General Discussion

First card for Japan

[_V_V_]Haris_conquorer — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:55:28 GMT

Since Japan does not have the 3 villager card in age 1, in your opinion, what is the best card to send in age 1?

Fan Patch vs Official Patch?

Stratigix — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:52:50 GMT

Hi,

Can someone explain this to me?

I see in my "About" in "Help and Tools" that I have version 1.02 of TAD installed. I assume that this is the latest official patch?

What then is the Fan Patch and should I install it too to be able to join more games, since some games say failed to join? Does not having the FP installed, lead to failing to join more games? Will the FP limit me joining games that do NOT have the fan patch installed? I read that you can choose if you want to play with the FP or not? How does this work?

If I installed the 1.02 TAD official patch and only play TAD ESO, do I need to install the AOE and TWC official patches?

Wow, i asked alot of questions!! Hope you can help.

Strat

Forgotten Username

luke44 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:56:14 GMT

Hi,

I forgot the username of my aoe 3 the asian dynasties account. I still have my cd key und product nr. . I dont know what to do now (hope u do). Can you tell me how to find out my username?

Greetz

More Avatars!

Kapow — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:16:41 GMT

Why aren't all the avatars there?

I wanna be a petard...

HELP~ Deck building in campaign mode~

thgil — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:50:58 GMT

Excuse me...

Does anyone know how to build or modify a home city deck in campaign mode? I mean, the campaign of the original version, "blood, ice & steel".

It hasn't been a problem until the very end of Act3. Each age can only hold 11
improvements, but I don't see any way to contol which ones I can and can't use
in any given game. I have unlocked more than 11 and the ones on the end were
pushed off.

Example: I had the "send a fort wagon" improvement available. Then I unlocked
the "hot air ballon" improvement and now the "send a fort wagon" improvement is no longer
available in the game.

Thanks!

NAT settings

Jumpa — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:04:38 GMT

how can i change the NAT settings?

2012?

Klayb — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:27:51 GMT

what do you guys think about that theory that the world is gona end in 2021

Unit Training Time?

EtherImp — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:31:25 GMT

Anyone know where there's information on ALL of the unit and building statistics, including Train and Build times?

This is valuable information if you wanted to create a hypothetically "perfect" strategy, especially for Treaty... Or let's say you want to see how many villagers you need on Wood/Food/Gold to maintain villager production, military production, and building of houses, etc.

Anyhow.. I'm sure it's out there, and if it's not, somebody should get right on top of that.

(I'll help!)

Why are my teammates always *** retarded

Carl the Clown — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:04:45 GMT

about 10 games in a row I had to say "WHY THE *** DID YOU DO THAT?" to my teammates.

Last game my teammate didn't make any settlers, he had 35 points at 5:00 and aged at 5:10 just like me. He was playing as spanish, and his first building was a market, then a house. No more buildings. The opponent sepoy rushed me, I died at 7:00 without any help because I was planning to boom as british and I couldn't fight back well enough. He didn't even say anything, only thing he said was the " I need help " taunt at 3:00.

The game before that my teammate yelled at me for having 10 musketeers at 7:00 when he told us to rush really quick. He quit at like 11:00 because I had 2 barracks, 20 musketeers, and just aged. Also I had plenty of resources, and I was making more musketeers. 700 of each resource. Also he assigned 1 settler to each animal in his area.

The game before, my teammate mass murdered all the animals in his area. I asked him why did he do that, and he asked me if I was going to use the turkies in my army or something. I forgot everything else that happen.

My rank used to be 2nd lieut with like 55% win rate, now it's 43% and I'm a sergeant.

The BeSt CiV

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

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

Allow walls over trade routes

Hardpoorcorn — Thu, 31 May 2007 02:06:26 GMT

Ive seen it done in the campaings so i think there should be a way to put a wall over the trade route with a gate to let the wagon or train through. it makes team games harder when your team wall has to be split in half and then you have to build extra walls along the trade route.

Could this somehow be implemted into TAD?

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?

The Age of Enlightenment Mod

King_Titan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:21:20 GMT

Preamble.

Since there are no new expansion packs coming out any time soon, a few friends and I have decided to create Ages of Empires 3: The Age of Enlightenment. During this time we want to improve some Game play and a lot of good aspects of Ages of Empires 3. We started this Mod 10/17/2009 and we hope to finished around February 2010.

Features

For TAOE NR10-55 games will be added for this mod which would make it more ideal and unique AI may be added if we can find a coder. Different Maps of the world will be added even with suggestions from you!

Civilizations

Korea,Austria,Ethiopia,Zulu, Sweden,America,Mayans,Italians,Swiss Egypt

Different Aspects of Each Civilization will be added to make each civilization Unique. All civilizations will be able to play with the original 14 civilizations.

We are open to any New Ideas that my be inputed into this mod.Are Forum and website well be up this weekend.we will love some of you uys to join use for are work can be and look its best.Free Jobs:•

Texturers • Coders [max.2]• Graphic Artists [no limit]• Concept Artists [no limit]• Co-Balancers [max.2]

Terms of Admission

• Will to improve your abilities/will to work alone and with the Team • Appropriate expenditure of time for this project • Communicative availability (do not ignore PMs, MSN Skype Xfire messages or emails) • some background knowledge Instant messenger used Skype,Xfire,MSN,Yahoo. (Mainly Xfire/Skype) Please contact me at King_titan@ymail.com for more information about this upcoming mod.

is there a map or scenario that allows you play in continual mode like Empire:Total War

Gustx8 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:45:48 GMT

Is there a map or scenario that allows you play in continual mode like Empire:Total War?

Can you believe....

EdyPegasus — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:44:30 GMT

That this community has survived over four years ?

I have only been here since the beginning of 2008...

This is quite an achievement for any game to be around this long and have a steady online population of at least 1000 people on ESO of most of the day and can peak out at 5000k+.

This forum has lost most of its members, sometimes old ones post many have come and gone.

Yet i have noticed that there are many new members. They do not post as much or as often yet there are a few avid posters who are new.

What do you think of how long this game has lasted?

What keeps you coming back to to ESO and/or this forum?

I Can'T Believe it.... yaaaaar!!!

vasudev — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:32:42 GMT

Those looking for a complex and interesting real-time strategy game with fantastic good looks and some historical flavor will find just what they want in Age of...

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Workout Routines

i hate hatamoto samurai now

alagamer10 — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:17:49 GMT

so it was 2v2 and the treaty just ended. we attacked the enemies' armies in the middle of the map and won. we then pushed forward some more and started shelling their wall. after about 10 minutes of reducing walls and outposts to rubble and killing off defenders, we noticed that we haven't seen the japanese player in a while. a few seconds after that, here come 20 hatamoto samurai escorted by 3 daimyo and the shogun charging at our army of skirmishers and musketeers. i thought "oh this will be easy there are only a few of them"

we picked off one of the daimyo while they were trying to close the distance, but once they got up on us, it was all over. +10 +10 +10 covered my screen. those effing hatamoto samurai destroyed our whole army in no time. I think we killed one or two, but 20 guys shouldn't be enough to take out 2 armies. I mean come on.

?

Kapow — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:11:47 GMT

Why did es close?

Why do all my teammates have mental problems

Carl the Clown — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:29:09 GMT

Last game, my teammate had 135 points at 23:00 and couldn't kill mass aennas with his hussars, let alone make hussars. It was basically 2v1 because he didn't have ***.

The game before that, my teammate wouldn't follow the plan and his janissaries were idle while our units were under attack. My other teammate quit, and so I quit. Then he drop tricks.

The game before that, my teammate mass murdered all the animals in the area. I asked him why, he asked me if I was going to use them in my army or something. He ended up using mills at 15:00, so we automatically lost and I resigned.

The game before that, my teammate was massing eagle runners against skirmishers and carabineers. I told him to make jaguar prowlers, then he makes arrow knights.

The game before that, my teammate quit on me because I was booming and not devoting 100% of my resources to my military.

I used to have 55% win rate and 2nd lieut rank, now it's 43% win rate and sergeant rank.

just wondering

XxViolent — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:02:06 GMT

is this game still active. im thinking about coming back and i just wanna know if the community is still decent size?

Can en1 help

Zodiac — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:22:50 GMT

Hi, I used to play AOE/AOC about 7 yrs ago and was one of the original members of the 'brits' clan. Back online again and trying to hook up with some of them if they're still about lol. Found this site hunting for magic_brit, be cool to chat again if u see this hun, or if en1 can help much appreciated ty loads Zoddy xx

Vanilla vs TAD online population

artisticcheese — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:17:11 GMT

Anybody can comment which group more people available online for playing? I have full TAD (including TWC) and don't care about extra civilization TAD and TWC has since I prefer european civilization. My biggest corncern so far if I switch to Vanilla if I have less opponenst to choose from compared to TAD?

Lost Disc AOE3 Disc, Help?

Soulzzz — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:20:19 GMT

I've lost my Disc 1 for AOE3 but i still the my product key, is there anyway i can download the files for AOE3 and then use my product key to activate it? This is already the second copy of AOE3 i've owned and really wouldn't like to buy a 3rd. thanks.

Sometimes it shows my level and other times it doesnt

SabrSayyid — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:02:57 GMT

Why is this? Sometimes it will show me as a conscript and others it was show me as an lc?

Exact percentages of upgrades

Theutates Thunder — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:14:40 GMT

Hey all,

I only recently started playing the basic AOE3. I really like the game so far. Anyhow, being somewhat a math buff there's something I sorely miss in the game - the improvement percentages of certain upgrades. Upgrade buttons usually only say something like:"Villagers collect food faster." but I really want to know how much faster exactly. Since I'm not in a mood to take out a stopwatch and see the difference in harvested food/wood etc. per minute for all the different upgrades, I'd really appreciate if someone could point me to the right direction (i.e. a place where I could read the exact numbers that come with every upgrade).

Thank you!