EPTThis is a compilation of my pet peeves in the Warcraft III UMS game Defense of the Ancients, or DotA (or just dota because I'm lazy). I'm posting it here because maybe the Let's Play! thread in the Sports & Games forum isn't the best place to bitch about people. I'm probably going to edit and re-edit this OP to add more shit. I don't see me removing anything, so feel free to point out inconsistencies; I won't pull anything.
If you've read my posts in that thread, some of this stuff will seem familiar. I don't care, I'm writing this for me, not for you.
Anyone and everyone is welcome to chime in with their own peeves or tell me to go fuck off.
The bitching begins:
"X is at fault, not me." Where X is lag, the player's mouse, his keyboard, his speakers, his sleepiness. Whatever. A player is screwing up, and he's passing on the blame to something out of his control. Except it's not out of his control. This is stuff you can deal with before the game starts. This is stuff you KNOW ABOUT before the game starts (lag might be an exception -- but you still have a reasonable idea of what it's going to be like).
"No missing call for X?" After dying to hero X. There are times when one can legitimately blame the lack of a missing call for his death. Very few. Most of the times, the player would have died after hearing the missing call because they just don't play more carefully anyways. Or he would have died even if that hero wasn't present. This kind of goes with the previous.
"X is imba, let's ban." Where X is.... anything. A certain strategy, a certain hero pick, a certain item(!). I've seen people proposing the banning of: denying creeps, backdooring, stacking/lending, every single new hero introduced for the next 3 versions, luna, terrorblade, techies, pudge, bottle. Others but I can't remember them now. Point is, they see something new, they don't know how to deal with it, and instead of figuring out a counter they bring out the ban hammer. Okay, some stuff like item stacking is arguable... but I'm sticking to my guns and saying that anything the game mechanics allows is fair game.
"You're doing X, which is banned. We didn't say anything about it before, but it is." Similar to previous, except it's worse. It's granted that luna is banned? Since when? According to who? When you play with the same 10 people forever, then go to a pub, don't expect everyone to know and follow your house rules, especially if you don't explain them first.
"I think X is hacking. Banlist him." Okay, it's fair enough to suspect someone is maphacking. It's not fair to turn that suspicion into a "known fact" on a whim. Shut up and play. Watch the replay afterwards, to make sure he wasn't just watching with a ward. Even then, you only have a clue; if it's not definitive, there's still something called intuition and guesswork. Accusing someone of maphacking without even watching the replay is retarded.
"My score is X-Y, and your score is A-B. That makes me better than you." This is so retarded that I don't know how to start. The objective of the game is to break the opposing ancient. Really, it is. Trust me. No, don't trust me, go look at the "Mission Objective" window in the game. Go read Ender's Game. Loser.
Wards. Observer wards, sentry wards. Buy them when you need them, plant them after you buy them. Learn to recognize when you need them. Okay, this doesn't piss me off so much because it's a matter of experience, which you can't blame people for lacking.
Couriers:
Couriers. These used to be only walking ones, and the chicken type, so many people call them chickens. Even the flying ones. That's OK, I do it too, I'm not gonna bitch about what you call it. However, I have so many things to say about couriers that I figure this deserves its own section.
More than one courier isn't necessary for most strategies. With bottle capacity down, it's pointless to relay bottles, too. You won't need more than one chicken. One guy should buy a chicken at the start of the game, and everyone should use it. No one should go to town for the sole purpose of buying an item. So don't buy a chicken if your teammate bought one, and share your chicken if you did.
Okay, why not? Because the guy doesn't trust his teammates to use his chicken well. Sad thing is, many people don't. A chicken shouldn't ever be running from town to a lane holding a gg branch and a clarity potion. The absolute bare minimal item a chicken should be carrying is a portal. Or maybe, just maybe a sapphire water, if you really really need it.
TL Specific:
10 people sitting in a room and we don't start for 20 minutes. Because someone's unhappy about the team lineup. Because we're waiting for a friend to come obs, but he's having problems with his computer or connection or game client. Because we're arguing about strategy, or whether or not something should be banned (the decision of which to save time should be ultimately deferred to the host). We're not playing in a league or tournament where a win or a loss actually matters. What matters is having fun playing the game, and getting better so we can play at a higher level later and have more fun. Your friend can go see the replay. What, he's in the same room after all? Get him over and tell him to look at your damn monitor.
B.net Specific:
15 people joining and leaving a game over a period of 5 minutes. I don't really want a person who can't wait 5 minutes in the game, because I doubt he'll sit through an hour, but dayamn are there a shitload of these folks.
