How much do you play Element TD?

[Karawasa]

How many hours/games do you play per day/week?

Back when I just played the game, I would play several games a day (over everything else). Members of my clan loved it, so I was pulled in. During the early stages of 3.0 development, Icefrog, Pendragon_, Werehamster, Naz etc. would play it constantly, and so I was dragged into their games a lot. After that though, I really cut back on playing it, eventually stopping completely after 3.0.

[Guest Warcryptic]

I cant play allot because the cooler on my pc is broken so cant complete anygames without shutting down. And with work and everything ( work 6 days a week) so wont get a chance, if i can get on my fathers pc i allways play etd.

[Cisz]

I used to play like 3 games a day, but recently I've got so much to do with organizing and developing that I don't find the time.

[Guest mrchak]

I still love 3.0, play a few times a week, always "sr chaos hero" because its so fun. I used to go through periods where I played 2 times a day for weeks at a time, but that hasn't happened for a while. I always play public games on Battlenet, usually with my buddy PsycoBlade.

[Guest Sancdar]

I only play occasionally, I'm kind of bad now because I can never remember exactly what to build to just kill stuff. Trying to move to a faster overall strategy is much harder than it sounds...

[Guest Akatsuki]

I play like twice a day. I always die around 30 because I go Very Hard and random. Which is something I can't do. But I do love the challenge of it. (I have a stiff joints in my hand. Which prevents my hand to move as fast as I think)

[ocmassreo]

hmmm

i play the 3.0, 5-10 times a day

and i play dota 15 times a day

+ 6 - 8 times anothers maps

(week end more )

i play 17h (finish my job ) -> 3 h00 or 4h00 pm

with some pause but i play a lot w3 tft i love it

[Guest Sancdar]

a game of etd is like an hour, a game of dota is at least 30 minutes even in -em...that's way too much time playing wc3.

[holepercent]

i only have time for the odd game or two during the weekends. preparing for major school exams.. but i used to play 6 games every weekened.

getting rusty now.. always can't remember what towers i can build with the elements i get (on random).

[ocmassreo]

a good game of dota, it 's 50mn mini on normale mode

if it s -em 40mn

when i play with other pro dota we play 60mn mini

i make some game to 1h15mn or more

[Guest Good]

3 to 5 fulltime games (it means 40-60 minutes) a day. Sometimes I go to another city and can't play for 2-3 days... I'll be off for a week from tomorrow. When I start studying for exams after the summer I'll be able to play 3-5 games a week. Still they will be good games.

[Guest minddrifter]

I just found Element TD about 3 weeks ago, give or take a week, and at first I played it damn near non-stop, here lately life has been more hectic and work more often, but I still tend to play at least 1 or 2 games a day. My last day off I think I played about 5-7 games. My friends I live with busted into my room and said I needed an intervention, lol. I have another friend who plays it quite often, although his pc is real slow so he doesn't play near as often as he would like, he's the one who got me started playing TDs. Then after I found Element, I didn't care about any other mauls/TD. Element TD ftw.

[Exodus]

I used to play it 1 or 2 times a day ... but not anymore ... I just got bored because I won like 90% of my games in -sr and -vh mode. (altough I'm not that good, I completly lack the micro to increase you interest, but for the average public player its enough)

[Cisz]

@Exodus - Maybe you want to join a certain clan? I've been beaten quite a bit since I joined, maybe there is a better player for you too?

Or when was the last time you have seen a scoreboard look like this:

(Replay for that.)

[Guest boomboom1]

I think i play just 1 game every day and do 1 challenge..

[Guest xSolmyRx]

Wow. I can honestly say I haven't played in over a month.

Work is retarded these days. Then I come home all exhausted and play about 2 games of DotA.

Will start playing more ETD from now on.

At least one game per day.

Apologies for not being active on the forum either. :/

[Guest GipFace]

I don't play too much anymore because I keep getting kicked from games. I'm too good. =/

4.0 better have kick protection for me. Actually, there's a better idea. I brought it up before on the old forum, and I'll bring it up again: Please scrap -kick.

[Karawasa]

Already done .

[Cisz]

@GipFace - Ok, maybe I'll smurf you for a month and do the following:

Talk trash about your sexual orientation, your mothers sexual orientation and the size of you car.

I assume that you will squelch me after 5 waves, so I continue to advertize racist propaganda and making comments about the size of your worker to all the other players in the game. You will notice that for no obvious reason players will start to leave your game at this point.

If I end up in a game that has no spammable player left, I'll stop using message macros and go over to "!"-spamming your minimap.

And I will master the art of mini-lagging, by using timed downloads.

You won't last a week.

Wasn't it you that kicked people for "sucking at the map"?

@Karawasa - I want to kick people that spam other players or insult them, post pornographic links, make racist comments, are hurtfull and mean, don't obey to the previously defined game rules, like "no water" or "no racing", make the game unplayable by causing mayor connection troubles, or are people that I don't want to play with.

If I don't have the option to forcefully remove players, this will lead to one of the following two: Either I end up in a game I don't want to play, or I leave, which in my case might be the end for all other players, as I'm the host.

And that's just me. Most people wouldn't even consider staying in the game.

In other words - imo kick has to stay.

[Guest GipFace]

Wasn't it you that kicked people for "sucking at the map"?

Because my game name is "EleTD pros only!" or something like that, or they ask "what is -vh sr?" (This is why I want the numerical difficulty presets -d0 to -d9) Games which I am kicked from don't have any rules stated beforehand. This happens even when I ask "Can I build at front?" and the host says yes. Of course, he doesn't realize what's coming to him, but that's not the point.

It's like playing Line Tower Wars and people say no air. All right, I'll shaman+ghoul their asses and then they say that's cheap, even though they didn't say no attackers. Of course, I don't get kicked because I am smart enough to kill Red via conventional means before everyone else.

I don't think the host should wield all the power. If you want to keep kick in, have a voting system where majority needs to declare it to be activated. (4 people for 7 and 8 players, 3 people for 5 and 6 players, 2 people for 3 and 4 players, kick turned off on 1v1 mode)

Or hell, implement a spam filter in the map that will autokick if you flood with 3 lines in 5 seconds.

EDIT: Okay, since I am an advocate of custom switches, how about implementing -kind (-k)? The next wave always starts after 45 seconds. If you finish beforehand, you'll just have to wait it out.

That will end competitive play, but whatever. I think the switch is needed because some people just want to finish the map.

[Guest Sancdar]

Scrapping -kick wouldn't make much of a difference. The last few times I've been kicked was with CKick.

[holepercent]

i haven't kicked anyone or got kicked by anyone...i host most of my games ... all voting systems are open to disputes and may be abused.

-k... interesting... then i'll just micro well, kill everything early (at VII or even / ) and sell and rebuild repeatedly...

[Karawasa]

I think the vote kick option seems to be the best balance. There should be the power to kick an annoying or game ruining person, but the host should not have sole discretion.

Back on-topic though, I'm playing about 2-3 games a day if I'm not busy with other things.

[Guest pyrlix]

I play every day 3 Rounds of Element TD with a Friend but please build in a Gold Transfermode because when i'm loosing i want to give him my all Gold but how?Its in every TD possible but not in Element TD

[Cisz]

Eletd is a survivor map. You are supposed to kill your friend. Horribly. No seriously, this map is not for coop play.