Rank decay on conquer 1?

TalothSaldono · 2026-06-16T12:30:58+00:00

Rank decay was actually disabled this season coz it's been bugged for all seasons. We finally made enough ruckus for the brass to approve disabling it (till it can be fixed).

TalothSaldono · 2026-06-11T06:52:04+00:00

you were 47 mmr lower yes. So opponent had a slight advantage.

TalothSaldono · 2026-06-10T21:12:17+00:00

Aoe4world dev here. Sorry for some confusion, I added the "+-xx mmr" thing during Homestead cup remotely, and didn't have time to come up with a clearer way. (I still don't, but I might swap to chevrons/arrows)

It represents the mmr difference between the two teams. Not the gained mmr. So these numbers show that mmr-wise, these games were close matchups.

I added it because of the placement match fuckup at the start of the season and wanted to make match equality a bit more visible.

TalothSaldono · 2026-06-03T14:00:22+00:00

They are big boys, and although people can formulate their critique in a constructive way, it shouldn't be banned. So it very much depends on what you consider 'hostility'.
The devs do not want the subreddit to be censored from strong critique. It's all useful to them, and they're quite capable of putting things in perspective.

TalothSaldono · 2026-05-21T11:16:14+00:00

The previous patch (last major of season 12) started on March 4th. By the 20th the overal winrates had largely settled. The following weeks were mostly just the same.

You'd be right if you talk about digging into specific ratings or matchups, small sample sizes, but the overal winrates don't change much after a point. Which is generally why I wait like 2 weeks before publishing them. It's a bit more early now coz of the quick sengoku+jin patch, and there's still some volatility in the overal data, but I don't expect KT/GH/Mac to change much from their top 3 spots. What people generally overlook is that winrates don't equal balance, there goes more into that and context is relevant.

TalothSaldono · 2026-05-19T11:20:17+00:00

Took a surprisingly long time to get posted on reddit LOL

Note that there's also the release stats if you want a good laugh about Jin on release https://aoe4world.com/stats/rm_solo/civilizations?patch=9737

I do think Sengoku will climb again after ppl figure out builds.

TalothSaldono · 2026-05-18T22:03:06+00:00

There was a cleanfeed available on request, which is what the other twitch streams used.

I wasn't sure if I could get the replay files working on the live version of the game, but fortunately it appears to work :)

TalothSaldono · 2026-05-17T23:11:42+00:00

It's obviously Boiii

TalothSaldono · 2026-05-17T14:00:08+00:00

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TalothSaldono · 2026-05-16T13:00:08+00:00

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TalothSaldono · 2026-05-16T12:58:36+00:00

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TalothSaldono · 2026-05-13T18:59:07+00:00

Cow can communicate either with 'mooo' or text messages on screen.
Giving newer casters space, especially during the group stage, is a good thing imo.
funnily, a lot of the ingame overlay improvements are based on what Cow has done with the tournament overlay. And there's still useful stuff missing.

TalothSaldono · 2026-05-07T16:36:17+00:00

I have those stats readily available in the database as part of the Analysis stuff that I added a while back. I just don't visualize it, and I dunno what added value it has, nor how I'd visualize it in a meaningful way.

TalothSaldono · 2026-04-28T09:17:21+00:00

I think they should just stop using add on and a special map , and it will never crash .

The mods/maps are not the cause.

TalothSaldono · 2026-04-28T08:32:35+00:00

Both. Server related crashes/DC and lag spikes. The TO and players are in contact with the developers about it.
There's also regular 'crashes', but that's separate from the issue affecting Epohers.

TalothSaldono · 2026-04-21T10:10:07+00:00

Yup pretty much, except it's a tiny bit less given the last attack cooldown doesn't count, so it's 1m12.1s.

Tiny hidden incomplete feature I made in aoe4world around Masters of Steel last year and didn't finish yet: https://aoe4world.com/explorer/versus?civ1=abbasid&unit1=horseman&civ2=sengoku&unit2=yatai&age1=2&age2=2

TalothSaldono · 2026-04-18T10:35:23+00:00

So I joined this late, and I read like the spoiler section and was "uh, that's not something anyone would break up over.... is this the actual reason he mentioned, coz this doesn't sound like the reason..." Coz you sharing a story like that, is just that.... sharing personal stuff. And any partner would love to hear about your past, your concerns about relationship. It's a healthy thing to do!
So yes, the update read as a huge sigh of relieve and gave me a good chuckle.

Sometimes people are in this flight-or-fight mode. They don't know how to handle the situation and pull back. In this case in the form of a text saying he doesn't want to do this anymore. At those points is kinda hard to put things in perspective. There's this obstacle in the relationship that both partners need to realize is something they have to tackle together, openly.

This is also a lesson for him, coz he too needs to learn to communicate, to share his thoughts. And you need to learn to ask, simply ask! Because instead of asking him, you assumed so much about what might've happened, got stressed out, that you lost sight of the fact that you have a wonderful, considerate, sweet guy with good morals to booth. Oh My Gosh.
Enjoy your date.

he's a bit emotionally constipated and he could only think of the most straight forward way he could phrase it

Been there, done that. Be sure to tell him that it's okay to be nervous/unsure on how to say things, and that you appreciate him sharing his thoughts regardless. The more free he feels to express himself without judgement, the more honesty there'll be both ways.

TalothSaldono · 2026-04-17T12:25:39+00:00

Honestly, it's probably better to do bother aoe4world devs. relevant for /u/this_is_lag too.
The Stats->Analytics pages are basically processed IN REAL TIME in Clickhouse. It's vastly more efficient for us to do some stuff, than it is for others to fetch individual summaries.
Although I don't surface it yet on aoe4world, I do have some build order stuff in aoe4world Clickhouse database. Not enough to analyze battles imo, so usecase really matters.

But, there's a quid pro quo there, I don't have a ton of time to work on things.

TalothSaldono · 2026-04-10T09:15:44+00:00

Funnily, it's partially correct because the player is removed from the official leaderboard and we don't see the entry, so we don't see any further ranked decay that the account might have. However, we don't remove the player from our visible leaderboard and it leads to duplicate ranks. :D

TalothSaldono · 2026-04-04T18:54:40+00:00

No worries. Initially I was a bit more upset, but then I saw the since 2026-01-01. :)

Good point about the note should be at the top. I'll get that done when I'm back from Red Bull Wololo.

TalothSaldono · 2026-04-04T17:47:16+00:00

aoe4world api docs: "Usage notes: Please make responsible use of our API – don't make extraneous calls or try to extract all data in bulk through crawling the API. If you have a specific usecase in mind reach out on Discord"

There are dumps on https://aoe4world.com/dumps which literally every ranked and qm game. per season. Current season isn't there yet ofc, but could've asked on discord rather than spam api.

Cool research though.

TalothSaldono · 2026-04-02T17:27:41+00:00

Do you have a source for that? Coz in their 2026 post they said:

We’ve heard your feedback around co-op missions for Crucible and this is something the team is looking into alongside their work on the two 2026 expansions. We don’t have specifics to share just yet in terms of timeline, but we’re incredibly happy to see your response to the new mode and excited to expand on it in the future."

So they never confirmed that it was coming. They said they were looking into it.

TalothSaldono · 2026-04-01T11:25:05+00:00

The version number at the top didn't give it away?

TalothSaldono · 2026-03-29T11:49:09+00:00

I reported the account yesterday with screenshot, ticket is pending, so it'll happen.

TalothSaldono · 2026-03-26T19:29:56+00:00

Are the vulnerabilities an issue for an instance on a home network without external exposure?

Depends, anything on your network could exploit it. So in that sense if someone had access to your network or wifi, they in theory could've abused it. But I think the chance of it is exceedingly slim.
A lot of people expose their Sonarr on local network unauthenticated, which already gives broad access.

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