jinteki.net is....good?

[king_mob]

Yeah, took me by surprise as well. But its really come along since i first played it. The interface is really smooth now and everything you want automated is (within certain quantities of "everything"). Im king_mob on there too if anyone fancies a game over lunch one day.

[mendax]

There are some things still not programmed that break a lot of deck. Such as Ash.

[king_mob]

[mendax]

You click it to rez it. If you click it again, it derezzes, because it just isn't programmed in.

[MasterAir]

I'm sure that an ash trace is pretty easy to resolve by hand. Though it's probably pretty easy to program too. I had a go yesterday. Seems pretty good. I'll be up for lunch games. My #1 feature request would be a text box to manually change creds and stuff so you can shortcut the icebreaker interface. Otherwise a 'break all routines' button on icebreakers.

[MartinP]

Unfortunately/fortunately i cant use jinteki at work... lunch breaks or otherwise

Probably for the best...

[Chimpster]

Played it a lot instead of working on my dissertation, biggest problem with it is the lag during peak hours - can be crippling at certain points.

New automation to PW and currents have really helped to keep things flowing, still needs a bit of work on cards like Crisium and ash but overall it's pretty smooth. Pretty much everything can be sorted manually if need be.

[mendax]

The biggest thing it has over octgn is that it runs on linux.

[king_mob]

I think im getting to the point where i prefer it to octgn, its slightly annoying in lack of right click context menus but most things have sane options when you activate them. Iv been playing masterair at lunch over the past two days and the experience has been pretty immediate, ash is annoying and there is a hard block on MU usage which can get annoying if you forget and try to recur something with clone chip - it will just trash the clone chip and not install anything.

[mendax]

SO tonight I'm on jinteki.net, I'm playing Geist, and I'm steadily getting hammered. Bring it.

[king_mob]

I take it back. Jinteki.net is a festering hive of smug, 4chan neckbeard cock-thistles. 4 games today where the random opponent turned out to be a posterchild for why people think boardgaming is exclusively the remit of difficult, unsociable twats.

/rant off.

I feel better already. Will be on octgn tonight if anyone who i know is available for a game.

[MasterAir]

Sorry king_mob. I didn't mean to cause offence. I'm in your head.

In all seriousness. Playing randoms on the internet has never been the best way to get a good game of anything. I think the Jinteki.net interface is massively improved. I hope there's a stimhack league or similar on there soon. I find the OCTGN interface way clunkier.

[king_mob]

[MasterAir]

I'd be up for a league.

[mendax]

I definitely would be.

[king_mob]

If there is more than just the three of us then ill set something up.

[Vapo]

I'd definitely be up for playing some games on Jinteki.net, especially if i can get it to work at lunchtimes at work, but I don't have much interest in a league.

[Ortho]

I've been playing quite a lot on Jinteki net the last few days. It really is quite seamless - more so than Octgn I find. I'd be interested in a league if that idea is still viable.

[MasterAir]

I think there are 2 options for a league that might function.

1) Have a rating system like ELO on challengeboards.net and play as much as you like.
2) Have a weekly arranged game.

I don't think we have enough people to make (1) feasible. You just never get a game unless you organise one on here/facebook etc. I like the idea of (2). I can set up a challonge.com bracket. People can sign up.

Part of me thinks it would work better if there was a scheduled 'league night' that people commit to. Then if a player can't make it, it's on them to find another time. Don't know how that sounds to people.

What do people think?

[mendax]

The biggest problem with regular league nights would be, perhaps ironically, regular netrunner nights locally to people. For example, Bristol is Wednesday, so I'd not want to play a league game on Wednesdays, and it's probably different around the country.

[MasterAir]

I get that. I think the answer is to do the next season on a different night. We can try with organising your games weekly, but my experience has always been that weeks take 2-3 weeks and everyone loses interest.

[Ortho]

For work related reasons whilst I can often find lots of time to play at odd times of the day or night I find it very hard to reliably make the same time more than one week in a row. I'm much happier trying to schedule games on a week by week basis, but I understand that can lead to things dragging on and games getting missed.

[Sixtyten]

Is ash still buggered? a game went horribly weird after locking someone out earlier...

[mendax]

Ash works fine.

[Swiftie]

Tried it once, counld not play account siphon so went back to ogctn...