Yes dont bother answer him, this guy is a troll trying to raise childry polemic about esoc stuffs in each of his 89 posts. I actually take offense by this. I have never voiced a single opinion on the forums that isn't heartfelt, however framed in jest they may have been, and ultimately done so out ...

The point I alluded to is obvious and I don't feel like kicking a dead horse more than necessary. Seeing that the discussion as such has degenerated to mudslinging, sophistry and ad hominem I don't want to continue participating in it any further.

3) you said esoc allowed smurfs in the tourney, but seems like that was just a lie? I claimed that people are allowed to play on new accounts which by definition is not the same as smurfing. Given that only ESOC elo is taken into consideration during the seeding process the point is moot however an...

To be honest I couldn't care less about the issue I brought to attention and if ESOC elo is the main criteria for selection to respective divisions I have little to add. Suffice to say then that anyone can groom an account elo-wise for the sake of easier oppostion.

Kaiserklein wrote:No, the seeding was done by Elo..? How is it Esoc endorsing anything?

By allowing well-known players to enter the tournament on new accounts of course.

Well most people I play who where capt/major or even higher some 3-4 years ago are all 2nd-/1st lt in spite of relatively active play. The rampant smurfing lately have basically culled the general pr of the casual 25-30 pr segment. I believe no good fan patch player would risk precious pr playing o...

Well most people I play who where capt/major or even higher some 3-4 years ago are all 2nd-/1st lt in spite of relatively active play. The rampant smurfing lately have basically culled the general pr of the casual 25-30 pr segment. I believe no good fan patch player would risk precious pr playing on...

The sensitivities of the New England Puritan now affects us all, given that the US is the prime vehicle of globalisation. The progress of humanity to become the shining city on the hill as envisioned by the pilgrims is stunted by GUAs offensive stream language and so must be concealed from public vi...

I'm quite looking forward to this game, any chance it will be streamed?

@fei123456

Nice write-up. These builds sounds quite interesting. Do you by chance have any recs of them played out in practice?

Indeed. Nothing is beyond savage mockery except for the new maps and the new patch.

In saying this I'm also ultimately sympathetic to the fact that pro players want to play on a more balanced patch and on maps designed for competitive play. My only critique is that this shouldn't be the sole purpose of the community, completely disregarding the vast bulk of players for whom sheer e...

[mention]u1721[/mention] I'm critical of the fan-patch only narrative, especially since the purpose of the community from inception was to serve as a locus for the age 3 community as whole, at the time scattered across a multitude of websites (PK, rts-sanc, jp etc). In fact I think ESOC would be bet...

What I care more about is not new civs/map and gameplay changes , but bringing many new players to the game(which I doubt will happend). As a matter of fact there has been a recent surge - often tallying around 2k users - on the ESO servers. Sadly this spike in activity is not reflected on the (onl...

harcha wrote:I don't think the administration signed up to run a kindergarten. If the lack of control offends you, stay off the information superhighway my fren

As stated, I'm happy to leave the forums unless active steps are taken to uphold a minimum level of decency.

I'm not asking for sanctions against anyone as such. Individuals can fail and say and do stupid things when caught up in the moment. Thus the moral level of the forums can't hinge upon individual effort but needs to be maintained by moderators acting with the interest of all in mind.

Dear community, the public bullying and heckling on the forums of a person whose mental health is obviously in dire straits the last few days is perhaps the lowest I've witnessed a community forum degenerate to. I find it disgusting and to be honest I no longer wish to be part of the community lest ...

The best way to improve is probably to practice mirrors. This makes it so much easier to correctly diagnose faults in your own gameplay and improve from there on. Regardless of what has been stated earlier civ imbalance is a real thing and eliminating this component makes it easier to focus builds a...

This is indeed a very fine intiative. Lately more people are logged in to the ESO servers than I've ever seen since I begun playing this game . Yet the only vivid AOE 3 community to my knowledge staunchly refuses to capitalise on this and continues to push an exclusive ESOC patch agenda (in essence ...

In reference to the previous libertarian copy-pasta. "There are only two possible forms of control: one internal and the other external; religious control and political control. They are of such a nature that when the religious barometer rises, the barometer of external, i.e., political control...

Newsflash: virtually all higher ranked ESOC players drop by the with their carefully deteriorated PR 24 smurfs to cull the general PR of the hapless RE population. Cosuco is just stupid enough to use his main account for this dirty purpose.

I'm interested in the general build for the lowbob low eco Japanese style Kaiser is referring to. Is it a reference to the 2 vill/3 fishing boat opening Tabben does or the all in rush that BSOP liked to do or something new all together?

3 sw, 700 g makes for a really fast ff while also saving a shipment upon age up. 2 sw plus 3-4 vills on wood during transition for housing. MusketJr did this build vs BSOP in a German mirror and went heavy on ww. It's fast enough to counter doppel pressure and should prob work vs a Spanish ff as well.

All in ff isn't really a problem, you just ff yourself and hold with wws basically. I can detail the builds if you need. What can be tougher to deal with as germany is skirm+rod+2 falcs contain (plus the occasional lancer shipment). It's very hard to beat that unit composition when you can't ship f...

(...) I mean, I guess I can deal with the 'do the same thing 100x' but people got really salty when I did my 'not meta' stuff even if they win/are winning. Presumably because their 'practice' session got thrown off. It just got tiring. This is the sort of thing I stopped playing other games for and...