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russian eco

prashady — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:30:03 GMT

what is ideal amount of resources to have at end of 40? (with spies?) (without spies)

also how should u divide up ur eco at end of 40?

i usually do 50 food 40 gold 9 wood/building factories on wood

Ports vs China Best non-op civ

Rezarecshun — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:11:47 GMT

CHina- fast artillery, 220 pop, best eco, decent training times, cheap armies, super walls, hand mortars(FTW!!), and flamethrowers, instant upgrade card

Portoguese- best skirms, best goons, best mortars, super walls, fast training times, fast artillery, organ guns, decent eco,

Plz tell me why anyone plays nr55

EdyPegasus — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:33:19 GMT

Why do any of you play nr 55. I mean come on, AOE does not have it because it is not needed! if treaty option would be 55min you guys would make it nr 105minutes. Treaty is bad enough as it is at 40minutes but it is acceptable but sorry 55min is way too much time and all in all it only is an advantage to french fur trades and such.!!!!!!

The paradox of rank (discussion for all players PR 31+)

protonfusion — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:09:31 GMT

Maybe its the time im getting online or i dunno but....Lately it seems that many of the “treaty elite” have stopped playing as much. Clans of good players (TKC, LFV, TGR, TRT etc etc) have seen either their high rankers move on to other games or go down to playing 1 game a week. This presents a special quagmire for all high ranking players because now there are fewer games that we can play. Why is this? Well this exist because as less high rankers play, it gets harder and harder for us to get games because most players PR 26 and down will kick anybody with a PR above 32. They claim we are “to high” to play. So what is one to do when he sign’s on and all the treaty games are being hosted by low ranked players who are afraid to play with higher ranked players…. Never has proton ever had a smurf account but it seems that’s all there is left to do these days as more and more of the elite guard move on.

How did he do that?

Vilmar — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:26:19 GMT

I just finished ridiculous 1v1 game (Ports vs German). During first 38 minutes everything was going normally but then suddenly my opponent built two docks on both sides of river crossing (Deccan) - nothing strange except for the fact that he built those docks near my base! They couldn't have been covered by his treaty building area - no chance for that (look at the screenshot anyway)! Suffice to say he created one monitor and transported a whole batch of doppelsoldners right into my base (I didn't wall the river because I was sure nothing can attack from that side) and moved them to 'strategic' positions - next to my factories, town centers, mills and such.

When the bell of treaty ending rang he simply started to demolish everything he could. I saw before he has doppel-only army so I created about 30 organ guns to handle them but I could stop the disaster he caused in no time. 10 minutes later I resigned even though I had more points than he had.

The question is: how did he do that? Was he cheating/hacking/whatever or there is some legit way to do something like that and I'm too noobish to understand and prevent it?

The game was rated.

PS. Sorry for 'strange' language on the screenshot - I have Polish version of Age of Empires 3.

Is 1820 good?

Boxerman — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:03:12 GMT

I got a score of 1820 last week as Russians on yellow river. Hadn't played for a while, wondering if this is still decent.

German over ports

Rezarecshun — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:23:24 GMT

Am i the only one who thinks this? I love germans and the fact that they aren't an easy civ to use.

1.doppels!!! TEEHEE

2. War wagons are beast

3. settler wagons!!!! TEEHEE

4. Great (GREAT!!!!) late game eco

Artillery - Falconet vs. Horse Artillery

Deathby28 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:58:33 GMT

Well I've been playing treaty for a while now and I noticed how effective artillery can actually be and I've raise a few questions:

-What are some of the compelling differences between falconets and horse cannon artillery?

-What is the best way to protect artillery (assuming the enemy switched from large amounts of gunpowder infantry, to a decent amount of melee cavalry and pikemen.

-What are some of the best battle field strategies involving artillery cannons?

-Is there a way to assign muskets to surround the artillery in a box formation? Like setting them both to defensive?

...Yes, these are all noob questions and I would be glad if someone could set me in the right direction.

Thanks,

pick my civ lol

LordcaseyVI — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:11:26 GMT

i have ben throguh every civ and im really nt good at picking 1 from now on im just gonna ask ppl who they think i should be, you all probably wont decide it finally but it wud b interesting to see who u all think i should be for treaty keeping in mine i do 3v3 or 2v2 and my allies are pretty much always japs

How often is one supposed to spawn settlers?

RedGazzelle — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:38:50 GMT

How many per resource? Do you just spawn continuously until you reach the limit?

cant play other campaigns

Saigutsa — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:34:19 GMT

when i went to the campaign screen, i see the tabs to play as india and china, but it wont let me click on them. do i have to beat the japanese campaign first to play the indian campaign and chinese campaign?

Walling?

jobe12 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:03:33 GMT

Could I have some advice on walling?

Currently I am only putting 3-4 maybe 5 walls down

But trees always seem to get in my way...

Does instant cav make French OP

Rezarecshun — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:26:33 GMT

Is this the only factor that makes French OP?

i use French ozzasionally and this is pretty much all they have going for them

CompStomp strategy Sioux

lipao — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:05:48 GMT

Yep, i want strategy for compstomp with sioux

i hate pvp, i just play CompStomp or scenario

i need a good strategy for sioux

tnhx

TAD quick search

EdyPegasus — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:27:09 GMT

Quick search should also be able to block out asian civs too. Sorry but they are too powerful and if you dont want to fix the fact they are so overpowered then at least make quick search block them out from joining games. I killed a japans persons villagers, probably 10, destroyed all the shrines he put up. Yet he still manages to have the same size army as me and age up.... Sorry but their is no logic in this. The level by which the overpower opponents is not even funny!

large issues with running AOE3

Lithium_Sulfide — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:20:58 GMT

Recently my old xp computer died so I purchased a new one, with windows 7 on it. I installed AOE3 (the original release edition) but whenever I run it, the computer says I have a 0 mb video card (for the record it is considerably higher), and that there are compability issues. when I run the game, the menus work fine but anything to do with the game is a mass of useless colored polygons fluctuating rapidly (no matter the graphics settings). here is my video card - is this the issue or do I need to find a compatibility solution, or both? it is integrated

How do I make a 'deck' in the map editor?

Brax — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:50:31 GMT

Hi,

I was just wondering, in the Scenario editor,

How does one create a custom Home City shipment?

Is it even possible???

Thank you. :-)

~Brax

Blank Screen and Game resigns at start up

Gills8752 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:04:58 GMT

Hi, I've had huge problems trying to get age of empires of install on Vista home 32bit. It came up with error 1305 and stuck at installing art/art1. I copied the files from the trial version and now its install and loads. BUT when i get to the main menu, all I can see is the loading options. The background is black - no home city. Then when I start a skirmish, all the option screens load fine, I can pick everything, load the game but instead of starting the game all I can see is my command panel and all the in game menu's but the background is black and there is writing saying I've resigned my game. I can't start a game at all.

If I try to load a campaign it just freezes.

My graphics drivers are up to date (nvidia geforce 8400m GT) and I've installed the latest patch.

and i have tried the following which I found through googling the problem.

Anyone got any idea's what's wrong?? Thanks so much in advance! I love this game and it played brilliantly on my XP. I don't want to go back to playing AOE 2 :(

Q. I am getting Direct 3D or D3D Errors and Initialization Errors, my screen is all black, or I am getting a error about "refresh rates", what can I do?
A. You game may be running at an unsupported resolution and refresh rate.

First, make sure your monitor is running at a supported resolution and refresh rate. Try changing your desktop resolution to 1024 x 768 at 75 hertz.

Then:
1. Create or edit the file My Documents\My Games\Age of Empires 3.
2. Startup\user.cfg
3. On a new line add the word "window", without the quotes.
4. Restart the game

Second try this:
1. Identify your current working resolution and refresh rate (or one that you know works) through your Display Property settings (i.e. 1024 x 768, 60 Hz)
2. For vanilla Age of Empires III, open the following file for editing: My Documents\My Games\Age of Empires 3\Users\NewProfile.xml.
3. Go to the resolution setting line (around line 30) that says this:
1024 x 768
4. Edit the resolution text to match the working resolution you identified earlier.
5. Go to the refresh rate setting line (around line 67) that says this:
75
6. Edit the refresh rate value to the working rate you identified earlier.
7. Restart the game

ESO connectivity

hackarre — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:43:31 GMT

Hello to everyone,

It has been a long time since I bought aoe 3, and I'm still not abel to play it only. I've really tryed everything posted on the faq of this page, but I'm not doing any progress. The problem is taht when I try to join any game, a fail message will show up. Similarly, when I create a game, any of my friends is able to connect to it.

I've turned firwall and antivirus off, I've changed my ip, I've opened all necessary ports, I tuggle UPnP on and off,.. I did everything.

The only thing I'm really not sure about is the user.cfg file, since I really don't comprehend what should be written in the Ip adress override. When I put my static ip adress I get a message error from ESO, complaining about it. So, which one should I pick up?

I'm actually running aoe3 on windows vista throught boot camp in a macbook computer, and my connection is up to 100 mbps, which should be sufficient, no? Considering that I turn down every single task that could interfer with internet connectivity.

I'd really appreciate any advice,

Thank you!

FIFA = Fail

EdyPegasus — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:27:07 GMT

Respond....

Yummy!

Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:18:27 GMT

Uncharted 2 is looking great!

Whats fair and what ISNT

protonfusion — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:48:17 GMT

So i just got done with a game vs some 1st luits and Pedro_Paulo....

THE ENTIRE game this 1stLuit names TKeer or something is going way over HM and stealing all the resources...I told him hm.. but he doesnt listen... so I didnt really do anything since im aztec and I had plenty of wood to chop...

THEN right at 40 minutes he parks his army right at my walls.... has lancers all over the place preventing my villies from making more walls or a forward...

I ask him to respect HM 5 times... i even ask pedro to tell his team mate to move back... and they dont reply.... so then my team decides to break half map too....

SO i turn on town dance to make aztec super walls and park 50 jags at their walls.. and end up destroying their whole base since all his pop was tied up at my walls...

after their plan backfired... they start to call me a cheater.... and then TKeer starts to drop trick the game... but ends up lagging out after the 4th try..... and we end up with the win...

So what is really fair? was it wrong that I destroyed their base after they broke HM first and didnt move back after me and my team asking them over 5 times?

maybe i shouldnt even waste my time playing with 1st luits... since they dont understand what HALF MAP MEANS!!!!!

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The BeSt CiV

nunolas — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:01:31 GMT

Say what is the beSt cIv to u''''''''''' And why'''''

What are all of the op civs?

WilliamWallace20 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:28:37 GMT

i want a list of op civs anyone know em all?