LoL
[Deadcode] 15 + 15 still?
[Chicken23CKC] or 30?
[Chicken23CKC] not 50
[Chicken23CKC] 15 i think
[Syc] have either of you played worms rumble?
[Chicken23CKC] nope
[Syc] i might try it.. i'm curious
[Syc] i know it's not worms, but curious to see what it's like
[Syc] the edge of glory
[Syc] dangling pointer is dangling
[Deadcode] :D
[Syc] make a worm bridge
[Chicken23CKC] lol
[Chicken23CKC] aqau
[Chicken23CKC] where is naplam
[Deadcode] yep ;)
[Deadcode] maybe there
[Deadcode] is it napalm?
[Syc] i got a pretty lucky last second donkey in our game heh
[Deadcode] mmm
[Deadcode] lmao
[Deadcode] you got the donk
[Deadcode] oh
[Deadcode] rofl
[Deadcode] LMAO
[Chicken23CKC] OMG
[Deadcode] CLASSIC
[Syc] LOL~!
[Chicken23CKC] haha
[Deadcode] that's one for the books
[Chicken23CKC] lmao
[Chicken23CKC] how is that posslble!?
[Chicken23CKC] wow
[Chicken23CKC] why is it just me?
[Syc] epic shot
[Syc] gg
[Chicken23CKC] when it dodged the first hole i was ok with it
[Chicken23CKC] but the second lol
[Chicken23CKC] gg
[Deadcode] hehe gg