MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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They award XP and IP.
Only 10% less than a real game.
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Prospero
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Yes, but getting semi-balanced teams is damn near impossible. I'll take the MM over team stacking jackasses any day. It is nice that the nights we have enough for in-house games we don't get penalized too heavily.
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Kail
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They award XP and IP.
Only 10% less than a real game.
Is that supposed to be live? Because it looks inaccurate to me. Logged on today to check this, and only got about 71 IP from a practice game, and didn't get the daily bonus, either. In a normal game, last I played (which was admittedly a while ago), that would have netted me around 260-280 IP. So it's still only about 1/3 of what I'd be making in a regular game. Even without the daily bonus it's not within 90%, it's closer to 70% or 60%. |
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Hoax
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l33t kiddie
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The one change I know is live is that you can play 6 before you get zero xp/ip instead of the old three.
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Thrawn
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Yay Riot, can't even try out the new champ because practice games are disabled.
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LK
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Thought you needed 4. They disabled them because when they release a new champion, everyone starts a solo game to try them out and it wrecks the servers. I know.  |
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Xeyi
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Practice games are enabled again. I've been meaning to see if I can jungle as shen without face planting in public view, so now's the time to try.
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Kail
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Practice games are enabled again.
YOINK, disabled again. Or at least, you need four people in a game to start one. Someone buy this company a server, please. |
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LK
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Disabled on patch day, no surprise. Servers were busy last night.
This happens with every patch. They have enough servers to handle the load on normal days but buying servers for those days when every body on the planet is checking out the game will drain them financially for the 90% of the time this isn't happening.
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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Disabled on patch day, no surprise. Servers were busy last night.
This happens with every patch. They have enough servers to handle the load on normal days but buying servers for those days when every body on the planet is checking out the game will drain them financially for the 90% of the time this isn't happening.
They killed the forums yesterday too in order to allow hosting of games. |
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Thrawn
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Practice games are back up, but now they have a limitation where you must have at least two players to start one.
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Thrawn
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Fuck Riot and their practice game limitations, guess I'll just test new jungling ideas in a normal game and screw over my team if they fail.
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LK
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5 Players vs 5 AI is a good way to test stuff.
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Kail
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5 Players vs 5 AI is a good way to test stuff.
If I could get a team together, I wouldn't be beating up bots by myself. The annoying thing to me (aside from not being able to play practice matches) is that I missed Xin's free week, now it'll be another what, two, three months before I get another chance to check him out? |
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LK
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He is fun but no longer a stomper. That is Vlad's role. You aren't missing much. Also, just create an open practice game. It'll fill up fast. Mine always do.
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tazelbain
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So All Random All Mid? I played 6 of these today and it was a mixed bag. The ones where people followed the rules and didn't leave were pretty intense.
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« Last Edit: August 08, 2010, 10:05:58 PM by tazelbain »
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"Me am play gods"
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Hoax
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l33t kiddie
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We should do a f13 5-man premade normal game night.
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A nation consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, then that individual is without morals. If a nation's laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation.
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Furiously
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yes - we should...
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Der Helm
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I'd be up for that. Depending on my work schedule.  |
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LK
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But we all play Rammus.  |
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Der Helm
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But we all play Rammus. Imagine the look on their faces |
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