Another smurf acount Enigma0501…
I don’t understand why this guy is not playing with his elo …
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Hello. I searched for this user on the companion app and they have over 6000 games and do not appear to change their name which makes it seem less likely that it is a smurf account. I think smurfs typically only have a few hundred games. He does seems to instant resign a lot though which I guess is a similar principle to smurfing.
The companion app is a very useful tool for looking players up since it also shows the match history of the player including any previous names the player may have used and how many games the user played on the account on a given day/week. AOE III DE Companion App
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You search on companion and you don’t understand is smurf??? Man try to learn use that tool correctly. Guy has 6000 matches . He plays 10 games (full game and every time is winning) and then 10 games that last 10 seconds.
I don’t see the issue
He leaves when he knows he can’t win.
Hahaha he understands that it can’t win in 10 sec?
Maybe you are friend of enigma:)
Maybe you should take a 2nd look.
Every game played under 2 minutes is a LOOSE for him.
All matches that is resign is near 27 sec. He wins 10 match and then 10 match resing. I have play 3 rimes with him and he do it.
I guess I was just talking about semantics. I would say smurfing is about a higher level player creating a second account to play with lower level players. Maybe it extends to tanking the ranking on their main as in this case I dunno. Either way it accomplishes the same thing.
I acknowledged that:
Anyways I wasn’t sure you knew about the app but I guess you do so there wasn’t much point in my post.
I mean you no ill will.
Happy gaming
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yeah thats why he is calling him a smurf, basically he tanks his elo so he plays always vs lower elo opponents than he is supposed to play according to the matchmaking system… So he is always winning vs 1.1k players and after a while, he choses to lose elo so he can remain in an elo spot where he will always win.
There was a match where he lost after 10 min vs a 1.2k elo player, so he might just be a 1.3k elo player, not even too high, but that doesn’t want any competetiveness.
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Thank you sir !!!
That’s a good idea!!!
I think we should try to understand the motivation behind someone with a smurf account. If they just want an easy win with no challenge, why don’t they just pick Sweden or China, that is what most players do. Wouldn’t that be easier? Or they could try a weird strategy with a ‘lower tier’ civ but still do their best if they feel their ELO is getting too high, then it would naturally drop down but they would still be trying. I sort of naturally do that, if I feel I am winning too easily with a particular civ/strat I try another strategy with a different civ.
Does anyone know the actual motivation behind it? It is interesting because it is the reverse of what seems to motivate most players, i.e. some/a lot of players seem to want ELO even at the cost of actual fun/interesting gameplay.
By the way speaking of interesting/fun gameplay, Salamander, a game that meets that description that you and I played was casted on the Age of Bison You Tube channel, you might enjoy watching it, the title is called ‘Portugal is spicier than you think’ or something like that.
I’m just gonna close this topic.
Usually name-calling is forbidden . If you want to report people, do it in-game, or at the support here:
https://support.ageofempires.com/hc/en-us/requests/new