It’s just a matter of opinion. Who cares about facts?
Before we address pathing and new civs, and new graphs for new civs, and new animals for the aoe2 zoo, why don’t we address issues like:
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massive smurf account creation, mostly using family sharing;
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ban family sharing, if this is mainly used by smurfs to create their n-thousand account;
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ban the main account of players who maliciously backstab their team-mates on team games, either by quitting on game start, on 5 min, or without any reason (especially if no major fights took place and the game is still nor decided);
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keep track of players who continuously create smurf accounts to rig the ladder system, both for individual ladder ranking (1v1s) and team ladder ranking (2v2s, 3v3s, 4v4s), namely top players (particularly, > 2k elo), who continuously use their smurf accounts to force top player skills into lower ladder games when matchmaking with lower elo players who are using their main account (particularly, <1k but also between 900-1100 elo, etc.);
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keep a registry of continuous malicious offenders (gamers who constantly backstab their team-mates, who quit on game start, who try to evade bans by creating new accounts, who have been abusing the family sharing system for multi account creation, players who have several smurf accounts*);
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to restrict elo ladder system to one single account per person - the “main account” - both for ranked 1v1s and ranked tgs; should the player decide to change his “main account” (by promoting one of his other “alt accounts” to “main account”), his former main account needs to be deleted first. To prevent the constant change of “main accounts”, and the game system being overloaded with constant new “alt accounts” with the purpose of promoting them to a “main account”, there should be a minimum range of time where the “main account” can not be changed (i.e. 1 year);
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have identity checks to track the ownership of each new account created, ensuring that malicious smurf accounts are quickly detected and their owners face the due penalties;
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ban all detected smurf accounts, irrespective of the value of the elo of the “main account” associated to such smurf accounts;
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repeated infringers of 8) (3 violations to clear any possible reasonable doubt) should have their main account terminated and be permanently banned;
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any potential permanent ban circumvention of 9) should lead to stronger consequences with infringers liable to legal action;
*Note: by "smurf accounts " we refer to any new account created by existing players, with already one main account, where those new accounts are ever used on the multiplayer ranked system ; this is not to include the “alt accounts” who purposefully do not enter the multiplayer elo ranking systems (i.e. new accounts created but just being used in the Custom unranked lobbies).
Note 2: This post was published in r/ aoe2, but the Reddit filters removed it as soon as it was published (“Sorry, this post was removed by Reddit’s filters”). Interesting.