arriah wrote:kaiserklein wrote:Now why smurfing ? Hmmm maybe because on nilla Im colonel and I want to team with pr 20-30 mates, so tell me, I just host a colonel game and wait 3 hours with my mate before anyone enters, or I join a lieut game and nobody wants to play against me and call me a noob basher ?
So you join a game that is filled with noobs in a boring game that you say doesnt take skill... Hmmm
kaiserklein wrote:What else can we do apart from camping and all-in rushing ? Idk, maybe (semi-)FF to push around 10 min, rushing but not necessarily with strel/pike or abus/musks, or even simply pressuring the opponents before we all are in age 4 ? Do we always all-in rush or camp in 1v1 games ? No, so why should it be different in team games ?
What you are saying is that there is a 4 min window in which one MUST attack-- not a second sooner or later-- or else youre a noob. We dont "always rush" you play to your teams civ strengths. If we are going against 2 Brits and a French, we are fucking rushing by 6 mins.
kaiserklein wrote:Who knows, maybe the whole post is about team elo, which is supposed to reflect your skill in team games.
Btw looking at your elo I had a laugh because you almost always play dutch in 3v3s, which is exactly illustrating what I said...
Actually, the post is about why the OPs team elo is low and I about why there is a possible difference in average elo for ranks between TAD and nilla, NOT about wether it takes more skill than 1v1.
As for playing Dutch, I ALWAYS play Dutch, 1v 2v 3v 4v ALWAYS. I play Dutch because I like the style and find it challenging. Also, like I said, I have NEVER pike rushed, and I usually play cav in team games. Unless youre also saying that you can never play Dutch or else youre a noob ')
I want to team with my mates, even if it often results in shit team games. As simple as that... Plus, smurfing enables you to make troll strats without getting no matched.
Im not saying you have to play in this 4 min window. Just that it would be nice if people sometimes stopped doing always the same crap. Really I know so many team players that always do the same build... Take all those lieut french players. They always cav, 100%. They dont even help you in fight, because all they can do is raiding forever. They dont adapt : they just raid, whatever happens. Drives me mad when I got this kind of guy in my team cause it sucks, but when Im in the other team Im just as mad because it makes the game boring, raids everywhere and no real fight. Whenever its russia, they strelet rush, 100% too. Cant mix any musk, cant defend. Always the same thing. Ottos ? Cant even make abus guns, too hard. Just jan rush. Ask a brit to cav, or to rush ? He cant.
The list is long, and I know I am exaggerating since it isnt always the case, but really a large majority of team players just do more or less the same thing every game. I could name so many team players Ive seen doing always the same strats... Im sure you would know a bunch of them.
Btw, you play 100% dutch ? Yeah so you are exactly the kind of player I described...
I wouldnt say going dutch is noob, just that it is overpowered (probs the best team civ, and for sure the best 1v1 civ if correctly played) and especially boring in team games. Either they lame rush you, having 8 pikes card and the fastest age up time, or they just camp with skirms or ruyters cause their boom is so fast.