BodyHammer
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« on: October 04, 2008, 02:16:32 PM » |
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I've sat through a ton of IDG games and I've only seen someone actually win twice, once Red, and once Nexus. The rest of the time I watch even the IDG members die as titan over and over again, and with good reason. I've sat through a lot of actual try outs and watched as the titans fail abysmally over and over again.
Builder try outs are simple. Especially when taken place in an IDG game where there are typically several IDG members and a lot of potential IDG's (People who are of comparable builder skill but cannot pass titan) a builder is almost assured victory in most cases.
So my questions are:
Has anyone actually successfully tried out for and passed titan any time recently?
Isn't the way acceptance is based for membership a little... unfair? It seems the only way to win is by sheer luck in most cases, hoping that the good players will screw up significantly or getting lucky and managing a PUG where there are very few decent players. And if that IS the case, why are new players held to a standard that most IDG players cannot uphold themselves?
I mean I understand the idea behind it, but the reasoning doesn't seem to hold up well in practice from the games I've sat through. To pass as both titan and builder, is basically saying "In order to get accepted you must be better than the IDG members at both builder and titan" which is implausible.
This isn't a flame post before anyone tries to jump in with that, I haven't even bothered trying out lately simply because I host most of the time and already play with most of the IDG members, so it's not even for my benefit, I don't plan on being in. I'm honestly just geniunely curious at how it is being done.
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Aflacduck
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« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2008, 02:23:40 PM » |
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Well, from what I observed, the only way to get into IDG is to kill everyone. Which as you said, means that you can't get in unless you are better than everyone in the game, someone really screws up and feeds you, or you are lucky.
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« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2008, 02:43:26 PM » |
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Well, from what I observed, the only way to get into IDG is to kill everyone. Which as you said, means that you can't get in unless you are better than everyone in the game, someone really screws up and feeds you, or you are lucky.
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Zen1400
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« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2008, 02:56:36 PM » |
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Titaning against kyleep=lose. Thats that.
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« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2008, 03:52:42 PM » |
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You don't have to kill everyone, you have to prove you are good. Normally getting a few people is good. Last tryout..I got 2.2k life as mag with no ava on. That guy on the other hand...failed.
But you are always allowed to try again.
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Monkeysmine
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« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2008, 04:22:19 PM » |
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You don't ALWAYS get to tryout again.
If you are completely abysmal or flame channel, then you will probably earn a very long no-tryout period.
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Ban-Kai13
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« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2008, 05:42:23 PM » |
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In both my tryouts, I killed eveyrone in the game. (Old IDG and new)
First game: theislandmaster was in it, so I got lucky.
Second game: It was hard, with lee and murs both in it, but I killed everyone. But of course, that wasjust completely luck that I won.
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« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2008, 05:51:59 PM » |
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Like red said, you don't have to kill everyone. Just show that you are pretty good and can improve.
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ChronoSphere
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« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2008, 06:06:04 PM » |
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satyr isn't allowed in IDG inhouses, if you didn't know. Titaning against kyleep=lose. Thats that.
and also, kyleep isn't invincible. i've killed him many times. |
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Zen1400
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« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2008, 06:06:38 PM » |
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Yeah, but hes a bitch with those workers at mound.
Also chrono it was obviously a spoofer, lee never dies.
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« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2008, 06:28:39 PM » |
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it was a lot easier to do before the patch, meaning winning with titan.
if you were a good titan (subjective), ward passing, pearl passing and abysmal passing was more than enough to win. bear in mind that in houses are and were dxp'd
titan now is definitely harder without the item passing
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« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2008, 07:49:35 PM » |
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I don't think it's too terribly hard if you get a "easy" level titan, even if you have to pick him, instead of randoming.
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« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2008, 10:19:52 PM » |
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I don't think it's too terribly hard if you get a "easy" level titan, even if you have to pick him, instead of randoming.
I hope you know were talking about IH, not pubs. |
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« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2008, 11:17:49 PM » |
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I don't think it's too terribly hard if you get a "easy" level titan, even if you have to pick him, instead of randoming.
I hope you know were talking about IH, not pubs. Ya, when I tried out, I got granticles. I did pretty bad, but I think I could've done better with luci, slyph or molt. |
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« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2008, 05:29:20 AM » |
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and also, kyleep isn't invincible.
i've killed him many times.
I have never seen you kill him before. If you did, you just went up a notch in my book. |
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tulee
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« Reply #15 on: October 05, 2008, 06:56:58 AM » |
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IDG lost to tulee !!!
After 46 games I WON 1 GAME.
After decimating everyone but aflakduck, kyleep and murs i scared duck into summoning demons in their base then bounced nuke off them be4 he kud get them away. AFter kyleep died and aflak, murs ( the mag) sucided cause he was only 1 left.
MU HAHAHAHAHAHA
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AoW_Hun7312
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« Reply #16 on: October 05, 2008, 09:13:04 AM » |
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IDG lost to tulee !!!
After 46 games I WON 1 GAME.
After decimating everyone but aflakduck, kyleep and murs i scared duck into summoning demons in their base then bounced nuke off them be4 he kud get them away. AFter kyleep died and aflak, murs ( the mag) sucided cause he was only 1 left.
MU HAHAHAHAHAHA
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« Reply #17 on: October 05, 2008, 10:13:19 AM » |
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IDG lost to tulee !!!
After 46 games I WON 1 GAME.
After decimating everyone but aflakduck, kyleep and murs i scared duck into summoning demons in their base then bounced nuke off them be4 he kud get them away. AFter kyleep died and aflak, murs ( the mag) sucided because he was only 1 left.
MU HAHAHAHAHAHA
Thats untrue. I never play demon. He is my worst race and I can't stand playing him. You're C isn't broken. LIAR! |
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adam7979
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« Reply #18 on: October 05, 2008, 11:31:07 AM » |
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IDG lost to tulee !!!
After 46 games I WON 1 GAME.
After decimating everyone but aflakduck, kyleep and murs i scared duck into summoning demons in their base then bounced nuke off them be4 he kud get them away. AFter kyleep died and aflak, murs ( the mag) sucided cause he was only 1 left.
MU HAHAHAHAHAHA
MU HAHAHAHAHAHA THIS POST IS LOKED FOR 1 DAY. NO MODIFIKATION OF POST IS ALLOWED DURING THIS PERIOD. FAILED TULEE!!aight, i was high ... |
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tulee
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« Reply #19 on: October 06, 2008, 07:11:22 AM » |
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yes cause on forums i sumtimes use my sisters mac witch DOES have a proper keyboard, i use windows for warcraft IDG lost to tulee !!!
After 46 games I WON 1 GAME.
After decimating everyone but aflakduck, kyleep and murs i scared duck into summoning demons in their base then bounced nuke off them be4 he kud get them away. AFter kyleep died and aflak, murs ( the mag) sucided because he was only 1 left.
MU HAHAHAHAHAHA
Thats untrue. I never play demon. He is my worst race and I can't stand playing him. You're C isn't broken. LIAR! |
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I.D.A.K-Mayhem.
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« Reply #20 on: October 06, 2008, 10:19:39 AM » |
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Can i try out on an ALT account? im not great but im willing to give it a shot haha.
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« Reply #21 on: October 06, 2008, 01:59:06 PM » |
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If your not a good titan don't bother trying out. It will save everybodies time.
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Monkeysmine
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« Reply #22 on: October 06, 2008, 03:10:25 PM » |
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Nor may you join on an alt, should you miraculously pass the test.
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« Reply #23 on: October 06, 2008, 07:28:40 PM » |
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Nor may you join on an alt, should you miraculously pass the test.
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« Reply #24 on: October 07, 2008, 04:18:50 PM » |
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I just beat titan 2 nights ago. I didn't have to win. I lost after Kyleep tried his uber pro suiciding strategy with my titan and minions. But killing a certain noob mag (Nexus) sure helped me early on.
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