Hi.
I would like to know if there is any intention to add CBA and CBA Hero to the ranking of the game. There are many players who plays it and we would like it to be ranked.
Thanks in advance.
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Currently there are 5 ongoing games and 2 lobbies. You might have a different definition of āmany playersā, but i feel like this is a niche with just a handful of players.
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Could be a way to drive growth too.
I can understand you put a new game mode in ranked to let it grow. You can use this argument for Battle Royale or Empire wars. Both are new game modes in DE and the devs already try to promote them in quick play, but quick play is just terrible design, so it fails for that reason. CBA already exists for years and years and years, I think such game modes needs to be proven to be popular before you put them into ranked. You might argue that if battle royale becomes part of ranked, you can put it on some CS ladder, like voobly has. In that case you can also put scenarios like CBA as part of that ladder.
There is still a slight issue: These modes are user made, they arent made by the devs. So in order to put them into ranked they need to become official modes. Not really sure how easy that is for the devs. That can lead to some issues.
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Agreed. Said perfectly.
What difference does it make to the number of lobbies you see at any given time? CBA has always been there and will always be there. Just look at Voobyās CBA ranking and you will see thousands of people (not at the lobbys, but in the ranking list).
If a game mode is not in rank it does not have as much attraction as the one that is. I refer to the tests (voobly) and hopefully they would add it in the ranking so you could see how people grow.
Regarding what is a mod modifiable by the user, yes, however as with RM that can be standardized, the same can also be done with a stable version of CBA without errors. It is no excuse.
What is CBA?..
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I love playing CBA, and also would appreciate a queueing system. For example there are āCBA no noobsā lobbies, where then 2 out of 4 player on your team sacrifice units just to scout where which enemy is and then signalling and saying āgrey is hereā in chat (just to clarify: the positions of every player are fixed and always same, depening on color). So you instantly know there are 2 people in your team that have never played CBA before.
But it is also true that this mode is niche, waiting times would be insane and therefore I dont see this happening. Also CBA playerbase would have to finally deccide wheather they want to play the Requiem V5 (I like that one more), or the Euron versionā¦
Another issue of a ranked queue would be the balance problems, there are some civs you dont wanna get in CBA (they still playable, but you kinda have to know what to do)
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The balance system is set by the team, CBA is not RM. The strategy in CBA if played as a team can be better than the value of civilizations. Iāve seen good players beat bad civilizations over players with TOP civilizations just for strategy.
Wanted to bring this back up now that the servers are completely crashing CBA games today as the new Return of Rome addition came out.
Iāve been playing Age of empires since AOC came out back in 2000. played tons of rated rm games and switched to playing only CBA the last 10 or more years, and that is all I play now. I can tell you that there are many players that play CBA and there is a very big community. Iām all in for making it ranked, if my vote counts.
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Regular CBA and CBA Hero are the easiest to rank.
have to build a Map without errors that becomes official.
I donāt know if CBA will ever become official. I feel like economy and macro decision making is such a key part of aoe2, so not having villagers just doesnāt seem right somehow. If all the focus is on military, that seems like itās much less multi tasking and therefore a lower skilled game, is that fair? Whoever has the higher APM wins.
I also donāt like the idea of splitting the community and stealing some of the player base from standard ranked games. Weāre already a relatively small community compared to other games, so splitting it up into sub groups seems like a bad idea. Especially considering CBA was fan made and never an official map.
Little have you played CBA when you say there are no villagers.
Who tries to divide the community? A lot of the community that plays CBA also plays RM (Me first!).
What does one thing has to do with the other? The one who divides the community is you with your comments.
Do you really think that establishing a CBA ranking divides the community? There is no where to get that ideaā¦ āstole player from standard rankedā ?? you are really saying this? a joke?
Mode ironic on:
I feel that there is a very deep separation between the community that plays the Arena map and the community that plays the Black forest. 
Iām sorry. I know it sucks when the thing you love isnāt popular but CBA is so different from a typical RM game. Itās a fan-made niche map with a non-standard start and a waste of a map ban for most players on ranked. And letās be honest, this thread would be flooded with positive responses if there was a demand for it. How many positive replies have you had on this post, like two? In three years?
The only one who proves to be a fanatic of RM is youā¦ is the thread flooded with negative responses? You step on your own excrement that you made yourself.
Iām sorry that it sucks for you that there are people who play custom scenarios like CBAā¦
Your arguments generate hate
Why even resurrect this post from 2020.
Please do not Necro topicsā¦
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No, but there are more responses against the idea than for it. The fact that there are very few responses on either side of the debate shows that unfortunately the overall interest level in CBA is low, so itās exactly where it belongs, which is in Unranked / Custom scenarios. Thereās no hate from me whatsoever, I just disagree with adding such an unusual (and relatively unpopular) niche map to ranked pool. Disagreement is not hate.
necro, closed. if you wanna continue talking about this pleas continue in another thread.