Kaliber84

I'm not on for a few days, wake up today with a slight hangover and am soooo surprised that there is a stream. Great to see. Sadly I haven't finished my score in time for the contest but as I would have taken part as a non-competitor I'll just show it to you guys at a later time when it's polished.

Great to hear about the cracked clients. But I honestly wouldn't want to play when PvP is enabled (already voted). IMO forcing people to accept PvP is just way worse than forcing people to not PvP. Is it possible to do a big non-PvP zone around the spawn if PvP gets enabled? That way one is at least able to relax while being in town.

@Eirias True. In school I didn't even really care what the things were used for or why they were necessary. Only at uni did I really learn the logical foundation of the things. I think we had 2-4 weeks to do everything from high school again before we went on to the more advanced stuff in my first semester.

@Eirias Yeah. I wanted to do a general scenario not an explicit one. Sure you can do what you said. But if you only give examples then the general meaning of an integral is lost don't you think? I'd use examples to explain what an integral is generally used for. For example there is a function f(x,t) that describes the brightness at any place in a village at any time of day. The mayor wants to build a few solar panels and looks for the best place for them. The best place would be where the sun shines the most intense over a day. By integrating the function over time we get a new function F(x,t) that shows the amount of light that has been accumulated at any place in the village for a time t. We could look to find a maximum here. If the mayor wanted to build solar panels everywhere then we could integrate F(x,t) over the way to see how much light is accumulated in the whole village for a time t. If we had started by integrating f(x,t) over the way we would have gotten a function describing how fast light is being accumulated in the whole village. I think the easiest thing to logically connect integrations with their original functions is by knowing that a derivative of a function describes the gradient of the function. So a normal function describes the gradient of the integral of the function. Hope it was easy to understand.

The goal of an integral is to provide you the area enclosed by a function. y(x) for example. You can approximate that area by adding the values of y(x) for x=m,m+1,...,n-1,n with the integral starting at x=1 and ending at x=n. In mathematical terms that means you draw rectangles with the width 1 and the height y(x) for every x. By adding them together you get the approximate area beneath the function y(x). To get the exact area we need the steps on the x-axis to be way smaller. Infinitesimal small to be exact. By using infinitesimal small steps it is possible to get exact formulas to calculate the area beneath our function y(x). I'll spare you the formula as you can find it via google in a matter of seconds. I could dive way further into the topic but I doubt anybody is interested in that. Whoever wants to study something that needs maths will encounter this sooner or later anyways.

So sorry that you have to miss the wedding to watch the stream But srsly you don't need to be disappointed. Just watch the stream a few hours later. The devs wouldn't give any advantage to people who are watching the stream first.

Great. I thought it'd take another month until we got another stream. I'll be sure to be there to spam and troll the chatbox

@Ilsyde I know it was possible to run BF at resolutions that weren't supported by meddling with some files (.ini maybe). But I'm by far no expert and didn't have the need for it so I can't help myself. Unfortunately the threads are gone along with the old forum. Maybe someone who is more experienced with the topic can help or make a suggestion. It should work for 16:10 I guess as there aren't that many configurations.

Played around a bit myself...

I don't think that will solve the problem. It's basically like a fixed amount of resets (3) with the additional advantage of being able to switch between them. But once someone isn't satisfied with the elo's he got he will create another account again. It just takes more time until he does.

The same though came to my mind. I totally agree with and support this suggestion. Additionally I like what @LagOps said. An anonymous mode would be a great way to solve many of the problems. A mode that allows you to play anonymously in both ranked and unranked where your name isn't shown. In return you shouldn't be able to see the enemies name either. You can still play for ELO if you want to that way without being harrassed. PS: Only read the first half of the thread.

Something that I once thought looked good on paper but is utterly useless in PvE. The only use is (as already mentioned) for CC and I'd rather use a spell for that than an immobile tower. The biggest problem is the lack of damage of this thing for the power cost of 75. The purple affinity isn't really that good because the base damage isn't good enough to make it worth the power. In PvE you know what units you're gonna face but even on maps where I'd fight a good amount of human enemies it wasn't worth it. For some maps it's decent though where you have to defend (Insane God, Crusade). I forgot if it's able to hit flying units but I think it might. Frost Crystal got less damage (but not less than Rioter's Retreat).

Boom Brothers are actually cheaper. 100 power vs the 120 power you need for Virtuoso. The difference is that Boom Brothers need 4 orbs. I guess that's what you wanted to say. IMO Boom Brothers are a great card as they deal insane XL damage for their power cost and are even tanky enough (especially at U3) to do so. In the few times I played a Fire splash in PvE and rPvE I enjoyed having them in my deck. The ability is great for clearing the small fry and takes a good chunk of health out of the bigger targets. So I'd consider them superior to Virtuoso in every way except for orbs. But that's just me.

The Fire pendant of Tremor I'd say. They got pretty comparable stats at U0 (don't checked for U3), they are both L/L and both got a building-destruction ability. The main difference is that Tremor is slow but also gets siege for it's normal unit which makes him a way superior basenuke. Tremor also got a better ability IMO as it's not cone-shaped but a circle (and 40% less power cost). In PvE it is utterly outclassed by almost any other unit for the supposed role. For example: In a Fire splash Ashbone Pyro, Tremor, Razorleaf and Burrowers are better Siege units. Silverwind Lancers, Drones and Magma Hurler are better L counters. And there is a ton of better tanks. I'd only consider him as an L-counter in a deck that is played in that exact order but I probably won't be playing that much Shadow anyway for a long time. IMO the card is usable in the current state and doesn't really need a change. If necessary a tiny buff could be applied. I'd either decrease the power cost by 5-10 power or increase his movement speed a little bit. Alternatives to that would be either decreasing power cost or cooldown of the ability but that would be harder to balance.

@PorousBoat Concerning speculating. Actually you can greatly decrease your risk (with a more average reward) if you track prices in AH over a period of time. Buy a card when it's cheap and sell when it's expensive. The great thing about this is that you don't (have to) influence the market yourself and just ride along. However this requires quite some time and great experience (and intuition). Tracking one card over several days or weeks is already work enough but to be efficient you need to keep track of several cards so that you always have one that's currently cheap. The risk is that you might buy cards when they are at an artificial high that doesn't last. In that case you bought a pile of overpriced cards. This shouldn't happen if you tracked the card long enough though. Additionally this only works well for cards that got a consistent flow with varying supply and demand. Core cards that are widely used and supplied like Shaman, Dreadcharger and Hurricane are good examples. The prices of those cards are between a few dozen and hundred BFP. You want to use cards that are obtained by the masses for that consistent flow and UR's and other cards that cost 1k BFP might seem like a good profit margin but in the end the flow and variation in price is usually too abrupt and unreliable so that's more speculation.

One of my personal favourites. Simple and strong but you need to understand where it makes sense to place one and the intuition or knowledge to do that accurately. One of the strongest situational cards in PvE and on some maps it can do wonders. I really like how it is possible to use and abuse it even in higher tiers. Personally I always would've liked it to be slightly stronger (more HP and a tiny little bit more range) with increased orb and power cost (, 80) but that's just personal preference. IMO in T1 it is overpowered on some maps (and useless on others) and not quite as useful as I would prefer at T2 and T3. Main problem for everyone lusting after one of these already is that you need a few fitting cards beneath MotK to make it shine. WW, Shaman and Roots should be enough.

From a game design perspective it is a genius solution to avoid camping and reward aggressive play. And the LP punishes you for losing units and buildings, while also limiting the amount of power available in the late-game. In theory after the power wells are drained all power will slowly fade away into the LP and thus it is also a limiting factor for the game time. That is never achieved though as there are timers in PvP matches. That the advantages one gets are only temporary is quite standard as a concept but usually it isn't implemented with such a consistent and clear system. It says "returning immediately 30% of the usual power refund into the power pool". The usual power refund is 90% of the unit's power cost. So you get 30% of that back immediately which is 27% of the power cost.

Fire is red, Frost is blue, Nature is green, That's nothing new. I expect some angry shadow comments.