I guess many of you heard about us and our platform nC Zone already. We are an active AoE II community with an integrated and elaborated match-making system, that has been working for more than 12 years already with constant improvements to its functionality.
I read and heard a lot of complaints about the DE teamgame experience recently (no good opponents/games, cheaters/desyncer, …).
That’s why nC would like to invite you to join our community!
We accept players of (nearly) all skill levels that are looking for a good DE TG experience. The only things we expect from you are:

1) you create an account on our website and make a short post with info about your DE/voobly/HD rate:
nC Zone Activation Board
We will try to give you an accurate starting rate. The rating is very granular on our site and spreads from 5500 (TaToh) to 1000 (newbies). The rating system is dynamic and automatically follows your performance. Slight manual changes to your rating are sometimes necessary to account for a wrong starting rate/steep learning curve/long-term inactivity.
nC Zone Player Table
2) Queue up to play
After your activation you can queue on our website:
nC Zone
All types of TGs (2v2/3v3/4v4) can be drawn. Every player has the possibility to draw, but usually the coordination takes place in the integrated mChat or in teamspeak. If there are bigger rating differences you can also just wait until more players queue up.
3) Draw a game
nC Zone got complex algorithms (thanks to @nC_eru) that account for a lot of parameters to create fair teams:
nC Zone Matches Played
4) Play the game
We play all games in the official DE lobby and got our own Teamspeak-Server (www.new-chapter.eu). You can find the game via lobby ("nC Zone" in its name) or get invited by other players.
Here are your benefits:
If you got any questions just leave us a message.
You can also find more information in our community rules: nC Zone Rules
We are looking forward to increase our player base to create an even better experience.
See you soon!
nC
I read and heard a lot of complaints about the DE teamgame experience recently (no good opponents/games, cheaters/desyncer, …).
That’s why nC would like to invite you to join our community!
We accept players of (nearly) all skill levels that are looking for a good DE TG experience. The only things we expect from you are:
- good behavior
- basic know-how about buildorders and strategies
- the use of teamspeak.

1) you create an account on our website and make a short post with info about your DE/voobly/HD rate:
nC Zone Activation Board
We will try to give you an accurate starting rate. The rating is very granular on our site and spreads from 5500 (TaToh) to 1000 (newbies). The rating system is dynamic and automatically follows your performance. Slight manual changes to your rating are sometimes necessary to account for a wrong starting rate/steep learning curve/long-term inactivity.
nC Zone Player Table
2) Queue up to play
After your activation you can queue on our website:
nC Zone
All types of TGs (2v2/3v3/4v4) can be drawn. Every player has the possibility to draw, but usually the coordination takes place in the integrated mChat or in teamspeak. If there are bigger rating differences you can also just wait until more players queue up.
3) Draw a game
nC Zone got complex algorithms (thanks to @nC_eru) that account for a lot of parameters to create fair teams:
- The teams are balanced by rating to get the fairest possible split.
- A map will be drawn from a mappool, voted on a regular basis by the community, which includes around 20 maps. Every map has a certain probability according to its popularity. (nC Zone Maps)
- Balanced Civs are automatically drawn by the algorithm. If the difference in ratings is high, every player gets a set civ. Therefore, all civs got accurate civ ratings for all maps. The sum of player rating*civ rating will be balanced for both teams. If the difference in ratings is low, there will be four civs to choose from for each team, again balanced by the civ ratings. There are also some extra gimmicks to increase the fairness of matches (always one SO-civ on closed maps, no Indians on Bedouins/Arabia, Spanish mirror on boom maps, Viking mirror on Watermaps, …)
nC Zone Matches Played
4) Play the game
We play all games in the official DE lobby and got our own Teamspeak-Server (www.new-chapter.eu). You can find the game via lobby ("nC Zone" in its name) or get invited by other players.
Here are your benefits:
- Find new friends!
- Get balanced teamgames nearly every game
- Dropped games get restored every time
- No idiots/desyncs anymore due to full moderation of players
- Play different maps and civs all the time
- Team with players that are way above your skill-level and learn from them
- Discuss the games afterwards on our board (every game creates an auto-topic)
If you got any questions just leave us a message.
You can also find more information in our community rules: nC Zone Rules
We are looking forward to increase our player base to create an even better experience.
See you soon!

nC