Fast Game Speed Tournament

[deleted_user]

Can we host a one day fast speed tourney already? It's like the most obvious one day format and I think it would be fun for the players and viewers.

[Cometk]

AoE3’s fast speed setting fluctuates based on PC performance so it kinda sucks

[iNcog]

Would rather deathmatch it. That is the true fast speed tournament

[deleted_user]

AoE3’s fast speed setting fluctuates based on PC performance so it kinda sucks

Fuuuuq

[edeholland]

I still think it should be done. But without prize money at first, to see how viable it is for an actual tournament.

[Scroogie]

that means the better my pc the faster i need to play?
is it possible to slow this by making graphics super hd?

[harcha]

i hosted a game vs floko with amsterda as observer and the game speed was constantly creating lag-spikes (safe to say we all had good pcs and internet)

[deleted_user]

i hosted a game vs floko with amsterda as observer and the game speed was constantly creating lag-spikes (safe to say we all had good pcs and internet)

was this treaty? I've played fast sup and it's always been fine, but the games never went long

[Challenger_Marco]

remembers me of samrev fast flash invitational tourney

[harcha]

i hosted a game vs floko with amsterda as observer and the game speed was constantly creating lag-spikes (safe to say we all had good pcs and internet)

was this treaty? I've played fast sup and it's always been fine, but the games never went long

it was treaty on deccan i think

[deleted_user]

dislike

[Victor_swe]

We had this before, some games were normal speed and some really fast.

[Interjection]

Would like to see a Colonial start tourny

[ChewSick]

Would like to see a Colonial start tourny

This would honestly be so interesting with tons of new strategies, I wonder why nobody has done this by now.

[harcha]

i would rather see a nomad big maps tourney

[deleted_user]

i would rather see a nomad big maps tourney

That's basically treaty and games will last hours

[vividlyplain]

Would like to see a Colonial start tourny

this or double shipments

[helln00]

i would rather see a nomad big maps tourney

That's basically treaty and games will last hours

could be better if we have randomised starting location so you can end up with rushy games as well.

[edeholland]

Would like to see a Colonial start tourny

This would honestly be so interesting with tons of new strategies, I wonder why nobody has done this by now.

Probably because you can throw away all the balancing we have done over the years. I don't think asian civs will be viable at all because they will be missing a wonder. Native civs will also be missing their advantage from aging up quickly. Ports won't have a second town center so they are probably the most useless. Germany is probably top civ again, the free uhlans are huge early on.

[ChewSick]

Probably because you can throw away all the balancing we have done over the years.

not everyone likes to 5hus semi ff every game, if that's what you mean with "balancing".

Honestly take nilla, make hunts a bit better and you got a better balancing than EP ever was.

[harcha]

I think the balance in general would hold up except for the early XP mechanics and nerfs, these would play a bigger role.

But I am more for the fast tournament! Casting could prove to be an issue tho.

[[Armag] diarouga]

Probably because you can throw away all the balancing we have done over the years.

not everyone likes to 5hus semi ff every game, if that's what you mean with "balancing".

Honestly take nilla, make hunts a bit better and you got a better balancing than EP ever was.

Nah, Otto is too strong and Port is shit on no ATP maps.
I agree that the nilla balance is overall better than the TAD balance (maps are strictly worse however) but that's because there are less civs and there were more patches.

[edeholland]

Honestly take nilla, make hunts a bit better and you got a better balancing than EP ever was.

What kind of comparison is that? Nilla AoE3 is basically a different game.

I'm also not sure how this is an argument for a colonial start tournament. I think there will be less viable strategies/civs than in EP.

[ChewSick]

I'm also not sure how this is an argument for a colonial start tournament. I think there will be less viable strategies/civs than in EP.

You started with it lol. This is a post about a fun tournaments (that aren't supposed to be completely balanced), and you say throw "years of balancing" over board. Was the pilgrim tournament balanced, when everyone started with additional settlers? It didn't have to be, it was just fun to watch different playstyles. It's also not supposed to have MORE viable strats, but different ones from regular play.

I just used the "years of balancing" as a rant because I don't like the balancing system on EP. You destroyed colonial play, but everybody seems to like it so it's fine.

[Darwin_]

Nilla (with a few balance changes and new maps) is imo much, much better than EP for tournaments and competitive play due to its balance and greater focus on mechanics and finely-tuned strategy. However, EP, with its additional civs and mechanics is the more fun game for less competitive players.