Retold - Solutions for Multiplayer Problems

Age of Mythology: Retold Discussion
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I currently have 763 matches and over 5,000 hours of Extended Edition. I have noticed that it is more difficult to find matches, more matches are cancelled, and there is a great imbalance with some civilizations. I would like to share my story and some suggestions here.

Rechargeable divine powers are not fun.

Thor has been abusing flaming weapons, Ra has been abusing Locust Swarms, the Greeks have had countless restorations, repeated ceasefires blocking Fimbulwinter, a mythical power, among others. It is sad… the exclusivity and rarity of the powers would be cooler.

Choosing gods based on the map - The game is already extremely complex. Only an exclusive minority has the time and willingness to dedicate themselves to learning how to play with the best God for each specific map. This minority may promote the game, but they are not the ones who sustain it in the long term. I believe that changes that make the game more accessible will not drive them away. The gain in mass will be much greater.

Dropouts on naval war maps, I believe this is due to the great imbalance of some godpowers and strategies of some Gods on these maps, not everyone wants to play with other civilizations, we have more affinity with some civilizations.

Example, deconstruction of Chronos, Serpents of Isis and Set, Fast Heroic of the Greeks.

Blocking automatic queue - It is better to play with someone who uses automatic queue than to have no one to play with, use whoever you want, I used to use it, now I don’t like it anymore, what’s the problem with letting beginners use this against average players and experts? Use whoever you want

I feel that the balance patches released so far have not been very effective, it is already unsustainable to play Norse against Egyptian, the same happened in Extended Edition and is happening again.

People are looking for broken parts of the game to spam and abuse.

All of these items mentioned, among others, are hindering multiplayer. I’m not just speaking for myself, I participate in discord and WhatsApp groups where everyone has been commenting on the same points. These problems end up driving players away and even generating new problems such as delays in finding matches, matches being canceled on certain maps, matches with completely different rates, experts vs. noobs, etc.

I strongly urge you to consider these points, and not let this game be abandoned like what happened with the Extended Edition. I believe there is still time.

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As a Norse player it is difficult to gain favor in the game to re-use a power since Norse gain favor by fighting. In order for Norse to have to re-use a power they would have to either not form mythic units or fight in battles many times, both alternatives are difficult to accomplish. Forming Norse heroes is also not an option because the favor collection is very slow.

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I definitely agree with you.
It’s very frustrating to receive 2-3 locusts, 2-3 Athena Restores, Ceasefire on your Fimbullwinter, Scylla spam on water maps.
I, as Odin, simply don’t care about my points in Ranked anymore. If I’m against Ra, Isis, Set, water maps and Hades go to Classic for Ares, I’ll let them take my points and move on to the next match. It’s not worth my effort to play a match that I have a 25% chance of winning because of the balance of the Nordics against these Gods.

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Hi,
thank you for sharing ur opinion,

Although all ur mentioned points are valid to an extant. The fact that matches take too long to find is because the game is not attracting new casual players. and the points you mentioned wont do much in that regard. It takes a lot of time for casual players to notice imbalances. and when they do notice they take joy in abusing it.

Recastable God powers are super fun in my opinion. although I only play teamgames.

And about water maps. I dont like water maps. I Insta dodge them. IDK whats the problem with them or how it can be fixed. I think they better off removing water untill they come up with a better design for it. Although all my friends who started to play the game as newbies do want to play on water. so yea i have no idea about it.

I think devs should take some radical decisions (at least for a limited time). they should limit queue options so each queue has larger player base. and they should punish AFKers/Leavers/dodgers. although I understand that the game is in an unstable state atm, but punishing leavers would at least be a deterrent to those who leave intentionally and ruin other peoples expriences.