When Smurfs Attack

[Gandalf Parker]

www,Dom3Minions.com hosts 100 games at a time. And they come from a dozen different forums. On some of those the games can take a month to fill up, and others cant keep enough games available with every game filling up on the same day.

Each seems to have a different balance between newbies and veterans. I think its because of the format. Some are general gaming forums where a thread is done to generate interest in the game (usually called an LP for something like Lets Play Dominions 3). Those tend to get new people interested and generate more new people games of people who have just bought it and often have not played it at all (tutorial or solo). This forum tends to gather more people who have had the game for awhile even if they arent experienced multiplayers so the knowledge level of even the newbies here seems abit higher.

I havent found much instance of "I think he slipped into a newbie game". I have been asked to look into it a few times but I dont remember finding it to be true.

Now what I do think is kindof likely (not in this case but in general) is the idea put out half-jokingly in the Dom3 songs thread with the parody song "What if xxxxxxx was one of us". The list for xxxxx included the developers, Shrapnel staff, beta testers, moderators, and even some of the legendary bans. Anyone who might want to play anonymously to avoid reputations good or bad.

[Slobby]

While the game count is quite a bit higher, there's no telling on how well he did.

Look at Kohan there are/were players that even with 500+ games that still were 'green/noob'.

If the player in question was rushed and taken out within the first 20 turns of a game, does that really count as a game? What if that happened to the player in 50 games straight?

Number of games doesn't necessarily imply level of experience.

Also with Than having the game since release, he really only started playing MP games within the last little bit if I recall. He put some mods out first, and one can only assume played SP. Like Kohan, SP does not equal MP.

But then again he could also be looking for a win and is intentionally sniping noob games. It does happen.