Well met and welcome to the league! Are you still in school?

It's out generation as a whole. I feel like a scrub going for Computer Science, 90% of my buddies went BioChem or BioEngineering.

Great work both of you! Glad your both enjoying doing this because I sure wouldn't haha. Is there a service besides YouTube we can use where whole games can be uploaded?

Wow Dirbaio your board looks awesome! I think what you have for your front-page would be perfect, and we could implement a separate page for Hero Guides etc. Can you give us any kind of ETA for ABXD 3.0? I'd really like to start our major changed with the new version, plus the plugin system you have integrated seems awesome and I'd like to utilize that as well, maybe make some of my desired changes as plugins so others can benefit!

Thanks for keeping us in the loop!

I think my account is "partnered" I wonder if I could change my account name to DotaNoobs so we could use that? I'll mess with it an see. I know I've heard of people using GameReplays.org but I've never checked them out. I know own3d and twitch have full replays, but are those only of games that were streamed on their site?

We'll figure something out eventually, until then great work with the tools available to you!

Great to meet ya AugDawg! Welcome to the community. Do you have any previous MOBA and/or RTS experience? Tell us a bit about your gaming history!

Well thanks for stepping up to the plate Love is Dead. I'm happy we have someone willing to go through and do this for us. I'm sure your commentating abilities will become more refined as we continue to have more games.

You'll be #1 commentator in e-Sports world-wide by the time we're done here

Look the bottom line here is we are all trying to have fun. No matter what we do there is always going to be some kind of skill-gap between a lot of our players/community. In time as we get more and more people and can have more then one or two games going on simultaneously (and a ladder!) then we can start pairing people up based on skill level somehow, to make sure everyone is somewhat equally balanced out.

On that same note, we are a league for -noob- players to the game, and while that is going to be very hard to enforce I think the general rule of thumb should be: If you are experienced enough in this game that we feel you can't be placed in our ranks anywhere without seriously disrupting balance OR if you have a attitude or are clearly just here trying to "nubstomp", we'll just have KINDLY tell that person that we're sorry but they are a detriment to the community and there are a million other places they can go to find a game.

How do we handle this? Maybe for now we can create a thread/forum that is only visible by registered board members where we can discuss these things. If you feel someone is ruining our fun, then post and get a consensus. If your claim is legit I'm sure a few other people from that game will come back and vote YES and then we have to do what we have to do.

It's not going to be fun and some people will be legitly disappointed/pissed off but it's better for the group as a whole. I can volunteer as our PR cease-and-desist man if we want haha.

I have never watched a lot of streams for any game, I really need to start. I'll keep an eye on this guys channel.

This is exactly how I felt when making this thread, that Stick is a situational (albeit common) item and not a necessity or "core". I've definitely had games where I still have 2/3 tango's left 10-15 minutes in and a stick would have been pointless.

That said I haven't played a single game without a stick since Ragequit Commando responded, and it has saved my ass more then once haha.

I never spent more then a few hours on AoM but it was made by Ensemble Studios right? Age of Empires II basically sums up my entire middle-school life.

A fellow MUDer! I'm in love! <3 <3 <3 Where did you play? Do you still MUD at all? I keep trying to get back into one, but nothing seems to stick. Currently kind of messing around in Imperian.

Hey Doobs,

I feel like our first batch of in-house games went phenomenally well, and our numbers are growing on a daily basis. I think we should schedule a good 3-4 future times/dates for more of the same, and start posting announcements now. Maybe we even do a single recurring day (like every Monday night or something?). Getting together to play and meet each other is a lot of fun, and it gets the community out and involved with us. By scheduling something and announcing it days/a week in advance I think we can plan on better turn outs and maybe get 2-3 games going at once.


Hell, last time I think  Alverez said 4:00-8:00PM. I left to go party at 7:30 and when I got back at 2:00AM people were just finishing the last game of the night, with a good 2-3 people just spectating that last game.

You are 100% right the last thing we want to do is scare people away, and hell the pro players are the ones we want to have around teaching us. I'm talking strictly about people who come in to take advantage of our "nubishness", and those are the people who would get a majority-vote in the thread?

The issue right now is we have a relatively small player-base (don't take this wrong I'm incredibly excited at the overwhelming interest in this project) so its hard to fit everyone in to our current skill spectrum. If very talented players come to us to play and they display a good general attitude/are friendly I think we should reach out and invite them to mentor/comment on VOD's for us. Once we have enough people playing we'll find a place for everyone and we won't really be noob-only league anymore.

Shit, I tried to buy www.dotapros.com as well but it was taken haha. In time i think our name can really just be a novelty, and while we will always have a place for the "unskilled" to come and play and learn in a friendly environment there's no reason we shouldn't maybe eventually consider the top 5 of the "Doobs" ladder winning some tournaments haha

We will always find time to play with ya bro, no worries

Have you guys been seeing (500) Internal Server errors while browsing the board? cPanel is showing me some pretty insane memory usage for the site. The footer of the board now displays peak memory usage, if you happen too see it looking higher then average let me know what you were doing/looking at!

I saw AoE III on Steam all the sudden, I've never played. Is it not worth the effort? I did play Rise of Nations and that was a pretty awesome RTS.

Cool, I'll fiddle with it later tonight. I did install the latest commit from github @ http://www.dotanoobs.com/dev/, but I wasn't able to log in after installing. I didn't really get a chance to play with it class was letting out so it might just be user error

I ACCIDENTALLY THE WHOLE!!!!!!!11!!!1!1!!


Haha I'll figure out whats going on, stupid computers.

I'd urge you to give Rise of Nations a try. It did expand into modern-day but you could set a limit so I'd usually have gunpowder be the last age before its over. It was just like AoE II except there was a "territory" factor where your buildings added the land around them to your territory, and enemy troops would suffer attrition etc.

It was pretty good for LAN, I used to play AoEII Conquerors on MSN Gaming Zone all day long haha.