Thanks for letting me in guys, I now offer my services as a sparring partner for anyone in EAC ;O

Edit: sorry about the mistake, was sposed to reply

Me me! When you would find time for bo5 elite? I could play tomorrow from 19gmt. How bout it? -Free

Quote from: Twyrfher on July 09, 2012, 09:27 AM
Mole isn't effective for darksiding. In LW we have played for almost 4 years with mole in our so called "Histeria" version, and all that moles do against darkisiding is making the worm change the position from here to there, from here to there, and again and again. You can steal some spots anyway doing that, and that adds some "flavor" to the scheme, but is not an effective way in order to avoid the darksiding, despite that is a very good weapon for tactics... opening paths to cows, nades, petrols, etc., but not more than that.

With WS the game will focus on dominate a certain area of the map, a high side, keeping your worms close each other, waiting for the SD and gg. If your worms starts at the bottom of the map, you are almost dead. WS changes a lot the sense of Hysteria. If you can't handle the rotation, you are not doing well the things on Hysteria. If 2 players play in the same way, and the obvious final situation of 1v1 with 80hp each worm is the problem (due darksiding, or keeping your worm at one border of the map waiting for winds), maybe some limited teleports would be fine AND mole there, nothing more.

Keep in mind, mole is much more usable with worm select goin' on. But I think it would help to add in some digging tool, mole, kami, drill, not sure. And once again, once SD hits, the worm selection goes away, and the game becomes as it normally is. Of course, we'd need something like 5 secs for SD, and the middle or slowest water rise setting. But yeah, limited teles seems like a viable option.

Since D1 brought up how RR was replaced in favor of TTRR, maybe it is possible to increase hysteria's skill level and also retain its popularity. I don't think I like the idea of more than 1 second turn time, it really changes the scheme into something else.

I'm thinking that having worm select (not select worm, I mean selecting at the start of each turn) is a pretty promising idea, especially since it will go back to normal once SD hits. So if SD time is reduced (maybe with slower water rise?), you could control whether you want to go forward with worm select in play or not. Adding either kamikaze or mole seems like a very good idea to me, to have something that can target worms who hide on the sides. I think I'd favor mole since it also makes it harder to select mine. I think maybe I'll test a scheme with some of these traits, theorizing alone is never good enough.

And once again mm and CKC, let's arrange a time to play the remaining 1-2 games. 20 GMT any day works for me. If it's this next weekend, we'll need stat, shy, or dibz to be able to RR.

I hardly think warming for 10 minutes, during which CKC could've warmed as well, is much of an interruption of playoffs. I hadn't wormed for 4 days, and I had a cold, it's not surprising that I would want the bare minimum of warmth. And I also thought CKC had been warming while we played the previous games. The fact that people are allowed warm during games destroys the argument that it's unfair to warm while playoffs are underway. Maybe you can make an argument that it's a waste of time to do this between rounds, but 10 minutes is not very long.

I probably could've told you at the start that we might not get to the RR, but I wasn't really thinking about it. But there's no reason to expect that all the playoff games have to be played in one sitting, we never agreed to that. The issue here is people's expectations, but really, playoffs often don't get finished in one sitting, it's not that unexpected.

I don't see the need for a better hysteria variation. The scheme's purpose is to attract players, if we make it more skillful, it'll cease to do that.

That's pretty much all that needed to be said janu. We never agreed to play today, and we never agreed to play all the games, so I don't see what the problem is, I was fine with anyone stopping at any time.

So let's find a time for the RR, I prefer 20 GMT. Any day works really, maybe next Saturday? I'd need Stat or Shy to be my partner though.

Dmitry, we need to set up an exact date and time. 19 GMT most days will work for me, if you're able to do that. Sunday at 19 GMT?

Also, 6-8 GMT works well for me if you're ever able to play in the morning.

Yeah I would mind Flori, I don't want a false representation of skill.

At the moment I don't think a discussion of removing hysteria is on the table, since we're a community that the average person would probably consider barely alive, and we need something to lure people in.

Shopper seems to have become useless, we could replace it with Big RR as Flori said, but with the way ratings currently are, that would help out us good RRers too much, making things unbalanced (and MI, please note that players who are good at a scheme aren't always going to see them as league schemes). I'm still totally for adding intermediate as bo1 or bo2, but people should read and discuss in this thread: https://www.tus-wa.com/forums/leagues-general/intermediate-and-classic-league/105/

43 in a league game is pretty brutal, tough luck ;O. Both you guys can get in the 40-41 range for sure, just a matter of putting in some hours :0. 39 secs took me well over 30 hours, not to mention my run before that took a while too.

I think the RR rule is pointless if there's not more force behind it, exact times should have precedence, that is, whole-seconders should have to do the work of specifying things before the match. And also, whole seconds shouldn't be able to override exact times, I don't WANT a false win or a false loss, just because my opponent wanted to stick with a flawed system.

I PM'd Dmitry and Worm Gamer, no responses >_>

I'll be gone for the next 2 days, but please see if you guys can find a time anywhere between 20 GMT to 8 GMT, almost any day works

I still want to be in ea, so please consider me again soon. Once again, I was under the impression that it was fine to join mostly just to play in the tournament, so I failed to offer much of a commitment. But really, I'm more than happy to put out effort to play elite more and do other ea things. And the main criteria is that you like elite, isn't it? I've never once stopped enjoying elite in 11 years of playing it.

Quote from: Worm_gamer on June 29, 2012, 08:19 AM
Today me online (17:30-18:30) Gmt +3
Dmitry ,Mablak - when can play??

My best hours are 20 GMT to 8 GMT, almost any day works. Pick a day and tell me guys :V