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Not using shipments

Post by _GetMoneyBitches »

I think AOE3 and the whole shipment system should be taken out of the game so we can just use skill and to stop abusing the broken shipment system!!
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Now that's a line of reasoning I never heard before...what's your rationale behind this?
or is this troll
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milku3459 wrote:Now that's a line of reasoning I never heard before...what's your rationale behind this?
or is this troll

Well it would be a way for balance. AOE2 doesn't have shipments for example.
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_GetMoneyBitches wrote:
milku3459 wrote:Now that's a line of reasoning I never heard before...what's your rationale behind this?
or is this troll

Well it would be a way for balance. AOE2 doesn't have shipments for example.


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Homecity shipments are one of the main features of Age3. Yeah, balance can be a problem in some MU's, but at most skill levels it's not a huge deal.
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_GetMoneyBitches wrote:
milku3459 wrote:Now that's a line of reasoning I never heard before...what's your rationale behind this?
or is this troll

Well it would be a way for balance. AOE2 doesn't have shipments for example.


AoE2 is completely different to 3.
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Good let's get rid of shipments and keep consulate upgardes and big buttons Kappa
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Its ok if you like aoe2 better, but we dont. lol

Shipments imo its the hearth of aoe3, great feature.
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Maybe a no-shipment tournament could be played, starvation was succesful so why not?
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yoqpasa wrote:Maybe a no-shipment tournament could be played, starvation was succesful so why not?

The main reason Starvation worked was that it was relatively simple for me to remove the hunts from the maps (with Durokan's help). Removing shipments might be more difficult, I imagine the easiest way would be coding a trigger that researches blockade for all players. Either way, someone has to find out how to do it, test it, then make it for a tournament-ready mapset.
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yoqpasa wrote:Maybe a no-shipment tournament could be played, starvation was succesful so why not?


rushing strats would be dead without shipments... the meta could be interesting then
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Imperial Noob wrote:
yoqpasa wrote:Maybe a no-shipment tournament could be played, starvation was succesful so why not?


rushing strats would be dead without shipments... the meta could be interesting then


also the balance would be dead, some civs rely heavy on their villager/military shipments (germany/spain),
while other civs like russia or ports dont even have them.
imagine germany vs ports, its basically 100f villager + 1 town center VS 80f villager + 2 town centers..

the meta would basically be: dont play half of the civs, since shipments are a part of the balance.
(kinda like starvation, where everybody just ended up playing iro..)

(it would be more interesting to make a tournament without villager/military/ressource crates shipments then anyway if you want more meta,
so the players would send all the special/bonus/upgrade cards..)

EDIT: id still love to see such a tournament, but the civ pool would be a lot smaller due to balance issues..
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_GetMoneyBitches wrote:
milku3459 wrote:Now that's a line of reasoning I never heard before...what's your rationale behind this?
or is this troll

Well it would be a way for balance. AOE2 doesn't have shipments for example.


no it wouldnt, shipments are a part of the balance in aoe3
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No.
(I just used the same amount of arguments as you)
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forgrin wrote:
yoqpasa wrote:Maybe a no-shipment tournament could be played, starvation was succesful so why not?

The main reason Starvation worked was that it was relatively simple for me to remove the hunts from the maps (with Durokan's help). Removing shipments might be more difficult, I imagine the easiest way would be coding a trigger that researches blockade for all players. Either way, someone has to find out how to do it, test it, then make it for a tournament-ready mapset.



Just make players to pick a deck without cards, or maybe just one IV useless card if it can't be blank.
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forgrin wrote:
yoqpasa wrote:Maybe a no-shipment tournament could be played, starvation was succesful so why not?

The main reason Starvation worked was that it was relatively simple for me to remove the hunts from the maps (with Durokan's help). Removing shipments might be more difficult, I imagine the easiest way would be coding a trigger that researches blockade for all players. Either way, someone has to find out how to do it, test it, then make it for a tournament-ready mapset.

You can make a gentlemen's agreement and then check in the recs if one would have any doubts.
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forgrin wrote:
yoqpasa wrote:Maybe a no-shipment tournament could be played, starvation was succesful so why not?

The main reason Starvation worked was that it was relatively simple for me to remove the hunts from the maps (with Durokan's help). Removing shipments might be more difficult, I imagine the easiest way would be coding a trigger that researches blockade for all players. Either way, someone has to find out how to do it, test it, then make it for a tournament-ready mapset.


Ermmm coulndt be easier, no need to do anything, just dont pick a deck. You can press f6 at anytime to check if the enemy has pickes one, or just watch the rec latter lol.

A small tournament in this settings would be fun, totally imbalanced, but fun to find the viable civs and bos
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It would be slooooow...
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pecelot wrote:It would be slooooow...


Yes.. probably only port mirror fi :S
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yea i'd imagine ports would be the only viable civ.
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__Uhlan__ wrote:
_GetMoneyBitches wrote:
milku3459 wrote:Now that's a line of reasoning I never heard before...what's your rationale behind this?
or is this troll

Well it would be a way for balance. AOE2 doesn't have shipments for example.


GG no re for Otto, Spain's bonus goodbye? 10/10 thread :lol:

dude its even 5/7. would totally read that thread again.
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Brits wouldn't be that bad either, I guess...
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Maybe asian civs would be the best in that gamemode because of Consulate :P
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No shipments? Too balance 5 me
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It's an interesting idea but I think that one of the things which makes the game so interesting is the shipments.

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