All in all people should remain and be totally free to team with whoever they want, personnally I don't want to **** this by any means.
Problem is AoC is a sorted-out game now, hence luck, innovative out-of-the box strategies, or in short intresting playstyles are like infinitesimal. It's 95%+ skill, micro and railing through build orders.
Examples of that
No surprises here, it'll be archer/galley micro all day long. Plus it's so much easier to have an archer oriented eco, you boom faster as it costs minimal food.
Direct consequence: those who practise the most are sure to win, there's no place for rookies or surprises, full stop. This game has become a quest of perfect efficiency at macro managing your eco, and perfect range units micro as well.
The real problem of this tournament is at it is today it's like TyranT are sure to win 50k$ because they are just beyond everyone else at these kind of things: perfect economy macro (I include smart building walling here), perfect range unit micro win all AoC games.
Yeah, perfect eco macro means you'll get your first military units faster, means that you won't be the defender if you're not stupid, all linked people.
If anybody now will said that TyRanT A, B, C, Omega or whatever you want to call it, just TyRanT won't win WiC tournament, he will be called stupid and be mocked by the entire AoCZone community. There is no place for even only five "unclanned" 2k1's to get at Viper or Jordan levels in one month.
Problem is AoC is a sorted-out game now, hence luck, innovative out-of-the box strategies, or in short intresting playstyles are like infinitesimal. It's 95%+ skill, micro and railing through build orders.
Examples of that
are doing builds that should be countered easily & punished as they're not varied at all and just ruins variety.
95% all-in Xbows in Castle (CA with Huns) do just work wonders with almost all civs. If you're Hun vs Celt on Arabia and Hun wins in Castle Age with CA's, you didn't win because you were better, you win because you got Huns and Celts are only average in Castle and got no hard counter to CA mobility.
It's the art of repetition at this point. Aside from "these builds that do wonders if you get the good civ", you got builds that do nothing. Example is a 95%+ Long Swordsman build, even if you're Goth you'll get nowhere with it if you're enemy just go out of an Archer flush and'll get Xbows. Even Knights are hard to use in 1v1's for Cavalry civs, eg in Persian Wars where Xbows still rape all (aside from dr+wall+FC which are very few at high levels anyway).
95% all-in Xbows in Castle (CA with Huns) do just work wonders with almost all civs. If you're Hun vs Celt on Arabia and Hun wins in Castle Age with CA's, you didn't win because you were better, you win because you got Huns and Celts are only average in Castle and got no hard counter to CA mobility.
It's the art of repetition at this point. Aside from "these builds that do wonders if you get the good civ", you got builds that do nothing. Example is a 95%+ Long Swordsman build, even if you're Goth you'll get nowhere with it if you're enemy just go out of an Archer flush and'll get Xbows. Even Knights are hard to use in 1v1's for Cavalry civs, eg in Persian Wars where Xbows still rape all (aside from dr+wall+FC which are very few at high levels anyway).
Direct consequence: those who practise the most are sure to win, there's no place for rookies or surprises, full stop. This game has become a quest of perfect efficiency at macro managing your eco, and perfect range units micro as well.
The real problem of this tournament is at it is today it's like TyranT are sure to win 50k$ because they are just beyond everyone else at these kind of things: perfect economy macro (I include smart building walling here), perfect range unit micro win all AoC games.
Yeah, perfect eco macro means you'll get your first military units faster, means that you won't be the defender if you're not stupid, all linked people.
If anybody now will said that TyRanT A, B, C, Omega or whatever you want to call it, just TyRanT won't win WiC tournament, he will be called stupid and be mocked by the entire AoCZone community. There is no place for even only five "unclanned" 2k1's to get at Viper or Jordan levels in one month.