prismsaber wrote:If you really want the best few players on the site your best bet is getting a top 20 list from the top 50 or 100 players in the game (not necessarily the top 50 or 100 ranked players) and then taking averages and what not. Reason being is that it takes strong players to recognize strong tactics. Thus, a couple opinions that have been posted here already are completely irrelevant. Furthermore, such a list is subject to extreme bias and is mostly limited to the players that one has the most experience playing with or against or even who is friends with who.
Of course, my own opinions are subject to such biases and limitations. I would say taking into account only team games, regardless of game outcomes and relying only on a memory of game tactics, I was most impressed by sjnap, farangdemon, agonzos, seul, firstholliday, velvecarrots, big whiskey, and probably a few others I can't think of off the top of my head. There are other great players out there I haven't even had the pleasure of playing against so such a list is pointless.
For some reason I always profusely agree with this guy.
Anyway, its possible that the greatest player has never even made general. If you take the best player in the world have have them play public terminator games all the time, they will never make it past 3,000 points. So, aside from some names that everyone already knows, I'll throw a few out there that haven't made it to conqueror.
Some who have first. These are some of the obvious names
Blitz - a lot of people think him the best
Scott - excels in many different setting and maps
Sjnap - awesome quads player, haven't played anything other than trips and quads with him though.
Poomaker - we've forgotten him already. He may have been the best 6 player std. seq. esc. ever, maybe.
herpes - awesome dubs and quads players, as well as great at std. 6 players games. He's good at a lot more than the 1v1's on city mogul that people know him for.
comic - I mostly play with comic when he was a captain, but he improved tremendously while I was away from the site, and is one of the best by many people's accounts.
maniacmath - another top std. player.
And the list goes on, but I will stop here. Now for some not so obvious names.
Incandeza - great std. player, great dubs player, been around for a long time.
Lindax - awesome at same settings, has many medals, many tourney wins.
There are probably plenty more players like these two, I just don't know them that well, because I haven't played them enough. But these are guys who never took the time to limit themselves to one game style, and use it to move up the ranks. Instead they play for fun, and so they level off at major, or colonel, or whatever rank is determined by two factors. 1. There skill, and 2. There choice of game settings.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents, and my list is by no means complete.