Age of Empires 3 The legacy of the transport ship incoherence continues

The legacy of the transport ship incoherence continues
lag, garja, wrong deck
Monitors are weird
Why do people think boats are lame?
ESOC Civ Op?
Academic research into video games set in the past
My most satisfying win till this day.
How likely do you think we will see any new civilizations in Definitive Edition?
I finally beat the Expert AI!!
my user.con and autohotkey script (works on RE and EP!)
MATCHMAKING ESOC
This error message! Please help!

The legacy of the transport ship incoherence continues

Posted: 07 May 2020 06:41 PM PDT

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lag, garja, wrong deck

Posted: 07 May 2020 06:49 AM PDT

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Monitors are weird

Posted: 07 May 2020 10:20 PM PDT

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Why do people think boats are lame?

Posted: 07 May 2020 05:33 AM PDT

Long story short, I played a 1v1 with the map setting on random. We got Hispaniola. Didn't commit to a water strategy. ~40 minutes into the game and 3 failed rushes later, my opponent quits because I got cheeky and made monitors to hit him from far away and slow him down. Before he quits, he says "he didn't know we were using boats." Is it bad etiquette to suddenly bust out boats late game for a hard advantage? He was Sioux so he really lacked an effective counter to that. There were no restrictions prior in lobby name or that we agreed on.

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ESOC Civ Op?

Posted: 07 May 2020 10:57 PM PDT

So I have been playing with some friends with the ESOC patch me and other friend play Germans and with the Calvary and the canons we do a lot of damage but our friends keep saying that the canons are op as fu ck so..... Which civs are the op in that patch and the patch suppose to balance everything right?

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Academic research into video games set in the past

Posted: 07 May 2020 06:15 AM PDT

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At the end of the survey we will also be giving away one €20,- Steam Gift Card coupon for every 100 responses.

Thank you for your time!

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My most satisfying win till this day.

Posted: 07 May 2020 09:57 AM PDT

Yesterday, i played a 2v2 with a friend of mine. He is level 1, I am 16. So he hosted the game and we made sure that the guys who joined knew what they were going up against. Of course, many left. After 5 minutes, a 23 and a 21 joined, one of then having 300 played games and a 72% winrate. I thought to myself "this is gonna go bad". I was in a discord group with other friends, one of whom responded "they are bashing beginners, I garantuee you". That thought hadn't occured to me. And for sure, when asked about their level both said that they only play noobs and that I shouldn't worry about it. 6 minutes into the game, a russian and aztec mass arrives at both my buddies portoguese towncenters. Around 30 strelits and a mix of puma and mac. We were able to hold them back and from that point on we just fought for it. I raided 14 vills at 10 minutes, got water and lost my base. Meanwhile my friend built a decent army and we were able to push them back and the first guy resigned (russia). His buddy did so as well after pushing one last time.

After the game, I took a closer look at the decks, and the russian (who resigned first) had upgrade cards for mill, plant, and market. I overlooked this in the beginning, because i saw 13 strelets and was immediatly preparing for the rush. He also built a mill... in age 2.

Their rushes were good, but everything after that was okay at best. And then i finally got it: those guys just went for conscripts, rushed them, and had no real follow-up strat... and they played up to level 23 with that strat. How shitty is that? Bashing new players or just people who play for pleasure when the fanbase is already thin as it is. Where is the fun in that? I was really glad that we held up during that initial rush to come back and push them out of the game, and this was probably one of my proudest games, also due to the satisfaction of having beaten these two guys.

What do you guys think about that behavior? What is your experience with guys like that?

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How likely do you think we will see any new civilizations in Definitive Edition?

Posted: 07 May 2020 06:53 PM PDT

I really, really, really hope they add some new civs to this game. They added some new civs to AOE 2 DE, but I really hope they do the same for this game as well. I personally think new civs would be absolutely crucial. The game's graphics have already aged well and hold hold up pretty well 15 years later, so better graphics alone would probably not be enough to make the game sell a lot of copies. I really hope they add African civs with African maps, then the whole world will be represented.

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I finally beat the Expert AI!!

Posted: 07 May 2020 08:01 AM PDT

I finally did it! I've been able to beat Hard fairly easily for a while but Expert has just been on a whole different level for me. I still don't feel so great about this victory, because the map had water and I do much much better on water maps. So I guess I can only be more confident once I beat them on GP or Texas or something. I started playing online not too long ago and though I was able to get to level 6, I met some really shitty people online and the whole experience frustrated me (teammates that leave during the game, and in the last game I played my teammate was cursing at me throughout despite not being that good. I wonder if I could report him). So I decided to go back to single player mode and improve. Also, what can I do about my homecity level? When I played long ago I had a really high HC and most of the cards were unlocked. But as I said, I recently got back into the game so I had to start from scratch. In single player mode my HC is 11, and in multiplayer it's 21, but there are some cards that I feel I would play so much better with. Do I have to grind through all over again or is there a way to reasonably unlock cards without being accused of cheating?

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my user.con and autohotkey script (works on RE and EP!)

Posted: 07 May 2020 03:43 PM PDT

user.con (Add this in Documents/my games/age of empires 3/Startup) ``` // Agra(wonder) hotkeys (sepoy with key "s" etc )

map("u", "game", "uiFindType(\"ypWIAgraFort2\") uiFindType(\"ypWIAgraFort3\") uiFindType(\"ypWIAgraFort4\") uiFindType(\"ypWIAgraFort5\")")

map("s", "WonderAccel", "tis(\"ypSepoy\", 5)") map("d", "WonderAccel", "tis(\"ypNatMercGurkha\", 5)") map("x", "WonderAccel", "tis(\"ypRajput\", 5)")

// Flair shortcut (ctrl + space) map ("control-space", "game", "editMode(\"flare\")uiSetProtoCursor(\"WaypointFlag\")")

//Gate (shift + g) map ("shift-g", "game", "uiTransformSelectedUnit(\"CWallGate\")")

// Stealth map ("shift-s", "game", "unitSetTactic(\"Stealth\")")

// Delete unit without confirm map ("delete", "game", "uiDeleteAllSelectedUnits")

// Set military gather points from tc and agra map ("n", "TownCenterAccel", "editMode(\"GatherPointMilitary\") uiSetProtoCursor(\"WaypointFlag\", false)") map ("n", "WonderAccel", "editMode(\"GatherPointMilitary\") uiSetProtoCursor(\"WaypointFlag\", false)")

// select all infantry (muskets, skirms..) map("1", "game", "uiFindAllOfType(\"AbstractRangedInfantry\") ")

// select hand cav (huss, cuirs, cossaks..) map("2", "game", "uiFindAllOfType(\"AbstractHandCavalry\") ")

// select all light cav (dragoon, bow riders...) map("3", "game", "uiFindAllOfType(\"AbstractLightCavalry\") ")

```

ageof.ahk (install autohotkey + put this anywhere you want (I keep in my documents) + right click on file + run as an administrator)

```

IfWinActive ahk_class Age3 ; Hotkeys below will work only if age of empires 3 (re/ep) is open

XButton2:: Send {Shift down}{XButton2}{Shift up} ; select all idle vills (side button on mouse (side/bottom)) . Change XButton2 with whatever you setup idle villagers in hotkeys return

CapsLock::+a ; select all military (select all military button is set to shift+a in my hotkeys)

~Tab::Send, /^w/ ; switch and focus between your heros with tab (shift+w : remove from groups, /: find hero in my hotkeys) (this removes hero from group and selects it)

a::Send a^q ; select all TCs (a : select TC, q select all same type of in hotkeys) (this is useful when you have 3 TCs and create vills with 2 key press (a+s for me))

:*:aa::a^f ; since a is select all TC above, pressing a 2 times wont focus on TC, this will make it work (a: TC, f: focus)

```

Download here: https://gist.github.com/geryit/2d8e1a0a2dbf3a4eb665e9542bc9b1ce

Another version with more complicated settings: https://gist.github.com/geryit/538bffe0016d59b9a6809feec874af6d

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MATCHMAKING ESOC

Posted: 07 May 2020 01:02 PM PDT

Is there anyone, literally anyone, that uses matchmaking to find games???

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This error message! Please help!

Posted: 07 May 2020 09:31 AM PDT