The main problem is that, like Kaiser said, balance is very sensitive to PR. PR 40's are playing a different game from PR30's, who are playing a different game from PR20's, etc. So the question becomes, which bracket do we balance the game for? Do we cater to the top 1%, because their streams and t...

"Balancing" is shifting the meta into majoritys play style and removing the more unique strategies of individuals. If kynesie's play style was broken, all high levels would have copied him. He did not win every tournament either. Still, his shit got fucked because people "did not lik...

The main problem is that, like Kaiser said, balance is very sensitive to PR. PR 40's are playing a different game from PR30's, who are playing a different game from PR20's, etc. So the question becomes, which bracket do we balance the game for? Do we cater to the top 1%, because their streams and to...

When you have a 5 cuir reinforcement at the moment when your opponent lost all his anticav.

When you raid a gold mine with cuirs and the opponent doesn't notice for a few seconds.

Prices in my country from a reputable store: Xeon W-1250 - 275eur Quadro RTX 5000 - 2225eur KINGSTON 64GB 2933MHz DDR4 ECC Reg CL21 - 280eur (I have no idea what the registered/unregistered means) Transcend 256GB 1500/1800 2280 M.2 - 36eur (again the Class 40 is entirely meaningless) Motherboard - ...

Just out of curiosity. Can anyone say roughly how much it would cost to build yourself a tower with the same specs as the 5k laptop? The specs are: Intel Xeon W-10855M (6 Core, 12MB Cache, 2.80 GHz to 5.10 GHz, 45W, vPro) NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 w/16GB GDDR6 64GB, 2x32GB, DDR4 2933MHz ECC Memory M.2 ...

Rohbrot wrote:I never saw a laptop that costs 5000 €.

Check this out
https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/de ... swsus_vivp

You can customize it to be $18,000, or $13,000 with the current discount.

[mention]u2012[/mention] [mention]u1170[/mention] Yeah I definitely did not spend $5000 lol. I got the one I linked to before. With the RAM upgrade and tax, it was about $1550. But with this model it doesn't let you upgrade the processor to Xeon. The model that does have the Xeon is originally $7000...

I know that the Precision might already be quite pricey even discounted, but if you can afford the Xeon option, might be worth it. Or if your budget can't go so far, maybe adding as much RAM as possible would be a good idea. From what I'm seeing in a review, someone found it difficult to upgrade th...

[mention]u2012[/mention] [mention]u1170[/mention] Thank you both again so much! I decided to go with the Precision, because above all I want the laptop to be sturdy and last a long time and I got kindda scared about harcha's GF's story (and other QC horror stories on the internet). Especially the no...

chronique wrote:Shadow tech mean unavailable tech you get for free. All shadow tech are free tech but not all free tech are shadow tech.

So when Dutch gets veteran upgrade on skirms, what would you call that?

[mention]u2012[/mention] [mention]u1170[/mention] Thank you both so much! I do not care too much about the extra ports or display. The better SSD might be nice though. However, do you think that the Precision might be a lot more durable? I heard that the non-workstation computers tend to break if yo...

Actually, are you sure those are the right GPU models? Because GeForce GTX 1650 is a desktop GPU. And the Quadro has two versions. And prices and capabilities vary a lot, depending on whether they're mobile or not. If you compare the mobile versions of both, differences are not that big: https://te...

I am not very knowledgeable about computers. I ordered a Dell XPS yesterday but today I just found out about workstations today, and I'm thinking of cancelling the XPS order and getting a Dell Precision. I don't care much about the weight, thickness, or display. I just want it to have good specs and...

Besides the obvious balance issues related to aoe3 inter-civ scaling, I feel like large maps introduce too much potential for cheese because it's not realistic to scout for information because there is too much surface area. Yeah you might want to make a few spies at some point and move them around...

I agree with that. But I think it would be quite different from usual lategame 1v1. At least in the midgame your base will be spread out a lot more, so you cannot just triple wall it. Rather than having one big fight in the middle, there might be 2 or 3 fights around the map. You might want to build...

I was watching Daut play AOE3 and he said an interesting thing: "this game would be much more fun if the maps were bigger, it's too easy to control the map". How do you guys think the game would play out on significantly bigger maps? Would it be more fun? Would it be more imbalanced? I'm t...

I think japan and brits are a lot alike. Archers instead of skirms, goons nobody uses, musk-focused, house boom, always shipping artillery, good cav... Yeah they both house boom and have similar unit comp, but their inner mechanics are very different. Of course it just comes down to opinion in the ...

Seriously? They feel very far from British to me. While they do have some big picture similarities, such as going musk huss and house booming, at the small scale (when you're actually playing them) they feel very different from Brit IMO. -Interactions with the consulate, and age 1 and later -Differe...

Perhaps a way to encourage map control for Japan is to drastically reduce the shrine HP. Then if they can't throw down shrines without thinking as much, and if they want to keep them alive, they have to be out on the map. I am aware that there are some builds with Japan where you don't rely so much ...

Captain opinion here. I'm not sure that there's a civ which can easily fight Germany, especially Germany AND Otto. That being said, I think Lakota should be at least decent vs both of these civs. Other options could be British or Spain. I'm not super sure about British vs Otto tho, it seems like a p...

I mean to counter the stealth aspect of Chimu, maybe you have to build a few spies. Would be a nice buff for spies.
I'm not saying chimu shouldn't be nerfed in other ways, just saying that maybe we could keep their stealth.

Garja wrote:Honestly the no snare should be removed. The unit is already strong by pure stats and the ability to go stealth in age4

But that would remove uniqueness, I hope they nerf it another way

Also Kynesis did win with Port vs Khorix, and I don't think he even had the increased range card.

God I love how khorix triggers people, its so great. You are not alone in that :smile: Same with Kyneise; very fun for viewer. But if you're playing vs it it's really annoying lol. Except there is nothing fun in a fort destroying everything. I mean by that reasoning watching someone using the monst...