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Other Games / Re: League of Legends - Season 3!
« on: February 10, 2013, 02:15:42 pm »
Also Gunblade has a bigger range of 700 (vs 500 for BotRK and 400 for Cutlass). If you want an item for ranged slow I would easily say Gunblade over anything else even if your a champ with no AP scaling.

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Other Games / Re: League of Legends - Season 3!
« on: February 08, 2013, 06:35:49 am »
Also, what does it mean when your adc is autoattacking creep waves early game? Is that just a thing that happens sometimes, or something that happens when you play with people who suck, or what? Happened the last two games, all game, and now I'm really curious. Neither of them were forced into it either, though I think top and mid might have been gone.

EDIT: Also have I mentioned I love Vayne so very, very much? All you have to do is avoid damage entirely and you become a ruthless butcher at your third item, boots included.

Lane control is an interesting aspect in LoL, the normal meta for adc's is just last hit to keep minions in middle but if you are pushing a lane it can yield advantages, if your an aggressive lane then clearing enemy minions or pushing the lane back a bit can give you more control of the bot bushes which can also allow in-lane ganks from your team, it also can mean less minion damage if you do choose to engage.

Then there is pushing wave back to enemy tower, this usually results in less farm for the enemy as tower takes kills though does leave bot vulnerable to ganks but warding can stop it. If top and mid have gone then it's better to push while you can because bot will be the next target so you can delay it by pushing back the creep wave.

And Vayne is OP, doing true damage as % of enemies health is completely uncounterable, she is destroyer of tanks and then her invisible rolling around means she can kite in the middle of a teamfight. Good Vayne's are deadly as hell even if they lose lane completely in early game, late game they can still destroy anyone.

Maybe I should go Tank/AS Vayne top...

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Other Games / Re: League of Legends - Season 3!
« on: February 06, 2013, 06:17:53 pm »
From experience, the right thing to do is try and use level advantage when you can. CJ were all 6 when only Olaf was 8 and everyone else 5 for GSG, a quick strike could have turned it and they could have counter pushed.

GSG had a lot of staying power so they needed to be decisively attacked which you can do with Cho intitiate and Kha'Zix jump, and that Olaf skill was all about staying power not assasinating so they didn't have to worry as much (until Olaf got super duper fed)

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Other Games / Re: At the Gates - Rome wasn't built in a turn.
« on: February 06, 2013, 01:52:41 pm »
Kickstarter is like pre-ordering games so they can be developed, im guessing he has other backers or is self-backed. This isn't like Dragons Den where investors are looking for a financial return, especially when you consider the rewards for some of the higher tiers are pretty poor for the payment, it's practically donating money. Either way you the kickstarter contributer doesn't need to know the budget or what they are going to do with it.

This looks like Civilization meets Battle for Wesnoth

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Other Games / Re: League of Legends - Season 3!
« on: February 06, 2013, 01:44:52 pm »
It's the team that you face and go 'lol we can win easy' in champ select and then go 'WHAAAAT THAAAAA' as your first tower dies.

Sadder to say I still remember losing to an all AP mid team...

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Other Games / Re: League of Legends - Season 3!
« on: February 06, 2013, 10:40:04 am »
Brand Bot is still deadly with face rolling keyboard combo.

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Other Games / Re: League of Legends - Season 3!
« on: February 06, 2013, 07:01:31 am »
Well I'm finally ready to move on from Co-op vs AI matches now and actually solo queue normal matches.

Wait, what? You mean to say you've only played Co-op from level 1 to 30? Or am I misunderstanding?  :o

Wow, thats crazy, I think I have only played 5 Co-Op vs AI matches.

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Can someone please tell me why the download is losing the website every 8-12 minutes when I try to download it?

Working fine for me

Your ISP perhaps, your connection could be unstable. Try tracert www.ultimaratioregum.co.uk

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Other Games / Re: League of Legends - Season 3!
« on: February 04, 2013, 08:21:23 pm »
This. Nidalee, Ahri, and Kassadin especially. Evelynn's not so much 'jump in, do damage, jump out' as she is 'come out of stealth in the middle of a teamfight, kill the entire enemy team, and push to victory'. Shaco's cooldowns are too long, IMO.

Depends on the Eve but she can easily get into fight, nuke down target and then escape super quick.

Yeah Shaco was a bit iffy on that list actually but with his Shac in a box and Hallucinate he can get out of fights pretty quickly as well, and that 11 second cooldown should be longer on his Q for how good it is, 11 seconds should be rank 5.

Poppy isn't really hit and run, it's about destroying everyone while shouting "Diplomatic Immunity!" before your ult target can go "It's just been revoked!"

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Other Games / Re: The old X-Com games
« on: February 04, 2013, 07:36:58 pm »
IIRC, Alien infiltration is ALWAYS caused by a mission given to a UFO that lands in a specific country. It's more than possible to stop those by shooting them down or attacking them as they land. For the most part this is an easy way to stave off infiltration, but at some point in the game, they do start sending those missions (along with most others) in battleships, which can cause some trouble if you don't have Avengers or well trained teams ready to take them on. Still, As long as you don't lose every country, it's more than doable to live without any funding at all. A good manufacturing base and mission loot sales will net you way more money than government funding ever will.

This also requires you have good radar coverage over any areas you want to protect as well. The infiltration missions seem to path a bit closer to the way Terror missions do where they really don't stay in the air very long, so if you want to nail them, you have to detect them early and be able to reach them quickly.

Hmm just checked the ufopaedia, guess I was wrong :P

And yeah once you have laser cannons researched your pretty much set moneywise for the rest of the game, raiding bases is only for elerium and maybe heavy plasma/stun launchers/blaster launchers.

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Other Games / Re: The old X-Com games
« on: February 04, 2013, 02:38:36 pm »
I don't really play TFTD but in UFO:EU leaving bases alive will give you lots of points yes but if it's in a funding nation country then it increases chance of alien infiltration which automatically will pull out the funding country.

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Other Games / Re: League of Legends - Season 3!
« on: February 04, 2013, 12:01:35 pm »
LeBlanc is the very definition of jumping in, doing damage and jumping out, similar ones are Kassadin, Lee Sin, Akali, Ahri to some extent, Evelynn, Fiora, Fizz, Hecarim, Irelia, Jax, Katarina, Master Yi, Nidalee, Shaco, Talon, Teemo, Wukong. If you can get kills then Katarina, Kha'Zix and Tristana can jump in, get cooldown refresh on kills and jump back out.

For complete hit and run though it's Le Blanc, its crazy hard to stop her hitting and running but she is unlike Poppy at all.

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Play With Your Buddies / Re: SMAC/X MP Game: 1 player needed
« on: February 04, 2013, 11:44:38 am »
Just a bit of friendly advice. Difficulty won't matter too much should be an even experience.

Also PBEM with 7 players can take ridiculously long times. My experience is the opposite of Palazzo, pretty much anything above 2 players with PBEM can take a long time and for a game like Alpha Centauri it can take a long long time for 7 players to even get a few turns in a PBEM game.

Dedicated TCP/IP sessions would be better, if I recall correctly you can always get people to stand in or let the AI control a faction.

However it does depend on the players, if everyone can pretty much be sure they are checking for updates frequently then it can go quite smoothly.

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Other Games / Re: The old X-Com games
« on: February 04, 2013, 07:10:07 am »
XComUtil does it (and has other options as well if you so choose) and OpenXCom is free from many of the original bugs

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Other Games / Re: The old X-Com games
« on: February 04, 2013, 06:46:04 am »
Raiding alien bases to steal loot but not actually destroy the base is a time honoured XCOM tradition, though should really only be done at bases in countries who have pulled out or if the bases are not in a funding country (like Antarctica)

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