MP: Noobs vs. Vets III: Revolution, MA, CBM. Game Over. Noobs Triumph!

[namad]

rdonj has gotten me about ready to commit seppuku. Most of the noobs are playing better than me. Then again, some of them might be more experienced than me! I'm only a vet because I was veto'd from being a noob in noobsvvets2... OR maybe when we break into wars I'll be able to make a better showing than I have so far... .i hope... maybe...

[Septimius Severus]

Originally Posted by namad

rdonj has gotten me about ready to commit seppuku. Most of the noobs are playing better than me. Then again, some of them might be more experienced than me! I'm only a vet because I was veto'd from being a noob in noobsvvets2... OR maybe when we break into wars I'll be able to make a better showing than I have so far... .i hope... maybe...

I'm sure you'll do fine by your team, of course you can always call in a more experienced alternate.

[rdonj]

lol. I wouldn't go that far. You're really not lagging behind the rest of your team from what the graphs say, except on research which I think is really just an ashdod thing.

I'll tell you though, the noobs are really in top form this game

[Squirrelloid]

Originally Posted by namad

rdonj has gotten me about ready to commit seppuku. Most of the noobs are playing better than me. Then again, some of them might be more experienced than me! I'm only a vet because I was veto'd from being a noob in noobsvvets2... OR maybe when we break into wars I'll be able to make a better showing than I have so far... .i hope... maybe...

You seem to be doing fine from the graphs - 7 provinces is a respectable showing (at least I hope so, since that's how many I have ). Its some of the other vets I'm wondering what they're doing.

(Well, I'm also wondering what Baalz is doing, but mostly because he seems to be doing something crazy that is *working*).

And this is my first MP and I've only been playing SP for ~3 wks. Just because we're new doesn't mean we (1) are incapable of reading the wonderful guides provided on this site or (2) incapable of running through the first year a few times to figure out how to expand. It'll be once real battle is joined I'll start to feel inadequate.

[atul]

Namad, no panicking in public.

Noobs start to think they have a shot at winning or something equivalently ludicrous.

[namad]

if I die I will become more powerful than you could ever imagine.










probably by having someone in the community be so sad about it that he was willing to play in my place despite being a great player who would unbalance the game like neos unbalance matrirces.

[Baalz]

Heh, I recall telling a friend how flattering it is to be considered one of the top Dominions players, because there are very few *bad* dominions players. Pretty much only hard core strategy nerds play this game, so you have to respect that a guy who's been playing this for only a couple weeks is probably at least a decent strategist, possibly better than decent.

As to the weirdness...nothing to see here, move along.

[atul]

That Baalz's comment brought back memories. I once played a Dom2 game with people new to Dominions but who had been playing VGA Planets (IIRC) for like a decade together. It was really silly, seeing people improve their game almost turn-by-turn basis.

But yeah, this game draws certain kind of people. But still as everywhere there are people who learn fast and those who don't.

[Septimius Severus]

Originally Posted by atul

That Baalz's comment brought back memories. I once played a Dom2 game with people new to Dominions but who had been playing VGA Planets (IIRC) for like a decade together. It was really silly, seeing people improve their game almost turn-by-turn basis.

But yeah, this game draws certain kind of people. But still as everywhere there are people who learn fast and those who don't.

I agree, though the game has so many intricacies and strategic elements, even fast learners cannot master them all that quickly. The vets with massive SP and MP experience, generally do have an edge as a game progesses. Fast learners may quickly grasp somethings but miss others that more careful/more plodding/more methodical/detail oriented learners wouldn't.

I do hope the vets will give us noobs a good show this time around, even though I know the main purpose is education. Adding more experienced players to the vets side would actually bring the game closer to the ideal rather than unbalance things, and both teams still have alternate slots available.

[namad]

i think the vet team needs a game admin... so we can appoint our own emergency alternates or some such? thoughts?