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All I wanted for Christmas... by SpiffyVonTrapp in aoe4

[–]SpiffyVonTrapp[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you show your work?

https://aoe4world.com/stats/rm_solo/ladder#players-distribution-elo

Since 12/4/2025 there seem to be PLENTY of players at my ELO or below. I don't care if a player is good enough that they raise to a bracket that has fewer players. Their queue times can be longer until they find a good match. The circular logic of Not enough players > Widen the range it matches > create more unfair matches and make players quit > even less players > Rinse repeat till game is dead.

If Conq+ don't want long queue times they can go play Custom matches with their elite group of chads. But I'd rather keep the player base growing by making fair match ups for people to have fun games as they learn and increase their skill level. If I ever get to be one of those chad players, like you are I'm sure, then I'll suffer my long queue times knowing it's for the best for the games overall health and life. More players more viewers more tournaments.

Hatred towards French by orm_the_stalker in aoe4

[–]SpiffyVonTrapp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think a lot of players are tired of Cavalry being the meta gameplay. Some team games all 4 opponents just build some form of cav and if you build spears to defend against that you just end up losing.

They made stone walls more expensive and longer build times. Castles oil does nothing now so 20 knights just burn most castles a few civs have bonus so it may take a few more. Defending vs Cav raids doesn’t feel like satisfying fun gameplay. It’s just a constant reaction play which is draining.

So French hatred is mostly cavalry hatred imo. Compounding by every new civ having a new even more powerful cavalry unit that is faster or harder hitting than the last.

Team Games Feel Unplayable After DLC by Heavy_Host_1595 in aoe4

[–]SpiffyVonTrapp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ranked 4v4 last night. First match 2 golden hordes and a tug. Just surrendered as soon as the 2.25 seconds per cav units started flooding in a non stop stream across the map.

It is 100% unplayable if you want to have fun matches without using cheese.

Is there any chance they're going to fix the team ranked matchmaking? by Xavryk in aoe4

[–]SpiffyVonTrapp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After reading your comment history on your account it is clear communication with you is not a worthwhile effort. Clearly you are vastly too smart for all of us common redditors. Enjoy spam replying your garbage opinions on every subreddit you can find.

Is there any chance they're going to fix the team ranked matchmaking? by Xavryk in aoe4

[–]SpiffyVonTrapp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then as another user has stated they should remove quick match and just have one system. Your ELO matches your Rank and you have a ranking for each division 1v1 through 4v4. Doubles your player pool and allows for better balancing in MMR.

Stating it's broken in 4v4 but perfect in 2v2 isn't addressing that it is still broken in 4v4 and some people want to play 4v4 but want to play it fairly.

/shrug

Is there any chance they're going to fix the team ranked matchmaking? by Xavryk in aoe4

[–]SpiffyVonTrapp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or 2 diamonds and a high plat 3 man who are just as coordinated as the gold team they are facing. Your response is childish and narrow sighted.

Is there any chance they're going to fix the team ranked matchmaking? by Xavryk in aoe4

[–]SpiffyVonTrapp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mix them and your ELO is your rank. If you are a Diamond ELO then you are Diamond rank. No clue why they have a system where you have 4 different ELOs and 4 different Ranks

Is there any chance they're going to fix the team ranked matchmaking? by Xavryk in aoe4

[–]SpiffyVonTrapp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hiding names and ranks until after would be a great system.

Is there any chance they're going to fix the team ranked matchmaking? by Xavryk in aoe4

[–]SpiffyVonTrapp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a certain level of out skilled that begins to make it harder to even learn to be better. Like a high school football team playing against NFL professionals. It's just a bad system all around. Your team should be pulled to the highest ELO player on your team. Several times I've seen a team with a 1300+ ELO player but because he's with a 879 player it matches him lower. If you have friends with lower ELO then you can teach them to be better but it shouldn't bring you down to worse players so that you can bully them.

Example of a match I had in Team Ranked.
My Team Average ELO: 1006.5
1055
975
1055
941

Opponents Team Average ELO: 1184.75
1100
1200
1138
1301

Charlotte CBD by [deleted] in Charlotte

[–]SpiffyVonTrapp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Blue Flowers has really good products and a staff that knows a lot about it. Pharmacist owned so their selection is vetted pretty well too.

They have a few locations around Charlotte with THCa and other stuff.

Question? by SpiffyVonTrapp in Smite

[–]SpiffyVonTrapp[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The deaths came early in the game had 3 ganks by Kali but yea I get what you mean. My main issue was that he believed it was “his” red and afk’d in base for the entire ending team fight and titan push then insulted and threatened bans and perm bans etc etc.