I played three 2v2s last night on AoE 3 and found games in 1-2 minutes. Same with 1v1s. I just noticed that it’s more likely to run into the same opponents. The game may be “dead” the higher you climb in rating but that’s absolutely normal for any game with a ranked ladder.
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Team games are usually even harder to find anyways, so 1-2 minutes is pretty impressive. I don’t understand why there’s so much backlash with every minuscule detail in AOE4. I’ve never played it (mainly due to the price, and my pc has limited space), but if it were that terrible, nobody would play it.
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Well, AOE4 has been good enough for me to get me to move from AOE2. I have seen nothing but continuous improvements since its release. At the end of the day, different people are going to have different opinions, but as far as RTS’s go, this game has been fairly successful.
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Some players want to play against higher rank opponents, some do not. Against higher ELO opponents, if it is a loss, the ELO deduction is relatively low; but if it is a win, the ELO gain is high. Doding has timer penalty, so before a game is started, the mechanism is reasonably implemented.
However, a problem is, in team game, when a player decides to quit in early game because the opponent is strong. (but he didn’t doge before the assigning team screen) No matter the quitter will get penalty or not, it is very unfair to the quitter’s teammate(s) because the game is considered a loss and ELO will be deducted.
I propose, for random team (not pre-made team), a loss cause by early quitter shall result as less ELO deduction. To me, the first 8-10 mins is early game. The ELO duduction discount may be implemented in two levels, “before 4-5 mins”, and “before 8-10mins”, with different discount.
Game-lobbies have to be made anonymous and steam library sharing has to be disabled for ranked.
Hackers/Cheaters have to be issued permabans the FIRST time they are caught.
Full-stop.
Until Relic/Microsoft does these steps, ranked experienced (especially for teams) will stay extremely poor and hacking situation won’t stop.
I will admit I do sometimes. I want fair ranked matches. Not a punch of Diamond vs silver you know.
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