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    November 09, 2020

    Age of Empires II Medieval Monday: Ask Your Questions and Get Your Answers

    Medieval Monday: Ask Your Questions and Get Your Answers

    Posted: 09 Nov 2020 07:07 AM PST

    Time for another weekly round of questions.

    Talk about everything from build orders to advanced strategies.

    Whatever your questions, the community is here to answer them.

    So ask away!

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    Got my friends to play AoE

    Posted: 09 Nov 2020 01:55 AM PST

    Blue's villager accidently stumbled upon orange's king in dark age

    Posted: 08 Nov 2020 02:23 PM PST

    Finally hit 1000 ELO! Somehow after a 12 win streak... don’t expect to stay here long!

    Posted: 09 Nov 2020 12:16 AM PST

    Saiyan confirmed.

    Posted: 09 Nov 2020 02:44 AM PST

    2v2 World Cup 2020 seeding

    Posted: 09 Nov 2020 03:10 AM PST

    The first matches of the 2v2 World Cup will start today with some playoffs between teams of the same country, so that no country will have more than two teams in the group stage of the gold league.

    With the official seeding document and the bracket overview I have filled in the names in my own document to see what the groups will be.

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    Group A Norway USA Vietnam B Czechia B
    Group B Vietnam Poland Germany B Czechia A
    Group C Canada Russia Italy Canada B
    Group D Finland Brazil B Taiwan India
    Group E Argentina Germany Netherlands Chile B
    Group F China France Chile Ukraine
    Group G Brazil Finland B Denmark Turkey
    Group H Spain China B UK Argentina B

    I suppose Canada B will be switched, probably with Czechia A, to avoid playing the same country in the group stage.

    These groups will give some nice matchups: opening matches between USA (with T90Official) and Vietnam, between Poland and Germany, and between Germany and the Netherlands, and some more interesting ones. It also means we will probably see T90 play against TheViper and MbL.

    I am not sure when the group stage will start, because the same-country playoffs were added to the schedule at the last moment, maybe /u/robo_boro can clarify this?

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    [Meta] Could we have a permanent sticky post that addresses the issue about mobile "game" ads ripping off AoE2?

    Posted: 08 Nov 2020 12:51 PM PST

    Almost every day there are several posts asking if anyone else has seen these ripoff ads.

    Yes, we've all seen them, you're not the only one who uses YouTube, reddit, Facebook, etc..

    No, nothing can be done about it. This isn't new, these ads have been stealing images/assets from all kinds of other big and popular games.

    If there was a way to stop them from doing it, Microsoft and all the other companies would have already done so by now.

    All you're doing by posting about it on this sub is helping them advertize.

    Please read the sub rules before posting!

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    I got saved by the Berbers team bonus when playing as Turks

    Posted: 09 Nov 2020 06:47 AM PST

    I'm 1k elo (noob I know) and I was playing an arena with Turks when I got attacked by a Korean War Wagons.

    I was also in Castle Age and I was thinking how to counter it considering Turks has no Elite Skirmishers. and start making pikeman would not be enought against a group of War Wagons… When I noticed that I had Genitours in the Archery Range. These guys saved me at that moment.

    I wanted to point it out as a possible unconventional synergy between this two civs.

    As far as I know the Turks cannot make Imperial Skirmishers with Vietnamese in the Team, but it could also be a good synergy.

    edit: typo.

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    Champions League Finals

    Posted: 08 Nov 2020 02:28 PM PST

    {SPOILER} Champions League Results

    Posted: 08 Nov 2020 01:30 PM PST

    Thanks to Hera for organizing this tournament, he's a great caster.

    Dominant performance from Viper. I liked that we got to see him stream for a tournament.

    Congrats to the other participants as well.

    Final standings: 1. Viper 2. Leirrey 3. Hera 4. Mr Yo

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    Aren't the Lithuanians just the better Franks?

    Posted: 09 Nov 2020 05:03 AM PST

    No real eco bonus besides the 150+ food, but everything seems just better in the end for them.

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    New farm who dis?

    Posted: 09 Nov 2020 08:27 AM PST

    I play AOE2DE very casually with wifey against the Moderate AI. We'd like to stop the AI from building a Dock or making any military ships. Please advice

    Posted: 09 Nov 2020 06:10 AM PST

    Please advise; sorry for typo in title.

    So, like I said in title: we just like to have fun playing 3v3 against Moderate AI, with one AI as an ally. Big, long battles with big armies (HD Moderate is able to have "Largest Army" in the 120~200 range :-] )

    We've been enjoying MegaRandom a lot lately, but there's a problem: when the map has water, the AI prioritizes A LOT making war ships (Galleons, Fire Ships, Cannon Galleons). In those cases we're able to super easily defeat them in land, but then we have to destroy dozens of ships. Lame.

    We would like to, somehow, completely prevent the AI from making military ships, so it would always fight us on land.

    I can think of a few ways of doing that:

    1. Creating a mod that removes the Dock from our local games
    2. Changing the AI source code, preventing the AI from either building a Dock or making it build Fishing Ships only --> I'm a software engineer, so with a little guidance I could do this, I was actually taking a look at the `init` file yesterday from AI
    3. I imagine other casual players already came upon this problem. Is there any other way?

    I'd like some community advice on which way is easier to achieve our goal of forcing the AI to fight us in land only.

    My thanks!

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    Never actually watched the Jordan/Viper BO21... I’m going in boys

    Posted: 08 Nov 2020 01:34 PM PST

    Can someone for the love of God tell me how to win on arena?

    Posted: 08 Nov 2020 07:41 PM PST

    I just don't get it, I've never won a single game in arena. I'm decent on open maps 950-1,050 elo. I understand and can execute a fast castle build. And then they show up with a castle drop ON MY FRONT WALL everytime, and i can't successfully punish it. What's the strategy? I feel like if my ELO could be separated for only arena it would be negative 500.

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    Where to watch the Champions League Tournament, ideally spoiler-free?

    Posted: 09 Nov 2020 01:16 AM PST

    Title. I would like to avoid searching through twitch myself because I'd expect to see spoilers there.

    On a general note, I often struggle to find videos on tournaments the day after they were played because they seem to not be uploaded anywhere yet (except that you could re-watch the whole stream, which is tedious if you are looking for specific machtes/series). A great exception was last weekend's battle royale mode which went to youtube immediately.

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    He did not GG after that 11

    Posted: 08 Nov 2020 08:53 PM PST

    Made cool background for everyone to try before November update, easy image replacement with instruction in the WinRAR file, Stay Safe

    Posted: 09 Nov 2020 05:43 AM PST

    AoE 2 DE - Cant place houses next to each other and walls have holes

    Posted: 08 Nov 2020 12:12 PM PST

    Lag in scenario editor (DE)

    Posted: 09 Nov 2020 12:59 AM PST

    In the editor, every time I hold click and drag (to put down grass or a road or whatnot), it lags like hell, then stops when I release.

    It's basically made the editor unplayable, anyone else every encounter this?

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    File transfers (especially for data mods) in public lobbies need a revamp.

    Posted: 08 Nov 2020 07:36 PM PST

    The way it works (as is my understanding) is that when the host clicks ready, it prompts every player to accept a file download. It then copies the files (scenario, random map script or mod) and once everyone has the files, they can ready up and the host can start the game. simple right ?

    unfortunately there are two big problems imo:

    • if you already have files of the same name, it doesn't prompt you to (a) overwrite or (b) cancel the download. instead, it just doesn't work, and the host not only will not be able to start the game, they will not know which player has incompatible files. They can rehost, but if the faulty player rejoins (they also do not know their files are incompatible because they weren't prompted) they will never be able to start.

    • second, it doesn't save the files (only for scenarios apparently?). I happened to play a scenario that I really enjoyed, I went to host it myself and I can't find it. It's as if the download is only good for the duration of the game, if you want to play it again you have to find a manual download or go to the mods page, and it isn't guaranteed it will be there. if you regularly play CBA or Roll the Dice, you will notice you download the same files every single time.

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    Is there an updated 1v1 Islands meta?

    Posted: 09 Nov 2020 04:02 AM PST

    I'm planning to play a 1v1 on islands this week and was exploring different rushes/strats but much of what I can find on YouTube is from Aoe HD. Are there any updated metas or strong strats for a 1v1 on islands?

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    CMV: Bulgarian MAA rush is the best way to cheese low elo

    Posted: 08 Nov 2020 11:48 AM PST

    The 20 pop Bulgarian MAA rush forces the enemy to think fast and deffend well, or to wall up before hitting Feudal. In low elo, neither of those happen.

    The first attack with 3 MAA and Scout usually takes the enemy by surprise, setting him behind up to Castle age if your troops don't die to castle fire. Then, you can spam kreposts in the enemy base. Thoughts?

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    some feedback on the cl tournament

    Posted: 08 Nov 2020 03:27 PM PST

    so i thought i would formulate my feedback on the tournment and others could could write down their thoughts aswell because it is a new format and had great interest and i think most would like another one next year

    1. caster vs pro. i only watched the casting side of the games because i prefer it but i think especially the first day showed why a split between a casting crew and the players is a good idear. you could see the level from especially viper drop in the end.

    i understand that this leads to more subs and money if the cast is exlusive but when then gameplay suffers i am not a big fan. so my suggestion would be payed casters. let them cast on the players stream while they take a break. the top caster combos are a viewing inprovement and with some payment both get what they are looking for. advertisment and payment for the casters and subs and exclusivity for the players. i think memb t90 nili daniel etc have a great impact on the game itself and shouldnt be excluded.

    1. i like the map draft format. it is different and new and if the 2 best players in world play each others you want to see the full skill list and not prepared strats on certain maps that will only work once.i dont really care about the day one in this regard.

    2. stay with the bo11. it is neck and neck right now and the best player of the year should earn it

    3. go bo5 in 2 days or 3 game mirror in 1. 2:1 is great but i think because the competition is so close more games would have helped. also i love the mirror decider match but it didnt fit in so either go full 3 game mirror or bo5 picked civ so that a 3 way tie is less likely

    5.stay with 4 players. i watched it extensively because it was the best of the best and to water it down wouldnt improve the format

    1. some break. i dont know how it is for most viewer but i appreciate some break between sets aswell. to do some tasks cook etc. i want to enjoy all of it and not everybody has the luxury to go full chill mode. and the players need it aswell

    i think we saw some of the best aoe2 this year in this tournament and thank you hera for hosting it.

    i am happy to hear what the others think about my feedback and ehat their feedback would be

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    How to get assess to this Live Elo box during the game?

    Posted: 08 Nov 2020 10:10 PM PST
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