r/ageofempires

Seriously, I thought about this for a while now.

We always see posts about people just advising that as a new player you are "expected" to lose your first 10 games or so.

Why dont the Devs just change the system so that new players just get matched with new players with 0 rank.

And the more games you play / win, the elo goes up.

So simple yet not implemented?!

There’s a French event happening this weekend called the ZLAN, a LAN organized by one of the biggest French content creators and event organizers: Zerator.

This year, Age of Empires IV is included, and when I heard about it, I was really excited to see AoE on such a big event. But honestly, the format and rules they chose are terrible.

First, there are 100 duos (so 200 players total). The format is FFA, but teammates are not even in the same game. Every 5 minutes, players have to stand up and switch seats with their teammate. That part is fine I guess—ZLAN is known for chaotic rules—but the second rule completely ruins it:

At 45 minutes, the game just ends, and the player with the highest score wins.

This completely kills the whole point of FFA. Everyone just camps and masses units to inflate their score, without ever attacking each other, since there’s absolutely no reason to attack—it would just make you lose score. Even more, it’s well known in Age of Empires that you should never rely on score, because it doesn’t really mean much.

Obviously, Chinese players had an advantage since they can build 6 landmarks, which boosts their score even more.

Later in the event, when fewer players remained, it switched to 2v2 Nomad—but with the same time limit and score-based win condition. These ended up being some of the least interesting AoE games I’ve ever seen.

I don’t want to beat a dead horse about the event, I just came out of it pretty disappointed .AoE4 format turned FFA into a passive score-farming simulator...

In celebration of the release of the Yue Fei's Legacy DLC being released, I made a compilation of the new original soundtrack for the Jin Dynasty, including the lobby music and the OST throughout all the ages. The developers really cooked with this one.

Hi all, hoping for some guidance.

I haven’t played AoE since the late 00s but would very much like to start playing again. In the meantime, I’ve completely lost track of game updates and releases.

Any tips on where to start, considering I’ll basically be starting from scratch and memories?

Hi all, for those who have played both which is better for single player only, would be playing on PS5 Pro. Thanks in advance

So if you wanted to check how many farms you had you could shift double left click one farm selecting all of the ones you own. This i think would improve the game alot. This would work with units too. And the best feature would be millitary training buildings. See the amount of a specific unit also.

After seeing the positive response and upvotes on the recent post asking if anyone here still plays Age of Empires 3 on LAN multiplayer, we figured one thing out — there are way more active players than we expected.

So we’ve created a Discord community dedicated to AOE3 LAN / multiplayer players.

The idea is simple:

• Find active players easily
• Organize LAN matches and multiplayer sessions
• Share strategies, maps, and setup help
• Revive the old-school AOE3 community vibe

Whether you’re a casual player, treaty grinder, rush enjoyer, or someone who just misses late-night LAN games — you’re welcome.

PS- Every Friday is a game night!

https://discord.gg/Zmj7nczn