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Is there a solo queue way to get around AOE initiation comps? Cause I just played against Leona, Ashe, Amumu, Gangplank, and Annie.

If we initiated as a team, we got aced in seconds. If we tried to pick off anyone, someone would get hit by an Annie or Amumu Q and then we'd be facing a 4v5 while 4-5 of their initiates were still up. If we spread out, they grabbed someone with Amumu/Annie/Leona and either we tried to converge on them and got blown apart in the AOE or let that person die and lost a tower cause we definitely couldn't initiate the 4v5. If we tried to split push, they'd group up and force a baron or something that would get us together, and then we'd get the AOE treatment again.

I've been on the winning side of this strategy, and I still can't figure out how you're supposed to beat it without premade levels of coordination. It was just really sad this time, cause we had a great comeback during midgame, grabbed every dragon and one baron, and still ended up completely unable to do anything during any of the team fights or skirmishes.

Also I'm in Silver IV now. If you're below that, I'm looking down my nose at you. If you're above that, I'm tilting my head back real far so I can look up my nose at you.

I'm not an expert on this, but intuitively, if you cannot win team fights, then avoid them. Ward the hell out of the jungle, farm and wait until they do Baron or Dragon so that they're out of position, making it easy to burst down the squishies.

You forgot two vital space tropes: Sensors and shields

That aside, this game is basically "Star Trek: The game", I presume? Sounds pretty interesting. The question is, is it any good? (Sorry, I've been biscuiteering a lot lately)

One way to get a feeling of where the game is supposed to go would be to do the following:

- Say I've just picked this game up and I've went through the tutorial. What do I do next? Describe in general detail the first half hour or so.

- I've been playing for quite a while and have even saved my first planet of hats in distress. Now what do I do? Describe what keeps the game interesting.

- Describe the end game, if any. How do you intend to keep players engaged? How do you keep replays interesting?

- I'm playing the first alpha of your game. What do I do? What goals do you have for the first alpha? And what are your goals for the beta?

- Make a list of design pitfalls that could kill your game. For example, when designing a platformer, poorly responsive controls is a killer. Make a list of the top 5 things you definitely do not want to see in a game like this.

- How much lore do you want? What kind of lore do you want? Do you have a general idea of how the galaxy looks? And how important would the lore be for the game?

- What assets do you need? You mentioned FTL-like aesethics. Can you make these yourself, or do you need someone else to do them for you? What about sound and music? Do you need any special fonts, and if so, are they available for free or do you need to license them? What kind of libraries will you need in order to program things efficiently? Are there any libraries out there that could make things a lot easier?

- What about the development details? Are you going to do this alone, or not? What license do you want (open-source or not, specific clauses)? Do you want to set up a release schedule? Where are you going to store everything? Do you want a versioning system and cloud storage? If so, take a look at the plans offered by storage space providers and especially at their price as well as space, time, project size and licensing limitations. Also, make sure all your tools work before you lose something.

- Identify the fundamental actors in your game. Make a plan of what classes you'll need. Start only with those things needed for the first alpha build. List what functions they should be able to preform and describe what these functions should do, including any corner cases and possible errors.

Forget smallpox, if the Vinland settlement would've kept contact with mainland Europe, sooner or later it would've been struck with the bubonic plague...

During one of today's games we were stomping the enemy pretty hard, so I tried building a hurricane on Tristana. I've never seen a champ eat through creep waves that quickly...

Tips:
1: Can you express c in x and y?
2: What happens when x = y? And what happens when x > y or y > x?

We'll probably be building cities on floating pontoons by the end of the century.

Whelp you're right.


Edit: Screw me, of course you can't find the maximum of an array in log(n) time, since if no assumptions can be made about the array, every element needs to be checked.

I suppose that when using the old OpenGl, one could just multiply matrices to get the compound operation one wants, while Java doesn't use matrices to compute translations/rotations/scaling. That makes quite a difference in the ease of use.