Profile of Marcus2389

Hey blitz.

We thought about that a lot. The way it worked on gamereplays was that certain users, who were also tourney winners, received a badge of "Expert" players. Everytime a replay with them involved was posted the game got marked with the "Expert" tag.

The problem there was that after a few years we ended up creating a strict and elitè group of players (some of them totally inactive but still "Experts" standing to the general rules of Gamereplays) and they were not seen well by a lot of community members. (it always happens when you make a group of the "bests").

When we created COH2.ORG we decided we would have not want such an elitè group of players nor a badge for them on our forums (We had a private group that included top coh1 players, people who covered a key role in the coh1 community and representatives from other communities but after some months we decided to close that group).

We are certainly not totally done with this: we planned to create a more robust replay system and we could still bring into discussion a way for the best players to get their replays featured (e.g. with a public votation after "x" player wins a tournament).

The problem right now is that our coding team is quite small and it's really time consuming to develop even the core features of our website (we still need proper VODS and EVENTS systems on COH2.ORG).

Our replay parser for example is still broken and Seb is employed full time in RL, which means that he doesn't have much spare time to fix it.

Hey Babaroga,

Thanks for replying, I'll explain you why your post got invisibled (I admit I should have toned down the tone of my post a bit btw).

As far as I heard, when people suggest possible problem is beta they get ignored.

This has been constant problem since P.Q. got on board

When I read your post I felt you implied two things: the first one being that there is a correlation between balance problems and the fact PQ got on board, which is, from all the information I know, wrong because Peter is working at Relic even before Company of Heroes 2 went out and because, working myself in strict contact with Relic from years, I assure you the work he has personally done so far was way better than what we could ever hope for and way better than what any other Relic dev has done since COH1. (e.g. He literaly changed the whole combat system of COH2 which was very slow and stagnant - garrison covers, too low dps of squads - turning it into a dynamic and fluid system that the high majority of players prefer to the old one).

From how I read your post I felt you also implied directly (by the way you wrote the sentences I quoted) that there is a correlation between "beta testers getting ignored" (something that in any case you have no idea about since you are not in the balance beta for your own admission) and the fact that this is somewhat caused by Peter's presence, which again is based on rumors you hear, unless someone is breaking the NDA we had to sign. (and again, being in the beta process I can tell you that Peter is one of the most communicative developers at Relic since the game initially came out)

So, since your post was mostly based on your assumptions and considering how easily they could have been interpreted (directly or indirectly) the way I did by someone else with stronger "forum warriors skills" than mine (and considering both the assumptions would directly attack the role and professionality of a specific Relic developer) I decided to invisible your post.

There is no personal issue and I'm happy you asked for clarification and explained me your point of view to better let me understand what you actually meant.

WIFIDI if this shit doesn't stop i'm going to start spamming insults at these soviet fanboy assholes. you make everyone else's posts that get insulting invisible why not freakadella and this fucking retard's?

Because we sleep too. I'll point this thread to other moderators, there are tons of posts that are just disruptive and add nothing to the discussion.

A warning directed to many people here: we will take moderation of the Balance forums very seriously: use common sense, respect other users and write whatever is your point of view in a polite and mannered way or we won't tolerate your presence on our forums.

We want these forums to be constructive and useful for our users and we will take all the necessary actions to get rid of forum warriors who spend all their time attacking each other here rather than playing the game.

There was no need to start this whole flame between users. If you have nothing to add to the discussion then please do not flood threads with useless comments. I'm locking this now since it served its purpose.

Keep in mind we decided to apply a stronger moderation on the Balance forums due to all the amount of flames/harassing posts lately to ensure those forums keep being a place where people could discuss about balance rather than they becoming an open field for forum warriors.

Hey Rooger, welcome to COH2.ORG