Ban new players from ranked

Why are people so ignorant to other teammates that they come into ranked and ruin the game.
Then after the game, they say , Enjoy the loss.

They can play coop vs ai, campaign and even quick match, but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO they have to come into ranked and ruin the game.
Seriously disgusting. Like throwing up disgusted.

I was platinum 2 last season, I am starting this new ranked season, and two games of the 3 placements so far, I get noob teammates who play like casual and let enemy build wonder, a french guy that refused to make knights and made men at arms cause it was 3v2 and one enemy quit, only for us to lose… and 2nd game, were the worst team I have ever had in aoe 4 so far. Then after the game said , Enjoy the loss.
He has 77 kills, I had 630… Seriously, Some human beings are disgusting, and ruin this earth.

WTF. I hate this so much and makes me hate this game a little. GO PLAY QUICK MATCH, COOP VS AI, AND EVEN CAMPAIGN IF YOU WANT A CHILL GAME. RANKED IS FOR SERIOUS PLAYERS. STOP GRIEFING IN RANKED. RANKED IS FOR COMPETITION AND TEAMATES WANT TO WIN!

Developers need to do something about people in ranked. Make it a higher requirement to join ranked, Have only high tier players in the placement , or something.

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As much as your frustration is justified, I wonder why don’t you team up with someone together to play team ranked or just play 1v1?

While having to meet certain conditions to play ranked (with randoms in team) might be a good idea, it would also drive some people OFF the game.
For example my friend and me, we started playing aoe4 last season only (not been playing since beta) and jumped RIGHT into ranked, no quickmatch or customs.
So we queued for 2v2 together and got placed in platinum, then kinda quickly improved, learned the game while playing it and ended up in Diamond in the end.
We had played aoe3 excessively over multiple years together before in 2v2, so obviously we wouldn’t wanna waste time playing casual quickmatches but play for sweating instead, also get beaten by good players a lot of course.
Had we had to play lets say 50 matches unranked before being allowed to play ranked, we would most likely just have refunded aoe4 after finding out about it.

The best way to go about this would probably be to make up certain conditions to be met, before you can play with your non placed (!) account with randoms in team, team ranked.
The system shouldn’t keep you off playing full premade queue.

Very honestly, if you are playing better than the elo you are placed at, you will eventually rise a lot in rank, until you reach the elo that you belong to, even with random team mates.
It is very frustrating though at times, I agree.
Whereas the lower your elo is, the easier it is to climb for a good player.
At some point you will get team mates who are as good as you or better than you.
When my friend didn’t have time, for example, I played 2v2 with randoms from mostly plat 2 until diamond.
Some matches your mate doesn’t have the best game (who always has a good game right?), but often times you also get carried, it evens out eventually.

It’s just that the negative experience tends to be remembered by the human mind, whereas the positive one is forgotten about.

Keep trying dude, stay positive and rank up my friend :slight_smile:
It’s crucial when playing ranked, to try and NOT look at the negative experiences, just ignore them.
Work on your skills and game knowledge and eventually you’ll rank up and also will get more and more better team mates, the game will become more fun, but also tougher oponents.

What helped me personally, whenever a game had been either close or a complete stomp, I watch the replay and analyze both teams, what they have been doing and how and what their timings were.
It’s also very interesting to see what builds other people use, especially the players who felt strong in the match.
Sometimes you learn something surprising and can use it in your collection of BO ideas or tricks.

Edit:
Almost forgot to agree with your point:
Ranked is the mode where you are supposed to be sweating and tryharding and be extra (!) sportsmanlike.
I could never understand either, why (some) people wouldn’t respect this unwritten law and use ranked to joke around, make people angry or start flaming etc.
The fun of ranked should be winning of course, but mostly TRYING the hardest to win.
The fight is the goal. Improve, get better, play against better players, that’s the fun, right?
A defeat shouldn’t be a reason to get angry, but to watch the replay and improve.
If it was not you but the guy you played with who was the actual reason for the loss, then just let it go.
Anyone can have a bad day/match however he’s trying. Sometimes it’s just bad luck.
Go on and win next one!
Again, more often it’s your own play which didn’t let you win the game.
Keep watching the replays and see where the win-potential was lost.
Most of the times you’ll lots of space to improve for yourself and probably even serious mistakes in game decisions, which in the heat of the moment you couldn’t avoid.
Often times you’ll see moments in the replay where the enemy has very little army, whereas you had a lot but didn’t scout enough and didn’t punish the booming enemy.

Keep it up bro!

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Ranked is for everyone, which is why different Elo tiers exist.

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It surely is for everyone, as there is a suitable elo for everyone.
But you are saying froty’s point is wrong? You don’t have to be serious about tryharding in ranked? Then what’s the point of it instead of playing a casual unranked quickmatch or custom?

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i think u can go 2v2 rank carry the game and get a high elo,then go 4v4。

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You can’t expect everyone to be on the same level when playing ranked with random players. If you are that serious, you should find a group of people to play together via Discord or in game voice chat.

Everyone is welcome in ranked which is why there are different tier levels. You need to take a chill pil.

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lol I probably better than you, but I wont trash your decisions, especially at start of the season.

77 kills vs 630 - do not explain anything. You probably was

Guys I’m booming you have to survive for 20 minutes"
30 mins later
IM READY, What a noobs could not even survive, and im fighting 3vs1 AGAIN

WATAPUCK?!
you complain on the game with 2vs3 with number on YOUR side?!

next level of arrogance

Man so you don’t want any “foreigners” in your games, as you complained about before, or any new players.

Why all the gatekeeping? If you want to play games with random people online, well you don’t get to be so selective about who you play with.

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its only your fault, you are some kind of masochist that loves losing with noobs? team up with friends or find a group on Discord!! this is the typical crybaby whiny post about things that cant be changed by devs.

And they are right, its just a game in the end and its not a tournament match either, you dont win the 20000 man… join Discord

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lol, yea, most games actually would have new accounts barred from ranked games until they’ve done some 50 qm or something.

also helps in dissuading smurfs.

but above all, thats the issue with matchmaking, you don’t know who you’re gonna get. aka mm system is bad.

There is a easy solution for this, if you want to play serious and win most games play with a dedicated team through Discord.

If you join ranked games with random people, it’s going to be random people. Logical! This topic is useless.

That won’t work because matchmaking elo is different in 4v4

I get mad at leavers too but thats the risk we take when we play with people we dont know

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i dont think so ,i play 2v2 rank from platinum to conq 1 then go 4v4 rank,basically my teammate is diamond and conq。