Re:OpenAI at the Dota 2 World Championships
by jsmthrowaway on Friday August 11, 2017 @08:57PM
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DotA and Dota 2 are the games that helped define the term MOBA. I'm not sure why you're saying it isn't one, especially since it's in the first sentence of both Wikipedia articles.
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Re:OpenAI at the Dota 2 World Championships
by CrystalLangUser on Friday August 11, 2017 @09:10PM
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Sometimes people prefer to label dota as an ARTS:
Action Real Time Strategy.
Some people dislike the MOBA nomenclature because it comes from Riot (maker of League of Legends; a clone of dota). In addition the term is pretty vague. Call of Duty, Starcraft, and DotA could all technically be “MOBAS”.
ARTS describes it a little better but I don’t think that term is great either.
Re:OpenAI at the Dota 2 World Championships
by ajsalminen on Saturday August 12, 2017 @02:33AM
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In my opinion ARTS doesn't describe it better but introduces confusion since it implies these games have something in common with real time strategy games. I don't think they really have anything to do with RTS despite being originally conceived on the Warcraft 3 engine and assets. At least MOBA makes it clear that it's an entirely separate category.
Re:OpenAI at the Dota 2 World Championships
by CrystalLangUser on Saturday August 12, 2017 @05:42AM
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> anything to do with RTS
Managing farming times and item spikes is part of the strategy. Of course it's not a true RTS, but I think that term is a bit better than MOBA; I'm also biased against Riot.