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I'm around, so I'll be vouching people starting from yakcyll~
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Bearded Elder29903 Posts
Stancel, drop me a vouch.
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On September 13 2013 15:03 Firebolt145 wrote:Show nested quote +On September 13 2013 15:01 MotherOfRunes wrote:On September 13 2013 14:59 Firebolt145 wrote:For reference, this stuff is all still 100% relevant: Dota 2 is fun, but it's even more fun when you're playing with people you know. However, some of us may not be fortunate enough to have friends who play Dota, and thus are forced to play with random people game after game, thrown into the hot pot that is matchmaking. For new people, that can be daunting, not knowing whether to trust someone when when he tells you to build a Vanguard because 'it is good on every strength hero'. And for veterans, well, you should know what I'm talking about.
Well, we at TL pride ourselves on being a relatively/mostly mature and intelligent group of gamers. We want to take advantage of that, and that is why we started the TLIH.
First and foremost, what are the prerequirements to joining?
We have one rule - don't be a dick. We will not hesitate to kick you.
There is no skill prerequirement. We accept everyone from people brand new to Dota to veterans and pros. It is advisable however that if you are brand new and don't know any heroes yet, you should probably dip your toe in bot games to learn a few heroes and how the game basically works. If you are completely new and haven't had the time to play bot games first, you can spectate the game and ask the other spectators for help to understand the game.
When you eventually start playing as a newbie, please make yourself known to the lobby host as it could help him balance the teams around you. Also make sure to let your team captain know when he starts drafting heroes; tell him early on what heroes you're somewhat familiar with so he can try to implement them into his draft.
So what can you expect by joining us?
Our drafts vary from one to the next. Some captains tend to pick drafts following the top tier competitive heroes of the current metagame, whereas others like to experiment with fun themes and picks in their drafts. Examples of fun drafts would be 'the blue team', 'the lightning theme', 'the bug theme' - you get the idea.
However, regardless of what happens in the draft, our actual gameplay is relatively high level - many of you may even call it 'tryhard'. Aggressive/defensive trilanes (2-1-2 lanes are extremely rare in our inhouses), warding and counterwarding, smokes, roaming supports...all of this is fair game, even encouraged. Item choices like fast Mekansms and Pipes and whatnot should be considered. Our heroes may occasionally be silly but our gameplay is usually serious.
That said, please remember that we have many newbies who will have no idea what to do until you explain it to them, and even then they will get it wrong. That's natural, Dota is a hard game. You may well have to hold their hand very closely and spoonfeed them every little bit of information in their first games. Embrace it. and for reference the "dont be a dick thing" is still highlighted but not taken too serious (if people know this dick) There's friendly banter between people who know each other and there's being a dick. We won't always get it right but we try.
nobody talks or cares about friendly banter
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On September 13 2013 15:04 739 wrote:
Stancel, drop me a vouch.
did it before I posted :<
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Bearded Elder29903 Posts
On September 13 2013 15:11 Stancel wrote:did it before I posted :<
Thanks sweetie <3
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On September 13 2013 15:08 MotherOfRunes wrote:Show nested quote +On September 13 2013 15:03 Firebolt145 wrote:On September 13 2013 15:01 MotherOfRunes wrote:On September 13 2013 14:59 Firebolt145 wrote:For reference, this stuff is all still 100% relevant: Dota 2 is fun, but it's even more fun when you're playing with people you know. However, some of us may not be fortunate enough to have friends who play Dota, and thus are forced to play with random people game after game, thrown into the hot pot that is matchmaking. For new people, that can be daunting, not knowing whether to trust someone when when he tells you to build a Vanguard because 'it is good on every strength hero'. And for veterans, well, you should know what I'm talking about.
Well, we at TL pride ourselves on being a relatively/mostly mature and intelligent group of gamers. We want to take advantage of that, and that is why we started the TLIH.
First and foremost, what are the prerequirements to joining?
We have one rule - don't be a dick. We will not hesitate to kick you.
There is no skill prerequirement. We accept everyone from people brand new to Dota to veterans and pros. It is advisable however that if you are brand new and don't know any heroes yet, you should probably dip your toe in bot games to learn a few heroes and how the game basically works. If you are completely new and haven't had the time to play bot games first, you can spectate the game and ask the other spectators for help to understand the game.
When you eventually start playing as a newbie, please make yourself known to the lobby host as it could help him balance the teams around you. Also make sure to let your team captain know when he starts drafting heroes; tell him early on what heroes you're somewhat familiar with so he can try to implement them into his draft.
So what can you expect by joining us?
Our drafts vary from one to the next. Some captains tend to pick drafts following the top tier competitive heroes of the current metagame, whereas others like to experiment with fun themes and picks in their drafts. Examples of fun drafts would be 'the blue team', 'the lightning theme', 'the bug theme' - you get the idea.
However, regardless of what happens in the draft, our actual gameplay is relatively high level - many of you may even call it 'tryhard'. Aggressive/defensive trilanes (2-1-2 lanes are extremely rare in our inhouses), warding and counterwarding, smokes, roaming supports...all of this is fair game, even encouraged. Item choices like fast Mekansms and Pipes and whatnot should be considered. Our heroes may occasionally be silly but our gameplay is usually serious.
That said, please remember that we have many newbies who will have no idea what to do until you explain it to them, and even then they will get it wrong. That's natural, Dota is a hard game. You may well have to hold their hand very closely and spoonfeed them every little bit of information in their first games. Embrace it. and for reference the "dont be a dick thing" is still highlighted but not taken too serious (if people know this dick) There's friendly banter between people who know each other and there's being a dick. We won't always get it right but we try. nobody talks or cares about friendly banter
I don't think that's true lol
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vouch me plx, im doomblaze on ixdl
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Sorry, do you need to be vouched now to play in TLIH?
I'm Three on IXDL, would love a vouch.
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Lalalaland34491 Posts
It would be great if people would read my posts. 
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On September 13 2013 16:38 Firebolt145 wrote:It would be great if people would read my posts.
Just make it your sig
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Bearded Elder29903 Posts
You should copy-paste that ixdl post into OP me thinks.
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On September 13 2013 16:38 Firebolt145 wrote:It would be great if people would read my posts.
I'm really sorry, looked at the OP and went back a few pages but I could not find much info!
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Bearded Elder29903 Posts
On September 13 2013 03:47 Firebolt145 wrote:So ixmike contacted me with a pretty awesome proposal. He had seen this thread and asked if I would like to have TLIH implemented into the IXDL client. Naturally I jumped at the chance to have an automated MMR system that could keep track of our wins and losses and rankings, which would allow us to kick bad players like Kollin to maintain the high level that our TLIH has always aspired for. Well, not really. My first concern was exactly that; we have tried rankings and fancy algorithms and what not in the past and it has never worked well. Then ixmike told me that he could disable all those rankings and win/loss tracking and all that jazz. Yay. So what does this mean? - Fancy client - Fancy chat rooms - Easier to start games - hosts can 'start' games which people can sign up to, and it will notify everyone when a game is full - Multiple games can run simultaneously at ease - We can still do our own balancing - No ranking, no points, no win-loss tracking whatsoever - Ability to warn people for being dicks or feeding endlessly like Kollin - People can .challenge others, setting each of them as a captain, and they pick players out of a pool of people who sign up to that game - And much more, as they always say ~ So what do you need to do? 1) Head over to www.ixdl.net and sign up with a sensible username, preferably the same as your TeamLiquid username. 2) Post here saying 'my ixdl name is such-and-such and I would like a vouch.' 3) Wait for one of us to vouch you. 4) Download the client from here: http://ixdl.net/downloads/ixdl.zip5) Set your location set to North America and login. It doesn't matter if you're not actually in NA. 6) If you logged in on NA like I said, you should automatically join the TLIH league if you have been vouched in. If you logged in through somewhere else you will need to manually join the TLIH room by going through Leagues -> TLIH. If the TLIH option is greyed out, you have not been vouched yet. (There may or may not be a bug right now where you can't join the league even if you're vouched if you log on from a place other than NA. Circumvent this by logging through NA as I described.) Useful links regarding the client are as follows: Getting Started at IXDL and FAQ. Any questions?
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On September 13 2013 14:57 Firebolt145 wrote:
As for Mac/Linux; I had completely forgotten about it not being available for them and I'm a bit stumped right now about how to get around that problem. Does it not run on Wine/whatever?
I'm not fluent enough with Wine to verify with 100% certainty that it doesn't work, but my pitiful attempts to try and make it work have been failures. Technically a proper virtual machine like parallels should allow you to open the ixdl client, but it becomes really taxing on your computer and is really inconvenient if you plan on running the VM, Dota and your main Mac Area.
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On September 13 2013 15:08 MotherOfRunes wrote:Show nested quote +On September 13 2013 15:03 Firebolt145 wrote:On September 13 2013 15:01 MotherOfRunes wrote:On September 13 2013 14:59 Firebolt145 wrote:For reference, this stuff is all still 100% relevant: Dota 2 is fun, but it's even more fun when you're playing with people you know. However, some of us may not be fortunate enough to have friends who play Dota, and thus are forced to play with random people game after game, thrown into the hot pot that is matchmaking. For new people, that can be daunting, not knowing whether to trust someone when when he tells you to build a Vanguard because 'it is good on every strength hero'. And for veterans, well, you should know what I'm talking about.
Well, we at TL pride ourselves on being a relatively/mostly mature and intelligent group of gamers. We want to take advantage of that, and that is why we started the TLIH.
First and foremost, what are the prerequirements to joining?
We have one rule - don't be a dick. We will not hesitate to kick you.
There is no skill prerequirement. We accept everyone from people brand new to Dota to veterans and pros. It is advisable however that if you are brand new and don't know any heroes yet, you should probably dip your toe in bot games to learn a few heroes and how the game basically works. If you are completely new and haven't had the time to play bot games first, you can spectate the game and ask the other spectators for help to understand the game.
When you eventually start playing as a newbie, please make yourself known to the lobby host as it could help him balance the teams around you. Also make sure to let your team captain know when he starts drafting heroes; tell him early on what heroes you're somewhat familiar with so he can try to implement them into his draft.
So what can you expect by joining us?
Our drafts vary from one to the next. Some captains tend to pick drafts following the top tier competitive heroes of the current metagame, whereas others like to experiment with fun themes and picks in their drafts. Examples of fun drafts would be 'the blue team', 'the lightning theme', 'the bug theme' - you get the idea.
However, regardless of what happens in the draft, our actual gameplay is relatively high level - many of you may even call it 'tryhard'. Aggressive/defensive trilanes (2-1-2 lanes are extremely rare in our inhouses), warding and counterwarding, smokes, roaming supports...all of this is fair game, even encouraged. Item choices like fast Mekansms and Pipes and whatnot should be considered. Our heroes may occasionally be silly but our gameplay is usually serious.
That said, please remember that we have many newbies who will have no idea what to do until you explain it to them, and even then they will get it wrong. That's natural, Dota is a hard game. You may well have to hold their hand very closely and spoonfeed them every little bit of information in their first games. Embrace it. and for reference the "dont be a dick thing" is still highlighted but not taken too serious (if people know this dick) There's friendly banter between people who know each other and there's being a dick. We won't always get it right but we try. nobody talks or cares about friendly banter
and nobody cares about you, i thought you already realized that
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vouch me plz, im markaunit on ixdl
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Very nice TLIH is my favorite place to play dota so far.I already got an ixdl account but i used a different(not 100%safe maybe) pc and a different steam account can i shift pcs and steam accounts (with 1 and only ixdl account ofc) or its banable i read the rules isnt clear enough.
Anyway vouch me please and we ll see my ixdl is NoGodsorKOnlyMan
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Lalalaland34491 Posts
You will be using your IXDL account to sign up to games so beyond that it doesn't matter what computer or steam account you use.
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