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I don't know if Gold players can chime in, but I'd like to talk about the experience of being in this percentile.

It's, quite honestly, a huge gap.

You can have a game where someone forgets to build villagers and reaches Age II at 7 minutes completely naked.

And the next game, you have someone who knows all the counter units, micro-speaks perfectly, and has 160+ APM.

The skill gap is absolutely insane at this rank, and I'm sure that in higher ranks, the skill gap narrows.

So yes, of course, there's smurfing, but that can't explain everything.

What do you think?

Okay, let's do this tournament - each game I will pick Mongols, and pack up into the corner to not interfere.

I will report a Hardest vs. Hardest AI battle, and update the tournament brackets with the outcome.

At the end of the tournament, I will use the win-loss matrix to calculate the Maximum Likelihood statistical estimator of relative ELO scores, using the parametric statistical model given by the Logistic ELO model.

Tournament Rules - Swiss Hybrid Elimination Tournament (SHET)
- There are n=3 tables, labelled from "top" to "bottom".  Each contestant starts on the top table, and each loss moves you down one table.  
- Each round you pair up and play.  Continue until one winner remains!  

The Buchholz pairing algorithm is as follows: 

1. Assign the "dominance order" lexographically - that is, primarily by the number of direct wins minus losses, then secondarily by first-order dominance wins minus first-order dominance losses, then by second-order wins minus second-order losses etc.  On round r, go no further than the r-th dominance, after that, revert to some pre-determined seed/preference rank.  
2. If an odd number of contestants remain, then you award a bye to one of the players who has the fewest byes in this tournament already.  Choose the "top" player by the definition in Clause 1.  
3. To pair the remaining contestants, you take the "top" player, and pair him/her:
   a) Primarily with an opponent they have played the fewest times already in this tournament. 
   b) Among those options, choose the LOWEST ranked player with the same number of accumulated losses. 
   c) If no suitable players are on the same table, search in the lower tables in descending order of preference.  
4. Delete the paired contestants, and repeat this process until pairing is complete

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Hey guys, I am new here and looking to get into mp. I would love to find some folks to play with either other newbies or experienced folks. As for myself I have a bit if aoe3 expeeience from years ago and currently m9stly playing rus and zhuxi though I haven't tried every factions yet. I am in Europe.

For one of my recent games I watched the replay from my opponents perspective. I thought it wouls be interesting to learn the build order etc.

I used screenlock so I should be seeing what my opponent was looking at. But after sending the start villagers their way he just focused on the scout without looking back at his camp for several minutes until he drops off his sheeps and starts the next age.

His villagers in the mean time each go to a different place from the TC an even build shit without, based on the replay, a look from my opponent.

Is this just a bug in the replay function. He smt even looks at black screens where his scout is going to.

Genuinely asking who thought feudal knights was a good idea, 99% win rate vs anything that’s not french

Picked up the game this week on sale, absolutely love it and have completed probably 15-20 games already. So far I’ve mostly played ai and outside of the hardest difficulty there really hasn’t been much struggle, so I decided to challenge myself playing quick matches against actual players to learn the strategies and meta.

Now I wasn’t expecting to just win against a bunch of veterans that have been playing years, but my issue is so far I haven’t even made it out of dark age.

Do I need to just practice on the hardest difficulty a bunch before playing others? I don’t want to lock in bad habits only playing ai but the distance between the two right now is insane for me.

So I know the whole idea is to have a big blob of these so that you can AOE everything in front of them. Do you need to build a front line as well? Because if you mix in MAA, you’ll be obstructing other landsknechte meaning you don’t get that big aoe damage.

Which are the most versatile and powerful?

Jean d'Arc and Jin Dynasty...

Game crash and reboots my pc, i dont know why, is a ryzen 5700x and 3060ti 32ram 3200mhz w11, happening single player, campain and multiplayer no matter what, is the only game that i have issues. i just bought today.

cyberpunk is fine, star wars outlasws, helldivers 2, i also playing for free aom Retold with out issue and i have aoe 3 DE .

Aoe 4 is on ssd crucial, not nvme i dont know if this required to be on my main nvme. Y tried lowering textures to low sitll the issue. is random yet to know when it reebots. last Nvidia driver isntalled. any ideas?

I was in an FFA lobby with someone who chat was accusing as a known cheater called Mcpickle but I don't see any threads about him. Oddly his AOE4 world history has his last three FFAs from the previous hour all ending with no winner/losers. I figured some kind of hack where the game drops, but the weird thing is after we teamed up on him he quit and the game losing connection wasn't for another few minutes. Is this some kind of timed release to avoid getting caught or just some really weird coincidence?

In case anyone was not aware KP is back to streaming and uploading AOE4 content again.

Hello everyone,

I need help in the title's matchup.

I play mainly Ayyubids (sometimes Malians) and whenever I end matched up against macedonian I don't know what to do.

Their troops seem immune to counters (riddari melting desert raider and their spearmen are nearly immune to arrows).

On top of that a civ without eco bonuses go consistently into castle faster than me and with more army.

Last but not least their army comp varies with incredible ease due to varangian stronghold.

Is there an age choice that can even the field on ayyubid's side?

Any suggestion is welcome!

I link two games of mine as reference:

https://aoe4world.com/players/19475335-gattosauro/games/230400413?sig=55d6aaa6c97cdcafdc84ab6fd9154b70c78bf356

https://aoe4world.com/players/19475335-gattosauro/games/230410154?sig=cafefbc155162531f5db1892afc93ab62448cc12

As a big fan of the Stronghold Series when I first saw the trailer for Age of Empires 4 I was super excited, I thought Age of Empires was going to get proper siege mechanic, larger scale battles and more. But what we got, for me felt lackluster or was just absent altogether. These are the features I wish Age of Empires 4 had stolen from Age of Empires ☝️

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