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Posts from The 8th stage of the annual John Van Caneghem Tournament (2007).Auto-translated
Iron, maybe it's enough, huh? You yourself weren't exactly living a fairytale there... And you received a harsh, but fair punishment... No need to complain, you were a celebrity there for a while, and then, of course, everyone forgot about it, but you still remember... Are you sleeping well?
I really never registered on HP, but that doesn't mean I don't know anyone there. Moscow is a big city... And, based on what I know, I have reason to doubt the fairness of Ax's punishment, as well as the crystal-clear honesty of some of the organizers there, of course, not all of them.
Ah! So you're a political... Dissident, you see... Maybe you'll write a book someday... They'll give you tons of Grails...
He's a dissident with them, but with us, he's a victim who suffered for an idea.
And it's time to end this discussion, because it has little to do with the tournament. Apparently, all the tournament topics have been exhausted.
Ah... So you're one of those political... dissidents, huh... :D Maybe you'll write a book someday... You'll get tons of Grail rewards... :D
I don't need Grails, just like I didn't really need that @ symbol. From FireBall's message, it's probably clear that a book isn't really necessary either. Many people already know what happened and how I got out of it. AmberSoler;116748
Iron, maybe that's enough, okay? You weren't exactly in a great situation there... And you paid the price.
I'm not exactly in a great situation here either. However, here, people understand what I'm talking about. Over there, Vadim still bans automation tools for 4 turns. Although, it's the same as banning ballista killers or hero-farming. At the same time, he can't tell if these automation tools were actually used in the game or not. Isn't that crazy? And when you bring up this topic there, you get a negative reputation and message restrictions. How is that supposed to work? AmberSoler;116748
a harsh but fair punishment... No reason to complain, you were there.
:) Fair? It depends on your point of view. Vadim and Gorbik didn't want to admit that they couldn't detect hacked saves or the use of automation tools. At the same time, they didn't want to admit that in this case, they should tighten the verification process by allowing leaders to officially check each other without any restrictions. From their point of view, they consider that they punished me fairly so that I wouldn't talk there. But here, as I said, the leader reports to everyone, so the verification process here is at a proper level. No matter what you use, if you cheat and can't report it, you'll end up in a bad situation, even if a ban isn't предусмотрен for it. Here, the leader uploads their own saves for everyone and answers any tournament participant's questions without any formalities or addressing them as "sir." AmberSoler;116748
you were a celebrity for a while, but of course, everyone forgot about it, and you still remember... Are you sleeping well? ;)
I sleep fine. Besides, I've been rehabilitated on the Pool portal. But I still don't understand what that whole thing was about. The moderators are still the same, so I tried to raise the issues I mentioned above again. They didn't ban me this time, but they gave me a lot of negative feedback. So, I just don't go there anymore. What's the big deal? :)
Well, if we're talking geopolitics, then of course it's a murky business...
The thing is... People have created their own world, they know all its flaws, but they don't know how to get rid of them... And who is without sin? :) They found the only way — to ban those who are too smart and meddlesome, and to set everything up so that there's a scandal and others won't dare to bring up the forbidden topic. Because voicing it threatens the security of the built "shaky" state... For if there is no state and no subjects, then what kind of king are you? :D It's all clear here. That is, I fully share the position voiced above... But when in Rome, do as the Romans do...
So there's no need to sling mud at colleagues here... I'm referring to your words "You did the right thing" in post #402. I think you still remember the old Soviet nomenklatura position "We have nothing to do on that shore!" (about the West), and why is that — a Soviet person shouldn't look over there, because we have the best of everything! :) But is that really the case? ;) To form your own conclusion, you need to go everywhere yourself and see it all with your own eyes... And you're creating an aura of a "dirty unwashed corner" for HP — at least, all your posts on this topic over the past year lean toward that conclusion. Someone who hasn't been there could form a biased opinion based on your words, which isn't entirely fair on your part. Imho.
Added after 4 minutes Vanechka;116750
Amber, you better tell me — will there be a tournament from you by the end of the month for three?:D
I apologize, but I won't have the time to set everything up as it should be... I can pick a map and a save for a two-week (no longer) tournament, that's not a problem, but I won't have time to handle the organization and checking saves... If anyone has the desire to arrange everything properly — speak up right here — I'll keep you company at the initial stage, I think I have something to offer... :) We can start as early as tomorrow... Who's in? Who should I send the drafts to? :)
Well, if we’re touching on geopolitics, of course it’s a murky matter... Here’s the thing... People created their own world, they know all its flaws, but they don’t know how to get rid of them... And who is without sin? :) They found the only way - ban those who are too smart and idle, and set everything up so there’s a scandal and others are discouraged from raising the forbidden topic. Because voicing it threatens the security of the built “shaky” state... For if there is no state and no subjects, then what kind of king are you?
That’s everything you wrote above. What’s the conclusion. They created this state for themselves. The king gathered subjects - moderators, an inquisition - and they fool the simple, trusting people. And the truly unruly ones, who are few, they’ve taken to sending to the stake under the guise of cheaters. They slapped me with the label - agitation for dishonest play methods!!! I tried different ways to handle that situation. The nice way, with pressure, with blackmail. Nothing worked. They advised me to change my nickname and lie low :) But screw them. And now who’s to blame that in me they’ve made an enemy of their kingdom? I’m not about to protect their peace and prosperity. But that doesn’t mean I don’t respect the people they’re fooling there.AmberSoler;116802
:D It’s all clear here. That is, I fully share the position stated above... But you don’t go into someone else’s monastery with your own charter...
Well then let them close their monastery and sit there themselves with their inquisition that can’t check anything and won’t let players check each other. But look what happens - then AmberSoler comes out of there and says how awesome the game is there and all that. They say only kings can check leaders’ results :) And the rest believe them - because those kings get rid of anyone who doesn’t quite believe them by any means necessary :)AmberSoler;116802
So there’s no need to badmouth your colleagues here... I’m saying this about your words “Did the right thing” in post #402. I think you remember
They’re not my colleagues - I’m not the Pope :) And I spoke the truth. If you want to participate in tournaments and know how you were nerfed and bypassed after, and if you’re in the lead you also have to give a full account, then there’s nothing to do there!AmberSoler;116802
also the old Soviet nomenklatura position “We have nothing to do on that shore!” (about the West), and why is that - the Soviet man shouldn’t look there, because we have the best of everything! :) But is that really the case? ;)
So you said that about their clearly organized tournament system. And I corrected you. They’ve spun a nice little fantasy world. But their tournament organization suffers with checks and rules.AmberSoler;116802
To draw your own conclusion, you have to go everywhere yourself and see it all with your own eyes...
Yeah, I’ve been almost everywhere. Notice, I was on the League too and left, but I don’t speak ill of them even though we also didn’t see eye to eye there :)AmberSoler;116802
But you’re creating an aura of a “dirty, unwashed corner” for HP - at least all your posts on this topic over the last year lean toward that conclusion. Someone who hasn’t been there could form a biased opinion based on your words, which isn’t entirely fair of you. Imho.
What do you mean only based on my words?? FireBall writes that Moscow is big and he didn’t hear about the Portal just from me. Yet he’s not going there either. VBN probably knows too. And the aura of an unwashed corner was created by the portal’s own leadership and their moderators. And I’m the one to blame again :) Well, that’s just how they do things - the King is always right. So I don’t give a damn about their kings there. You can give your king my big hello :) They put me outside the law and I owe them nothing, just as they owe me nothing. There they have it hanging on their worn-out bulletin board that I was promoting dishonest play methods, and I’m supposed to speak well of them here? They’re getting back what I’m capable of doing. Well, sorry, that’s all I can do :)
The idea is this: I'm not a particularly strong player, but I'll tell you this – I only visit two websites and check my email. But one of those websites is THIS one. And I got hooked on it precisely because I saw a discussion about the results of an offline tournament. I started reading and registered. That's the story.
Added 15 minutes later And also, I thought for a long time why diplomacy was so firmly removed from my arsenal, and then I realized – we played almost exclusively online, and there sometimes you skip pathfinding in favor of air magic. Mass acceleration on old maps will be more expensive than many other perks. And we used magic like this: Armageddon, Portal, Flight, Dimension Door, Prayer. We edited maps to remove randomness and so on. Otherwise, one guy beat me simply by sending kamikazes at me. Every week, several Warlocks with 1 gold dragon and Armageddon. The economy just couldn't handle it.
Good day, esteemed tournament participants!
Please accept my apologies for the delay, but the final results of the tournament are now available!
Congratulations to the winner, Fireball, who performed significantly better than the others!
Well done!
I can confidently say (to avoid any disputes) that the skill level of the players on our portal is higher than that of players on some other platforms.
We need to cultivate more skilled players in Heroes 1, for the tournaments that I am preparing, which will now be REGULAR!
Sincerely, VDV_forever
The Van Kanigem tournament ranking has been updated! You can view it here: /topic/at/116962/ I have entered Romanuel's result for now, but we need to find out where his save file is!
oh, damn, I'll look for it now... if anything, forget about it, the result is a failure in fact and in meaning... by the way, I finally discussed the details of this stage with the guys at work. in general, everyone was really impressed. we agreed that diplomacy is a DEFINITELY cool thing in the offline game, but it doesn't work on online maps, like ours.
Added after 28 minutes
I sent the result to VDV again... luckily, I didn't empty the recycle bin.
Added after 12 minutes
oops... I was looking at the table and realized I lost to Bigu in terms of stats. but it's funny. it's enough for such a weak player like me to participate everywhere and I'm already in the top five!!!
Added after 28 minutes sent the VDV result again... luckily, I didn't empty the recycle bin.
Added after 12 minutes oops... I was looking at the table and realized I lost to Big in terms of stats. But it's funny. It's quite something that even a weak player like me can participate everywhere and still be in the top five!
Based on your posts, I've assigned a rating. Good thing you found the save – I would have had to recalculate it :smile27:
Based on your posts, I've assigned a rating. Good thing you found the save file – otherwise, I would have had to recalculate everything :smile27:
I'm telling you – there's an error there. I have more points than BigAke, but it should be the other way around. VDV is silent. Maybe the message didn't go through again?
I'm telling you – there's an error there – I have more points than BigAke, but it should be less. VDV is silent. Maybe the message didn't get through again?
Everything has been done. The lost save has been recovered. :)
I got a little confused. Seeing that BigAke has "0" in the mercury stat, I somehow automatically ranked Romanuel higher. I'll correct that. There's actually a small difference, but it's still a difference!
Fireball
