Q. How do I chat to all players in a multiplayer game?
Start your chat message with a * and your message will be sent to all players.
Q. How do repair my buildings?
Select
the building and click on the repair button. Note this button may not
be active if you do not have enough resources to repair, or if the
building is under attack.
Q. How do card bonuses stack?
We apply all the percentages to the base rate not the modified rate.
If your gathering rate is 0.5 and you get a 15% bonus, it becomes 0.575. Easy enough.
However,
if you get an additional 15% bonus, it does not affect 0.575, but it is
calculated based on 0.5 and then added to the existing bonus. So
getting three different 15% bonuses would increase gathering from 0.5
to 0.725 (0.075 added three times) rather than 0.760 (which is what you
get if you keep multiplying the product by 15%).
The reasons we
do this are a little arcane, but they allow you to apply both addition
and multiplications to rates without worrying about the order of
operations.
Q. Can two teammates send the same Team card?
Two
teammates using the same Civ should are not able to send the same team
card. But you can send both the team and non-team versions of a card,
see above for how they stack.
Q. Can we play with three teams in a game?
No, at this time you can only play 2 team or Free for all games.
Q. How do I load a custom scenario in Multiplayer?
Currently you can not play custom scenarios in multiplayer. We are currently investigating the addition of this into the game.
Q. Why can I only play Supremacy or Deathmatch games but not both?
You
need to make sure you have selected a home city that matches this game
type you want to play. Check the select Home city screen to select the
Home city you want to play, or if you need to create a new city to
match the game type you want to play.
Q. Why can I not advance to the Imperial Age?
It depends on the type of game you are playing:
1. If you are playing the campaign, this age is not available in every scenario.
2. In Deathmatch Imperial age is not available, unless the game starts in, or after the age.
3. In Supremacy players should either start in Imperial or be able to advance to it normally.
Q. How do I un-pause / resume a save game?
First install the latest patch. After you patch you should be able to resume a paused game by:
- Pressing
the Pause/break key on your keyboard. On most keyboards this is located
near the "scroll lock" and "page up" keys. Some keyboards require a
multi key combination or function key to be pressed inorder to gain the
"pause/break" functionality; please refer to you keyboard or computer
documentation.
- Pressing the hotkey assigned to pause/resume. By
default hotkey editor assigns F7 to this function but you can remap
this if you like.
- Clicking on the cancel button on the “game paused” window.
Q. Can I use my ESO HC in single player? Can I use my Single player/ LAN homecity on ESO?NO. Your Single player/LAN home cities are completely separate from your ESO home cities.
Q. How do I delete savegames?You can not delete savegame files from within the game. To delete them:
1. Close age 3
2. Manually browse to my documents\my games\age of empires 3\savegame
3. Select the file you want to delete and deleted it.
Q. How do I watch recorded games?1. Place the recorded game file in your My Documents\my games\age of empires 3\savegames folder.
2. Launch the game.
3. Select Help and Tools from the main menu.
4. Click on Recorded Games
5. Select the file you want to watch and click load.
Q. How do I view screenshots?1. Browse to your My Documents\my games\age of empires 3\screenshots folder.
2. open the file you want to view in an application that can view .jpg files.
Q. How do rotate the camera?First
turn the "rotate camera" option on in the options, then in game you can
rotate using either ctrl+(left or right)arrow keys, or Shift+mousewheel.