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by spadel
14 Jul 2022, 14:20
Forum: General
Topic: Bye
Replies: 226
Views: 21143
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Re: Bye

I can certainly relate to you Kaiser - ever since DE was released I never was even remotely motivated to play the game anymore. I'm pretty sure that without DE aoe3 would have had a better future - maybe fewer players in the short term, but longer-lasting. Also I think many guys from the old times (...
by spadel
09 Jun 2021, 12:21
Forum: General
Topic: update sucks
Replies: 197
Views: 9637
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Re: update sucks

cannot levy mm as USA. The icon is not in the TC and pressing the icon on the left side of the screen UI does nothing. It reads, "select a building to call minutemen from." Also did not work when I reached age 2 or ensured it would not overpop. Screenshot (181).png edit: you can "tri...
by spadel
12 May 2021, 17:25
Forum: General
Topic: Toughts on moving Aztec 3 War Priest to age 1?
Replies: 37
Views: 1235
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Re: Toughts on moving Aztec 3 War Priest to age 1?

Moving the card to age1 is not useful because you can't dance for priests in age1. Bear in mind sending 3WP in age1 to get more shipments for the rush is a flawed reasoning. No TPs or WPs or anything in the game compensates the xp of a shipment in the first minutes of the game. Most of this stuff j...
by spadel
04 Mar 2021, 09:02
Forum: General
Topic: The level of play is much higher now than in 2005-2010
Replies: 102
Views: 5388
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Re: The level of play is much higher now than in 2005-2010

Just watching that PK video you can see how poor the build orders were from that time with the lack of knowledge etc. Grunt going 700c 3 huss as otto for example and the french player aging to age 3 with skirms and shipping a fort first, it's like watching pr20 build orders. You have to keep in min...
by spadel
27 Dec 2020, 14:43
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: Your best trading strategy
Replies: 8
Views: 305
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Re: Your best trading strategy

What sort of strategies are you thinking of, can you give an example? I think the best approach is to rely on machine learning. It's the most obvious idea to build a reinforcement learning agent and beat the stock market, but unfortunately, it's not that simple. Yet, I'm convinced that if you find t...
by spadel
23 Nov 2020, 22:12
Forum: General
Topic: Any oldschool players playing?
Replies: 33
Views: 1647
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Re: Any oldschool players playing?

[mention]u15883[/mention] were the guy who used to play dutch right & around pr44ish? Dutch? I don't know which civ I was known for, I played all of them so maybe I was on a dutch spree when you met me. And I was PR 50 whenever I was active but played alot on smurf accs because people wouldn't ...
by spadel
23 Nov 2020, 00:28
Forum: General
Topic: Best Players of all time
Replies: 276
Views: 15209
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Re: Best Players of all time

How was he not the best player during his era after grunt? IIRC he won at least half of the tournaments until wcg08, he was leading the ladderboards and had the highest PR ever. Also you shouldn't forget that he contributed A LOT to the community by posting a huge amount of his recs. At that time, t...
by spadel
20 Nov 2020, 12:28
Forum: General
Topic: Best Players of all time
Replies: 276
Views: 15209
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Re: Best Players of all time

Having played all the guys mentioned in this thread on a high level (except grunt maybe, who I only played against when he was smurfing years later), the most dominating players to me were H20 and Samwise during FP. It was literally impossible for me to win any matchup by standard play, I could only...
by spadel
17 Nov 2020, 15:34
Forum: General
Topic: Best Players of all time
Replies: 276
Views: 15209
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Re: Best Players of all time

Victor_swe wrote:Hmmm probebly
1. zutazuta
2. Bart331
3. Kiljardis brother
4. Steve
5. Strategicjoel
HAHA some good ones :hehe: :hehe: Don't forget DITISSPARTA though!

who was steve again, the asian symbol guy who went unbeaten to pr50?
by spadel
17 Nov 2020, 14:32
Forum: General
Topic: Recs from RTS-Sanctuary
Replies: 2
Views: 318
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Re: Recs from RTS-Sanctuary

yeah that would be awesome :)
by spadel
17 Nov 2020, 12:56
Forum: General
Topic: Recs from RTS-Sanctuary
Replies: 2
Views: 318
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Recs from RTS-Sanctuary

Hey, I just noticed you can't download recs from RTS Sanctuary anymore. Does anyone know if there is a workaround or if they are stored somewhere or are the all lost? :sad:
by spadel
08 Nov 2020, 13:26
Forum: Strategy
Topic: British Strategy
Replies: 27
Views: 1638
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Re: British Strategy

Do wall segments get LOS in DE? .. on RE it was incredibly strong to build single wall pillars for LOS, also because walls had more HP. But walling a manor is way too time and resource consuming. You can just build aggressive manors however, which is rather common.
by spadel
04 Nov 2020, 17:27
Forum: Bounty Board
Topic: ESOC Bounty Board
Replies: 118
Views: 7067
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Re: ESOC Bounty Board

wait for Aklak winning the 100k gold competition with only 10 villagers xD
by spadel
24 Oct 2020, 10:08
Forum: General
Topic: Old Players returning speculation thread
Replies: 89
Views: 6251
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Re: Old Players returning speculation thread

Aussie_Drongo's AOE3 BIO: In my first video, at 00:23 I reveal my ESO username, which was "Darkalbino_". I first began playing AOE3 back in 2006 and entered the competitive scene soon after. I met a player named Braidon in a 2v2 on Texas, and we became friends, with me joining his Austral...
by spadel
21 Oct 2020, 13:17
Forum: General
Topic: Old Players returning speculation thread
Replies: 89
Views: 6251
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Re: Old Players returning speculation thread

I think some people here forget the rocky start of legacy aoe3... it was even worse than DE. You couldn't properly play online for more than 6 months. Completely wacko balance too. Parfait had a nice blog where he described all these things. Compared to that, even DE is a gift of the gods :ship: wo...
by spadel
19 Oct 2020, 23:40
Forum: General
Topic: DE list of issues
Replies: 891
Views: 39814
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Re: DE list of issues

Maybe I misunderstand the concept, but shouldn’t a game optimized for today‘s modern engines also be more efficient on an old engine? Like I see the point, that if you want to play in HD or something an old engine can’t handle it computationally. But given the same resolution as TAD, I would have ex...
by spadel
19 Oct 2020, 23:25
Forum: General
Topic: DE list of issues
Replies: 891
Views: 39814
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Re: DE list of issues

Can anyone with some computer science background explain, why the game needs so fking high RAM in order to properly work? I could play SC2, Dota2 and TAD on highest settings with no problems at all. But DE is just IMPOSSIBLE with 8GB of RAM. Even on lowest settings it is way worse than TAD is with h...
by spadel
29 Sep 2020, 20:11
Forum: General
Topic: Age of Empires 3 definitive edition full gameplay video
Replies: 67
Views: 3872
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Re: Age of Empires 3 definitive edition full gameplay video

haha 500f age up for 2 settlers + 2 cows or outpost and 200g is both insane for brit xD you can just age asap, build houses during transition and ship 700w as first shipment with age up time of 2:30 :lol: Edit: Okay the 3rd age up politicians are even more hillarious, it's obviously a feature of the...
by spadel
22 Jul 2020, 15:36
Forum: Treaty Discussion
Topic: Treaty AI
Replies: 23
Views: 3183
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Re: Treaty AI

Nice job! Do you have any patch notes? What has been changed? Is it for treaty only or also for sup? Supremacy is on the to-do list. Improvements over stock computer player: -Fixed TC garrison bug -Better treasure gathering -Better base building -Better resource gathering -Ignores shrined animals n...
by spadel
28 Mar 2020, 16:02
Forum: ESOC Talk
Topic: Chess tourney, second edition!
Replies: 117
Views: 3282
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Re: Chess tourney, second edition!

it‘s back up
by spadel
28 Mar 2020, 15:59
Forum: ESOC Talk
Topic: Chess tourney, second edition!
Replies: 117
Views: 3282
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Re: Chess tourney, second edition!

yea app not working for me
by spadel
28 Mar 2020, 14:14
Forum: ESOC Talk
Topic: Chess tourney, second edition!
Replies: 117
Views: 3282
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Re: Chess tourney, second edition!

sorry I forgot, I am ready!!
by spadel
27 Mar 2020, 17:19
Forum: User-created Content
Topic: Writing an AI script for Age of Empires III (Part I)
Replies: 27
Views: 7837
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Re: Writing an AI script for Age of Empires III (Part I)

I wonder if you could build a neural network to play Aoe3 on a competitive level. Personally, I believe no (at least not by self-play approach like in Go and Chess). But if you fix the map and the deck and maybe the matchup you could get pretty far I think.
by spadel
25 Mar 2020, 18:38
Forum: ESOC Talk
Topic: Chess tourney, second edition!
Replies: 117
Views: 3282
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Re: Chess tourney, second edition!

I m in. By the way add me in lichess (spadel), we can also play some tonight or so
by spadel
21 Mar 2020, 20:14
Forum: Results
Topic: iamturk vs spadel
Replies: 2
Views: 272
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Re: iamturk vs spadel

thx ggs, I unfortunately really didn’t have any good dutch build and fucked that game up terribly xD

Which top 10 players do you wish to see listed?

All-time

Active last two weeks

Active last month

Supremacy

Treaty

Official

ESOC Patch

Treaty Patch

1v1 Elo

2v2 Elo

3v3 Elo

Power Rating

Which streams do you wish to see listed?

Twitch

Age of Empires III

Age of Empires IV