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by dicktator_
16 May 2023, 18:53
Forum: News
Topic: EPL4 Week 3
Replies: 11
Views: 1830
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Re: EPL4 Week 3

JulianK (4) vs minimoult (1) - I predicted Julian 4-1 last time and my prediction got BTFO by Ungurs who actually 4-1'd Julian, but I feel more confident about Julian vs minimoult considering Julian 4-0'd him in the KOTOW tournament. However, this is a very different situation, and mini will come pr...
by dicktator_
11 May 2023, 21:55
Forum: News
Topic: EPL4 Week 2
Replies: 11
Views: 1758
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Re: EPL4 Week 2

Not as much detail as Kaister's writeups but: JulianK (4) vs Ungurs (1) I think Julian will be better practiced for this match than he was for his match against Kaiser, and even against Kaiser he still took two games. Mitoe (2) vs Revnak (3) Revnak has been active all this time and knows most of the...
by dicktator_
05 May 2023, 00:07
Forum: ESOC Talk
Topic: ESOC Memes
Replies: 3960
Views: 321425
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Re: ESOC Memes

I asked ChatGPT about the best Aoe3 players:

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by dicktator_
02 May 2023, 18:53
Forum: General
Topic: ESOC Premier League S4 - Official Trades
Replies: 30
Views: 4124
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Re: ESOC Premier League S4 - Official Trades

CMC team is very strong but as usual at depends a lot on player forms, how much time and effort people put into practicing, whether they over or underperform in matches etc. I think the only team that really messed up is BIGs but they still have a nonzero chance of winning, then the 3 other teams al...
by dicktator_
30 Apr 2023, 17:28
Forum: News
Topic: Announcing The ESOC Premier League Season 4!
Replies: 33
Views: 6625
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Re: Announcing The ESOC Premier League Season 4!

Yeah I really don't think there should be a civ reset
by dicktator_
23 Apr 2023, 00:49
Forum: ESOC Talk
Topic: Clipsh, clipsh, and moar clipsh
Replies: 1384
Views: 79617
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Re: Clipsh, clipsh, and moar clipsh

callentournies wrote: ↑
23 Apr 2023, 00:42
what do we think of pull tricking in 2023?

https://clips.twitch.tv/TentativeGenius ... EWK1gmf2Vx
It's lame, @Garja was right all along
by dicktator_
09 Mar 2023, 17:29
Forum: General
Topic: BLITZ TREATY
Replies: 4
Views: 672
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Re: BLITZ TREATY

I raise my concerns 1. This map completely kills the fun of the treaty game. The game is about instant response and hand speed, so I would rather play a normal rush game. 2. I think the fun of treaty games lies in the strategic view of the map and pre-planning. Although you high rank players are al...
by dicktator_
04 Mar 2023, 04:52
Forum: General
Topic: Old guard ….
Replies: 15
Views: 1738
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Re: Old guard ….

richard wrote: ↑
04 Mar 2023, 00:00
The game is as alive as 2015.
For the top level this just isn't true, for lower levels yea it's as active or probably more.
by dicktator_
01 Mar 2023, 19:30
Forum: General
Topic: Native civ designs is a failure now
Replies: 47
Views: 3735
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Re: Native civ designs is a failure now

remind me when we started to use lakota instead of sioux Lakota is actually easy to say and type so switching from Sioux to Lakota is easy. It's not like Iro where the DE name is long and annoying to say/type, so most people still use Iro (or so I thought but I read through the thread and people ar...
by dicktator_
26 Feb 2023, 18:43
Forum: General
Topic: Treaty hidden cup 2.0
Replies: 4
Views: 571
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Re: Treaty hidden cup 2.0

1. In order for players to be motivated to play their best games and schedule matches quickly, a prize pool is probably required. But it shouldn’t be difficult to raise one. 2. Maybe a qualifier for the last two players 3. I’d prefer a 1v1 tournament this time, but wouldn’t mind 2v2 if that’s what m...
by dicktator_
13 Feb 2023, 17:54
Forum: General
Topic: Pesti/EGC to limit support of AoE4 esports
Replies: 7
Views: 1646
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Re: Pesti/EGC to limit support of AoE4 esports

gibson wrote: ↑
12 Feb 2023, 01:00
I guess that basically kills the aoe4 competitive community right?
I think Stormgate is going to do that, or at least hurt it a lot, as it will draw a lot of the "desperate for a new Triple-A RTS game" crowd.
by dicktator_
23 Jan 2023, 22:53
Forum: General
Topic: What's stopping you from playing AoE4?
Replies: 64
Views: 21678
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Re: What's stopping you from playing AoE4?

The game is in a pretty good state right now, for most of the users on the forum. It's got custom hotkeys and good balance. Custom games and whatnot aren't what they should be but the ladder experience is good. I'm playing age4. Personally age3 is 1000 time better then age4. Yea I prefer aoe3 too A...
by dicktator_
08 Jan 2023, 03:25
Forum: General
Topic: What's stopping you from playing AoE4?
Replies: 64
Views: 21678
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Re: What's stopping you from playing AoE4?

I agree with GoodSpeed about aoe4, unfun micro and unsatisfying macro. To be fair I haven't played aoe4 since 2021, but I don't think those things can be fixed with patches. These days I don't really play much RTS outside of grinding aoe3 if there's a tournament, but if the urge hit me again to play...
by dicktator_
11 Dec 2022, 22:37
Forum: General
Topic: Worst Cards in AOE 3 right now - and how would you fix them
Replies: 6
Views: 833
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Re: Worst Cards in AOE 3 right now - and how would you fix them

10 is good in treaty. 6 isn't a good card and probably wouldn't appear in any serious deck, but I don't think it deserves top 10 worst. Raiding with dragoon units is pretty common in teamgames. The rest seem like good choices, although I have never used or seen #5 so I'm clueless there. For #4 Sepoy...
by dicktator_
09 Dec 2022, 20:41
Forum: General
Topic: why is skirmy so good and why doesn't he blay in tournaments
Replies: 7
Views: 1000
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Re: why is skirmy so good and why doesn't he blay in tournaments

Why so good: Doesn't seem that amazing micro wise (at least compared to how players like knusch and kaiser used to be, but still top lvl among players today) so I guess it's just solid understanding of how to play a lot of matchups and great decision making. Simply doing things like understanding yo...
by dicktator_
27 Nov 2022, 18:37
Forum: General
Topic: Why do not more people play treaty?
Replies: 12
Views: 1340
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Re: Why do not more people play treaty?

The disconnecting and crashing is not as big of an issue as it used to be. Now you can savegame, although it does still force trade civs to trade again, it's usually still a playable game. So instead of wasting 40 mins due to a disconnect you waste 10, for people to join the lobby and download the s...
by dicktator_
20 Nov 2022, 20:07
Forum: General
Topic: XiLED got Cancelled ????
Replies: 37
Views: 2972
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Re: XiLED got Cancelled ????

Main thing I'm curious about is reason why XiLED suddenly got removed from the site. If it's just because of using the word "suicide", then that's insanely hypocritical, because lots of players and casters have used that word to describe players being wasteful with units (interchangeable w...
by dicktator_
19 Nov 2022, 19:12
Forum: General
Topic: XiLED got Cancelled ????
Replies: 37
Views: 2972
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Re: XiLED got Cancelled ????

This is outrageous if true verbatim but can’t help but wonder if there’s more to the story, it’s hard to believe that ESOC would do something like that for such a petty reason
by dicktator_
27 Oct 2022, 19:21
Forum: General
Topic: brits are really the strongest civ lol
Replies: 38
Views: 3308
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Re: brits are really the strongest civ lol

callentournies wrote: ↑
26 Oct 2022, 21:55
where's brit tourney data. it's not a very popular pick
Idk about the whole tournament but for my series I played 4 brit games and won 3. It was definitely a very strong pick on some of those high res/easy to wall maps.
by dicktator_
10 Sep 2022, 19:57
Forum: General
Topic: Treaty > Supremacy
Replies: 57
Views: 5628
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Re: Treaty > Supremacy

callentournies wrote: ↑
10 Sep 2022, 18:44
really bad troll thread

maybe treaty players are better but have any of them ever made a funny joke
viewtopic.php?p=416058#p416058
by dicktator_
09 Sep 2022, 16:14
Forum: General
Topic: Treaty > Supremacy
Replies: 57
Views: 5628
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Re: Treaty > Supremacy

We don’t play rated games in treaty so the current elo range doesn’t mean much. I don’t remember elo ranges of the past but I do remember pr ranges, tr top players would usually hit around pr40-41 (Julian might’ve gotten higher in 2020 when he started winning every damn game), while I remember ep to...
by dicktator_
04 Sep 2022, 18:37
Forum: General
Topic: Treaty > Supremacy
Replies: 57
Views: 5628
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Re: Treaty > Supremacy

Yea, I don't think this thread is very fair. Julian is the only treaty player who improved enough at supremacy to be competitive in a big tournament in two months. For me, Lukas, and kingownage, it took years and thousands of games before we could be competitive in tournaments. Saying that supremacy...
by dicktator_
29 Aug 2022, 00:39
Forum: General
Topic: A reflection on the state of the competitive scene.
Replies: 58
Views: 5179
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Re: A reflection on the state of the competitive scene.

- The role of 'laming' in high level games - Has game knowledge replaced mechanical skill? In my opinion aoe3 has always been very much about game knowledge. Though this is true more so now than it was back then, because of all the lame stuff. Back then it was more like knowing timings and knowing ...
by dicktator_
14 Aug 2022, 20:32
Forum: GSL Groups
Topic: samby vs Conquerer97
Replies: 0
Views: 306
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samby vs Conquerer97

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