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ghindo
United States58 Posts
On July 16 2012 08:56 M7Jagger wrote: How come there are no black progamers? I've always been curious about the demographics of different gaming communities. The fighting game community always seems a lot more diverse than the RTS community, but I'm not sure why. Accessibility? Culture? Does BM language drive people away? I wish I could see a study on this. | ||
Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
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tsango
Australia214 Posts
On July 16 2012 13:58 ghindo wrote: I've always been curious about the demographics of different gaming communities. The fighting game community always seems a lot more diverse than the RTS community, but I'm not sure why. Accessibility? Culture? Does BM language drive people away? I wish I could see a study on this. Without any hard evidence to support it, I've always felt as though console FPS's had the worst BM mainly because of the demographic they attract. I have certainly seen some pretty serious DOTA BM's/Rages though | ||
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Heartland
Sweden24593 Posts
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Coffeeling
Finland250 Posts
On July 16 2012 13:58 ghindo wrote: I've always been curious about the demographics of different gaming communities. The fighting game community always seems a lot more diverse than the RTS community, but I'm not sure why. Accessibility? Culture? Does BM language drive people away? I wish I could see a study on this. A long piece, but should shed some light on potential reasons as to why: http://shoryuken.com/2011/12/12/guest-editorial-momentum-matters-a-historical-perspective-on-the-fgc-and-esports-communities-2/ | ||
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Repent702
United States1 Post
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DemigodcelpH
1138 Posts
On July 16 2012 08:56 M7Jagger wrote: How come there are no black progamers? Aphromoo is a professional LoL player who is also in the top 0.01% of League ladder, and the fighting game community also has a lot of famous black professionals. As far as SC2 Devo is the only famous black SC2 player I know of, but he's not a pro. | ||
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M7Jagger
Sweden237 Posts
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Koshi
Belgium38799 Posts
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Andre
Slovenia3523 Posts
Basically I'd like fungal to be changed so that it requires more micro from the zerg and his enemy. Here's a video of a fungal being a missile + Show Spoiler + Note that in the video, where the fungal is targetted the missile will explode, in essence it can actually pass marines. I would change this missile to hit on impact. This would first, make zerg aim the fungals and second his enemy would have to dodge. The speed of the missile could be changed, I think it's quite alright in the video shown. Imagine MKP invididually sending his marines to block the fungals from hitting all of his marines, while moving the bulk of the army away from the infestors..would be glorious. Evenly for the zerg as he would have to predict where the enemy is moving and try to hit in such a way that most of the units are hit by fungal. I don't see many flaws in this change, you can argue that it's a nerf, which it is but it can be neglected by player's skill. It would add an interesting dynamic of aiming/dodging, rearranging armies to block fungals etc. The only negative I can think of it is that is too similiar to EMP, and this is quite big I think because we want races to be different. So my next purposal would be to maybe make Fungal like a delayed aoe-spell. Like green moss would sprout from the ground and then after X seconds( 0,5 perhaps?), the FG goes into effect. This could be interesting as well, zerg would force the enemy into moving, the fungals wouldn't neccessarily even have to hit as forcing the enemy into unfavorable positions could be better for flanks. Also I'd like to make EMP a bit slower so as to add more in-battle micro/reaction based moves. I don't really think FG or EMP or anything else is imba, but I think they should require more skill to use and give the enemy to react(which has been mentioned a million times i know). Any thoughts? Would Blizzard add something like this? Why wouldn't they? Is it changing the gameplay too much? Is it too "arcade-ish" and not enough RTS-ish? Any comments would be welcome. | ||
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SpurvL
Sweden345 Posts
On July 16 2012 21:27 DemigodcelpH wrote: Aphromoo is a professional LoL player who is also in the top 0.01% of League ladder, and the fighting game community also has a lot of famous black professionals. As far as SC2 Devo is the only famous black SC2 player I know of, but he's not a pro.  DeVo is black? | ||
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Rudermensch
United States50 Posts
I had an idea regarding the proposed Ultralisk changes in the multiplayer. Now, of course we haven't as a community had a chance to play the game yet, but as I understand things the burrow-charge ability is being considered as a means of allowing Ultralisks to close in on kiting units (esp: Terran). As an added effect, it disrupts positioning and randomly moves the units it erupts under within a certain radius of the eruption point. The last part of the ability I think is potentially problematic, but I'm going to ignore it as no one has really had a chance to play it yet. If the problem is that the Ultralisk has issues with pathing and being able to close on units wouldn't a simpler solution be to alter the pathing of the Ultralisk in a manner similar to the way the Colossus is able to move over units? If the Ultralisk were able to walk over/through units such as Zerglings/Banelings and possibly Roaches and Hydras it would allow the unit not to get stuck on smaller units, fit better with it being as massive as it is supposed to be, and it would still be able to hit given it has a range of 1 so that it can attack over other melee units. It wouldn't entirely solve the issue of kiting but it would help the Ultralisk gain positioning on armies if the Zerglings/Banelings were able to swarm over their feet and not block the Ultralisk or vice-versa. I'd like to get some thoughts on this, especially if it's been proposed before, or to have it moved to its own topic if it warrants. | ||
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StarcraftGuy4U
United States74 Posts
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ghindo
United States58 Posts
On July 16 2012 19:49 Coffee Zombie wrote: Interesting read! Thanks for posting A long piece, but should shed some light on potential reasons as to why: http://shoryuken.com/2011/12/12/guest-editorial-momentum-matters-a-historical-perspective-on-the-fgc-and-esports-communities-2/  | ||
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Vaftrudner
Sweden1185 Posts
And I'm really happy that I just hit silver. It probably doesn't seem like much for you experienced players but I finally feel like I have some sort of progress | ||
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Vei
United States2845 Posts
I was just thinking that would be really sick, and perhaps a new edition annually or diannually is that a word | ||
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Deadp00l
United States1 Post
On July 17 2012 21:00 Vei wrote: Someone should make a hardcover, really nicely-bound, publishing of all of Liquipedia II I was just thinking that would be really sick, and perhaps a new edition annually or diannually is that a word Diannually isn't a word, I think you mean biannually. It really depends on whether you mean twice a year (biannually, semiannually) or once every two years (biennial). | ||
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Vei
United States2845 Posts
On July 18 2012 02:15 Deadp00l wrote: Diannually isn't a word, I think you mean biannually. It really depends on whether you mean twice a year (biannually, semiannually) or once every two years (biennial). yeah biennial is what i was looking for :B | ||
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BlindKill
Australia1508 Posts
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slimcognito2012
United States29 Posts
I think he means Debo, Destiny's friend | ||
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