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Title: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: iceberg2008 on December 09, 2011, 05:04:49 AM
I?m a DOTSer from China, recently our platform have a post of English and it?s surprised me。
?Does other country's people also play DOTS?!!?
Then I search the keyword ?Defence of The Shrines? on Google, and Google direct me here....

So....may I presume to start a communicate post here?It's just like say hello to you...
emmm....I?m studying English now, and planing to take an IELTS exam。
If I have any language error, please correct me....

Well, I have to prepare for my English language course now(this afternoon)
I will check this post on the night.....


by the way....what?s the member of this platform nationality?
the post of our platform is using English but the starter is an Korean .....
It?s make me confused....
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: ApharmdB on December 09, 2011, 05:47:44 AM
Welcome :) I post on touhou.cc too using the same name and play in HF too. The Korean player that you saw was Smile and he played here for a while too. Yes there are DotS players outside of HF/11 but we are from all over the place, e.g. USA, places in Europe, other places in South East Asia, etc. Some play in Garena, here we play on a pvpgn server (details in another post on this board). From China, your ping to the host bots that we use would be about 100-200ms though, much higher than your pings in HF rooms. Oh we also try to update the English DotS wiki here. It should be updated for v0.977 soon since I've just released the English version of the map.
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Dular on December 09, 2011, 07:14:29 AM
Howdy stranger.  We have people from all over the world.  I'm from Canada, and some of our players are from Australia!  If you would like to play a game with us(or us with you if possible), hop in our  IRC channel (http://webchat.ppirc.net/?channels=dots-meido) if you want to talk to us.  We come here to organize games.

Don't be surprised if it takes a long time though.  Foreign dots groups are small and far away.  We only have about 20 total people on occasionally so it is hard to get a 5v5 game going.  We play .967 a lot because it is 4v4 as a result.
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Pesco on December 09, 2011, 07:56:42 AM
Welcome to MotK. As Dular said, we organise our games on IRC before logging into Bnet. Come by during the week to just meet some of us. On the weekends we might be able to get games going more regularly when people don't have studies or work to take care of.
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Dormio Ergo Sum on December 09, 2011, 08:14:56 AM
Nice to meet you.

As Dular says, we have people from all over the place, ranging from the Netherlands to Death IslandAustralia.
We occasionally play with a few members from the Korean DotS community too.

We play .967 a lot because it is 4v4 as a result.
Pretty sure that isn't the only reason. :V
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: iceberg2008 on December 09, 2011, 08:23:19 AM
(the Quick Reply is too quick to me..... why the text always refresh the page, I type this words three times.....(#-.-))

I wanna ask a question...how many DOTSer of this board?(approximately)
It?s seems like a few of people in this board... is this a wrong time to visit to you?
or....I?d better consider about the time different?

In fact, I?m going to study abroad in future, if there are enough guys also play DOTS abroad, I will feel more secure。
Play a game of DOTS every night is a habit to me, just like my parents have got to used to watch TV after dinner。
I am worrying about that,if it difficult to find a match of Dots
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Dormio Ergo Sum on December 09, 2011, 08:30:31 AM
Forever 7.

Well, I'm not actually sure how many people we have off the top of my head. Let's see...

Me, Infinity, PX, Amra, Shadowbringer, Helepolis, Pesco, Dular, Panda, Loolicon, DollS, Trance, ActionDan, YoukaiJesus, Yukarin, Thanuris, RV29, Apharmdb, Magna, headcrabs, WhiteWish, FFMaster, Kaito, and some others that I'm probably forgetting.
Of course, some play more frequently than others, so I guess ~20 would be a good estimate.
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: iceberg2008 on December 09, 2011, 08:42:07 AM
well...in fact, I think the ver0.977 of map can also play (ignore the lack of members....)
we can close two seats of BL(we call BL to shrine of Reimu)and SS (shrine of sanea)
0.977 and 0.967 are totally two different maps....I think the new items and new system is pretty interesting.....
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Captain Infinity on December 09, 2011, 08:44:27 AM
WELCOME TO MOTK.

Our small community (and the Korean community that came here as well) would always do good to have extra players, even though I don't play as much as I should anymore. But yeah, we don't generally play the 0.977 versions very much, and play mostly the 0.967 English versions (since most of us don't know Chinese)

よろしくね!
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: iceberg2008 on December 09, 2011, 08:49:22 AM
To Ran Yakumo&Dular

emmmmm....does GGC or other battle platform have enough member?
or just you guys play DOTS......
bad news to me.....
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Dormio Ergo Sum on December 09, 2011, 08:52:15 AM
I don't actively participate in any other DotS communities, so I am not entirely sure.
However, I do hear that there are much larger communities than ours out there.
For example, there are many players in the SEA region that play on garena and stuff.

We are rather small when it comes to being a DotS community.
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: iceberg2008 on December 09, 2011, 08:55:49 AM
To Black_Infinite-Stars

wow!uncommon event!japanese words!
どうぞよろしく,お愿いします!
なぜ外国から人が日本语で......も中国人は言った
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Doll.S CUBE on December 09, 2011, 08:59:17 AM
Hello and welcome to the MotK community Iceberg~ o/

As the others said, we have quite a bit of people here from all over the world and we're always happy to accept new players into our community.

Hmm, what else to say...oh right. When you enter our IRC make sure check the banlist using '@bans' so that you know what not to do.

I hope to see you in our games sometimes in the near future Iceberg. <3
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Captain Infinity on December 09, 2011, 09:04:15 AM
To Black_Infinite-Stars

wow!uncommon event!japanese words!
どうぞよろしく,お愿いします!
なぜ外国から人が日本语で......も中国人は言った


私は日本人ですよ!けど、私はオーストラリアに住んでいるです。
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: [Y]oukai [J]esus on December 09, 2011, 09:11:25 AM
你好!

你要来跟我们玩DotS? 在这里有很多人会跟你玩的。

...
......我的话文很查。对不起!
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: iceberg2008 on December 09, 2011, 09:12:14 AM
To Ran Yakumo

Maybe there are another larger group of DOTS.....But  ApharmdB has done a great job so I know him
he translate the 0.977g to english,it's really surprise me
our chinese translating team is lack of member, and the task of translation of new map have a long time haven't start(we think the version of 977 is not balance and stable)
I have heard that international friends are playing 0.949, but our platform have renew map to 0.977,that make me very guilty
sometimes we have done the translating of maps 0.9xx,but production has renew the map to many versions later.....

All in all,he showed me great favour。
but I don?t know he is member of your platform....
呵呵
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Helepolis on December 09, 2011, 09:16:35 AM
I?m a DOTSer from China, recently our platform have a post of English and it?s surprised me。
?Does other country's people also play DOTS?!!?
Then I search the keyword ?Defence of The Shrines? on Google, and Google direct me here....

So....may I presume to start a communicate post here?It's just like say hello to you...
Nice of you to drop by. Welcome from me too.

emmm....I?m studying English now, and planing to take an IELTS exam。
If I have any language error, please correct me....

Well, I have to prepare for my English language course now(this afternoon)
I will check this post on the night.....
Oh, IELTS exam. I assume it is for attending a University in a foreign country? Good luck on that!


by the way....what?s the member of this platform nationality?
the post of our platform is using English but the starter is an Korean .....
It?s make me confused....
English is the language we use, but we got many different people from different countries: America, Philippines, Taiwan, Australia, Netherlands, Germany, etc etc.



Yes. We are very thankful to have ApharmdB in our community as well. He is active on many boards I think. He works hard for DotS translations because he has the language skills. Other people in our community help out with the Wiki updates and such or forum.
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Dormio Ergo Sum on December 09, 2011, 09:18:44 AM
Yes, Aph is a really cool guy. :D
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Dular on December 09, 2011, 09:23:04 AM
Apharm is pretty much the link between us and the chinese dots community.  Great guy.

As for us, as I said, it's mostly .967 and .977 once Apharm has it completely translated!~
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: iceberg2008 on December 09, 2011, 09:33:03 AM
To Black_Infinite-Stars

そが.....(my poor japanese〒▽〒)
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Captain Infinity on December 09, 2011, 09:34:51 AM
ApharmdB has done a great job, he's translated 0.967 maps for us, translated changelogs, informed us of any mechanical issues and bugs with the game, set up bots for us to use and he's a good DotS player.

And yep he's a member of our community as well. We'll stab him until he gives us the translated 977 map :3

And don't worry about your Japanese, almost no one else knows a lot of Japanese here anyway.
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: iceberg2008 on December 09, 2011, 09:44:59 AM
To Corruption
Pretty good!I think Chinese is extremely hard to other country's  people。
Maybe I would play with you in the future ,now I?m living in China, and hard to play with you。
Wait the day of my international studying~( ̄︶ ̄)↗
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Helepolis on December 09, 2011, 09:45:23 AM
Need to sent that guy a gift. Like a trophy or something.
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: iceberg2008 on December 09, 2011, 09:59:11 AM
To Black_Infinite-Stars
To be honest, my japanese are too poor tounderstand post of 2ch
For communicate with Japanese friends, we always have people carry post text from Japanese website(it's usually 2ch)and translate to us。
so I always want to direct talk with international guys
especially our neighborhood Japanese
hoho( ̄▽ ̄ )
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: iceberg2008 on December 09, 2011, 10:07:33 AM
Need to sent that guy a gift. Like a trophy or something.


Ah....I just find this button.....
I can?t believe I type so many ?To XXX? over these floor.....orz

well...you mean let administrator give him a medal?
I must admit that I thought you have no this system ....before your message....
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Helepolis on December 09, 2011, 10:13:21 AM
The "quote" button is small and hidden at the top of the posts XD

Not a medal system like on most boards/forums. But a real gift. Real life gift sent to him. =)
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: iceberg2008 on December 09, 2011, 10:17:38 AM
Hello and welcome to the MotK community Iceberg~ o/

As the others said, we have quite a bit of people here from all over the world and we're always happy to accept new players into our community.

Hmm, what else to say...oh right. When you enter our IRC make sure check the banlist using '@bans' so that you know what not to do.

I hope to see you in our games sometimes in the near future Iceberg. <3

thank you,
where should I check the ban-list?
type ?@ban? or we have a button of that?on the IRC or ...?(I haven't use IRC before...sorry...)

could you carry the text of ban-list for me?
this board is English thread and I?m not sure I can find the ban-list quickly enough...
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Dormio Ergo Sum on December 09, 2011, 10:18:42 AM
Quote
[21:14:16] <dorMizuha_Shiratori> @banlist
[21:14:17] <+EX-Keine-tan> dorMizuha_Shiratori: "banlist" is (#1) Wriggle Rumia Camera Weather Lunasa QQing Brownbeta magicalness Yamame (967), or (#2) Yamame (977)
Yes, this is on the IRC.
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: iceberg2008 on December 09, 2011, 10:23:44 AM
The "quote" button is small and hidden at the top of the posts XD

Not a medal system like on most boards/forums. But a real gift. Real life gift sent to him. =)


A real gift....( ̄口 ̄)
you guys are talking about send him a gift....is that right ?
well...it's unusual for Chinese netizen....we are not used to send real gift to others for something on the net...
A little confused when I read your massage(now it?s okay)
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Dular on December 09, 2011, 10:23:57 AM
The "quote" button is small and hidden at the top of the posts XD

Not a medal system like on most boards/forums. But a real gift. Real life gift sent to him. =)

I'll mail him breakfast.
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: trancehime on December 09, 2011, 10:34:17 AM
您好!

我也中国人了

あたしも翻訳者でもApharmdB氏はすげぇよね

Hey, WELCOME! I am one of the people who originally brought DotS to this place... So you can blame me for that :P
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: iceberg2008 on December 09, 2011, 10:43:08 AM
Yes, this is on the IRC.

thanks a lot!
but....I can?t recognized DOTS girls name....
Are you guys make nickname?
I just can read some of them....
?Mizuha_Shiratori???I'm sure that?s your ID right?
?Wriggle?? Rumia? ??great !these name I can read!
?Camera Weather ???....what?s this
?Lunasa? ??emm,can also read
?QQing Brownbeta magicalness ???......confuseing me
Yamame (967), or (#2) Yamame (977)??Ah....I always forget girls? Roman words....
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: trancehime on December 09, 2011, 10:45:01 AM
Yamame是山女

Camera (item)
Weather, 天気
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Dormio Ergo Sum on December 09, 2011, 10:46:45 AM
Yes, I am dorMizuha_Shiratori.

Camera = (http://en.touhouwiki.net/images/5/53/Btnitemcamara.png)

Weather = Screw you Trance, you cut me. (Whatever Trance said)

QQing Brownbeta magicalness - Ignore these.
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Pesco on December 09, 2011, 10:48:49 AM
You guys list all the countries except South Africa. JERKS ALL OF YOU T_T.

QQing is complaining about the game after it ends. It's banned because people need to remember it's just a game and not take it personally.

Brownbeta was a person that used to play with us. He was banned for stealing wifi internet and dropping from games often.Now he's just outright banned for ignoring gameplay courtesy (and pretending he didn't know), then trying to get around his ban instead of waiting it out.

Magicalness is banned because I don't like 魔法少女 nonsense happening in our channels :V
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: iceberg2008 on December 09, 2011, 10:55:12 AM
您好!

我也中国人了

あたしも翻訳者でもApharmdB氏はすげぇよね

Hey, WELCOME! I am one of the people who originally brought DotS to this place... So you can blame me for that :P

Hello~nice to meet you!

btw....your Chinese have a little strange.... google translate tools is always confuse us like that...
you are Japanese or.... ?
All in all ,thank you for spread DOTS!
thanks for your remain focus on this map!(* ̄︶ ̄*)
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: iceberg2008 on December 09, 2011, 11:33:59 AM
You guys list all the countries except South Africa. JERKS ALL OF YOU T_T.

QQing is complaining about the game after it ends. It's banned because people need to remember it's just a game and not take it personally.

Brownbeta was a person that used to play with us. He was banned for stealing wifi internet and dropping from games often.Now he's just outright banned for ignoring gameplay courtesy (and pretending he didn't know), then trying to get around his ban instead of waiting it out.

Magicalness is banned because I don't like 魔法少女 nonsense happening in our channels :V

why we ban Yamame?
Is she overpower?
In chinese player?s group we saw her as a audience of a game....weakly enough....( ̄口 ̄)
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Helepolis on December 09, 2011, 11:36:57 AM

A real gift....( ̄口 ̄)
you guys are talking about send him a gift....is that right ?
well...it's unusual for Chinese netizen....we are not used to send real gift to others for something on the net...
A little confused when I read your massage(now it?s okay)
No problem

I have sendreal gifts to few people on this forum who I never met in real life (yet). I even sent to some artists. It is indeed strange for some cultures I guess.


why we ban Yamame?
Is she overpower?
In chinese player?s group we saw her as a audience of a game....weakly enough....( ̄口 ̄)
We ban her because she is bugged. She cause lag in game which makes it unplayable. Therefore we disabled her.
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: iceberg2008 on December 09, 2011, 12:26:51 PM

We ban her because she is bugged. She cause lag in game which makes it unplayable. Therefore we disabled her.
[/quote]

which skill is imbalanced?or the combine of yamame ?
I?d like to discuss with my net friend of platform
perhaps yamame will be remake in future
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Dormio Ergo Sum on December 09, 2011, 12:39:27 PM
We play using hostbots, and when certain things like Yamame's spiders are used in conjunction with them, it causes memory leaks which make the game near unplayable after a certain point.
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: iceberg2008 on December 09, 2011, 12:48:20 PM
We play using hostbots, and when certain things like Yamame's spiders are used in conjunction with them, it causes memory leaks which make the game near unplayable after a certain point.

ohoh....I?v got it
Is ?hostbots? your software or platform?s name?
So ,this is an optimize problem, right?
I will talk this to my friends, but I?m not sure they would deal with that problem or not...
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Dorakyura on December 09, 2011, 01:14:51 PM
"hostbots" are independent computers (server) with better internet connection who can handle hosting games with good ping for everyone.
When you are allowed to open a lobby, you can let them host a map for you and everyone can join it.

The hostbot doesn't need a slot in WC3

Yeah and Welcome and Gr?? Gott  :D
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: ApharmdB on December 09, 2011, 02:59:57 PM
ohoh....I?v got it
Is ?hostbots? your software or platform?s name?
So ,this is an optimize problem, right?
I will talk this to my friends, but I?m not sure they would deal with that problem or not...

我们通常在一个pvpgn房里玩。所谓的"hostbot"是一个由我在两个网通服务器上设置的软件,是专门用来自动主机游戏房间的(需要管理员来开启,可以在IRC里找我们)。在pvpgn里它们叫做Reisen和Sakuya,两个服务器都在美国里。中国到 Los Angeles 的网线可能不太稳,所以如果你习惯在HF玩,在这里玩可能会觉得有一点卡(其实除了那些美国/加拿大的朋友以外,我们的ping全都是这样的,只是我们玩惯了:P 用hostbot主机游戏时我们一般的ping已经可以算蛮好了。。。)

(Just explaining what the hostbot is and how pings from China to both Reisen/Sakuya might be like. Heh.)
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: iceberg2008 on December 10, 2011, 04:14:21 AM
我们通常在一个pvpgn房里玩。所谓的"hostbot"是一个由我在两个网通服务器上设置的软件,是专门用来自动主机游戏房间的(需要管理员来开启,可以在IRC里找我们)。在pvpgn里它们叫做Reisen和Sakuya,两个服务器都在美国里。中国到 Los Angeles 的网线可能不太稳,所以如果你习惯在HF玩,在这里玩可能会觉得有一点卡(其实除了那些美国/加拿大的朋友以外,我们的ping全都是这样的,只是我们玩惯了:P 用hostbot主机游戏时我们一般的ping已经可以算蛮好了。。。)

(Just explaining what the hostbot is and how pings from China to both Reisen/Sakuya might be like. Heh.)

thanks a lot for your appropriate translation XD
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: trancehime on December 10, 2011, 07:04:08 AM
btw....your Chinese have a little strange.... google translate tools is always confuse us like that...
you are Japanese or.... ?
All in all ,thank you for spread DOTS!
thanks for your remain focus on this map!(* ̄︶ ̄*)

no i just forgot most of it

haha
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: tbax704 on December 10, 2011, 02:17:05 PM
Forever 7.

Well, I'm not actually sure how many people we have off the top of my head. Let's see...

Me, Infinity, PX, Amra, Shadowbringer, Helepolis, Pesco, Dular, Panda, Loolicon, DollS, Trance, ActionDan, YoukaiJesus, Yukarin, Thanuris, RV29, Apharmdb, Magna, headcrabs, WhiteWish, FFMaster, Kaito, and some others that I'm probably forgetting.
Of course, some play more frequently than others, so I guess ~20 would be a good estimate.

Really, you've forgotten me T_T . I haven't been online since I'm busy studying for my exam (My parents not allowing me to play during exams zzZ). Anyway I can't play 977 games since my comp is crap, so probably I won't play DotS as much as usual here.

Also iceberg2008, welcome ~
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: ApharmdB on December 10, 2011, 03:07:51 PM
The 977 maps aren't -that- demanding either. The huge lag at the start is the preload system working, so that's expected (same thing happens when someone chooses Invoker in DotA). I'm suggesting printing a message informing the players about the preloading. Of course, the map could still stand to be further optimized, but that'll be an undertaking for 0.978 and 0.979, where, finally, the map will be widgetized on release.
Title: Re: Excuse me...is there DOTS abroad?
Post by: Nightkriss on December 20, 2011, 10:28:01 PM
Welcome to MotK! Poland reporting here ;P