Age of Empires II Me when I'm about to be defeated by the AI

Me when I'm about to be defeated by the AI
Random meme
It's time for us to fight back!
Hoang giving Joadn nightmares
Building an AOE coaching platform. WDYT?
Mod Request: Idle TC notification
I guess today I played that guy, who is quite famous for his rag here! Somehow I understand him, it was indeed the most disgusting tower rush I ever pulled of. And he fought like a lion ! And it is very creative how he is jumping the censoring with misspelling words and typing them seperately!
did a thing
The best friends I ever lost
A question about the market
Food gathering speed : boars vs sheep vs berries
A question about the market
Any way to restore with booted player?
OBNC | Post-Mortem | Reflecting on my first tournament
Excited to have played a game with Tatoh today! It's pretty fun watching him handle himself in fuedal age only challenge :D
Versatile civ for "new" player?
What mods are not allowed in multiplayer?
Do Mamelukes need a buff?
Looking for people to play Random Costs and an occasional Diplo game
Where can i find all the build orders?
AI Resigning on some maps Super Early, and some Suggestions on how to fix it
is there a possibility to look at your stats?

Me when I'm about to be defeated by the AI

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 12:08 AM PDT

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Random meme

Posted: 16 Sep 2020 01:29 PM PDT

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It's time for us to fight back!

Posted: 16 Sep 2020 09:20 PM PDT

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Hoang giving Joadn nightmares

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 07:01 AM PDT

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Building an AOE coaching platform. WDYT?

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 07:34 AM PDT

Hey all,

I'm building a platform to connect AOE coaches and players that want to improve: https://www.aoe.coach.

Players submit a recording of a game they want to get reviewed, pick a coach, and get back a voice-over recording with feedback from the coach. For their service, coaches get paid.

The goal is to keep everything as simple as possible. So no need to schedule live 1-1 sessions or anything, everything happens asynchronously.

It's almost ready, and now I'm looking for early adopters who are interested in giving it a shot (both players and coaches). You can sign up as a player who wants to improve or as a coach if you'd like to be in the first batch.

I was curious to hear what y'all think! I'm currently pursuing this as a side project on nights and weekends, and I'd love to hear any feedback.

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Mod Request: Idle TC notification

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 06:04 AM PDT

I was recently looking at my weak spots at the Game und then searched for Mods to maybe help me with those and my pretty much biggest problem was, that I am ideling my TC way to much and was kinda confused, that there wasn´t a Mod for that already.

Haven´t modded any Game ever and wanted to ask if someone who is into Modding could make such a Mod, that every time ALL Tcs are idle (So it doesnt play the sound over and over if you want to boom and can´t keep up every single TC yet) it plays a noteable sound or/and shows a clear visable message that your TC is idle.

As I said, I dont have much experience with modding, but i believe, that this would be a fairly easy one to make, especially because in the "Art of War" section in i belive "Fast Castle Age" there already is a function like this build in, which tells you, that your TC is not making villager (Could even use that Sound, as it is perfectly fitting already).

I really think that would be the single most helpful Mod to make in AoE 2 and me as many others i believe would be really thankful, if someone could make such a Mod

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I guess today I played that guy, who is quite famous for his rag here! Somehow I understand him, it was indeed the most disgusting tower rush I ever pulled of. And he fought like a lion ! And it is very creative how he is jumping the censoring with misspelling words and typing them seperately!

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 06:06 AM PDT

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did a thing

Posted: 16 Sep 2020 02:04 PM PDT

was messing around in the DE data files after seeing a recent TWest vid.....guess this is prob the first step toward making actual mods but for now...

https://preview.redd.it/obmd195zqkn51.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=93940582a3d91ca7881391048fbb0e2820c0dec1

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The best friends I ever lost

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 07:18 AM PDT

Last night I played two team games with a guy named Citrus Blend. We had great chemistry and went 2 and 0, including beating a Vikings, Portuguese, Itialians team on Water Migration with a Slavs, Inca, Viking team.

I feel like some of the best pals I've ever had are in these temporary team alignments. Would love to hear stories of the teams and friends you've made in this great community.

Although we may never meet again. I wish you continued success in Age and beyond.

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A question about the market

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 02:32 AM PDT

I was always a bit confused by the market. Lets say I have some decent build order and I follow it and have no need/very rare need to use the market. I end up in the mid game castle age and see the market is still at full prices/sometimes even above starting prices for food or wood. Is it worth to grab that extra gold for selling first few hundread resources? If yes, at what time in the game? If i see high prices is it good idea to preserve my gold and send more vills to wood/food? At what point stop selling? At 60 gold/100 food/wood? 50? 30? 14? What do you guys usually go for? Im talking mostly normal civs and not saracens. I always tend to ignore the market until late imp when i doscover that my opponent already sold stuff and prices are bottomed out.

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Food gathering speed : boars vs sheep vs berries

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 05:50 AM PDT

Food gathering speed : boars vs sheep vs berries vs fish etc Does anyone have any actual constants from the game? I assume boars and hunt in general is the fastest but how fast. Or has anyone done some experiments?

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A question about the market

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 02:32 AM PDT

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Any way to restore with booted player?

Posted: 16 Sep 2020 10:39 PM PDT

We had connection issues most of the way through a multi-hour game, and instead of going out of sync it dropped one player. Now when I restore from the save made right after it won't let him join, and has an AI in his place. Any way to fix it? This is in AOE2 HD.

Also, any way to make AOE2 HD autosave ever 20 minutes or something?

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OBNC | Post-Mortem | Reflecting on my first tournament

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 08:08 AM PDT

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Excited to have played a game with Tatoh today! It's pretty fun watching him handle himself in fuedal age only challenge :D

Posted: 16 Sep 2020 04:04 PM PDT

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Versatile civ for "new" player?

Posted: 16 Sep 2020 08:56 PM PDT

I'm looking for a civ that's versatile enough to teach me different playstyles and friendly enough for new players, it doesn't need to be a top tier, just good enough to learn the basics. I've watched a lot of AoE and played through some of the art of war scenarios, although I haven't managed to get gold in every one of them.

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What mods are not allowed in multiplayer?

Posted: 16 Sep 2020 09:12 PM PDT

It seems like some mods are not allowed in multiplayer. I installed short walls and it works in single player but not multiplayer? Are there a bunch?

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Do Mamelukes need a buff?

Posted: 16 Sep 2020 05:46 PM PDT

I just cant ever see a good reason to use them. Even in team games, when the high gold cost can be overcome late with trade, there are much better options to mass and dominate them fairly easily.

Maybe remove the cavalry archer armour class?

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Looking for people to play Random Costs and an occasional Diplo game

Posted: 17 Sep 2020 03:57 AM PDT

Saw it first on T90's 24h stream and now I'm playing it daily. The Random Costs mod is one of the funniest things I've seen on DE but it's quite hard to find people that know it.

So in case you do know and/or is interested in playing it, join this discord and let's set up some games.

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Where can i find all the build orders?

Posted: 16 Sep 2020 04:17 PM PDT

simple question, but i am not happy with my current sources, maybe you know better ones.

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AI Resigning on some maps Super Early, and some Suggestions on how to fix it

Posted: 16 Sep 2020 12:21 PM PDT

So this has been an issue for a while, but the AI has a really bad habit of throwing in the towel super early under some conditions. It's not entirely clear what these conditions are (I've seen AI hold in in Feudal while the rest of the players are in Imperial, I've seen AI give up when behind 1 vill in Castle), but I believe it may have something to do with Mills & Docks.

There's a couple maps the AI is objectively terrible with. Mountain Ridge in particular features a couple of elements which seem to completely destroy the ability for the AI to properly evaluate its position. There's a lot of deer in the centre of the map, and small pools with plenty of shore fish in the outer valleys. On average there's more fast food than Arabia, but it's highly exposed and requires Milling (and probably some outer walls/defending counter units). The AI seems incapable of recognizing this fact, and gets stuck when it needs a second Mill. I wonder if it is trying to Dock the Shore Fish, but the ponds are too small so it ends up getting itself stuck in Late Feudal with not enough Food.

My suggestion would be to give the AI the ability to stay in Feudal longer (such as when it hits 30 pop but only has 400 Food in the bank so can't age up), recognizing that it is behind economically and thus it should invest in Scouts/Archers and try to be aggressive. This is a natural human behaviour and would compliment its seeming inability to efficiently gather enough Food. It also is very aggressive about taking its Sheep, and doesn't efficiently saturate its herdables. This leaves a lot of Food to spoil (200-300 on average), which seems to be the difference between the AI getting to Castle "on time" and resigning.

Another point may be the lack of berries messing with the AI's ability to gather food. This is harder to evaluate since it's impossible to tell from replays what the AI is doing when something is completely absent.

Additionally, the AI does a very, very bad job fighting up slopes. If there's a substantial hill at the edge of their base, it seems to mess with the AI's building placement and it ends up with an even more exposed base than usual. This compounds its inability to adapt to Mill-Food maps like Mountain Ridge, putting the AI behind both economically and defensively. It would be nice to see some walling behaviour from the AI where it tries to protect Mines, Farms, and TCs, especially from ridges.

Suggestions:

The AI needs to be much less willing to resign in Feudal. Really, there should never be an AI resigning in Feudal unless they have no TCs and their opponent is already in Castle/Imp.
The AI needs to know how to Mill Shore Fish. This would massively help it on maps which feature ponds, and would help compensate for it's extremely inefficient Sheep micro.
The AI needs to be better about taking its Sheep. 200-300 Food left to rot is huge, and really hurts the AI's ability to transition to Castle properly if there is no second Boar or berry bushes.
The AI needs to display some level of Feudal aggression. The Hard & Hardest AI are not really challenging at all if rushed in the Dark Age or early Feudal. They seem totally incapable of developing any kind of military early, yet for some reason have massive blocks of Skirms in early Castle. The Archery Range is massively overpreferred by the AI, even when the Civ its playing has better options.
The AI needs to understand that hills are a thing. Currently, it seems like the AI literally does not understand that the hill bonus exists. It also refuses to build on hills or wall them properly, leaving big holes in its base when a hill is present.
The AI needs some basic walling, especially when it has a slower Feudal/Castle transition. Scouts into Knights is ALWAYS the best option against the AI, and beats Hardest far too often (hell I've beaten the Extreme AI 1v1 using this strat, despite being at best an intermediate player). Even Scouts/Camels can beat the AI if the civs are right, it walls so badly and so heavily overemphasizes the Archery Range. Throw in a couple of Mangonels for their inevitable Scorpion spam and it's a blood bath.
The AI needs to make fewer Scorpions. The AI seems to think Scorpions are a good counter to Archers/Mangos, which they really are not. Hell it's an objectively bad matchup into most Archer unique units, since they tend to have some bonus that makes them superior against siege (higher pierce, longer range, actually does melee damage, etc).