It's a lovely morning, you get up, go to work, work, come home, and play DE.
You are choosing 4v4 with favouriting Arabia and ban Arena like probably the majority of the community. You get in Queue, wait for a few minutes and get a game, with you, there are people on the same elo, two with 45-48% winrate, another one with 55% winrate. The <50% WR people have already selected Britons flank (48%) and your pocket Frank (45%) because he doesn't know better, while the other pocket (55%) hesitates, then goes indians.
You, with 54% winrate and as a Voobly veteran, go random on all 3 options (random civ options, random civ and color) and ask others to go random civ option too. They agree, but it doesnt matter because propably one enemy tryhards and dont enable it.
The map for whatever reason is Ravines, you are confused wondering why anyone would choose that map but you are ok with it, as long as it doesn't contain water fights or has stonewalls surrounding everyone's TC.
The game starts, your window freezes, you click once to check if its still there. Windows let you know that DE is not responding and wants to kill it, you wait for DE's response, as you click the screen unfreezes and you are instantly thrown into the game, sometimes the screen turn from black to the game with 5 FPS, sometimes with smooth 50 or so. Either way you are facilitated, nobody dropped...yet.
You are given Korean Flank, not good, not terrible, You decided to open drush (ignore the outposts) archers. You are against Britons, with Khmer Pocket, Enemy Pkt Franks and Ethiopians on the other side.
Your drush does some damage until getting wiped out by Khmer scouts, but you are ok, because Frank Scouts are also neat. You already switched into archers, the numbers are even, so are the uptimes. The other sides does really well, with indians going walls FC and Britons doing defensive archer and walls.
Everyone is Castle Age, Upgrades are done. XBow numbers are even, other side is slowly winning. You are constantly enraged about this f****** +1 Range that keeps penetrating you, You tower your Fwd Gold for protection, but you have 2 stone miners which also allowed 2 TC's. You are fine.
All of a sudden you scout 2 Khmer Stable at your enemy flank and see Battle Elephants comming out of it. Your Franks, despite having 45% is somewhat decent with providing knights.
30 Xbows and more on the way on each side 30 Frankish Knights with +2/+2, vs about 12 +2/+2 Khmer BE. Like the Pro you are add 3 monks, now everything goes fast. Khmer BE are attacking your Ranges, you try to snipe them but Briton Xbows are slowly thinning out your troops, you have to Retreat. First one House breaks, Khmer now has 15 BE, Franks added 8 more knights. Elephants storm in, you are converting, franks charge at the meanwhile 45 Xbows, You get 2 Conversions, 1 monk got sniped by a few xbows.
6 Elephants stay, the other (fast) 9 go and help against the frankish knights. Your 40 XBows and 2 BE are fighting 6 BE. Everyone commits. You have no choice but fight the 6 BE, Frankish Knights are focusing the Xbow, BE help taking them out, you lose all your army in the carnage, 8 British XBows and 4 BE are left over, they destroy your tower at the gold.
Indians (carrying the team as usually) sees this and sends 12 Camels to clear their army, in return our Britons lose a lot of numbers, the other side is a bit in trouble.
Everyone is in Imp now, as Korean vs Britons you go Elite War Weagon, Briton of course, switch to Longbows, Khmer stay BE. Franks, well Franks go Paladin (or tries to).
The help of Indians led to a snowballing on the other side, Ethiopians are doing better at killing indian camels than britons killing frankish knights.
Indian try to light cav raid, some damage is done, Khmer saves most vills as they jump into houses. They wall up with stone. No more raids.
Everyone is Post Imp now
You cant compete against the Khmer BE, frank Paladins loses to them, they destroy buidlings hell fast and the britons 12 Range is too much, even tanky War Weagons are taken out one by one per group shot. The other side stablizes because Imp camels, Ethiopians adds shotels, halb to slow those damn camels. On your side you slowly lose against the BE Longbow Push, a Treb War erupts but you lose because of Warwolf. Your Gold Wood resources went to War Wagons and Elite Upgrades.
The Game is over, again everyone except you picked civs and position. Indians as usually carried in Castle, Khmer ended in post imp, Indian help changed tides on the other side.
You are angered, the games always feel the same, almost same civs, nothing messy or crazy, walls, and the civs who seem Op to you carry the games.
You lose 7 elo
You ponder.
Is this really fun?
You join another game, almost same scenario, 2 of the 3 already have a civ selected, the other one quickly goes mayan flank, grey color.
Game starts, yellow drops, everyone resigns, you win.
+12 Elo, yay.
Then you get Matchmaking Error -4 and decide that this is the sign for you to just go to bed.
TL:DR
TG feel very simular with the same civs, same metas, laming ruins your mood and everyone walls, barely anyone goes random civ, and atleast one doesnt enable random civ option.
You are choosing 4v4 with favouriting Arabia and ban Arena like probably the majority of the community. You get in Queue, wait for a few minutes and get a game, with you, there are people on the same elo, two with 45-48% winrate, another one with 55% winrate. The <50% WR people have already selected Britons flank (48%) and your pocket Frank (45%) because he doesn't know better, while the other pocket (55%) hesitates, then goes indians.
You, with 54% winrate and as a Voobly veteran, go random on all 3 options (random civ options, random civ and color) and ask others to go random civ option too. They agree, but it doesnt matter because propably one enemy tryhards and dont enable it.
The map for whatever reason is Ravines, you are confused wondering why anyone would choose that map but you are ok with it, as long as it doesn't contain water fights or has stonewalls surrounding everyone's TC.
The game starts, your window freezes, you click once to check if its still there. Windows let you know that DE is not responding and wants to kill it, you wait for DE's response, as you click the screen unfreezes and you are instantly thrown into the game, sometimes the screen turn from black to the game with 5 FPS, sometimes with smooth 50 or so. Either way you are facilitated, nobody dropped...yet.
You are given Korean Flank, not good, not terrible, You decided to open drush (ignore the outposts) archers. You are against Britons, with Khmer Pocket, Enemy Pkt Franks and Ethiopians on the other side.
Your drush does some damage until getting wiped out by Khmer scouts, but you are ok, because Frank Scouts are also neat. You already switched into archers, the numbers are even, so are the uptimes. The other sides does really well, with indians going walls FC and Britons doing defensive archer and walls.
Everyone is Castle Age, Upgrades are done. XBow numbers are even, other side is slowly winning. You are constantly enraged about this f****** +1 Range that keeps penetrating you, You tower your Fwd Gold for protection, but you have 2 stone miners which also allowed 2 TC's. You are fine.
All of a sudden you scout 2 Khmer Stable at your enemy flank and see Battle Elephants comming out of it. Your Franks, despite having 45% is somewhat decent with providing knights.
30 Xbows and more on the way on each side 30 Frankish Knights with +2/+2, vs about 12 +2/+2 Khmer BE. Like the Pro you are add 3 monks, now everything goes fast. Khmer BE are attacking your Ranges, you try to snipe them but Briton Xbows are slowly thinning out your troops, you have to Retreat. First one House breaks, Khmer now has 15 BE, Franks added 8 more knights. Elephants storm in, you are converting, franks charge at the meanwhile 45 Xbows, You get 2 Conversions, 1 monk got sniped by a few xbows.
6 Elephants stay, the other (fast) 9 go and help against the frankish knights. Your 40 XBows and 2 BE are fighting 6 BE. Everyone commits. You have no choice but fight the 6 BE, Frankish Knights are focusing the Xbow, BE help taking them out, you lose all your army in the carnage, 8 British XBows and 4 BE are left over, they destroy your tower at the gold.
Indians (carrying the team as usually) sees this and sends 12 Camels to clear their army, in return our Britons lose a lot of numbers, the other side is a bit in trouble.
Everyone is in Imp now, as Korean vs Britons you go Elite War Weagon, Briton of course, switch to Longbows, Khmer stay BE. Franks, well Franks go Paladin (or tries to).
The help of Indians led to a snowballing on the other side, Ethiopians are doing better at killing indian camels than britons killing frankish knights.
Indian try to light cav raid, some damage is done, Khmer saves most vills as they jump into houses. They wall up with stone. No more raids.
Everyone is Post Imp now
You cant compete against the Khmer BE, frank Paladins loses to them, they destroy buidlings hell fast and the britons 12 Range is too much, even tanky War Weagons are taken out one by one per group shot. The other side stablizes because Imp camels, Ethiopians adds shotels, halb to slow those damn camels. On your side you slowly lose against the BE Longbow Push, a Treb War erupts but you lose because of Warwolf. Your Gold Wood resources went to War Wagons and Elite Upgrades.
The Game is over, again everyone except you picked civs and position. Indians as usually carried in Castle, Khmer ended in post imp, Indian help changed tides on the other side.
You are angered, the games always feel the same, almost same civs, nothing messy or crazy, walls, and the civs who seem Op to you carry the games.
You lose 7 elo
You ponder.
Is this really fun?
You join another game, almost same scenario, 2 of the 3 already have a civ selected, the other one quickly goes mayan flank, grey color.
Game starts, yellow drops, everyone resigns, you win.
+12 Elo, yay.
Then you get Matchmaking Error -4 and decide that this is the sign for you to just go to bed.
TL:DR
TG feel very simular with the same civs, same metas, laming ruins your mood and everyone walls, barely anyone goes random civ, and atleast one doesnt enable random civ option.
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