@F-Odin
Hey F-Odin.
I happen to be the friend that Wainan mentions - the one that doesn't really have a clue what I'm doing.
I haven't attempted ladder because as I understand it, I will just lose.
My experience of the game so far on return has involved starting games against individual AI and increasing the difficulty, then watching my replays.
The focus has been on getting me to understand Feb basic style of play that I need to be able to master in order to ladder.
I'm shit at this, and feel like I just end up pissing off my teachers. From my perspective, If I can't beat the AI up to at least harder difficulty, there is probably little point laddering. I am probably just too late to the party with games like this.
So far it feels like a lot of losing in order to prepare myself to play people that I'm probably going to lose to.