Comments on: Eternal Conflict – Learning the Hard Way

By: menace13

menace13 — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:35:17 +0000

Aww no sweat bud, happy to be in a article, however bad i played.
The ug folks was a lot more successful, I placed in the money 3 times with it and zoo just once out of 3 tries. The Zoo matchups aside merfolk, fish and pox are really hard earned not much bolts and nacatls can do to a turn 1 oath, bazaar or ad naus.
Sorry about your finish I just found out about that bug.

By: spg

spg — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:42:39 +0000

menace – Sorry about the call out man, didn’t want to make you feel like an idiot – I just wasn’t sure if I was missing something.

Congrats on the success with Merfolk and Zoo. Haven’t seen Zoo for a long time.

By: menace13

menace13 — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:33:08 +0000

Because menace is an idiot? No idea why i did that-mental lapse-was thinking to myself f%&$ hope no one see this!
It was also my limited exp with Oath, I ended up 11th at 4-2 after.
The misplay lead me to abandon running Oath for the time being and have since went with ug folk and a zoo list in the money.

By: Katastrophe

Katastrophe — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:36:47 +0000

That’s really disappointing that you were dropped out of the top 8. I don’t think that should have happened.

Imagine a paper tournament with 5 rounds of swiss and a top 8 afterward. You’ve gone 4-0 and you’re part way through the last round when your cell phone rings. It’s an emergency, and you run out of the building like it’s on fire. The head judge will be confused, but he’ll probably give a concession (because the game started, it should affect your rating) and drop you from the event (because you’re gone).

Now here’s the thing. You still have 4 * 3 = 12 match points. You’re a lock for the top 8 and prizes, even though you dropped. I think in paper you’d still make the top 8. And online it should work that way too. If your 4-1 finish puts you in 4th at the end of the swiss then the 5th place guy gets a bye. Of course, in paper if you don’t come back in a few hours to claim your prize then you forfeit that too. But online that’s not a problem.

By: RoninX

RoninX — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:30:18 +0000

It is a bummer – but really, for the convenience of playing MTG from my living room at any hour of the day or night I would (and have! *shudders* …remembering the dark days of super lag) put up with more. Still, hopefully this will get fixed sooner rather than later.

By: spg

spg — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:16:23 +0000

The “still there?” after 3-5 minutes rule sounds like a solid one, and I’ll definitely be using that one in the future. Such a bummer that we have to deal with this kind of stuff!

By: Plejades

Plejades — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:14:55 +0000

It’s really a shame. We where thinking about a tool that pings the server to check for connectivity but after the “Millibot” incident I keep my fingers away from such things. We might get banned for violating the CoC….