I guess my question is, does this ever end when you go up in rank? Do these players eventually disappear as you climb the ladder?
I’m talking about:
Insta resigners
I shouldn’t be mad at these people because being bad at estimating the likelihood of a game ending in defeat is essentially a skill issue, and it’s okay to be bad at the game, but I can’t help but feel the instant resigning says something negatively about their character.
I’m talking about people that resign when they see the enemy approaching their camp, even though no one else has resigned yet, the worst example. But even people that resign despite being the only player that’s being defeated, while still having plenty of villagers and resources left to reboom, that’s not ok. I’ve had multiple games where we won despite one of us resigning too early, there’s always a chance to reboom. I wish people who resign within the first 30 minutes of the game were replaced by AI that fits the rank of the players involved, so it’s not too demoralizing, and resigning should have a penalty to your rating if you do it too early.
God gamers
People who carry every game they win, and only lose due to their team mates being stupid. You can recognize these talented AOE2 players by their verbal abuse, no matter if you’re winning, losing or you’re the MVP. Will employ objectively risky strategies such as sacrificing their entire cavalry army into a forward defensive pikemen formation next to a castle and still blame you for losing.
Karens
Can’t do anything on their own, you can never help them enough in their eyes. Will stock up resources, not make any units, advance to Imperial age despite the enemy being at their gates and that wouldn’t be an issue, but then they blame you for not sending enough units. Recognizable through their heavy use of signals. Some say these creatures are cut from the same cloth as God gamers.
Generals
Tell you what to do from the very beginning, no room for discussion. Usually expect you to sacrifice at least 5 villagers and a scout in the beginning of Blackforest games. Again, some say this is just another variety of the god gamer species.
That’s pretty much all the toxic behavior I can think of, but maybe I missed something. I encounter this in about 50% of team 3v3 and 4v4 games I play, at least in Europe, maybe North American AOE2 community is less toxic.
I like to think these people are only presenting themselves as angry all the time, and deep down they’re happy they get to play their favorite game with fellow human beings, but I’m not sure.
