Hello! I've been playing some games recently, and I noticed that I have a lag which I didn't have before. If I play on nilla, it seems to be fine. But if I play on TAD, a few minutes in, the game starts lagging; it slightly freezes every half a second, giving the impression that I am playing on slow...

The only way I could see it being accepted by competitive players is if, for example, at 10 minutes there is an eqarthquake which blocks or gives access to various parts of the map

What about making revolt cheaper and/or stronger, but enabling only after 20 minutes? I feel like that's the place for revolt; when you're in the lategame but loosing, you can use it as a last ditch effort.

Technically, Dutch and Portugal can do okay with those imperial tupi and other natives (of course I've used it from time to time) but frankly, if revolution is going to be viable it should be changed completely. It's a boring one dimensional strategy that you do an all in for and AoE3 frankly needs...

I think it's okay that only 2 civs can really revolt properly. It's probably going to get old real fast when you give the revolt option to a bunch of other civs. I think, on the contrary, it will add strategic variety to every civ (as long as it's weak enough so that not every civ does it like 1/4 ...

Honestly the imperial hussar revolution is probably too good, and all the others are way too bad. Adjusting revolutions somehow isn't necessarily a bad idea, just need to figure out how best to do it. It needs to be strong enough to be a reasonable all-in, but still bad enough that it's beatable wi...

princeofcarthage wrote:Why is stealth broken? It makes perfect sense.

I guess because it can give away game-winning information for free, and it's rather difficult to counter, especially for civs with just 1 slow explorer.

Kaiserklein wrote:Yeah scouting is often near impossible when your opponent has units, which is sad. Unless you have stealth units, which is another broken mechanic that shouldn't exist anyway.

Can spies unstealth other spies? It's way out there but IMO it would be cool if spies were cheap enough to be viable.

harcha wrote:

ovi12 wrote:I know this has been suggested before, but I really think EP should look into making (non-veteran) halbs available in age 2 for Dutch.

no

yes

I know this has been suggested before, but I really think EP should look into making (non-veteran) halbs available in age 2 for Dutch.

princeofcarthage wrote:God, someone asks genuine advice/question and 70% of esoc jumps in to troll. Not expected this from Mitoe, thnx Kaiser for great reply.

I think you should relax

What could theoretically be a solution to the lategame of aoe3 being poor? In starcraft II, it's even simpler, you don't have mills so you can only gather natural resources. Once they deplete, you can't gather resources anymore. This wouldn't work in the Age of Empires series because you wouldn't h...

Aoe2's map control solves a bunch of problems in one system: You're just making as many units as possible. Army compositions also tend to not be limited anymore. There are ample resources to create any infrastructure necessary. At this point any game risks becoming stale and boring. Aoe3 has this p...

As Sweeden, you can often declare the independence war right away; just look at Denmark's rivals and ask for support. I would not go for Denmark's fort first, I would go for Norway's army. The problem is that Denmark's army can come out of the darkness at any time and catch you in an unfavorable fig...

[Armag] diarouga wrote:

What is your suggestion then ? How do you nerf the 100% sepoy strategy while making the sepoy rush good ?

Make the shipment 6 sepoy ? And/or make the agra age up give 3-4 sepoys?

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iirc it's quicksearch vs. hosted games Yea. And if anybody doesn't know, let me reiterate the very important distinction between quicksearch games and hosted games: I believe that games hosted in a lobby become rated after two minutes of game time. However, quicksearch games become rated immediatel...

I was looking at Kaiserklein's ELO. If you look closely at the attachment (which shows his most recent games), it goes down when he wins, but then it goes up when he loses. Does anyone know why this happens?

Just watched Kaiser vs Hazza in the ESOC winter championship, Russia vs Otto. And it made me think: why do people claim that Otto FF wins this MU so easily? I'm not saying Russia is definitely better or anything. But it does seem fairly close, maybe even Russia favored, depending on the map. In the...

Tercio tactics: turns pikemen into rodeleros and grants the veteran rodelero upgrade. I don't think would change anything. The main problem with the card is still the unanswerable question: What in God's name are you doing with 50 pikes as colonial Spain in the first place? If pikemen get buffed as...

tbh, melee at range is an interesting concept. I think it's worth experimenting with it in the case of for example halbediers. want to make it less useless? instead of hp or speed buffs, maybe give it a range buff. 2 range on halb melee or something. pikemen should probably also have like 1 melee r...

-video is well put together (good pacing) -the clickbait title probably not necessary with the small target audience you would expect, could tone that down a little -music is shit, reminds me of interjections old videos with really cheesy royalty free music. there are more appropriate options out t...

I am noob but I really agree with Hazza here. One suggestion that I haven't seen mentioned: What about nerfing goon speed, perhaps to just .5 more speed than cav? It's so dumb when 20 cav have to run away from 5 goons; goons are the only unit (that I can think of) that can beat an infinite number of...

lordraphael wrote:so spanish hype has died. and they back to bottom ? I think they not bad.

I hope we see glorious return of Spain in the hands of Raphael. The elo formula has been changed and you are number 8 now :O

n0el wrote:

ovi12 wrote:It's a little sad, this will probably be the last tournament of AOE3 ever.

Maybe 2nd to last

Yeah I meant that they will be on DE. Myabe 2nd to last, but perhaps it would be better for ESOC to save money so it can have a really big first tournament on DE.