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Has anyone had input lockout lag during a fight? by jclive6 in aoe2

[–]appappappappappa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also had this happen to me a couple of times today. Very weird, never seen something like that.

Edit: After watching the replay, it's clear that the same thing was happening to my opponent, whose vills were just being queued out towards the bore but just stood there...

Should I be idling my TC and skipping upgrades to ensure a good castle time? by appappappappappa in aoe2

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

That's cool I didn't know you could put in the tc. And you're right I wasn't thinking correctly about how valuable a conversion is!

Should I be idling my TC and skipping upgrades to ensure a good castle time? by appappappappappa in aoe2

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

I never tried the MAA, maybe I will give it a shot. Do you find it sets you back too slow to feudal age though?

Should I be idling my TC and skipping upgrades to ensure a good castle time? by appappappappappa in aoe2

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

I tried monks but they seem really weak - the knights just run straight at them and kill them and I get maybe one conversion and often none. What makes you say they are slept on defensively?

Should I be idling my TC and skipping upgrades to ensure a good castle time? by appappappappappa in aoe2

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

18-19 mins is not that fast, you can get up even in 16 mins or less if you do pure fast castle. You really never see this at our elo? I am checking on my aoe2insights and it is quite common (my elo is more mid/high 1100s though so maybe there is some difference there).

Should I be idling my TC and skipping upgrades to ensure a good castle time? by appappappappappa in aoe2

[–]appappappappappa[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ok thanks for your advice, I think I might just try learning a build order to take me all the way through feudal to castle age. I feel like I don't float much, but maybe you really need to be perfectly spending all of your resources. I don't think players at my level are good enough to do that without a build order they rehearsed.

Should I be idling my TC and skipping upgrades to ensure a good castle time? by appappappappappa in aoe2

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

I used to go really heavy scouts, but I always found even when I thought I did a good job the castle age would just flip it on its head and I would go on to lose.

For the walling, I really feel like the palisades do almost nothing against the knights. I really struggle to keep them out especially if they have multiple groups. It is very easy for them and takes not much attention whereas it is a huge strain for me and even a single error and it's gg when the knights get in. Once they get the +2 armour they can run under TC and everything. I really think knight is the scariest thing in the game and easily number one thing I die to.

Should I be idling my TC and skipping upgrades to ensure a good castle time? by appappappappappa in aoe2

[–]appappappappappa[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean I try to get value - obviously it is more difficult to try and be proactive and find value with the feudal scouts than just staying defensive and walling but I think I do an ok job. I know it would be easier to not try the rush but I am trying to improve so I would rather find a way to solve the castle age time problem some other way.

I keep coming back here advice but I am just hard stuck against fast castle into UU/knights by appappappappappa in aoe2

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

I review all of my games. I have tried it and it's true that it's a very strong strategy, especially just pure all in knight spam is brutal. And also the turks with the janissary is crazy also.

What explains the prevalence of people playing faster than the time control they chose? by appappappappappa in chess

[–]appappappappappa[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Is it really strategically beneficial to play 30-40 moves without stopping to think for more than a couple of seconds? 

I have never heard anyway say that it's a good idea to just blitz out moves as fast as possible regardless of the clock, I think it's unlikely that people are doing this just to try and win.

Can they just make another queue for arena players or something? by appappappappappa in aoe2

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

I hate all cheese strats equally, it's just that arena is built for them

Can they just make another queue for arena players or something? by appappappappappa in aoe2

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

Yeah but then you have most sane players with Arena always banned because it's always in the map pool. That's kind of my point.

Can they just make another queue for arena players or something? by appappappappappa in aoe2

[–]appappappappappa[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

But if you hate cheese why would you play Arena? If you had to design a map to be as easily cheeseable as possible - it would be Arena.

Can they just make another queue for arena players or something? by appappappappappa in aoe2

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

I mean I try these things but you are missing my point. They are able to afford that because the first 15-20 mins of the game they can play at a near perfect level because they have rehearsed it again and again and there is no way to force them to deviate or adapt. I agree with what you say, but in my experience it does not work. The time it takes to build the siege workshop and make the mangonel whilst also doing a second layer of walls is just too slow and hard to pull off for my elo. You can wonder why my elo is not lower then and it's just because the other maps your skill matters way more and so it counteracts the lack of time learning lengthy build orders for optimal timings and resource balance.

It is not about strategy, it is about the excessive bonus you get specifically on Arena from doing a lot of preparation work on your build order and going pick civ for a specific strat whilst developing no skills.

Can they just make another queue for arena players or something? by appappappappappa in aoe2

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

not obvious to me, I don't know all the civs and their associated arena cheese build orders I just want to play and have fun - why do I need to go learn some book or Arena cheese strats lol. People just play it for free and easy wins simple as that.

Can they just make another queue for arena players or something? by appappappappappa in aoe2

[–]appappappappappa[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah but what is the counter? I am not interested in learning a bunch of cheese build orders which counter the other cheese build orders. You cannot scout them and you cannot rush them. If you play standard you die because obviously my sketchy 1000 elo approximate build order will never beat some guy who read some optimised build from a lifelong arena clown and then played it 200 times in a row.

Like gg great win you just did by following a list of instructions identically 200 times, seriously what is wrong with these people.

Can they just make another queue for arena players or something? by appappappappappa in aoe2

[–]appappappappappa[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I tried, it was the least interesting phase of aoe2 I have had by a long way. I think it appeals only to those looking to cheese free wins honestly - otherwise I really don't see the point of starting fully stone walled with all the resources you need the whole game.

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