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sad to see so many people these days treating the RM mode as if maps are pre-explored scenarios. the 5-10 minutes of inaction is there for seeing what the map is like. and it's not just your own base. analyzing your opponent's base also tells you what kind of attacks can work and which ones...

Added Marshy Shores to the original post and the DE mod. It is a clone of Marsh Madness, but without the rock terrain around each forest (and with different forest generation). That adds the option to wall on land and build town centers beside forests, so it plays very differently. While that...

korea, berbers, bulgarian, byzantine, teuton, turk maybe inca too, but i don't play against good enough vil rushers to be confident about that one byzantine is better than those in theory, but the way DE is set up (seeing maps & spawn positions before you choose your civ) there's no reason to...

the funny part of this is that microsoft has some of the best matchmaking technology in the industry but aoe is still using shitty elo systems

the "i must dock immediately. give me a pre-explored map" nonsense is just a FE / DE problem for civ-pickers before they reduced the house cost and added malians and let you drop shore fish at a dock, it wasn't a big deal to explore or discuss a bit before choosing a location. it's not like you...

i would hope that RM competition involves random maps instead of fixed maps. but i also don't think that ranked play needs to imitate pro play, and especially not for teamgames. for example, pro play doesn't really involve random civs, but that was commonplace in ranked teamgames (before DE...

it's not the best, but at least they got lots of the important things right by copying more modern games (like starcraft 2) there is no command lag matchmaking instead of cherry-picking opponents / lobbies balance patches improved controls there's lots of room for improvement, but the game...

arabia is not an open land map it is not closed either it is in between the two from more open to less open: wood rush (atacama / acropolis / seize the mountain) kilimanjaro / serengeti gold rush / golden pit / valley arabia / cenotes ghost lake / lombardia / ravines mongolia all the...

a rating reset has a lot of potential to mess things up i won't claim my experience is the same for every part of the ladder, but the higher-rated team will win almost all the time right now (you can probably measure this numerically if you have the free time to do so) matchmaking is still...

the amount of buffs you would need to give infantry to bring them to xbow/knight level is too high better to just nerf xbow/knight, let skrims/pikes/lightcav get played, and then infantry have a role 1v1 players can always figure out what to make because those games are more controllable. TG...

i'm not saying to split RM. i'm saying to change the individual maps to be map bundles (like full random, blind random, random land map are) then you can add more fortress maps or more water maps or more arabia clones without them taking up more of people's bans a lot of the DE maps are more...

they're good on bad maps DE mostly has bad maps so i guess that makes them OP? positive side effect: more people allow random than before

the bans are basically there for people who don't want to play flawed maps or water maps or nomad maps to be able to ban those. if they have to ban 3 arenas, then they don't have any bans left for that purpose there should basically never be fully closed maps in ranked because the game balance...

keeping production going across lots of buildings is macro, not micro. you might view it differently, but that's not the standard definition semantics aside, if you want to reward decisions more than execution, you'd have to balance a lot of the things to be less universal for example...

i don't think it has i was making anti-wall maps 10 years ago because arabia was already ruined by drush/wall/fc at that point the hun CA spam got fixed, but there are too many other strong things you can do in castle age without needing much of an eco