Sorry for the rant, but I need to get this off my chest.

At around 1200 ELO in team games, it’s not rare to get someone who leaves after 2–3 minutes or just goes AFK. Today:Team Game, i got AFK guys in my team, four games in a row !!!! . That’s not bad luck anymore, that’s a system problem. Sometimes they are AFK at the start sometimes they leave after 10 minutes sometimes 15.

The report system feels completely broken. I have never seen anyone get banned. We are sold DLC/expansions while basic features like reporting don’t work. It really feels like we’re being taken for granted.

• Ability to avoid/report AFK/leavers and actually see consequences. Ability to track the records of players
• Better lobby/team game tools: kick undesirable players before playing if majority decides,
• Proper in-game social features: add friends, chat, party up inside the game, not forced through Steam. Maybe then we would play more with our good fellows than having bad surpises.
• Better smurf detection --> direct ban.
• Map system rework: let us select preferred maps. I hate Nomad maps. Right now I can only ban one of the two, and I still get Nomad regularly. Once the timer starts, I’m forced to play it. I don’t mind Arabia, Arena, Black Forest, etc., but I don’t want to be forced into Nomad.
• Stop flooding the game with too many civs. It is just making the game harder to balance while, there is a need to focus on some major issues.

The game is great, but there are so many small things that ruin it. ELO/smurf issues are also not great. Since 2020, apart from new civs, the improvements haven’t been very tangible. I’m at the point where I’m going to stop playing. Today I wanted some fun just got frustration and i t happens more and more.

I see a lot of people saying that extreme is stupid easy these days. Do you think it would be good to have an AI that is constantly learning?

Would it completely change how we play the game?

I mean come on how is this fair? The extra food you can gather is insane. Nothing against the Huns and I would't mind them getting a buff somewhere else, but to have this particular advantage on nomad starts feels unbalanced .

EDIT: I forgot Huns started with less wood so there's a delay on the dock on regular Nomad. That does make it more balanced. Still, it feels a bit gimmicky to have such a specific bonus on nomad starts.

I feel in game order build for example fast feudal, fast castle or fast imp. And then maybe suggestion on archer build or infantry build army. Suggestion and on choosing game decide to allocate villagers to the right resource automatically a bit similar to say in Xbox but ability to choose, that will make the game more beginner friendly and also can have more fun fighting.

Similar to how in dota 2 one can choose the builds for the hero. And, the game automatically suggests the skills and the items to be made for hero in game, that didnt used exist before but they added 2-3 years into the game.

Does anyone else kind of dislike the Joan of Arc campaign because you first started playing AoK at 6 years old and girls had cooties?

I don't mind Jodit or Yadwiga. But going from the heroic William Wallace (badass, two handed swordsman, shows up to turn the tide) to Joan the Maid (potato sack dress, 3 attack, had to be escorted by knights) was too much for 6yo me.

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Bueno, básicamente eso, quiero aprender a jugar teutones porque me hace gracia los templarios y hunos porque bueno, son los hunos, por ahora vengo jugando en familia contra mi hermana y cuñado, así que me e dedicado a rushear edad de castillos con los teutones pero se que en el online eso no funcionará, algún consejo para empezar fuera de "completa el tuto del arte de la guerra"

The Varangians are the worst civilization ever created. They’re absolutely useless at everything. Whenever I play them on the flanks in 4v4 Extreme against four Cumans, they’re the only civilization that can’t even make it to the Imperial Age before getting completely wiped out. They’re genuinely useless and incapable of doing anything right.

I (30m) am an aoe2 player since I was 5 years old. I don’t want to play very regularly and i don’t want to overdo it. Just maybe three four times a month. 2,3 rounds each. If someone is interested PM me.

I think it would be cool if some of the Secondary gamemods would be on Rankedespecially Sudden Death, because i think it gives a Diffrent experience than Normal 1v1the growth of your Economy is dependent on just one TC, also your Life wich means every tilematters and you can not just rebuild in the back. What do you think about it ?

Long story short, my wife is going to be out of town for work for a while, so I’m looking to dip my toes into a tournament if there’s any that is about to start? I think I just missed the deadline for aoe2leagues but I don’t know more options

Instead of new civs, I'd like to see new game modes, like bigger maps with 5v5 or more players. Would it even work? There would either be 1 or 3 pockets, and one person would be kind of a tie-breaker player since 4v4 usually ends up with two teams against eachother on either side of the map. Then I was thinking 5v5 may not work because of how many teams could gang up on one opponent.

I also think just way bigger maps would be interesting even if it remains 4v4. It would make early rushes less convenient due to travel time.

Also another idea is just a map with no natural gold, you HAVE to trade to generate it.

I ve got 1000 matches played multiplayer

And I build maybe 5 outpost and produced maybe 3 petards during those games. Am I broken?

Also wanted to make another thread but will post here:

what is most satisfying part of the game for you???

me: denying a castle : )

Many of the campaigns, from Age of Kings to The Viking Sagas are excellent scenarios reflecting historical battles (some more accurate than others) in a range of gameplay.

However, there may be something in regards to a scenario that you may feel is not quite right. Is it gameplay or historical accuracy? Would you do something completely different or is it perfect?

127: Pachacuti 2 - The Field of Blood

Hi, as the title says, I have issues playing Poles after the new update, varangian guards are so strong even if I go double archery range archers since feudal, I feel like the only real answer to varangian guards are hand canooneer and maybe mass heavy scorps, and Poles don't have either, is there any good strategy that you could suggest?