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added a bit about BoP but cant even remember who invited me there... :(

Ok now im really confuckeled and fuckeled :-[ :-[ :-[ I met a fellow BoP member today and played like 20 training games... ;D just to realize half way through i had forgotten the proxy programme on. ::) ::) Well, i didnt get too many points from that in the end but i wouldnt mind if someone erased all games me vs omega from xcc ladder since none of them were supposed to be ladder games anyways.

Now the fed2k ladder doesn't seem to report any games at all. Triple checked it today. Can anyone confirm this? Xcc ladder seems to work still.

I sure don't know. But last time i checked, fed2k ladder didn't work but the other one did. So go figure. And besides, what's better than winning a ladder? That's winning two ladders :D Just kidding of course, if theres really only like 4 players in ladder of which 2 active... How hard is it to win? But of course. I need challenge and there it is: Catching Zilents in the xcc ladder. And eh... confuckeled? I shall have to start using that :D

To make things clear, i record most of my games but not all. For instance, if i have just woken up, i like to play like 5 or so games before i start recording cause im slow to wake up. Sometime during the session i shut emperor down, then start proxy and continue playing. Hmm, after checking my account i see that i played vs supremmmm something and i only have a recorded win even though i lost once and won after that. If you're him i owe you one and we will have to deal with that. But if you really like playing ladder, then why not have your own proxy programme running too and double check getting your points that way too?

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*SORRY* I didn't tell you which ladder! It did get reported to xcc community ladder. Im playing that now and trying to catch zilents. game id http://xccu.sourceforge.net/xcl/?gid=54361 edit: and here's the standings. http://xccu.sourceforge.net/xcl/?lid=ebfd (Actually I don't know what's going on in fed2k ladder, it doesn't report games at all. I played at least 3 games after the game vs dunest with the fed proxy on. Then switched to xcc proxy cause it seems to work still) edit 2: fixed game id link

Yes, but olaf's ladder looks better and clicking name to give personal matches list is great feature. And so is displaying points earned, points lost /match. On the other hand fed2k's list gives a good info about what happened in a certain game, eg units made, lost so on. So make one good ladder with good features from both ladders. That's my other half of a point you missed cause i didn't say clearly enough...

Ok I have no idea where all those newbies are coming from but there's very little challenge to going one on one with them, right? Wrong. Try something more difficult than just carelessly crushing your opponent. Try winning with losing as few of your units as possible. First goal: win while losing less than 10 units. Ultimate goal: To win without losing a single unit. Take extra good care of your scouts, don't ever let them die. Build only reasonable amounts of units, just as many as you can easily manouver and just as many as you know will be enough to deal with your opponent. For example do not attack the silly wondering single minotaur with more than like 6 buzzsaws to keep too many of them from taking too much damage and to keep it challenging, or be clever and bring just one buzz to take the fire and actually kill mino with some 5 sard elites. Use only units that are good versus the unit they are fighting. never attack missiletank with group of vehicles since one will likely die, attack with sards instead. never attack catapults with any infantry, use guild. etc etc. Try it, it requires a huge amount of micromanaging but its really fun. I think i've managed to get a recorded game of losing only 6 or 7 units so far. Have to try harder i guess :D

Im not sure. I will ask. But I was told that majority of online staff lost their jobs when westwood was merged to other parts of EA.

qtips69 0 1 5 kr1zho3 0 1 2 so they have lost won 0, lost 1 game each and they got points out of it.

http://xccu.sourceforge.net/xcl/?lid=ebfd http://dune2k.com/ladder/ There's no point in having two of ~10 player ladders. Unite them and maybe one will gain popularity?

See this thread, maybe he could help? http://www.dune2k.com/forum/?board=7;action=display;threadid=11005

Long story short. I contacted a former Westwood Employee Jani Penttinen in a finnish forum and further discussed in e-mail. He was coding Emperor when the project was being finished. I was talking about possibly adding some patch to emperor to allow easier continuation of online play after westwood online goes down. He no longer had access to any of emperor code and also informed me that Intelligent Games, who mostly made the game as a subcontract deal to Westwood (!!!) has also faced bankruptcy some time ago. One thing though that might be useful... He gave me personal e-mail address of some guy named Greg Underwood, who is claimed to have gone by the title "Mr Westwood Online" and I was told he might be able to help us, on the other hand he might not... I can't share this e-mail address to you unfortunately, cause i was asked not to, but I will however e-mail and ask him something. Problem is I don't know what I should say actually that might help us most. Gob and Olaf might have some ideas?

But why is no one else playing the ladder? I bet you guys play - like me - some ten games a day, why not make them count?

Yes, i have seen this xpg2 fellow numerous times, weird guy. He always joins my game room but never plays me. Says "no need to play a dude like me." or some such thing. Anyways his main argument being he doesn't have to waste time killing something as easy as me. It's really annoying since he doesn't give me a chance to beat him :D

I actually tried it on zilents on our last game but it was too late for that kind of tactics. It seems north side of sandy pass is better, at least in our games. In our first game I was in north and got easily to the rock. The end game was then a nice game overall, and I barely got a win. In other games I was in south and I never made it to the infantry rock in time. The rest of those games was just total ownage with me having one hopeless try to take the rock and then face a swift removal of buildings from my base rock :D Another map next time :D

You seem to have somewhat recalculated points. care to show us the new formula?

WOW! How? Some mod?