Map Generation Balance Issues

Age of Empires IV IV - Report a Bug
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If could maybe help devs if people post the seed code as well (can be seen by pressing ESC).

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5fd38624 is the map seed. Taiga Winter Mongolian heights. Doing a 1v1 vs ai.

Shouldnā€™t the enemy TC be further away from you/ nearer corner on opposite side of map in a 1v1? It normally is. I am Mongols but I didnā€™t move my TC away from starting position to make this happen. Enemy is Chinese.

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That is an unusually close enemy spawn. It is made more unusual by the fact that their TC spawned right next to a neutral market!

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Thanks @MISTERSMELL! We do have some map balance changes in the works that will hopefully help with this.

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My gold patch was on the wrong side of the mountainsā€¦ Needless to say, quit this one like island wars.

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Lel, Good luck reaching 2nd age with that map spawn

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Hey @DustyMuffMan! Which map is this? Any chance you have a map seed?

Thanks!

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Unfortunately I cannot load to replay. Its the got the bug. I think it was Altai.

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No problem. We are looking at unfair spawns all-up, so improvements will be made overall.

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Understood. Thanks for being active here and filling us in, its appreciated.

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HALF THE GAMES ARE DECIDED BY THE DAMN MAP!!!

1 SACRED SITE VRS DELHI AND MONGOLSā€¦ HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO COUNTER THIS? MONGOL PARKS HIS TC ON THE SITE AND THEN DELHI WALLS OFF WHILE HES CAPPING ITā€¦ YOU HAVE 8 MINS TO DECAP IT WHILE THEY BOTH SPAM UNITS AROUND THE WALLS AND TCā€¦ BROKEN TO FKā€¦

THIS GAME IS GONNA DIE FAST IF THEY DONT FIX THIS CRAP

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I think you need to use more caps. Iā€™m sure that without more caps thereā€™s no way that they will ever be aware of the issues with the random generation of maps.

I mean itā€™s amazing that even you figured it out; though itā€™s good you did since I donā€™t want this game to die!

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The game needs emergency patch. I hope devs will release until two weeks.

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Unless Iā€™m missing something but isnā€™t this the purpose of randomized maps and all? You have to adapt on each map differently in order to achieve victory or am I missing something here?

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I think the issue is that you can just random into a map where you have a massive disadvantage. And thatā€™s not really fun or something you can meaningfully counter. It just means you have a game which is skewed one way.

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You can try to farm civ masteries vs IA waiting for the patches.

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So youā€™re saying they both capped 2/3 sacred sites?

So youā€™re saying you and your teammate allowed them to capture all 3 sites.

My advice is first of all:
Donā€™t let them cap all 3 sites. This is a 2v2 after all, you two should be able to muster a decent force to prevent them from taking all sites.

Also, if they are investing all their resources into the sacred sites why donā€™t you and your teammate landmark push them at feudal?

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I think heā€™s upset that king of the hill map relies on controlling the hill and only has 1 sacred site. Now some maps have issues (Nagari forest gen blocking half of the map sometimes comes to mind). The map design itself is fine though. Heā€™s just upset thereā€™s a gold rush type map.

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hmm my post was removed? i said are you dumb? did you read the post? there was 1 sacred site! impossible to rush due to TCā€¦ impossible to siege within 8 mins due to 2 players camping it

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i think he is complaining about maps with only one sacred site