Boudica

Why not only ban him from playing rated games then?

You understand right, it's really just for 1 vs. 1, plus the game must be marked as a rated one by the host in the match settings before it starts. This setting doesn't currently do anything visible for other types of games (so a rated team game is still not rated).

Quitting a game other than a rated 1-vs.-1 can be rude but it doesn't violate the rules. This is because rating only gets affected by rated duel results. Consider it as an implicit resign when the opponent quits other types of games.

If it happens like that, I'd guess it to be a router problem. This kind of thing often gets better after a router restart, so I'd try that (I mean, your friend could try that).

Do you mean that he also gets disconnected from the lobby periodically? This would look as if his connection simply drops, which could be a problem with his provider or his router. Then the same would probably also happen with other similar services.

I think that @elexis had a patch to increase the player count limit. One of the problems is that (some of) the map generating scripts aren't designed to work with more than eight players.

Welcome to the forums! Don't worry, more people have complained about single player difficulty for beginners. On the other hand, experienced players often complain about how easy the bot is to defeat (or even more of them and at higher difficulty settings). So perhaps it can be just that the game isn't the easiest to learn. Anyway, there are some articles with useful hints for beginners. I could recommend reading The road to expert (see topic below). Other than that, watching experienced players play in observer mode can give you a great idea of what (not) to do. You can even find interesting game replay files here on the forums, so you can watch them whenever you decide. Enjoy the choice. I think I won't go into any specific gameplay details here because everything has probably been written elsewhere already.

So if the game took place yesterday, you'd look for a folder with a name like: 2019--23_0001 Jokes aside, there probably aren't some special tricks to beat multiple lower level players. You probably just want to grow fast and attack early with rams. For an experienced player, beating five noobs is often easier than beating just two medium players. Anyway, Feldfeld has posted a few games like that, so you might be interested to check how he does it:

Nice map! I'd just ensure that the Alps are passable by elephants, otherwise @Hannibal_Barca probably wouldn't want to play.

It probably was an abuse. Elexis wouldn't have banned you for no reason.

This new name really fits you though.

So that would confirm my hypothesis. Fortunately, this doesn't really happen that often.

But the red houses don't seem to be connected to the black territory in the first screenshot. Hypothesis: The houses are actually connected, but it's not visualized like that. I think so.

If I recall correctly, I've seen someone with a name like this in the lobby. That's a bit fishy considering you get an error whenever you try to log in. How could that be? Perhaps my memory just fails me now. Perhaps @user1 or @Hannibal_Barca could tell you more about the problem.

Is that second screenshot really an answer? The houses probably should start converting only after the blue CC is finished because they get cut off at that point.

So maybe consider not using multiple accounts then?

Plot twist: The rating doesn't stabilize.

I think I should share my useful life hack with you. When you have a feeling that the game takes too much of your time, all you need is use the magic Alt + F4 shortcut.1 It gets you out of there instantly and you are now free to do whatever you want with your time. There is no need for the devs to manage your free time for you. Isn't that great? As a bonus, when everyone takes care of themselves and their kids, developers will have more capacity to add new features into the game, so everyone can profit from that. 1) Does not apply to rated games.

We should unban JC soon, otherwise he's gonna keep coming up with more half-baked ideas like this instead of playing.

Welcome to the forums! Using cheat codes is only possible if they are enabled before the game starts. In that case, the game shows a warning next to the I'm ready button and the match is automatically set to an unrated one. Using cheat codes in a cheat-enabled game is not against the rules because that's what the players agree to play when they hit the ready button. I recommend either asking the host to disable the cheat settings, or making some planes by typing how do you turn this on? in the chat window after the game starts. Enjoy the choice!

It's possible that your mobile connection provider doesn't support connecting to STUN-enabled hosts. Not much can be done about that, except finding someone who has their ports forwarded and hosts without STUN.

Let's also add that you got your points when playing against other players. That makes me think there could be a problem with AstroCoral's rating update message not getting delivered. What could that be caused by?

Did you mean to say "you never stop making me laugh"?

Hello! There used to be some memory leak errors, even though I think it's improved since quite a bit. I don't think so much memory is really needed by the game. As a quick fix, I'd recommend restarting the game after any long game, which releases the possibly leaked memory. Perhaps a question to ask would be which map you were playing on? What was the population cap? I'd avoid huge map sizes and unlimited population cap games.

It's already almost a week, but Emperior hasn't got over his defeat and it has come to him spreading some false accusations about my supposed cheating. Today he compared me to JC and that was the time when I decided to take actions. So here we are, let's put the replay here for everyone to judge. We picked a less played civilizations, so this probably could be a nice game to watch on its own. Teams: r4pt0r, Boudica, PhyZic vs. Emperior, Unknown_Player, darkcity The encounter we were talking about happened at 30:00. I had 50 archers, 6 elephants and 5 pikemen. Emperior tried to counter my army with 35 spearmen, 16 pikemen and 12 skirmishers. You probably already noticed that his army balance was sub-optimal with below 20% of ranged units. The funnier part is that my archers got all attack upgrades, which made each of them deal twice the DPS compared to the spearmen Emperior's army mainly consisted of. I concentrated my army so that my elephant's don't get cut off and die to skirmishers. Emperior proceeded to attack my elephants and pikemen, which were on the front, so they served their tanking role perfectly. Emperior's army was cut to pieces as expected and that was all there was to it. The weird thing followed when Emperior accused me of dancing with the elephants. There wasn't really much commanding of those elephants from my side as the fight was basically a no-brainer victory. All of the elephants lost quite a lot of health but it would be expected for them to take some time before dying to spearmen. Some of the elephants were walking part of the time but there was barely any chasing noticeable. So this is it. Emperior could be heard he can't be bothered to make a GIF of the situation to prove my cheating, so I took the time and made a GIF of all the elephant dancing I could see in that game: 2019-06-22_ElephantDance.zip