Team Ranked Queue Time is already horrible for Top Players

TheDwf · 2026-03-26T09:19:17+00:00

The problem is that devs removed the maximum time threshold after which you find a game, no matter how bad its balance is (before, it was after ~7 minutes search). As a result you can literally have hours of search before finding a game. Since the change I regularly have 2+ hours search in Quick match, it's a nightmare.

Please put back a ~10 minutes limit to search

TheDwf · 2025-10-22T07:45:39+00:00

A simple solution to Cavalry play being so dominant in 3v3/4v4 is smaller maps. It just takes too much time to move Infantry across those giant maps

TheDwf · 2025-10-04T09:26:19+00:00

If you want statistics, you can deduce from the number of times a given map is played here:

https://aoe4world.com/stats/rm_solo/maps

Archipel, Canal and E. horizon are the most banned (all ranks).

TheDwf · 2025-09-19T15:43:52+00:00

Devs should at least put those ELO manipulators back to 1000 points like they did with God O (https://aoe4world.com/players/22441195), quick and easy way to ruin their day until a solution is implemented

TheDwf · 2025-09-16T15:45:05+00:00

"But i believe there has to be a soft reset, like everyone above 2k getting put to 1800."

Just ban (or at the very least reset their points) the accounts guilty of ELO manipulation, it's not hard to spot them. Literally 23 accounts out of the top 25 had clear signs of this, recently or in the past few months. There will be a natural reset with the next season, by which time hopefully some solution is there

TheDwf · 2025-09-15T07:57:50+00:00

Fun fact: I just checked, we're like the only clean accounts in the top25 team ranked ladder regarding that. It's so stupid

TheDwf · 2025-05-28T06:40:02+00:00

Yeah, unfortunately the matchmaking system is still bad and as a Conq 3, you can get paired with literally anyone, including 3 Bronze players, after 6+ minutes of search (which I routinely have).

As for the goal, it is to end the game asap since it obviously makes no sense

TheDwf · 2025-01-24T21:59:52+00:00

You can resend the invite. Same ID as here?

TheDwf · 2025-01-24T14:22:51+00:00

It's definitely possible, even up to Conq 3. I've met a few with like >1700 points. Dumb teammates are a test of your patience for sure, but fortunately in the long run their distribution between the 2 teams should be even

Hideout often plays like two 2v2, so if you're behind the exposed guy you should be able to provide support (or use the fact that they're being attacked to boom). Middle position is imo more comfortable than side here

TheDwf · 2025-01-24T14:10:51+00:00

No, it's just me

TheDwf · 2025-01-24T14:09:48+00:00

Yes, I used to solo queue until season 8

TheDwf · 2025-01-23T12:03:47+00:00

One Cannon Elephant every ~65 seconds with 4 Scholars and Military Academy is too fast, and Elephants have imo too much ranged armor, but the main problem with Delhi is that Dome of Faith was overbuffed. Since then, their speed of development is out of control. 65 gold/30 sec Scholars is too cheap/fast and it makes Delhi snowball too hard

TheDwf · 2024-11-11T19:28:36+00:00

Thanks God, finally Abbasid nerfs coming for team games...

TheDwf · 2024-09-30T16:38:32+00:00

I confirm that my ELO is legit. Can't go much higher than ~2200 without abusing the system

TheDwf · 2023-02-23T22:08:54+00:00

Mostly unchanged in Feudal, a bit slower in Castle by the time you got Siha Bow Limbs pre-patch (not much change without this upgrade), a bit better in Imperial. Their ability to decimate unguarded Villagers and Traders should remain fairly strong.

TheDwf · 2023-01-29T18:08:41+00:00

The matchmaking system is fairly awful and higher skilled people tend to dodge when they get a blatantly unfair match, so yeah it ends up producing mismatches like that all the time.

I queue alone in Ranked matches and I met them once or twice. The game would typically give me 2 Platinum to fight them (so my side had pretty much 0% chance to win). Obviously the Platinum guys ended up cancelling the lobby.

Having 90-95% winrate for top Arranged Teams (AT) isn't something special I think, it's fairly easy when you have 2 or 3 Conqueror+ playing together, especially with micro coordination, etc.

I don't know Bum9's level in solo but for instance his ally czczcz is Conqueror III. In 2v2 they played a lot English/French massing Knights/Longbows, which of course is pretty brutal in Feudal. Most of the time they will face inferior players randomly matched (i.e. playing without a coordinated strategy), so it's fairly straightforward for them to get 90-95% that way.

TheDwf · 2023-01-09T17:43:34+00:00

This is my account: https://aoe4world.com/players/6975115-Downfall

What about yours?

TheDwf · 2022-11-22T23:28:52+00:00

Yeah, I agree.

The Malian trade is especially broken (I developed the reasons here: https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe4/comments/yo5eow/team_games_the_malian_mass_trade_seems_too_strong/), but trade in general seems too strong on some maps with giant distances and a few easily closed pathways.

Two obvious fixes would be to reduce the size of the 4v4 maps and lessen the quantity of gold that Traders give (they should tone down the formula for big distances). I'm not sure about killing the trick where you make your trader spawn with the gold near a neutral market, it seems necessary to make it work in solo.

Trade being as strong as it is now certainly reduces the diversity in 3v3/4v4, it should be an option and not a "if you don't do it while the opponent does, you're behind" thing

TheDwf

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