Two clans battling it out for control of the ladder, [WM] have the higher ratings, but apex have more in the top 7 (however same number in top 10).

Also I find it strange that 9 of the top 10 are all clan members, and I don't believe this has happened before, please correct me if I am wrong.

What is everyone else's opinion of this. Is it good that most top players i nthe ladders are in clans?

I think it is good, as these top players compete with each other even more through clan competitions. I'm looking forward to the Clan League even more so then previous ones as there are many different clans in the top 20 that will all be battling for first.

For now there is one dominate clan wich is WM because they have many good players as members.
For example ReLite clan some time ago got only 2 members me and ciekiu now there are little more but we are still learning ladder games. Hope to be no 1 in 2v2 ladder. 1v1 ladder is out of range for now.

On the other hand, you have Aranka, which makes you by far the best clan.

True that Kitty. Meow Meow

Only because they have a lesbian in the clan? That sounds like italian politics, where parties candidates a few bitched to get fool people's vote (not saying aranka is a bitch, those 2 are different things, italian politicians are bitchs.)

ciek/jupiter <-- possibly the best active ladder team

Someone (Red) is taking a kitty (X-apex) a bit too serious in this discussion.
Furthermore I don't know what my sexual orientation has to do with my abilities to play a strategy game. So can we please refrain from mentioning such personal details in the future ? Thank you

Yeah, bit unnecessary Red. At no point did anyone say that or imply it, I don't know where you inferred it from, but a bit mean...

It was more than public. That's not my supposition, that's not meant with offence, that's what Arank stated in the "what would you do if you had to stay 10 years in the basemant?" thread, so i don't see why such a disappointment.

Aranka frustrates me most of the time.

BUT Red you can't use someone's sexual orientation to put them down. You know better than that.

That would be similar to me dismissing you for being Romanian.

Your reaction comes up from form your involuntar association between sexual orientaion and a discriminatory use. For me etero=gay=lesbo it's THE SAME. I don't discriminate anyone.
Also i wasn't serius at all, i just joked about why X said that Aranka makes Relite the best clan. And just the fact that they have a woman in the clan, it's enough to make it special, even more if she is not a "straight" woman, you don't say? My statement was less serious that you think.
Don't exorcise me in this way because i had nice conversations with Aranka, so i wouldn't have any reason to "attack her" and i surely don't come on the forum to discriminate people.

Now that i explain what i meant (not being english native/good english speaking it's the main factor here, i could be misunderstood very easy), i apologise with Aranka if she felt in any way discriminated or insulted. I just used an info that she gave to all of us on the forum, trying to make a metaphore between this and the italian politics, but i failed as it seemed to be. I have to improve my english level to afford that kind of subtleties.

It's a very extraneous detail to mention ... the point your making obviously suits the word "girl", not lesbian. So it's odd that you felt the need to mention it at all.

it's enough to make it special, even more if she is not a "straight" woman, you don't say?

For me [h]etero=gay=lesbo it's THE SAME.

So is it the same, or more special? It's not an attack or discrimination, it's just strange that you would seize on it. Or remember it at all, really.

I know there are a lot of exotic dancers in the Italian parliament at the moment, I didn't know that a significant number were lesbians?

I mean that it's the same from a discriminatory point of view. But it's not the same commoness (don't know if this word exists. In the real world, straight orientaion is the most common i suppose, also i don't know that many lesbians (let gays alone, in the last years italy had a good raise of them). In the Warlight context it's even more rare to meet one.

Also the link to the italian parliament was not about the sexual orientation of the exotic dancers, but about that they use them to gain votes, to prevail on the other parties, the same way as you said that is enough to have Aranka in Relite to be the best clan. (italian party use girls to be considerated the best, relite use girl(s)[Aranka] to be considerated the best) that's it, as you can see nothing serious because it's obvius that Relite is not considerated the way they are because of their special member, but because of their skills.

Well then, as you demonstrate in the last paragraph, the reference to orientation was not at all germane to the joke. Aranka's mentioning of her bisexuality in the other thread was equally public, but it was relevant.

At this point, I should mention that as a licensed warlight psychiatrist, I am available to Aranka in case she wants to correct her perverted sexuality. My method has success rates even better than the "pray away the gay" strategy, and with 7% fewer suicides.

That is how your sell your services ;) Another lesson in getting strangers into bed from Professor Cat • Apex.

I didn't intend to imply that, the method I was referring to involves electroshock, waterboarding and operant (Pavlovian) conditioning. The method you are referring to also involves these things, but has a suicide rate that is 7% higher.

Also, I don't charge for that method.

Ever the gentleman.