Should I play on EP?

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Should I play on EP?

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I have debated playing the EP. Balances seem nice, and most people on here play. Less cheaters and cool maps is a bonus too, but all the high level players play on EP so I'm not sure if I could get a game.

Is the EP worth it for a lower level player?
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what pr are you?
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was 14 on nilla now 0 on TAD :/
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Erf. It's not really worth, I mean you won't find a game.
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You won't be able to find a game..... At pr 28 I struggle to find games
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I think it's ok if you're pr23+
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yes pr23ish is completely fine. Even pr20 can be fine if you find a group of friends at that pr that want to play EP.
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Well pr25 means than anyone would play with you, regardless of their level.
Pr23 is a bit short but I guess I would play vs a pr23.
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[Armag] diarouga wrote:Well pr25 means than anyone would play with you, regardless of their level.
Pr23 is a bit short but I guess I would completely and analing rape a pr23.
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In my opinion playing on the EP is always worth it but its value increases with player skill. It will take a minimal amount of effort regardless of skill. As a result, the better the player the greater the inclination to spend minimal effort on playing on the patch.
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zoom wrote:In my opinion playing on the EP is always worth it but its value increases with player skill. It will take a minimal amount of effort regardless of skill. As a result, the better the player the greater the inclination to spend minimal effort on playing on the patch.
In my opinion playing on EP is never worth it as it's value decreases with player skill. It won't take a minimal amount of effort regardless of skill. As a result, the worse the player the greater the inclination to spend minimal effort on playing on the patch.
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Theres a problem that theres a large quantity of people interested in playing EP that are just finding eachother on RE due to starting out on RE due to the rest of the community.
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Yeah the other day i tried to find a game on EP and out of all 1100 people online not even one of em was on it. I think people who know about its existence are less.
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So I probably wont be playing EP for now. It's hard enough to find a rated supremacy game (no treaty) that will allow me to join or not contain noobbashers.
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Is there a way I can just grab the maps though in case I want to play them in single player?
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Re: Should I play on EP?

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EP is great, but finding games of such low level is sadly quite unrealistic right now. The lowest games I see hosted are the 3v3s by irrealist, I think those accept like Master Sergeant players.
Of course, if you could convince other low-level players to come on EP and play with you, that would be awesome. As Jerom said, the big problem is everyone meets on RE, therefore there are no games hosted on EP and therefore nobody goes there.
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if you want i can play EP with you lol... but yeah sadly for now RE is the one for you
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Whenever I play i just ask the other person to play on EP and 95% of the time they say yes
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yeah but to play on EP run RE first to get a player and after the match(es) ends again go on RE to get another player is way too tedious i think.
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Re: Should I play on EP?

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I think this thread summarize the EP problem quite well. People assume that the default patch is the RE so don't even try (or they don't most of times).
Fan patches are based on the word of mouth for the most part. You can't expect players randomly knowing of the patch if they don't know about this site either. So spread the word in the first place.
If and when this site and the EP will be well known, then you can expect to find games on the EP easily.
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We can make people know about it by playing esoc maps, this might be slow but once people get knowledge of esoc maps they can migrate to esoc patch as well
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Re: Should I play on EP?

Post by P i k i l i c »

I played (and lost) 2 games on EP some months ago because the players were nice but to be honest I was too low-skilled (and I am still) to play more games on it
So I'm trying to improve my skill now :hmm:
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Imo, play on the official patch to start, and play all the matchups (even the unfair ones). Then, if you decide to switch, not only will you have a higher rank (which makes finding a game easier), you will have the same point of reference as all the other EP players.
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Re: Should I play on EP?

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The problem is that low level players are more casual and do not care much for the balance of the game. Many people are not capable or breaking 23+ pr let alone 16+ pr and would rather just play the game for fun rather than for the competition.
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Mvp618 wrote:The problem is that low level players are more casual and do not care much for the balance of the game. Many people are not capable or breaking 23+ pr let alone 16+ pr and would rather just play the game for fun rather than for the competition.

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