Our log:

[2020-03-20 13.00.39] ••• Xrayez`Che is joining a game on DirectIP named "", hosted by Direct IP
[2020-03-20 13.00.40] ••• Successfully joined game. Players are: Saint, Xrayez`Che
[2020-03-20 13.00.41] ••• Player joined: toxa
[2020-03-20 13.00.47] [Xrayez`Che] oi
[2020-03-20 13.00.52] [Saint] budesh tus?
[2020-03-20 13.00.56] [Xrayez`Che] davai
[2020-03-20 13.00.59] ••• Player joined: alians
[2020-03-20 13.01.03] [alians] hi
[2020-03-20 13.01.06] ••• Player parted or was kicked: alians
[2020-03-20 13.01.07] ••• Player parted or was kicked: toxa
[2020-03-20 13.01.09] ••• Player joined: Ewelina
[2020-03-20 13.01.09] ••• Player joined: Liluoxxxxxxxop
[2020-03-20 13.01.10] ••• Player parted or was kicked: Ewelina
[2020-03-20 13.01.11] ••• Player parted or was kicked: Liluoxxxxxxxop
[2020-03-20 13.01.46] [Saint] sec
[2020-03-20 13.01.55] • Game will take advantage of the latest 3.7.2.1 features and bug fixes
[2020-03-20 13.01.58] ••• Starting game, recorded as file "User\Games\2020-03-20 13.01.58 [Online] Saint, @Xrayez`Che.WAgame"

First of all, I just joined your "elite" lobby with no intention to play the league. Then you asked me whether I want to play TUS with: "budesh tus?". I said yes, and that defaults to "TUS Default" league.

Even though the lobby name was named as "elite", there was nothing specific in your proposal which would clearly denote my agreement on "Elite-only" TUS. I apologize my possible inattentiveness to infer this, but things like that should always be explicit.

Moreover, the default TUS league requires both players to take a pick:

First, you need to find a partner. Then you decide which kind of league you want to play: Classic or Free. Both of you have to pick one scheme and play those two games. The higher season rating must pick first.

After you finished the games, and the games result is 1-1, you can agree on playing a third game.

EVERY GAME MUST BE REPORTED! This means DoN (Double or Nothing) games are highly forbidden!

I haven't invented anything, those are league rules. But I wonder whether they're still up-to-date... 

There was "TUS Elite" league, but it's not active right now.

So, in theory we should've played at least two Elite games, but the "pick" would be "forced" from your side anyway, defeating the purpose of existing league system.

Am I right or am I right? 

Feel free to delete this game MI/moderators, if you're still here. I got emotional here. The league is dying anyway so I don't see the point.

Just play funners.

Peace.

See Saint's pick: https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/game-225379/

According to league rules:

If a player plays his pick but then disappears at your pick, you CAN report free win. But even that free win must be played when that player comes back.

Saint can find me at Gamesurge #worms IRC channel if he wishes to play my pick, I don't usually play often and expected to play my favorite Hysteria.

I went through the recent league games with Saint, and noticed that all have "Winner's pick" and "Elite/Intermediate" schemes being played, with no corresponding opponent's pick played/reported:

https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/game-225105/
https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/game-225088/
https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/game-225132/
https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/game-225127/
https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/game-225126/
https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/game-225125/
https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/game-225163/
https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/game-225238/
https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/game-225334/
https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/game-225357/
https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/game-225354/

Saint should explicitly say that the games being played are like "3rd game" (both pick) instead.

So that's my rationale behind reporting a free win, sorry.

Quote from: TheKomodo on March 01, 2020, 04:01 PM

Well, WA will technically never die, as in there will always be a server somewhere, however, for me WA is dead when Clanners and interesting Cups/other competitive means are dead/rarely ever happen, and that was a while ago 

Yeah, leagues are disabled for several days now and noone even has noticed lol

Hmm explains why I couldn't report games recently with Vok. Is there a reason why it was disabled or is it a glitch?

See info at IRC clients for wormnet topic, also important quote:

But to connect with IRC you must have a password, and that has been kept as a secret for a long time (for various reasons) and I wouldn't like to post it to such popular place as TUS.

Who has the password? 

If you wonder whether TUS is still active and whether it's worth to play league games, I'd say you may find some opponents to play with as the league is not completely dead, but you'll likely need to snoop for games.

If you're worried that TUS/Worms are going to take away your time a lot and you feel like you can't control playing it moderately, I'd say give it a try anyway, and see how this affects your daily life.

If you want to support and promote people to play games like Worms W:A rather than other games, I'd say you better come back soon! 

1st, I hope to win because nobody is going to play this.

Reporting some progress regarding improved visuals, added some fancy water parallax, took me some time to rework spider movement, as well as webbing aka roping. 

Nevermind the lack of legs, I'll redo this a bit differently I think, the previous way was too complex and wasn't reliable at the end of the day. 

Hopefully I could start programming the actual gameplay, can't wait for this. 

And feel free to join my Discord server where you'll be able to stay in touch with more frequent updates like this and likely receive some important news. 

Actually, limited resources is one of the things that make games fun, but there has to be a balance. We know how when we start to use cheats in games, they become boring fast because of unlimited resources despite initial burst of excitement.

So removing something like parachute could be indeed beneficial to gameplay because it forces you to utilize your "limited mental resources" ( ) in order to succeed, but it's not exact science. People who got used to parachute are biased and there's no way to eliminate that to say for sure.