Will we ever get a solution for the rampant smurf issue in DE? after playing another stack of 4 smurfs with 75+% winrate im kinda at a point where i consider quitting matchmaking.
I already quit matchmaking.. Only playing with friends in lobby.Will we ever get a solution for the rampant smurf issue in DE? after playing another stack of 4 smurfs with 75+% winrate im kinda at a point where i consider quitting matchmaking.
I agree. The other night I played an arena game against some player who doesn't understand how the alphabet works (name was lyyyth or something). Anyway, he has great game sense and counter trushes my trush, has great vil micro and GGs me by minute 20.Eh, I'll be playing a good game at even the 16/17xx level, have everything in control, then the person somehow comes back with a miracle comeback doing everything right miraculously, which isn't super common at the elo. Drop the GG, look at their rating, and something like 30 wins and 3 losses.
Just really odd.
It's about 1 in 3 games recently where their win rate is > 58%
TG elo is so wrong.If you ever think smurfing is not an issue, just look at aoe2.net on ongoing games sorted by rating, usually more than half the games have sandbaggers in them above 2k tg rating, looked right now, seems like some of the well known british turkish and other stacks still sleeping. At this point smurfing being this frequent on 2k+ tg level you have to disable family sharing to make those sad disgraces of human beings at least pay for more copies. You can talk about problems that the game had or has but these people sandbagging are destroying the game way more than any bug, crashing or cheating that appeared in game. Not getting matches for 5 minutes before you get random matchup that is basically the same skill difference to sandbagging is no excuse to using smurfs in tgs
Bro there has never been team games at expert level on DE 11111 (at least not ranked)Just stop playing teamgames they suck even at the expert level
I had fun for a bit after DE was released but it really started going downhill once the devs refused to do anything about Khmer for far too long after their nonsensical magic farmers were implemented (like adding bans so every Arena game wasn't insta gg or actually admitting they made a mistake and reverting the ridiculous change in favor of a different buff that actually had some semblance of skill expression to it or at the very least didn't compromise core gameplay mechanics).Bro there has never been team games at expert level on DE 11111 (at least not ranked)
It is just now a dead game mode, people asking to remove family share, it is like the guys asking for punishments, their proposals will backfire us all, without smurfing as an alternative to dodge stackers or team islands, people will just stop playing once and for all.
I have taken some time to watch a few of your replays and you seem to often forget to drop that ‘gg’ - maybe try loosening your grip on it or take it out your pocket first?Eh, I'll be playing a good game at even the 16/17xx level, have everything in control, then the person somehow comes back with a miracle comeback doing everything right miraculously, which isn't super common at the elo. Drop the GG, look at their rating, and something like 30 wins and 3 losses.
Just really odd.
It's about 1 in 3 games recently where their win rate is > 58%
*complimentaryI have taken some time to watch a few of your replays and you seem to often forget to drop that ‘gg’ - maybe try loosening your grip on it or take it out your pocket first?
Alternatively, maybe you drop the wrong line and accidentally mix up ‘gg’ with ‘1 TC garbage’ or similar complementary comments towards aggressive players.
Some opponents also seemed to get bored of you picking Teutons - is placing 6, 7 or maybe even 8 villagers inside of your towers really the strategic diversity you are looking for in this game?
The real time cost-benefit analysis required to pull off such skilful switches between strategies, all whilst using just one civ must be indicative of your amazing conceptual understanding of the fundamental design and inner workings of this game! I am impressed!
It’s just really odd that no one else has picked up on such a hidden gem in the community or tried to learn your unique strategic play style for their own benefit.
I know It’svery difficu to fathom the level of understanding you have, but please enlighten us further
STFU :duck: :willdbeastrage: :ghost: :carrot:*complimentary
Eh, I'll be playing a good game at even the 16/17xx level, have everything in control, then the person somehow comes back with a miracle comeback doing everything right miraculously, which isn't super common at the elo. Drop the GG, look at their rating, and something like 30 wins and 3 losses.
Just really odd.
It's about 1 in 3 games recently where their win rate is > 58%
I have taken some time to watch a few of your replays and you seem to often forget to drop that ‘gg’ - maybe try loosening your grip on it or take it out your pocket first?
Alternatively, maybe you drop the wrong line and accidentally mix up ‘gg’ with ‘1 TC garbage’ or similar complimentary comments towards aggressive players.
Some opponents also seemed to get bored of you picking Teutons - is placing 6, 7 or maybe even 8 villagers inside of your towers really the strategic diversity you are looking for in this game?
The real time cost-benefit analysis required to pull off such skilful switches between strategies, all whilst using just one civ must be indicative of your amazing conceptual understanding of the fundamental design and inner workings of this game! I am impressed!
It’s just really odd that no one else has picked up on such a hidden gem in the community or tried to learn your unique strategic play style for their own benefit.
I know It’svery difficu to fathom the level of understanding you have, but please enlighten us further
I agree. The other night I played an arena game against some player who doesn't understand how the alphabet works (name was lyyyth or something). Anyway, he has great game sense and counter trushes my trush, has great vil micro and GGs me by minute 20.
I look at their rating and they have like 98 wins and 72 losses (58% win rate) (in unranked)
Just really odd.
It's about 1 in 3 games recently where my Yolo Fuedal trush against stone walls on Arena doesn't work
Wow! Back so soon from the hospital after treating the 3rd degree burns your received?!Takes post about smurfs, interjects off-topic rant about playstyle preferences. Creepily implies one stalks my recorded games, decides to interject things that would not be evident in them.
Did I hit a nerve calling out smurfing or something?
Are you upset that I almost beat you while you were smurfing?
Guess I found them!
Wow! Back so soon from the hospital after treating the 3rd degree burns your received?!
Just a random reference to our game the night before, but go off I guessWas this supposed to be a sick burn of some sort and/or funny, or any way related to what you quoted from my post -- or just low effort trolling?
Either way I'm not quite sure you have the hang of it just yet.