After ending my years long bot-only self-inflicted reclusion, since the beginning of april I went from iso level -8 to level 41, after a short lucky winning streak yesterday. With exams incoming, I guess this will be the peak of my Dominion career for at least the next few months.
Still, the biggest satisfaction I got from this exploit was skyrocketing up the leaderboard to level 35 in the first week or so.
Playing against bots isn't as useless as many paint it. *gloat*
(reading f:ds is just as useful as they paint it, though, or maybe more)
I never play bots (level 48 or so)
I fail to see your point, sorry.
Edit: ok, let me clarify a bit here.
Often you see comments around here saying that by playing bots you won't ever become even a slightly-better-than-mediocre player, while my experience was that my bot-trained skills took me way higher than I expected (I thought I would be around 20 or so).
So, nice surprise for me here, small achievement compared to yours and to the achevements of most f:dsers.
It was a nice month, and playing with people required (and made me start to develop) a much deeper understanding of the game, which I would never acquire against bots, no argument there. Still, I thought I would share this here since I'm most likely to stop playing for a while.
I never said that bots are necessary to learn how to play, and I'm aware that there are lots of players who are much better than me, even though maybe my post didn't read that way. So, sorry for the gloating tone, but it's the attention whoring thread, after all.