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Havox said:
Nice, upvoted, worth a try.

But I do believe the issue is with Mweb and not Valve. The way I see it the co-ordinater works fine, it's a pure server performance issue.
It's also not consistent, I played 2 games last night and it was fine, which, makes me believe there is a cluster or group of servers that simply doesn't perform as well as others. It all depends which one you get to use when you queue up.

Has anybody tried getting a response from Mweb rather?
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They've become completely silent about the servers lately. Last night I had 3 games safe to leave due to poor network conditions. Surely they are supposed to put a cap on the amount of games running on the servers to prevent all this bottlenecking?
 
Directly from Mweb Gaming Zone:
Valve manages the servers, They are aware of the issues, if they are planning on doing anything about it is not for me to say.
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shotalot said:
Directly from Mweb Gaming Zone:
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I think I found this article too, but it was from June. So I'm pretty sure Valve still manages the servers remotely. Question is, if anything has been done is another story.
 
scruff304 said:
I think I found this article too, but it was from June. So I'm pretty sure Valve still manages the servers remotely. Question is, if anything has been done is another story.
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Its directly from them, I messaged them on Facebook earlier.
 
shotalot said:
Its directly from them, I messaged them on Facebook earlier.
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Ah OK.

Well lets hope the valve catches wind of this thread and something happens.

Feel free to share it to your Dota mates to get them to upvote too.
 
It is so k@k playing a game with 40ms ping just to have the next game with a ping of 2500ms.
Anyone know if this is just a local server problem on worldwide?
 
I played a few games last night and the night before without any issues from about 5pm-7pm both nights.

I see there is some funny thing that kicks out 2-7 people as the game starts but I wasn't effected by this. The only problem with this is that if you don't pause immediately the game is not counted and you are free to leave which people do when they start to lose. Not sure whats causing the DC ISP, Server, a patch and not sure why I haven't been effected by this maybe just luck.
 
Scary_Turtle said:
I played a few games last night and the night before without any issues from about 5pm-7pm both nights.

I see there is some funny thing that kicks out 2-7 people as the game starts but I wasn't effected by this. The only problem with this is that if you don't pause immediately the game is not counted and you are free to leave which people do when they start to lose. Not sure whats causing the DC ISP, Server, a patch and not sure why I haven't been effected by this maybe just luck.
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Ill have a look and test if this happens during the day or at night. So frustrating.
Playing EU, ping is normal. Watched a game, ping's 40ms. Guess it's just certain servers being effected.
 
Ok Guys, 12 days to go till next Major patch and Monkey King.

Let’s start the Nerf/Buff prediction game….
Let’s limit it to a few heroes only.

Here’s my picks…

Nerf to Drow Aura. With the right line-up is simply just OP
Nerf to Ogre base armor/regen. To prevent it from being a support that can trade blows with an off-laner. (Also makes him less of a roamer)
Nerf to Slark. More than likely a CD nerf to Shadow Dance, to prevent him from a pick-off every 60 sec with no fear of dying.

Armor/Movement Speed Buff’s to both Lina and Crystal. Pretty sure Valve wants its Posters Girls back in the pro scene.

My “Wishful thinking list” :

Spectre Buff. Just a bit more agility gain please 
Lycan Buff. Not because he needs it but purely because I want it. Maybe something that allows him to fight, rather than just push. (A slow would be nice)
And then maybe an Agh's Upgrade to Terrorblade. Let it give him another Illusion with his W, so he's relevant before Manta.

Lastly, good chance Iron Talon will be nerfed. Simply to good for the gold spent.

What you guys think?
 
Havox said:
Ok Guys, 12 days to go till next Major patch and Monkey King.

Let’s start the Nerf/Buff prediction game….
Let’s limit it to a few heroes only.

Here’s my picks…

Nerf to Drow Aura. With the right line-up is simply just OP
Nerf to Ogre base armor/regen. To prevent it from being a support that can trade blows with an off-laner. (Also makes him less of a roamer)
Nerf to Slark. More than likely a CD nerf to Shadow Dance, to prevent him from a pick-off every 60 sec with no fear of dying.

Armor/Movement Speed Buff’s to both Lina and Crystal. Pretty sure Valve wants its Posters Girls back in the pro scene.

My “Wishful thinking list” :

Spectre Buff. Just a bit more agility gain please 
Lycan Buff. Not because he needs it but purely because I want it. Maybe something that allows him to fight, rather than just push. (A slow would be nice)
And then maybe an Agh's Upgrade to Terrorblade. Let it give him another Illusion with his W, so he's relevant before Manta.

Lastly, good chance Iron Talon will be nerfed. Simply to good for the gold spent.

What you guys think?
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Drow has been nerfed in base damage, doubt they will nerf the aura but it would be nice to not get raped in 20 min
Ogre base damage will most probably be nerfed and his regen will be the same I guess, His main role is being a tank support.
Wouldn't mind a nerf to slark Q short cooldown and removes all nerfes
Spectre is horse **** at the moment. Meta is too much teamfight less farm and lastly I doubt they will nerf iron talon unless the meta goes back to average 55 min games which allows for longer farming

This is just my opinion about it at the moment
 
Hades911 said:
Drow has been nerfed in base damage, doubt they will nerf the aura but it would be nice to not get raped in 20 min
Ogre base damage will most probably be nerfed and his regen will be the same I guess, His main role is being a tank support.
Wouldn't mind a nerf to slark Q short cooldown and removes all nerfes
Spectre is horse **** at the moment. Meta is too much teamfight less farm and lastly I doubt they will nerf iron talon unless the meta goes back to average 55 min games which allows for longer farming

This is just my opinion about it at the moment
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I don't think Spectre is so bad, maybe not her glory days but if you can get a quick radiance still very viable. If the game goes beyond 45min you should win it for your team.

Anyway, I'm happy to do many questionable things for the Lycan set if anybody is lucky enough to draw one from treasure 4.
I MUST HAVE IT
 
I've been playing Dota for just over 2 months now. Play almost daily with some friends who started more or less the same time. We're all starting to reach lvl 20 now or just reached it.

Had a discussion amongst ourselves about starting to play ranked on SA servers. We are hoping that the environment would be a bit less toxic than the unranked due to is being more structured and that matchmaking would pair us with players of similar skill.

Was in the Johannesburg chatroom last night and started chatting to the online guys about this. And basically got told that SA Ranked does not exist. There were various reasons given including:

* People are apprehensive about the implications of losing mmr and playing rank generally
* SA Ranked is "broken" (no elaboration, so unsure what is meant by this)
* SA player pool too small, hence pods get repetitive as everyone tends to stay around the same mmr levels

We toyed around with the idea of trying to get some ranked matches going by getting everyone interested in ranked to search for a match at 20:00.

We shared the idea with the Cape Town channel and got shut down pretty hard, due to SA Ranked being "broken".

No matches fired last night, but we said we'd try again tonight at 20:00. Unfortunately, I won't be around at that time.

I'd like to hear the opinions of the guys here? Is it worthwhile trying to informally arrange for ranked matches to be held every night at 20:00 in an effort to revive SA Ranked?

Is the player pool large enough? I guestimate there are about 1,500 players, based on the number of people in the various chatrooms. (was around 900 for CPT, 700 for JNB).
 
Howzit

Well, very noble of you, but you about 4months late.
There was a whole movement called #OSR (Only search ranked, might even be a website up somewhere)

They did a good job to get the whole community involved, and for a few days/weeks there was maybe some hope. Then, sadly it just died a quick death. It was quite simply just easier to wait 3min for game than 30.

So yes, I think we all wish Ranked SA was "A thing", but sadly it's not.

But, don't let me stop you from trying, by all means, would be great if we could play ranked as a community.
 
Thanks for the reply. Yeah, 4 months back I wasn't playing yet.

In your opinion, was the longer waiting time the main contributor to #OSR dying? If it was set to specific days / specific times, would that improve the situation?
 
PhreakBoy said:
Thanks for the reply. Yeah, 4 months back I wasn't playing yet.

In your opinion, was the longer waiting time the main contributor to #OSR dying? If it was set to specific days / specific times, would that improve the situation?
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Found the website :

http://onlysearchranked.co.za/

Waiting times at kick-off was fine, purely because everybody had to play their 10 calibration games at the same time. Problem was, once you calibrated the pools got smaller and waiting times longer.

Then it died. Waiting times was just out of whack.
As for the games they were fun because people took it seriously.

So not sure how to help you. Even this forum tried the "search at 20:00" trick, don't think it worked.

Some advice maybe...you said you play with friends all the time. There are many people on this forum (like me and my friends) that are happy to have a standing skirmish date for Captains mode. It adds a bit of competitiveness and a different dimension. Drop me a PM if you are maybe interested.
 
Havox said:
Found the website :

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Waiting times at kick-off was fine, purely because everybody had to play their 10 calibration games at the same time. Problem was, once you calibrated the pools got smaller and waiting times longer.

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This makes sense, thanks for taking the time to explain.

Thanks for the offer on organising games too. Will discuss amongst our group and will likely be in contact.
 
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