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by _tank
08 Apr 2021, 03:56
Forum: General
Topic: long game
Replies: 59
Views: 2250
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Re: long game

I agree with wall nerfs, it has always felt unfun to play with or against wall spamming, which I think is the main reason it doesn't see more use since walls are very strong
by _tank
18 Mar 2021, 00:42
Forum: News
Topic: 3v3 Tournament Hosted by RøyaL Clan
Replies: 104
Views: 9135
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Re: 3v3 Tournament Hosted by RøyaL Clan

As a participant in the tourney I'm glad the result is in the open rather than just rumors, even if the result was controversial. FWIW, I agree with don_artie here about the outcome. I know that we had to reschedule a few of the games due to one player not being able to make it, though no case was q...
by _tank
26 Feb 2021, 23:23
Forum: General
Topic: People who quit the game/took a break, why did you do so?
Replies: 52
Views: 2309
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Re: People who quit the game/took a break, why did you do so?

I haven't quit DE (yet) but for me it will be when I think it's too hard to find high quality 3v3 team games (it's the same reason I quit playing TAD / vanilla 12 years ago). I can see it happening at some point, matchmaking is usually useless at finding random teammates to create fair teams (at lea...
by _tank
24 Feb 2021, 22:42
Forum: News
Topic: 3v3 Tournament Hosted by RøyaL Clan
Replies: 104
Views: 9135
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Re: 3v3 Tournament Hosted by RøyaL Clan

The team elo implementation used by DE is actually terrible, it doesn't seem to take in to account the rating of your team mates so it inflates the rating of lower rated players teaming with higher rated teammates and is easily abused with premade teams, which seems to have tricked some of the capta...
by _tank
19 Feb 2021, 20:04
Forum: General
Topic: team games on DE
Replies: 11
Views: 683
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Re: team games on DE

My experience is this, and when game finally starts there is a 1200 elo gap between highest and lowest rated player
by _tank
09 Feb 2021, 20:31
Forum: General
Topic: Last China portrait picture
Replies: 17
Views: 941
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Re: Last China portrait picture

you can start games with infinite resources, complete in scenario editor (lao chen), and on fast speed as well
by _tank
03 Nov 2020, 23:39
Forum: General
Topic: Old Players returning speculation thread
Replies: 89
Views: 6252
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Re: Old Players returning speculation thread

I played a bit and it has been nice to see the game relatively active at the higher level team games in Americas time zone, since difficulty in finding games was one reason why I left. That being said I already took a break from the game due to bugs & the multiplayer experience feels half-assed....
by _tank
28 Jun 2019, 03:04
Forum: News
Topic: ESOC Patch 6.1.1.0 released with multiplayer save/restore!
Replies: 61
Views: 6735
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Re: ESOC Patch 6.1.1.0 released with multiplayer save/restore!

being unable to rejoin games from oos / drop is probably the #1 most annoying thing with aoe3, it's great to see a save patch
by _tank
11 Mar 2017, 04:49
Forum: Strategy
Topic: Expert Team Insight
Replies: 8
Views: 855
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Re: Expert Team Insight

I'm mostly assuming your talking 3v3 and I've played lots of 3x3 random so this is based on my experience there... 1) Having no hussar equivalent means your team is vulnerable to early raids so you should come up with a way to deal with it. Your options depend on how aggressive you want to be, one o...
by _tank
04 Mar 2017, 18:43
Forum: General
Topic: From major to brigadier: How to improve at higher levels?
Replies: 71
Views: 3793
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Re: From major to brigadier: How to improve at higher levels?

Nah title says "Major to brigadier"
by _tank
04 Mar 2017, 17:53
Forum: General
Topic: From major to brigadier: How to improve at higher levels?
Replies: 71
Views: 3793
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Re: From major to brigadier: How to improve at higher levels?

My best advice is to get a smurf account and only play people major or lower with less then 25 HC. If you can keep up the winrate you get your big PR :)
by _tank
31 Jan 2017, 10:04
Forum: Strategy
Topic: Dutch guide help
Replies: 12
Views: 634
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Re: Dutch guide help

For team there is the classic pike rush where you gather no gold before clicking to age 2 and make all the vills you can from starting crates and treasures, ship 3 vills, age 400 wood, ship 8 pikes, build rax + spam pikes with only 3 vills on coin for new vills. You basically have to take them out a...
by _tank
13 Dec 2016, 07:47
Forum: Strategy
Topic: Strategy Wall
Replies: 131
Views: 109689
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Re: Strategy Wall V2

all this talk of brit cav starts and nobody mentions 2x stable? in 2016?
by _tank
06 Jul 2016, 04:38
Forum: General
Topic: Interested in a Lieutenant/Captain/Major tournament?
Replies: 113
Views: 2002
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Re: Interested in a Lieutenant/Captain/Major tournament?

PR is broken for this, anyone who decayed would be eligible
by _tank
31 Oct 2015, 17:28
Forum: News
Topic: ESOC Patch 1.0 is here!
Replies: 158
Views: 9985
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ESOC Patch 1.0 is here!

IIRC the FP had it's own set of issues running on people's computers right when it is released, and it is more or less an expected part of developing new software, especially when doing something new (I doubt H20 or musketeer have done anything exactly like this before) I'm sure they will figure out...
by _tank
31 Oct 2015, 04:41
Forum: News
Topic: ESOC Patch 1.0 is here!
Replies: 158
Views: 9985
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ESOC Patch 1.0 is here!

It's happening! (again)
by _tank
03 Oct 2015, 06:35
Forum: Strategy
Topic: What's most efficienct russian startup? Most troops age 2?
Replies: 21
Views: 1219
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What's most efficienct russian startup? Most troops age 2?

you are going to want 8 vill age up not 5 vill. not that much slower (if at all) + still no house
by _tank
19 Sep 2015, 08:17
Forum: Archive
Topic: Where are you from? (Europe)
Replies: 83
Views: 3185
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Where are you from? (Europe)

as an american it seems like everyone who plays this game is from europe
by _tank
15 Sep 2015, 07:40
Forum: General
Topic: The ultimate checklist for casters!
Replies: 38
Views: 2228
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The ultimate checklist for casters!

this being said, I think it is awesome aoe3 has so many dedicated and awesome casters who are free to cast on a regular basis
by _tank
11 Sep 2015, 16:40
Forum: Strategy
Topic: Russia - 1st shipment in age 2
Replies: 47
Views: 1947
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Russia - 1st shipment in age 2

There isn't much reason not to send 5 cossack first because you can still focus on your eco (vills + market)
by _tank
11 Sep 2015, 09:22
Forum: Strategy
Topic: japan vs russia help
Replies: 49
Views: 2110
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japan vs russia help

build shrine on his hunt, wait for him to run out of hunt and lagh at his misfortune for playing against op civ japan
by _tank
11 Sep 2015, 09:16
Forum: Strategy
Topic: Grenade Rush with Russia ?
Replies: 10
Views: 695
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Grenade Rush with Russia ?

gren are pretty weak unit, so you will need to outplay to make up for the handicap of making gren
by _tank
11 Sep 2015, 09:15
Forum: Strategy
Topic: How do resource crates pop out of the TC?
Replies: 9
Views: 659
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How do resource crates pop out of the TC?

you can put some vills in the tc, set tc waypoint to the big crate, then pop them out quick. other vills can walk so they come from 2 sides
by _tank
11 Sep 2015, 09:12
Forum: Strategy
Topic: Russia deck and collonial and Fortress age
Replies: 33
Views: 2661
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Russia deck and collonial and Fortress age

russia wants to stay in colonial for a long time because it makes vills 1.5 times faster from 1 tc 1st card is usually wood trickle, can be 300 wood for vanilla or team food gathering in team games which hurts your early colonial a bit, but if you have that + spice trade + market your food gathering...
by _tank
11 Sep 2015, 08:42
Forum: General
Topic: Veni's Farewell
Replies: 101
Views: 8230
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Veni's Farewell

... @tank :O are you the one who played often wit Trabant or something, from some time ago? I still remember that. You should get back then ') Ciao! Veni Nah, I don''t even remember trabant, I played mostly 3v3 random on _tank, yours_truly in 2007-2010 (I don''t remember which account I played on w...

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