Ooh, ouch. Sounds like an OCTGN random praising Dan for an excellent game in defeat.
“Hey Medioxcore, you played really well for using MaxX! If you tried a good deck, you would probably win a lot more! Get rid of that jank, Nasir is where it’s at.”
Oops, didn’t mean to stop talking about you. At least things got better for you later on. You learned something valuable at least - TFP is broken.
Any thoughts about allowing games on jinteki.net in League 5. I’ve been playing a bit on there over lunch and it’s progressed a lot. It compares pretty reasonably with OCTGN now in my opinion.
I guess there’s an argument for either j.net games to be allowed in SHL games or having 2 concurrent leagues.
I prefer it to remain all in the same place, and I personally don’t feel Jinteki.net is better than OCTGN yet. I still run into annoying game breaking bugs (last time I played with Firefox on linux, installing too many remotes would drag the window to the side so that I couldn’t see my hand anymore…).
It 2 league participants want to play a game on jinteki.net and report it on the league’s challenge board, I really don’t see any downside to that ( apart from muddy the integrity of the league name but …).
I think the main argument against is that ratings may not be particularly transferrable between the two platforms. The main argument for is that it’s easier for everyone who wants to play to play. Whatever issues Jinteki.net has, ease of access isn’t one of them.
Having an way to find other Stimhackers for jinteki.net players would be great.
On t’other hand, this would probably end up being two leagues in practice if not in principle - players who prefer OCTGN will play there, players who prefer jinteki.net will play there, and ne’er the twain shall meet. Two concurrent leagues would officially recognise this, and seems best to me.
if jinteki continues to get polished the inevitability will be a split playerbase between the two clients, reducing the total number of players available to either pool. I like the idea of having one hub for all players searching for a game and enjoy spectator others’ games via octgn in league play. I’m sympathetic to the fact that some people can’t use octgn, though. If we start allowing Jinteki, do we allow IRL games? I play against Josh01 every couple weeks or so in GNKs and wouldn’t mind counting my occasional victory
Seriously though, don’t allow IRL games. Stimhack is an online community, and it’s core contributions should remain online. At least until next year’s ANRPC details are sorted out.
If I’m sitting in the same room as someone and we have laptops and cards what’s the problem with using cards? In your GNK example I agree you shouldn’t retrofit random matches to be part of the league. But if a friend and I arrange to play a SHL4 game why would you force us to downgrade our experience?
Wheres the seperate leagues option? Im all for seperate leagues.
But you dont compare leaderboards in video games between PSN and XBL when they cant play vs each other.
Give some love to jinteki.net sure. it was a fine client. But i’ll be damned if theres gonna be someone on the leaderboard ahead of me I cant play against to strip that rank away