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Scare the newcomers with such feats :D. Because if you dig into any of your miracles — for example, you took a Griffin Conservatory on week 3 — it turns out there are a ton of Troglodytes with Bless, and I don't think there's anything unreal about the rest =).

Loading a save and trying to replicate what someone did online after a hundred attempts – that's pointless.

I play about one game a day.

For me, overpowered setups with Titans on turn 122 aren't a sign of skill; if that happened in at least half the games, then I'd acknowledge some "exceptional skill."

I agree. The best thing is to do in offline mode what others can't do, neither online nor offline.

Someone had a good phrase in their signature:
Any task seems simple after you've been explained its solution!
So, we're all masters at explaining things. But when you sit down online and try to do something, why don't we see any reports of success? Is it a matter of luck? I don't think so...
And taking a save file and trying to repeat, for the hundredth time in offline mode, what someone did online – that's pointless. Online play is about skill "here and now", not about reasoning that nothing is difficult!

I have a slightly different opinion on this. Let's say in football, you can be a good striker and never score from your own half. Titans at 122 is like scoring from your own half – it requires skill, but it's mostly luck. IMHO.

It's better to score more goals from there. And kicking the ball across the entire field is a sign of low skill!

You don't know much about football :) Low skill is when you fail to score a goal. And for me, going into a treasure zone with 16 grands on the first [week], as was mentioned here in the example, is like a kick. And a "teapot" going for one piece of wood is like a sleeping goalkeeper =). By the way, I've searched countless treasure zones in my games, but I don't remember seeing any teapots behind walking guards :)

Going into a treasure zone with 16 grands is like a solo breakthrough to the opponent's goal through all the defenders. There are footballers who can dribble past the entire team alone.

And the fact that you refer to constant bad luck doesn't justify you one bit. I remember our game. How I found level 5 magic in Pandora—that was wild luck :smile41: . But how finding a minotaur external dwelling with a portal is "skill" :D And remember how in that same game, using the minotaurs from the portal and the external dwelling, you took the Dragon Utopia on the third day? And what did they give there? A bag of gold and a captain's hat? Nooooo... And what boots were lying in front of the Dragon Utopia? :D Need me to remind you? Of course, I was the lucky one in that game and miraculously survived :D

Hehe, lol :D But how else to describe the situation when, by the middle of the third turn, I had Resurrect and an explosion spell dealing almost 2000 damage, plenty of mana, and control, yet I still didn't win the game? If that's not bad luck, then I don't know what bad luck is :)

The key point here is HOW you got all of this? :confused: Skill or luck? That's the question!

Of course, it's luck. I just shouldn't have been so aggressive. But in the end, bad luck won out. Although a draw against such an opponent might be considered luck for me, who knows.

I'm saying this because we often react more strongly to failures than to successes, taking the latter for granted. And that's normal, as it's human nature. We play a game where luck favors one person, then another, and we need to accept that as a natural occurrence. :)

That's true. But, looking back at my online games over the past year and a half, about 70-80% of the games where I chose the "Utopia" faction didn't bring me any particular success. I'm confident in this fact and consider it a failure. We'll keep looking, and eventually, luck will be on our side, not just in those 4 games in the best-of-five final (the luck there was unbelievably high) :)

...we often react to failures more strongly than to successes, taking the latter for granted. And that's normal, as it's human nature. We play a game where luck favors one person, then another, and we need to accept that naturally.