Hello everyone,
AoEII is an amazing game, I’ve played it online for about two decades (zone, voobly). I came back to the game last year and after trying ranked TG again, I wonder to what extent the deplorable experience is infuriating other enthusiasts?
The amount of dodging and early resigns is well over 80%. Clearly the system you have developed requires improvement. I am certain there is a mountain of complaints and threads already (sorry for not putting my 2 cents there), I wonder if any concrete solutions are on the agenda?
With 20.000 daily users and millions in profit, surely someone with clout cares enough and knows people clever enough to solve these issues?
It is quite simply asocial behavior running rampant. I do believe more responsibility on the developer’s side is warranted. Colonist.io seems to have solved it with karma points, they can replace dropout with AI and can also reconnect later, options RTS doesn’t have, yet a social component with real eventual impact (time-out from ranked after multiple confirmed complaints or something), could improve the ‘sportsmanship’ and motivation to be a decent human being to your teammates and opponents (assuming in 1v1 people mind much less about drop and early resign xD). Happy to help (I’m a behavioral scientist) if you ever get serious about fixing obvious issues that are hurting your community!