It depends on the game. In games that have a high skill level its going to take even the best natural gamer years to be great. I remember hearing a dota 2 pro say that someone would have to play dota2 for like a year just to understand the basics. A game like aoe3 however has a relatively low skill...

That kinda seems unrelated to your initial definition.

Kaiserklein wrote:I said real men, not Mitoe

Its not a bold statement. I consider someone to be good at video games when they are able to support themselves by playing, or if they can play competitively with people who can support themselves by playing. No one who plays aoe3 can do that( to my knowledge at least) so I dont consider anyone to ...

What do you mean it has nothing to do with aoe3? Just cause its not the same genre is irrelevant considering that being pro at cs means you're top .01 percentile in a game which had 20 million players last month, meaning they're naturally good at video games, while literally no one who plays aoe is...

They are both important. Better mechanics unlock better strategies, and better strategies require better mechanics. For example: it may be best to FF with Spain into pretty much everything, but that doesn’t mean you will always win. Mechanics can allow you to better defend your base against a rush w...

I have to choose between my 2 favourite maps, Thar Desert and Colorado? This is criminal!

I veto Klondike

Yikes, quit reminding me of my failures guys.

Are they? They seem alright to me, considering that the majority of hand infantry units are worthless after Colonial, but rods are not.

Seeing as that's probably a bad idea could also just make rods shadow tech

How to break the civ: give Lancers range just like Meteor Hammers.

Excellent. Can't wait to make you eat those words.

Ok which one? 20? I need to be well rested in order to 3-0 you or else I might drop a game.

19GMT or 20GMT would be preferable for me if that's alright with you; if not I'll suffer the tragedy of having to wake up at the entirely unreasonable hour of 10am.

Not sure what my veto is yet. I'll get back to you on that soon.

Gotcha. That's too bad, cause there's no way this scrub could beat me in a BO7!

Anyway, @Kaiserklein I would prefer Sunday if possible; I don't get back home from my parents place until Friday, and I'm pretty sure I will lag if we play while I'm still here.

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[spoiler=Result]3-0 for Mitoe

GGs Lukas, I know you don't like mirrors but they were still lots of fun! [/spoiler]

would combining crate starts with decks be possible? choosing deck will deliver the 'extra' crate in a game this way every player can get any crate start desired for their strategy for every deck, not civ, adding diversity like that without it being based on RNG. sounds like you're gonna get code r...

Yeah, the speed is the main problem. The recorded game will never play at 100% speed. Best you can seem to get is 90%. Super boring. Plus the lack of suspense and everything else--it's just a bad experience. There's no good solution to the problem really. Lag is subjective, it depends on the players...

They're good but not that good. Especially not vs Aztec. Gurkha/Zamb with the camel cards is just a superior unit composition to Urumi/Sepoy or Mahout/Sepoy vs Aztec IMO. Mace just do too well vs heavy infantry. For comparison Macehualtin do 32 damage to heavy infantry ever 3 seconds compared to 30 ...

You can't really do that lol, because it means that you would change the crate start for every civ. It should more be like, keep the crates as they are, but remove the goat on coin or food starts. I'm assuming you're talking about China here. You already think they're a bad civ, why make them worse...

In your installation directory you'll find a file called "DataPF.bar". You will also find several other files of the same name, but with version numbers after them. Find the version you want to use to watch the recorded game, backup your current DataPF.bar file, and rename the version you ...

I just don't understand why everyone insists on making nothing but Sepoy vs everything as India. Especially against Aztec, where Gurkha are arguably your biggest advantage.

Maybe it's just because it's easier to control and harder to micro against at the same time.

Hello, welcome to ESOC! When you open the patch launcher it should give you the option to launch "ESOC Patch," "Treaty Patch," or the "Official Patch." What you are looking for is the Official Patch. ESOC Patch is mainly only used by high level players or for competitiv...