Yeah I think Winter 2024 should've been a more standard tournament and the Age 2 only tournament should've been a fun side tournament. It would've fit perfectly into those ESOC Grand Tours (series of weekend tournaments) we used to have.

are obs maps even a thing in DE? so sad. such a fun way to spend a saturday. Lack of OBS maps is sad for tournaments as well. On EP when you could start the lobby with casters you knew casters could let you know if anything was fucked up, and could just focus 100% on the game. On DE I have to stres...

I still think Trump shouldn't have been allowed to run and voted for Harris because I don't want a criminal to be president, but at the same time I think the dems really deserved to lose this one. Basically this: For some time, even prior to this election, I have been wondering about the alienation ...

I logged in last night. Didn't play any games because I would need to get hotkeys set up and felt like too much of a hassle. Amsterda was hosting a 1v1 nr20, his treaty pr was major so I guess he got quite a few nr20 games vs noobs in the weeks before the servers got taken down. Despite not logging ...

A most enjoyable read. what was TRT? because agesanctuary was for supremacy and I'm guessing TRT was a treaty forum? such nostalgia gl on your GOAT run, julian edit: is this storm's channel? I assume so https://www.youtube.com/@StorminAOE3/videos Yea, TRT was like agesanc but for treaty. That is St...

Was it you or someone else who was treaty GOAT? I know there was a treaty player that was almost untouchable in the past. I think it was you? [mention]u2532[/mention] can you confirm or deny? Cool time to write another essay, but this time on something I actually know a lot about. As far as I know ...

I'm pretty sure legacy tournaments bring in more viewers (excluding KOTOW which had like x15 the standard prize pool). I also think legacy tournaments are more fun to watch and play in. I didn't play in the last tournament because I didn't feel like it, but the fact that it was legacy made it a hard...

Yeah the site isn't nearly as active as it used to be, everything happens on Discord servers now apparently. For ladder you can use https://aoe3explorer.com/ or https://freefoodparty.com/leaderboards . JulianK used to go by Floko83, maybe you remember him by that name. He is the best treaty player a...

The first game I actually thought the game was over when Kaiser hit that idleless 16 and started aging before Brit did, but Julian made pretty much all the right decisions at the right times. Main things were 1. Holding the initial uhlan pressure without too much idle time, losing a vill for 2 uhlan...

Surprised it took so long but also kinda sad, my best Aoe3 related memories happened through ESO. Despite its flaws (FTJ, lag, and invite spam) its interface and design were amazing.

Not sure why they have to take the game off of steam though. Gameranger and Voobly will still exist.

Oh wow there was a whole thread about this. Who's really the emotional one here the guy who literally asked "why did you go there. You passed up 80 wood treasure and walked completely across the map." Thats whats called a question, I did not say "nice stream snipe loser" or some...

Predicting Kaiser VS Julian finals, Julian wins 5-3

SC2 is a great RTS, imo it's tied with AoE2 for GOAT RTS. It's this longevity that I think is a requirement for an RTS to be in the GOAT category, and I think that SC2 just does not have it. If Stormgate had not dropped the ball so hard I think it would've crippled SC2 and killed its pro scene, and...

SC2 is a great RTS, imo it's tied with AoE2 for GOAT RTS. I actually think Brood War and Aoe2 are the GOAT RTS games, with SC2 still a great game but one tier behind. I have no urge to try playing Brood War, and I think most modern RTS fans outside of South Korea (the operative word being "mos...

legacy civs on legacy maps :/ europe maps shame to be missing sadly the maps look awful aswell What don't you like about the maps? There are a few I don't like but they seem fine to me overall. Though I do like the new maps there's no point in a legacy tournament if those game-changing bigbutton/op...

Battle Aces was a lot more fun than it looks, I also think that out of those 3 RTS it has the highest chance to do well and pull in people who have never played RTS before. The macro and strategy are greatly simplified which lets you focus a lot more on the tactics, and there are no build order los...

Battle Aces was a lot more fun than it looks, I also think that out of those 3 RTS it has the highest chance to do well and pull in people who have never played RTS before. The macro and strategy are greatly simplified which lets you focus a lot more on the tactics, and there are no build order loss...

I’m not going to quit, at least not over the cheating accusations, this thread also showed me that there was no need to defend myself because all the people that have known me for years know that I would never cheat. If I didn’t want to deal with swisherguts' bad faith interrogation at 1 AM while ma...

No serious aoe3 player could believe you're a cheater, no worries. I think basically everyone out here respects you and knows you don't cheat. Also anyone cheating on a video game, especially a dead game like aoe3, has to be a massive loser. However, just wanna point out one thing: I despise cheate...

dicktator is not a cheater, never really had to think otherwise even if some no name accuses him of cheating swisher isn't really a nobody, pretty much everyone who plays DE qs knows him, he plays in ffp showmatches, and he has some standing in the community. It's not like osteoblaste where he accu...

I have no interest in dealing with cheating accusations, if enough people think that I cheated I'll simply stop playing the game (I'll play out my tournament matches, of course). To me, cheating is a very serious offense. I despise cheaters and I believe that people who cheat in multiplayer competit...

I really miss EP sup, there may be a bit of nostalgia involved but it's difficult to explain to people who weren't active during that time how much better the games were back then. I don't think EP can ever go back to being active to the point of being able to just log on and see who's on, knowing y...

Yea I started reading the GS guide recently because I'm interested to see how Julian's guide compares with it. Julian also said that he'll update the guide when new patches drop, so I think it's definitely worth the price. Gonna buy it and then play some supremacy using the builds, it'll be interest...

I think the design of the TWC civs are actually fine except for Lakota/Sioux which is and has always been pretty stupid. Iro has been too strong in some metas or on certain maps, especially RE, but the design is fine imo. Meanwhile Aztecs have a couple annoying things about them, like the warchief a...