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SK.Testie
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada11084 Posts
July 13 2008 08:13 GMT
#2921
It is illegal in my games that I host.
You have joined my game.
Thus, it is illegal.
;p
Social Justice is a fools errand. May all the adherents at its church be thwarted. Of all the religions I have come across, it is by far the most detestable.
zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
July 13 2008 08:17 GMT
#2922
6.53 bug, if you pick lycan, get the 3rd technique, i forgot what it is i've never played lycan before, and repick another hero, you'll still keep the 3rd technique.
IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32278 Posts
July 13 2008 08:28 GMT
#2923
Feral Heart?
Moderator<:3-/-<
SK.Testie
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada11084 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-07-13 08:43:07
July 13 2008 08:39 GMT
#2924
Imba feral heart.
We perma stunned someone today as VS when we played "Get them stuck on a cliff with VS"
;p

our last game = R O F L
i smile

k
Social Justice is a fools errand. May all the adherents at its church be thwarted. Of all the religions I have come across, it is by far the most detestable.
paper
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
13196 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-07-13 10:46:42
July 13 2008 09:16 GMT
#2925
the fact that i can BD means that the game should be over

is testie swaying the noobs to vote 'illegal' ?? ; )
Hates Fun🤔
Chewits
Profile Joined September 2006
Northern Ireland1200 Posts
July 13 2008 11:33 GMT
#2926
Regarding BD, it should be legal and illegal. In my eyes, a tower should only be backdoored if it is deniable (10% or less HP). Otherwise i think running to a tower way behind the creeps, is totally unacceptable, and destroys a game. Big part of DotA at mid game is managing the lanes and the strengths of creeps, so when you make that big team kill, your lanes are perfect to push. Takes practise to get it right. Backdooring, just is bad mannered.

However, what I do find amusing, in Pub games, is whe you push into enemy base, and then procedd to go to mid and side towers to kill. The pubs scream backdoor, when it is clearly not. Once you get into the base (with crep support), you can kill whatever you want, untill you leave the base.
Whats the altitude?
terr13
Profile Joined April 2007
United States298 Posts
July 13 2008 14:24 GMT
#2927
BD should only be illegal for base towers. Side towers can be backdoored. Once creeps enter a base, all buildings can be attacked. As long as you enter with creep support, then you can continue attacking any building until you leave their base.
SK.Testie
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada11084 Posts
July 13 2008 16:30 GMT
#2928
A game is over when it is over.
It's not like it passes some special time limit and then it end.
Social Justice is a fools errand. May all the adherents at its church be thwarted. Of all the religions I have come across, it is by far the most detestable.
SK.Testie
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada11084 Posts
July 13 2008 17:51 GMT
#2929
NEW DAY
ASDF!!!!!
Social Justice is a fools errand. May all the adherents at its church be thwarted. Of all the religions I have come across, it is by far the most detestable.
Artanis[Xp]
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
Netherlands12972 Posts
July 13 2008 22:20 GMT
#2930
How do I join the team? It's got 50 members right now.
Live2Win *
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States6657 Posts
July 13 2008 22:29 GMT
#2931
Good players should be able to defend a BD. Since item pooling isn't allowed anymore (unless you set it to) you can't stack items on one hero... if you allowed a hero to get enough items to take on 3 players without support and BD, then you probably lost the game anyways.
SAY YES TO STIM KIDS!!! XD
ydg
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States690 Posts
July 13 2008 23:00 GMT
#2932
On July 12 2008 09:06 ydg wrote:
If your last lane tower dies and all your team's heroes are dead, should you stop defending?



anyways, clinkz bd :D
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
SK.Testie
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada11084 Posts
July 13 2008 23:13 GMT
#2933
HE STILL LOST REGARDLESS OF THE BD! Regardless of whether it is legal or illegal, it will be up to the host to decide. And in my games I have it banned.
It's the principal of the thing.
+ if it goes to late game and you don't have linkenz, naga BD can be very annoying. SLEEP
RAX KILL
ROFL TP
+ if it goes to late game, an intelligence based team is severely underpowered against BD style play.
Whereas fast heros or wind walking agility have a huge advantage.

There are reasons for it, and there are reasons against it. I am against for the most part though I will sympathize with it at times.
Social Justice is a fools errand. May all the adherents at its church be thwarted. Of all the religions I have come across, it is by far the most detestable.
terr13
Profile Joined April 2007
United States298 Posts
July 14 2008 01:06 GMT
#2934
Don't forget Furion, pop out of forest kill a tower while you're pushing and still get back in time to help defend. It also takes away from some of the timing that's necessary for pushes, ie all the creep waves are going toward their base, but they can just skip it and take towers if they win a team battle.
BottleAbuser
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1888 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-07-14 01:09:34
July 14 2008 01:08 GMT
#2935
Backdoor definitely changes the game. Not only in longer games; it can really affect the midgame in push-based strategies.

A single backdoorer really doesn't present the problem of being imbalanced; 2, at most 3 portals should stop him easily. Considering that a backdoorer probably won't survive if he's unsupported and the opponent carries portals (I mean, we all do, right?!), it typically isn't easy to do anyways. It can be trickier to kill the backdoorer if he's an invi user or blinker, but that also means that he can probably be stopped (read: scared away) by 1 disabler portaling in.

If backdoor becomes a serious threat to your rax, a couple of obs wards will do nicely. 4 people waiting up the ramp can seriously fuck up a backdoor. If you won't/can't spend the couple hundred gold though, I can see why backdoor can seem imba.

Spell-based heroes are stronger in early-mid game, and weaker in late-game compared to physical attack based heroes, and this includes tower-pushing (and by extension, backdooring). This is common knowledge and should be taken into account while building your lineup.

All that said, I know TL dota ignores most of these considerations, and so backdoor can become a very strong strategy. Fixing it through an artificial restriction, though, also keeps people from learning how to deal with it.

P.S. That's not to say that the host shouldn't decide the rules. If it's your house, you get to set the house rules. Common sense.
Compilers are like boyfriends, you miss a period and they go crazy on you.
BottleAbuser
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1888 Posts
July 14 2008 01:23 GMT
#2936
Another consideration: if you're pushing one side, and another side is being backdoored, what does that mean? It means the other team has 1 less defender. And a single hero push is slower than a 5 hero push. If your team is strong enough to be pushing, then with a defender less you should be able to push and tp back without losing your tower, or push two sides and give up one. Otherwise, you just got a free kill. Maybe. There's always a drawback to any strategy, and backdooring has some too.

Consider also that KOTL's ult is awesome for counterpushing while defending. Seriously, now that's fucking imba: defend and push at the same time!
Compilers are like boyfriends, you miss a period and they go crazy on you.
SK.Testie
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada11084 Posts
July 14 2008 04:22 GMT
#2937
One disabler usually can't stop a backdoor solo. Especially if it's an invis user who sits around the base with a gem.

Backdoor play actually favours a player like me because I am very often a speedy DPSer who out CS's everyone by over 9000 CS. By allowing it I would be giving myself another advantage. But I think it's fairly gay and I'd dislike sneaking in with clinkz and destroying someones base while they're all pushing mid so I'd rather keep away from it. The second they TP I just sit around, kill their jungle, run back to their base... and repeat. I agree with the -10% rule on towers.

Also: BD doesn't necessarily make games quicker. (An excuse given for why they BD). I've had instances where it most definitely has prolonged games by over 20 minutes due to the constant skirmish back and forth play where no team can really move due to fear of BD. So they sit around, ward up, then afterwards they can't gain any ground.

There's pros and cons. But again, i'll just stick to house rules.
Social Justice is a fools errand. May all the adherents at its church be thwarted. Of all the religions I have come across, it is by far the most detestable.
BottleAbuser
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1888 Posts
July 14 2008 05:08 GMT
#2938
Backdooring doesn't necessarily make the game shorter, agreed. I still think it's an aspect of the game that shouldn't be artificially ignored, though. Banning backdoor is similar, in my eyes, to saying that you can't have more than 1 level-4 item because it would make a certain hero imba. Sure, it definitely changes the game and opens up more possibilities if you allowed more items, but it makes it possible for one guy to do too much, right?

It really isn't hard to stop backdoor. There are certain (rare!) cases where it's actually the perfect strategy, and hard to stop, but those are usually only when the opponent opens himself up to it (not carrying portals, not planting wards, refusing to respond to it to push another side (but being too weak to push it anyways), etc). This stuff is imba until you learn how to deal with it, and once you do learn how to deal with it, you rarely see it any more because its so easy to stop (4 pool anyone?).

The cases when one guy can ignore 5 guys pounding on him to break down several towers and start going after raxes are cases where the guy should turn around and kill everyone by himself and should have actually ended the game a long time ago. The backdooring isn't the issue here, it's one overfarmed dude not knowing when to fight.
Compilers are like boyfriends, you miss a period and they go crazy on you.
SK.Testie
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada11084 Posts
July 14 2008 05:46 GMT
#2939
Not exactly. I hate theorycrafting but i'll try to describe an actual situation that happened (multiple times with different heros). i.e. as before: it's late game. Say clinkz is better than most players and has farmed Midas / MKB / Str Treads / Skadi: Say he's 22-0 while his team is a combined 4-30. While other players only have one good item or so. But clinkz team is very weak and the skillsets are off for a team battle. In a 5v5 they might win, but are more likely to lose. So Clinkz carries a gem and runs around at 500+ MS nearly invincible and can take down buildings ASAP. He can run to all 3 lanes in the blink of an eye and is pretty much invincible without extreme coordination because no 1-2 heros can manage to kill him in time. He is very, very likely to escape.

So continuing with this, the team suffering from the BDing clinkz must stick together at all times, because they cannot fight him alone and die fairly quickly. This basically completely nullifies their entire offense until they deal with him. And they cannot sit around all game waiting to kill a clinkz they do not even know is there due to his ward killing abilities. Thus letting the other team farm at will while they completely stagnate. Whereas if the rule was banned they could push in peace win or lose a team fight: rather than BoT every time neither team getting a kill as they move from base, watch him run, then repeat the process.

I think it to be very appropriate & the right decision to ban them in our games due to varying skills of players. While other games may not need the rule, in our games I think it's a good rule that makes the game more fun and more epic. I really just think it is the right decision to keep it banned in our games.

Remember, we all pretty much -random which gives our games some wacky ass lineups and players have varying skills. With chosen tier 1 lineups it's obviously much easier to stop as it's usually never even a remotely a threat in those types of games.
Social Justice is a fools errand. May all the adherents at its church be thwarted. Of all the religions I have come across, it is by far the most detestable.
Dark.Carnival
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States5095 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-07-14 06:30:25
July 14 2008 06:29 GMT
#2940
Meh, keep BD banned in our games. Basically if you have the need to backdoor you're either in a position where you're losing and are desperate, or you're so strong you should have already won the game. Either way there is no call for it, and for TL games it's just annoying, so make it simple and keep it out of our games.

Although I don't even play anymore so what do I care? ;x

!! although if it's a pub game I could care less.
@QxGDarkCell ._.
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