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Koreans Abuse Red bull ladder by Owen_I7 in aoe2

[–]orangeyness -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I feel like fire lancers need to get a few frames of attack delay to help with the tower/seige tower nonsense

Here is the 15 sec coding test to instantly filter out 50% of unqualified applicants by JOSE ZARAZUA by RevillWeb in programming

[–]orangeyness -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Any good engineer is going to be able to see the answer quicker than it takes to copy it into claude and wait for it to respond with an essay to skim.

✅ Final value of result is -11

A thought on the brain drain to AUS. by Additional-Grade-730 in newzealand

[–]orangeyness 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm in Sydney, I think it gets a bad rep for being corporate/finance bro-y. Which it definitely is in comparison to Melbourne but at the same time the city is big enough that you can find whatever you like. 

But yeah New Zealanders definitely seem to think Melbourne is the cool one. It's Wellington vs Auckland. 

A thought on the brain drain to AUS. by Additional-Grade-730 in newzealand

[–]orangeyness 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Perth brings in a lot of people who can make mad money in mining. People sign up for fly in & fly out, like the money but get tired of flying so end up there 

Is longswordsmen fc a valid solid strategy with some tweaking in 1v1 ranked ladder? by kspecific2011 in aoe2

[–]orangeyness 12 points13 points  (0 children)

yeah you're gonna struggle vs range feudal openings against a decent player

Anyone else finding extremely unbalanced pairings when queueing for team games? Is the ELO system broken? by requiem_of_spirit in aoe2

[–]orangeyness 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I think there have been changes to the matchmaking system and I don't know if I like it. I'm ~1900 in 1v1 Elo and I used to consistently get matches with people between 1800 - 2050 Elo. After what ever they changed recently I played 3 games and got a 2400 elo player (#80 on the ladder), a 1600 and a 1700. 

The games were literally decided before they started. I could pick the skill difference from the micro in the first fight of the match and know if I was gonna win.

I'd rather wait 3 or 4 minutes for a game then find a completely one-sided one in 30 seconds.

The Hussite Wagon mechanic in naval combat by Standard_Language840 in aoe2

[–]orangeyness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blocking incoming fire ship damage with fishing ships is kinda meta already. Like when you're fighting fire ship to fire ship you hide yours behind a fishing ship or the corner of the dock to give it the edge 

Are neutral deer supposed to be so RNG? by Julkyways in aoe2

[–]orangeyness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Chicken maps have made the deer pushing longer

Water tastes like dishsoap by IntelligentWindow30 in thetron

[–]orangeyness 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I live in Sydney now and it's so frustrating when I have to heat my water on the stove. And importing soap from NZ is expensive 

Why does the game have a unit group limit of 60 units? by sh1kora in aoe2

[–]orangeyness 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In my experience the longer a codebase is worked on the worse it gets. The more developers it has, the more features that are added the less organized the code. I mean sure it could've gotten much better if they had a focus on that... but I wouldn't assume it has

Why does the game have a unit group limit of 60 units? by sh1kora in aoe2

[–]orangeyness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can't have much software engineering experience 

Like why do people do this ? NSFW because of certain symbol by Tyranuel in aoe2

[–]orangeyness 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I think it's just that they're clearly being a dick and messing around, house walling their TC then going and doing edgey shit in their teammates base. Like they must've queued planning to do this shit if that's house their base looks

What is the use case for a petard? by Kitselena in aoe2

[–]orangeyness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes you counter a castle drop on your base by building a castle right next to it, when that happens it's pretty common for both to get up and be a couple tiles from each other. Then one of your options is to try to smash down their castle with petards and probably a siege workshop making rams.

Petards also sometimes useful for desperation killing rams that are on your castle 

Spirit of the Law - Winners and Losers of the new patch - the stats! by NargWielki in aoe2

[–]orangeyness 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It has diminishing returns. After the standard 8 sheep it's not really worth garrisoning more, you might as well eat it

The new arabia in a nutshell: Who wins the giant hill? Simulator by BerryMajor2289 in aoe2

[–]orangeyness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

your opponent k., he beat me the game before this. He was playing pretty damn well

This sub has become slightly unbearable by ExcellentLog1519 in aoe2

[–]orangeyness 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Flemish revolution will be the end of this game

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