Having a politician unlock something that isn't available otherwise is bad design in general.

You probably put units into fishing boats, then put fishing boats into trek wagons, then put trek wagons into 1 boat.

harcha wrote:you can play the game you grew up with

Which is what I do.

harcha wrote:If they don't make a difference what are you worried about?

If a balance patch makes many useless small changes then the game isn't the game we grew up with anymore. It doesn't make it more balanced nor more enjoyable.

1) That is an awful lot of IFs. What are you worried about? Do you want to not have new balance patches? 2) Why would those unit changes be so bad? You can still play RE if you want to. 3) Spanish and Lakota are actually top tier civs and the TP nerf was welcome for these examples. What we have now...

Imagine what consequences making the game balanced can have. Many changes weren't geared toward balance but just viability of stuff. Then you didn't understand what I said. If you make not-optimal ways to play the game optimal, then you get new optimal. If you get new optimal the years of balancing...

Imagine what consequences making the game balanced can have. Many changes weren't geared toward balance but just viability of stuff. Then you didn't understand what I said. If you make not-optimal ways to play the game optimal, then you get new optimal. If you get new optimal the years of balancing...

EP was in the process of balancing for many years, and after those changes were all copied to DE, why would we change anything? Which changes are you refering to? Because French insane start and Port 5% are DE things. Back then French start was nerfed. It's only the last few EP iterations that reve...

EP was in the process of balancing for many years, and after those changes were all copied to DE, why would we change anything?

The interesting part would be everyone is gonna be a noob at day 1 in Aoe4 ,ppl who have good RTS mechanics or have played aoe2 or aoe3 can perform somewhat better with their apm ,but the challenge starts from day 1 to theory craft the best builds for each civ and climb on ladder ,mechanics ,BO is ...

curvaFENER wrote:Aoe3 is a game that requires more brain power. So esoc players more intelligent than aoe2 players.

:)

Yeah, all the different shipments you can send make this game more strategy oriented than any other RTS.

because the map rng code is haphazard, hunts are spectacularly asymmetrical, there is sometimes inadequate food to even age up, trees are too far from tcs, theres a massive food treasure that always lets one player get a 30s faster ageup... shall i go on Well, there is a reason why it is the most p...

deleted_user wrote:The thinking is too narrow. Rather, one should ask not which, but how many expansions to remove. And the answer is all of them.

Yeah if vanilla maps and hotkeys weren't so bad vanilla would be a perfectly balanced game.

Wow, isn't it the famous moesbar/shadowagent/stack/...? The guy who cheated against Kaiser was Chinese, a lot of the RE cheaters were Chinese, this guy is also Chinese, so there is another hint. It's PARTLY true. All those are Chinese indeed, but they're actually ONE same player. There are not so m...

Wow, isn't it the famous moesbar/shadowagent/stack/...? The guy who cheated against Kaiser was Chinese, a lot of the RE cheaters were Chinese, this guy is also Chinese, so there is another hint. It's PARTLY true. All those are Chinese indeed, but they're actually ONE same player. There are not so m...

The guy who cheated against Kaiser was Chinese, a lot of the RE cheaters were Chinese, this guy is also Chinese, so there is another hint.

Would it be reasonable to add the antiherd(backherd) mechanics? Even though maps start with a lot more resources now, sometimes the second and third hunts will spawn just far enough that it will backherd when is just a few shots of getting under the tc. No because then (theoretically) you could ste...

Cocaine wrote:Pretty sure I actually talked to moesbar himself at one point at 5 am over skype, heard street traffic (I presume in india based on his heavy accent) while we had a deep intellectual conversation. Anyways..

Moesbar was Chinese and not Indian.

Love seeing two equally matched players go at it. Murdered by words. Just wait until he beats you, then he will make a new post titled "Wow! This RPG had a hidden final boss that I didn't know about" He did beat _H2O around 2015, _H2O played China on Sonora and aged up with the porcelain ...

Love seeing two equally matched players go at it. Murdered by words. Just wait until he beats you, then he will make a new post titled "Wow! This RPG had a hidden final boss that I didn't know about" He did beat _H2O around 2015, _H2O played China on Sonora and aged up with the porcelain ...

Love seeing two equally matched players go at it. Murdered by words. Just wait until he beats you, then he will make a new post titled "Wow! This RPG had a hidden final boss that I didn't know about" He did beat _H2O around 2015, _H2O played China on Sonora and aged up with the porcelain ...

Try completing the "updated" Sioux campaign, I used the codes to pass through missions quickly to see the new cinematics. They changed the missions so that you fight against outlaws and not Sioux with lots of cringy dialogs like colonel Custer insulting natives for alcoholism. It's funny h...

- Fresh leaderboard without Osmane point sitting since 2008 Have you seen the leaderboard?? It's full of Garja fans. Or read the patch notes?? The name Garja appears a total of 16 times! More than any other name :unsure: Garja is now in the list of creators of the game, as well as Rikikipu, Durokan...

I started playing online around february 2014, I played in gameranger for 3-4 months, then bought a ESO account and became 1st lt TAD. It took me half a year to become major, then half a year to become lt col, and another half a year to become colonel and reach pr 37 TAD. The 2 things that kept me a...