Old player planning on getting back into AoE3

genoooo · Post by **genoooo** » 01 Jul 2015, 12:27

As the title reads, I used to play AoE3 extensively from Vanilla (got pretty high on that www.elorating.com website, which is dead now) all the way through the TAD release and I'm looking at getting back into it. I've just got some questions.

How is the community?
Is it still alive after all this time? When I played it would hit about 3000-4000 players.

How is the balance?
China were so stupidly broken when I played. I quit around the time Ottoman had their starting wood reshuffled into a mosque to make them less screwed on non Trading Post maps and less strong on maps with them.

I used to play France and Ottoman.

But yeah, also

Hi!

[Armag] diarouga · Post by **[Armag] diarouga** » 01 Jul 2015, 12:42

Today, you'll see about 2000 players online.
Chine isn't op anymore, op civs are iro and otto, then india/sioux/japan.
France is a middle tier civ.

Jaeger · Post by **Jaeger** » 01 Jul 2015, 12:58

diarouga wrote:Today, you''ll see about 2000 players online.
Chine isn''t op anymore, op civs are iro and otto, then india/sioux/japan.
France is a middle tier civ.

You don''t think brit beats japan?

Jaeger · Post by **Jaeger** » 01 Jul 2015, 13:05

Also there is a new ELO website that is active
http://aoe3.jpcommunity.com/rating2/

genoooo · Post by **genoooo** » 01 Jul 2015, 13:09

What makes Otto so OP now then?

Their rush?

Jaeger · Post by **Jaeger** » 01 Jul 2015, 13:15

genoooo wrote:What makes Otto so OP now then?

Their rush?

Almost everything you do is OP. Jan abus is the most common, and it''s OP becasue jans are OP and abus are OP. Abus outrange almost everything else in colonial, and they have 40 SIEGE damage so no unit has any resist vs them. ff is also really good because you start wih vet jans+falcs and then you get mamelukes which are insane. Even their FI and FR are OP if you can get away with them.

Veni_Vidi_Vici_W · Post by **Veni_Vidi_Vici_W** » 01 Jul 2015, 13:19

There is an active community again, there is the new elo ladders as previously linked, we also have tournaments and a lot of content from players (videos, streams, recs, disussions)
Evening EU time is best and can get 2500+ np

nilla sucks, just play tad

and welcome, have fun

[Armag] diarouga · Post by **[Armag] diarouga** » 01 Jul 2015, 16:20

genoooo wrote:What makes Otto so OP now then?

Their rush?

mostly jan/abus and ff.
But come TAD, nilla sucks.

genoooo · Post by **genoooo** » 01 Jul 2015, 18:02

I'll play TAD then.

Is there anything special I need to do to play nowadays? Like a fan patch or something?

[Armag] diarouga · Post by **[Armag] diarouga** » 01 Jul 2015, 18:09

genoooo wrote:I''ll play TAD then.

Is there anything special I need to do to play nowadays? Like a fan patch or something?

No. Just go in QS with TWC civs allowed.

mnogud · Post by **mnogud** » 01 Jul 2015, 18:50

why was china so OP before ?

Durokan · Post by **Durokan** » 01 Jul 2015, 18:57

mnogud wrote:why was china so OP before ?

disciples, they were way stronger and the wonder gave more of them i think

lordofbritian · Post by **lordofbritian** » 04 Aug 2015, 19:25

diarouga wrote:
genoooo wrote:What makes Otto so OP now then?

Their rush?
mostly jan/abus and ff.
But come TAD, nilla sucks.

Why does Nilla suk, what makes TAD so much better?

Wuangaga · Post by **Wuangaga** » 04 Aug 2015, 22:06

irr3alist wrote:Why does Nilla suk, what makes TAD so much better?

Someone can come and pwn you in 6 new ways =.=

You can look at it the way that you can pwn people in six new ways. ')

Papist · Post by **Papist** » 04 Aug 2015, 22:09

lordofbritian wrote:
diarouga wrote:mostly jan/abus and ff.
But come TAD, nilla sucks.
Why does Nilla suk, what makes TAD so much better?

Nilla is full of maphackers and droptrickers. It has also seen a huge decline in number of active players in the past few months (they have all been moving to TAD).

[Armag] diarouga · Post by **[Armag] diarouga** » 05 Aug 2015, 05:18

+the game is stupid in nilla, bows rape cav, maps are more unfair....

_DB_ · Post by **_DB_** » 05 Aug 2015, 05:24

Abus is a cheat.
Mameluke is a cheat.
Moesbar and the canada flag flying bear is a cheat.

pecelot · Post by **pecelot** » 05 Aug 2015, 08:51

ovi12 wrote:Abus outrange almost everything else in colonial, and they have 40 SIEGE damage so no unit has any resist vs them.

Covered wagons have xD

lordofbritian · Post by **lordofbritian** » 05 Aug 2015, 13:35

papist wrote:
lordofbritian wrote:Why does Nilla suk, what makes TAD so much better?
Nilla is full of maphackers and droptrickers. It has also seen a huge decline in number of active players in the past few months (they have all been moving to TAD).

I guess I have not given TAD much of a chance but it was too many changed I did not like,

Wuangaga · Post by **Wuangaga** » 05 Aug 2015, 14:28

Just the fact that you can have 5 more cards in your deck and there are more civs and cards to use, makes it worth playing.

lordofbritian · Post by **lordofbritian** » 05 Aug 2015, 14:39

I will try out the game and give ti another chance, lets see how this goes!

Post by **_H2O** » 05 Aug 2015, 14:53

Vanilla is just like aoe3 left behind. All the improvements to balance and the depth of the game just got paused in vanilla. It's really a horrible low skill game :/. Which is maybe part of the problem with aoe3 not being so popular.

lordofbritian · Post by **lordofbritian** » 05 Aug 2015, 19:46

h2o wrote:Vanilla is just like aoe3 left behind. All the improvements to balance and the depth of the game just got paused in vanilla. It''s really a horrible low skill game :/. Which is maybe part of the problem with aoe3 not being so popular.

I wouldn''t say low skilled but, I see what you are saying after I try out TAD a bit maybe I will see the light and why it is better!

Papist · Post by **Papist** » 05 Aug 2015, 20:10

lordofbritian wrote:
papist wrote:Nilla is full of maphackers and droptrickers. It has also seen a huge decline in number of active players in the past few months (they have all been moving to TAD).
I guess I have not given TAD much of a chance but it was too many changed I did not like,

Aside from the Thoroughbreds card for France, I have yet to find one modified feature in TAD that I did prefer to its Vanilla counterpart.

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