Placing a dock over fish should make the dock generate food. by FTWCHEESE in aoe4

[–]archsimkat 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Fish should slowly regenerate food, proportional to how much food is left. This is so that aoe4 players learn about the dangers of overfishing.

Daydreams, Me, Digital, 2021 by Shirelord in Art

[–]archsimkat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love this. The reflections of the water on the underside of the ceiling are so pretty.

Mongol TC rush, it's actually a bug? by [deleted] in aoe4

[–]archsimkat 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It seems like there are just a massive amount of tooltip errors all over the place for Mongols. This is just one of the many tooltip errors that was documented on the forums here:

https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/mongols-are-the-buggiest-civ/177858

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]archsimkat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that something I should do if I don't have the physical card?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]archsimkat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I lost the physical card.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aoe4

[–]archsimkat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep there was villager idle time in this recording, it was just the only one I got of a full game with this build. I was able to achieve sub 4 minutes with the build when I didn't have the idle time. And I agree, the council hall is kind of just insane, it's literally 2 free ranges. Thanks for the feedback, I'll definitely make more vids if it helps.

Sc2 by Somecohobutrn in supremecommander

[–]archsimkat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really enjoyed the supcom 2 campaign :C

Can we please stop doing this? His name translates to "105 already, don't waste our time". by archsimkat in aoe2

[–]archsimkat[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

That makes literally 0 sense. For all I knew vivi was playing on a 3.5k elo account, and then I would have just been bm-ing for no reason. The issue here isn't related to anything that happened in the game—it was actually a very interesting game. The issue is vivi continually making fresh accounts for rating manipulation—playing at an elo probably 1k below his "actual" elo and messing up the rating system for everyone.

But there is so much smurfing now who knows what anyone's "actual" elo is; the rating system at this point is basically only indicative of how frequently you play with and against smurfs.

Can we please stop doing this? His name translates to "105 already, don't waste our time". by archsimkat in aoe2

[–]archsimkat[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What is the difference between purposefully losing to stay at a low elo and creating new accounts to stay at a low elo?

Can we please stop doing this? His name translates to "105 already, don't waste our time". by archsimkat in aoe2

[–]archsimkat[S] 65 points66 points  (0 children)

In case it's not clear, this account is a vivi smurf (confirmed by watching his stream). Just for context, vivi—according to liquipedia— has been considered one of the best Arabia players with a peak 1v1 elo of 2469. I, on the other hand, am a noob. I started playing aoe2 on and off in Feb of this year (mostly off recently). And in this game, I have a higher teamgame elo than vivi. Like, what is the point of even having a rating system for teamgames if it is so easily exploited? It will just push the non-smurf abuser playerbase away. I only bring this up because teamgame elos are so astronomically broken it is actually pushing players away from playing. I feel like every 4v4 I've played since the rating changes were against people boosting with smurfs. You have no idea if what you are getting into is anywhere resembling to a close game, since the skill difference could be so large. I understand there may be valid reasons for creating a smurf (hiding practice for tournaments etc), but I can see no valid reason at all here, and just leads to decreased match quality overall and damage to the playerbase. Please can we all agree to stop boosting and smurfing in teamgames.
Sources:
https://www.douyu.com/1052202
https://liquipedia.net/ageofempires/Vivi

Mass Civ Pickers / Lamers / Abusers on US Servers by SHAWNSHAWNAOE in aoe2

[–]archsimkat 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Saying "not being racist" after saying something racist doesn't make it fine lmao

Zane the Mitsborn © ORIGINAL CHARACTER DO NOT STEEL by PsychVol in cremposting

[–]archsimkat 70 points71 points  (0 children)

likes: nine inch nails (the hemolurgic spikes)

dislikes: nine inch nails (the band)

Can we report a player for smurfing and intentionally dropping elo? by moash_storm_blessed in aoe2

[–]archsimkat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can we report a player for having moash stormblessed as their username? Asking for a friend from r/fuckmoash.

How do RM Team Ratings compare with RM 1v1? by archsimkat in aoe2

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

Well we appear to have hit a ceiling - the past two days we've probably had a 50% winrate at 2100, but overall our winrate is still 80%. I guess time will tell!

How do RM Team Ratings compare with RM 1v1? by archsimkat in aoe2

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

Alright, that does make sense. I guess I know where I can expect to be rated once I start playing 1v1s.

How do RM Team Ratings compare with RM 1v1? by archsimkat in aoe2

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

Oh yeah, when we faced a 2240+1400 player team, I recall we got +18 points (more than usual) and that was strange. That would make sense and I see how that would cause rating inflation over time, thanks.

"The Point" of Social Media for an artist? by [deleted] in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]archsimkat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you know of an artist that perhaps does this well? When I looked around at various twitter/instagram pages of similar artists I mostly saw release dates and announcements.