General Discussion - Page 1032

What's more, the team and the management reconsidered an approach and actual flow of the practice process. We have improved the bonus / penalty system. This means that training process will go up to a new, professional level.

On September 14 2012 17:37 MrCon wrote:
Na'vi team manager :

Haa, inb4 Na'vi is dead xD A bonus/penalty system, in any part of a business, has always the opposite effect to what it's goals are. Na'vi is doomed ! :D

On September 14 2012 17:37 MrCon wrote:
Na'vi team manager :

Haa, inb4 Na'vi is dead xD A bonus/penalty system, in any part of a business, has always the opposite effect to what it's goals are. Na'vi is doomed ! :D

On September 14 2012 17:53 Firebolt145 wrote:

Source?

On September 14 2012 02:17 Mataza wrote:
I´ve heard of the weirdness that was 5.xx Dota. There was a small compilation posted in a forum somewhere a couple years ago.
Nightstalker was Voidstalker and didn´t need night for full effect. Another Hero that was basically a siegetank, complete with immobile siegemode. Dozens of heroes with ensnare, long stun and/or avatar(Magic immunity) as skills. A hero that had 3 summon skills, so he could solo towers with ~10 summons around lvl 6. Original Invoker didnt have 10 spells. He had 27. The order in which you summoned Wex, Quas and Exort changed the skill you get too. The compilation was very funny.
I only once tried a pre 6.xx map, I think it was 5.83 or so, the last map before Icefrog took over. It had a very basic looking terrain, Chen had none of his skills he has now. Instead he had some generic crap and an orb that adds x% of his max hp in damage. The recipes had no icons. I´m pretty sure the items were very different too.
I played that map once or twice, but it felt unrefined to me.

I still remember my first map was somewhere around 6.30 or so. Mirana and Alchemist were my first new heroes. "Professional games" were played with teampick. TEAMPICK.
Sentinel could only pick Sentinel heroes and Scourge could only pick Scourge heroes. Sentinel was heavily favored because Beastmaster, Chen and Jakiro were much stronger back then(Also there were 2 other heroes that amde the standard Sentinel lineup which I don´t remember).
Chen was nerfed via nerf of jungle creeps. Jakiros double breath was like 110 mana on lvl 4, you could spam it forever.
Beastmaster Ult wasn´t nerfed until much later. Pre nerf the cooldown was 60s on all levels, manacost 150 all levels and range was somewhere around 1000 on all levels. 1000 range was awesome.

So much nostalgia.

On September 14 2012 20:09 Benjef wrote:
They thinking of switching to dota 2? Or they gonna be sticking with war3 for a while?

Really looking forward to drafts, interested if they're gonna be the same or different to dota 2.

On September 14 2012 20:10 Kaal wrote:


Different, because CK sucks dick in DOTA 2 engine and Chieftan exists.