PvP Tournament...

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- Generally about pvp - Poland and the outside: Never forget that you're mostly playing within your own community. Also, never forget what that means for lag (location). And above all, before you enable your "let's bring it down to pure skill" idea, remember that your community is not anymore the largest. Also remember, that skill and respect go hand in hand for you to be recognized outside of your community.

Thats why im not trying to make you change the rules to pure steel WvW, Im just saying duel would be a lot more interesting if you allowed gear switching during the fight especially if you play 8pots (=longer duel). When doing an international tournament you might want to consider different rules and find a compromise. Thats what we did when organizing one in 2002 i belive. It was a bit easier becouse it was a Europan one as far as i remember.

Lag in diablo is horribly #$%&ty no matter if you play your neighbour or a japanese guy.

Oh, and I think we still might be the biggest community despite the fact that we are dead. But not sure, havent seen POL-1 for a few months ;p

Now I see you write about many years ago, how it was, and how it should've been and all that, but let me say that back then there were other players around, whom you might not even know about. The lack of mutual trust just hasn't allowed you to come in contact with them. So don't think that he who was or he who is "the best" dueler is really polish. Might be, might be not. That's the facts.

Of course. But the tournament i mentioned was cancelled after group stage because no foreigner left the group ;p. Hopfully there will be some good, creative players in this tournament, too bad no one signed me in despite sending the form ;p. Might gonna have to visit Diablo LE some day ;]

for example Antihero in 2000-2001 revolutionized the melee rogue into a rogue shooting arrows(bow rogue back in 2000 = huhh??).

LOL melee rogue? For the sake of our discussion Im not gonna comment on this one;)

The way I see it now, a polish player will enter this tourney with the same items as the other polish players in the same tourney. Please don't do that.

Dont worry most polish people kept their own items despite playing duels in duplicated ones. Im quite sure they will dig them up.

When german activity decreased in 2006,

Activity? The last time i saw more than 5-7 people in DEU-1 was 2004, most of them were d2x players.

I checked the east gateway, in search of duke and astra-lynn, they would supposedly be the best ones there. Then I entered the channel Diablo LE and I remember there were quite some players there. My first duels in east were very interesting, I had never seen lag like that before, it was new to me. 8 pots was a must for the players there. And me, connecting from a different continent made 0 pots more or less nonsense. I tried with 4 pots, the duels didn't last very long. Lag spikes convinced one other player he could take a shot. After two seconds, the same thing happens with the other player, the game becomes agressive and duels didn't last long. Duels with lag of those proportions are usually fast and agressive (even with 8 pots).

Once again the distance doesnt make such big of a difference. Its more about the buggy game mechanics affected by gaming style (spamming spells like phasing, someone mentioned the shadow something, it occurs when spamming spells as well, making a lot of turns while walking).

[quote]So, before insisting that true skill is 0 pots (which I agree with in a virtual hamachi situation or "same-country" connections), think about the difference in locations that nowadays most people have because of the decreased activity.[/qoute]

8 pots can be even more skillfull than 0, if you are ok with the fact that you might be playing a duel for 1,5 h ;p