TWL Qualification Rules and Updates!! READ THIS!!

[Nethila]

and necro isnt lag?

[PjOtTeR]

Kuukunen is lagg, thast what he is. But dad's is basicaly correct. Any special ship with 2 decent sharks it can be controled, of course there are a few exceptions like Necro who will get a few bombs through a game that could impact it, but overall most special ships are useless.

Cig, your nose is getting brown...
stop sticking it up necro's arse s'il vous plaît

gees, there are enough special ships who CAN be a + factor in comparison of a spider.... but then they'd have to really focus on it. And yes too be outstanding you need a certain lag... wether it's high or low doesn't matter, it has to be "unusual"

[Jeenyuss]

go server go

[froedrick]

you're all gay...


afk

[MetalKid]

What are the lag restrictions in TWL? I understand if you can't disclose that information, but I was wondering if you could impose those restrictions the last week of TWL Qualifying. That way, people will know if they can even play in TWL or not.

[Jrahen]

so what are the lag limits?

[Izor]

Looking at the ave rating of squads you play against seems good, but that system is VERY flawed. Firstly, it punishes squads that played a lot around reset, where everyones rating was 1000 or close to it. Secondly, a squad that creates now can play ice/sk8 5 times and have their ave set to 1500, while their rating only drops 15 or 20 points, then 8 wins vs 950 rating opponents will keep their rating high while the quality of opponents they have beaten is not at all worthwhile. An ave R of squads youve BEATEN is much better applied here. Or just look through a squads history/take the general consensus of people before twl.

[Server]

go server go

You dont have enough beef to cheer me

[Eggs R Evil]

I'm not really sure yet if 5 spid teams were beating 4 spid teams because they had 1 more spid or because their spids played a different style. Perhaps a team with 4 spids that actually look for opportunities to hurt the nme instead of just controlling fr could take on a 5 spid team. It isn't easy to get your spids to do that when you have a jav that is supposed to hurt the nme though.

Don't get me wrong now, I still want Diso to play 5 spids for now just so we learn to hurt the nme during fr battles. We can usually only kill them slowly. But when we got that down a jav might very well be an option..

P.S. sometimes we're already playing well, getting there :turned:

[Sufficient]

The problem is that you have TW trying to mix the 2 dueling ships, wbs and javs, with basing ... which doesn't work out too well. Most zones/leagues don't try to mix the 2 because they are so different. It's not like you can make dueling settings for 2 ships and make 5 other settings for basing, and then throw them together and expect a perfectly balanced basing league.

[Vehicle]

Suffi, you said, you could take two dueling ships and still have 5 left for basing. I assume you are excluding the levi, which leaves spider, terr, weasel, lancaster, and shark. Under this assumption, you're saying that the weasel and lancaster are viable basing ships? The weasel is thrown out at the door, and the lancaster is by far weaker than a decent base-bird or javelin.

Excluding the jav and warbird, as you did, leaves 3 ships left for basing, and 3 ships in limbo. Meaning TWLB is a 3 ship league, which it really shouldn't be. Basing is meant to be diverse, based solely on the style of gameplay, and I think that a 4 spider limit would promote this diversity.

Now, I understand that a 5 spider team more often than not will beat a 4 spider team. But, I think everyone is missing the point that under the new rules, no team could actually use 5 spiders. It would just be another limit put in place on TWLB, such as the maximum of 2 sharks. And I think we can all agree that a basing team with a levithan would probably beat a basing team with 5 spiders, provided that it came down to cramming ability (as most basing games do.)

So by imposing a 4 spider maximum, the playing field is just as level as it previously was with the 5 spider style of gameplay. Before anyone argues that it would come down to the ability of the player in the specialty ship, and this negates my argument; consider terriers. Without a decent terrier, does any basing team stand a chance at winning a TWLB game, regardless of the talents of their spiders or sharks? We can all agree this is not the case.

The fact is, a 4 spider limit would add a level of diversity to TWLB that has been missing these past seasons. This could help increase basing activity, bring new players, and in the long run help the basing community. Or I could just be rambling on for no reason.

[Zerzera]

Here is another TWL I will skip <_<.
I really don't feel like going trough a campwars of dullness 5 spiders again and then having people say it was one of the best games ever.
I bet the mayority of basers will have orgasms over their twl.org stats again.

[Dwopple]

seriously, 5 spider limit is way too boring with the right line-up, even vs the best squads....

[Conjured]

Joe_ Lol, you got peace'd

agreed

[Galleleo]

Even against the best shark couples, a patient jav will be able to get 1 or 2 shots in during a game.

4 spider limit all the way!