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Post by freesoul on Jun 27, 2007 21:34:07 GMT -5
Hope these are applicable to everyone... Please pick what you think most applies to you.
Feel free to call out some well known names and let us know what you their style is.
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Post by Rycchus on Jun 28, 2007 9:31:23 GMT -5
Hahaha, I think I do all of these on different days.
Bicycle and technical.
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Post by Slartucker on Jun 28, 2007 11:28:05 GMT -5
I put technical, as it seems to describe me best, but there's an argument for tight as well.
Yaron was definitely technical as well. Tchichi/Spacca was probably tight. ExDeath was often described as full tilt, though I haven't seen it so much in his more recent play. Pig it sounds like was tight.
There are perhaps certain narrow situations when Old Hand might apply, but I doubt anyone could really claim it as their primary play style.
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Post by Rycchus on Jun 28, 2007 12:11:42 GMT -5
I'd have called you technical. Not sure which to vote for myself.
I play technical when I need to, but I wouldn't write out possibilities after every turn... Not most games anyway.
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Post by freesoul on Jun 28, 2007 12:11:44 GMT -5
Yeah i didn't want to put a "all of the above" option, since realistically, different situations/openents call for different styles.
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Post by Rycchus on Jun 28, 2007 12:16:24 GMT -5
I try not to play Newbie if I can help it
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Post by Slartucker on Jun 28, 2007 12:23:02 GMT -5
Two years ago I attempted to make a warlocks 'personality classifiation' which split warlocks into four groups -- conservative, aggressive, proactive, and reactive. I'm not sure at this point how much sense it made overall, as my increased analysis has pushed notions of personal style out of my head, and also as some of my supposedly representative warlocks switched groups -- toyotami from C to A and myself from R to P, for example. I had a long discussion with taliesin and justix attempting to tease out some of the traits the groups were based on, and which actually might be relevant and useful to evaluate, but I don't remember and don't have the outcome anymore...
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Post by Rycchus on Jun 28, 2007 13:16:28 GMT -5
You changed the rankings. My stars just got smaller!
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Post by Slartucker on Jun 28, 2007 13:45:02 GMT -5
Yes -- I decided to scale down the stars. Three is the maximum for everyone now, and you attain it farily quickly -- at 8 posts. There are also about a bazillion postcount titles to keep things interesting.
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Post by freesoul on Jun 28, 2007 14:19:07 GMT -5
I play "Newbie" all the time, mostly after a night of drinking like Toyo just pulled in our match.
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Post by awall on Jun 29, 2007 1:57:40 GMT -5
I play, or at least try to play Technical when I can. I don't always do so, because it would take way too long, but I recognize that my chances of winning go way up when I take even 5 or 10 minutes to scout a few moves forward.
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Post by Rycchus on Jun 29, 2007 7:33:51 GMT -5
^ Same, awall. In fact not so long ago I decided to try and force myself to do it every game.
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Post by Dubber on Jul 7, 2007 23:37:56 GMT -5
I'm as Random as they come (except Taliesin, he's randomer than me from my p.o.v. though I think he'd call it Technical)
I'm an Old Hand, too. At 2500+ games casting pretty much is like breathing.
Tali & I used to be the few who had used every spell in the book multiple times, according to Nawglan's archive.
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Post by toyotami on Jul 8, 2007 2:16:37 GMT -5
It is tough to choose from those styles. Another way of classifying may come down to the spells players tilt towards. I've always found Xade to go for the unorthordox (sneaky) ways to win a game (Finger, Permanent Exchantment) whereas I will almost never bother casting Permanency. After having my butt handed to me by Taliesin a few times i play the chip away style, ultimately defensive but willing to take risks to gain/regain momentum. I favor charm person and maladroit, using missiles, goblins and cause wounds to inflict damage. I rarely lose a game by more than 5 points because i rarely go for the instant kill (occasional FOD's aside, Reds...).
But how to characterize? This is a game that has a dozen exceptions to every rule: perhaps by naming the three spells you rarely want to use and the three you lean towards...
For myself, I like Charm Person, Cure Heavy and Cause Heavy,
I rarely play towards Poison, Permanency and have been gravitating away from invisiblity.
Oh and as Freesoul mentioned, get me around 12:00pm on a Thursday or Saturday night and i am drunk and newbie
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lokiv
Ronin Warlock
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Post by lokiv on Jul 11, 2007 1:21:17 GMT -5
I played chess for many years, playing with great speed even when not playing speed matches in tournaments, and got kind of a reputation for it. I used to be pretty good at magic: the gathering where you have a pretty strict time limit but are making just as complex if not more decisions so I like to move quickly, most of my old friends are at almost every pro tour for that game while I'm off in grad school land. More time for warlocks.
I'm saying if I can't think of my move in 30 seconds of looking at the game board, that's lame. I do it by assigning probabilities for their next 2-3 moves and then deciding what their playstyle dictates.
Bicycle and random here.
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