The sticking power of Spit!

[Humble Warrior]

Ok.

Since i`ve had a few requests for a multiplayer game, i finally found the time (and inclination) to reintstall ETW. I even installed the campaign Multiplayer thing. however, I couldn`t get any takers there, so i decided to have a one off or two single battles go.

Well, now i am reminded why i don`t like playing Online again. My first evening of playing single battles and only in one game did nobody not quit halfway through the battle.

I aways stay until the end. But whoever I fight or stay with (if more than 1 per side) always quits. And it`s not even that we`ve lost. They quit if it even SMELLS like failure. Of course, with them quitting in a 2v2 or 4v4 guarantees that we WILL lose. i`m really tired of being left alone trying to fight off the enemy. Often these quitters are the ones with the biggest mouths too- `Humble warrior, do this. humble warrior do that!`

I notice most of the stayers tend to be the labelled guys with some funny clan name, but most everyone else are quitters.

I`m sick of it already. Even the Ai`s better than this.

[Timefool]

The quitters army should be placed under AI control, or possibly under shared control of the team, like in Warcraft 3.

[blonkers1234]

Never play ranked games and try to find some decent players to play with you when you go online, you can add me if you ever want a game.
Steam ID: Blonkers-TLG-
Link:http://steamcommunity.com/id/Blonks

[Humble Warrior]

This time I had a guy quit on me just when I had surprised him and taken out his artillery. I asked him why and he gave me some weird reason I didn`t understand. We started again and he of course changed his moves and won. I can`t help feeling that the multiplayer is filled with quitters, cheaters and people who so hate the prosepect of losing they will do anything to avoid it.

I have myself lost 10 battles fairly so far without quitting, trying to play fairly, but i`m not impressed with Online at all. Guess I have to find online `friends`. Or go back Offline which I`m about 2 seconds away from doing. Now I know why I prefer the sanity of Offline.

[blonkers1234]

This time I had a guy quit on me just when I had surprised him and taken out his artillery. I asked him why and he gave me some weird reason I didn`t understand. We started again and he of course changed his moves and won. I can`t help feeling that the multiplayer is filled with quitters, cheaters and people who so hate the prosepect of losing they will do anything to avoid it.

I have myself lost 10 battles fairly so far without quitting, trying to play fairly, but i`m not impressed with Online at all. Guess I have to find online `friends`. Or go back Offline which I`m about 2 seconds away from doing. Now I know why I prefer the sanity of Offline.

Cant really expect much else from the internet, but offline is always a good choice, especially with the new darthmod.

[Humble Warrior]

Yea, I`ll install darthmod, I`ve been meaning to try it.

[Astaroth]

As this is a discussion about multiplayer battles I've moved it to the Multiplayer Section.

[Keiichi]

How about moving it to the 'Multiplayer Complaints Thread' sticky too? Or maybe even merging it with THIS thread since it's almost the exact same thing (only that thread has a title that actually relates to the content of the post , sorry, nonsensical thread titles are a bit of a pet peeve of mine).

To the OP, I suggest you play 1v1s (unranked) when playing alone. While playing those 1v1s, you'll often find players you can form a rapport with. You can then add them to your friend's lists and then invite them into larger games as a teammate. Of course, this doesn't solve the problem of quitters on the enemy side. The ultimate solution is to join a clan and play other clans, or simply gather enough friends to fill an entire game with them.

[Soveriegn]

Find someone who's in a good clan if you want mp battles add [CSA, PRB] General Sherman if you want to as well. And I know sometimes its comp issues, because when etw crashes for me (as it has a y tendency to do) it says that the person dropped. Sadly, in your case it probably isn't crashing : (

[{GODS}Scipio_Africanus]

Well, if you want to play online just find a few good clans and add their leaders to your friends lists, I have enough clan leaders on my list where I can usually play with mature and elite players, very few of them ever quit.

[Humble Warrior]

I`ll see. I did not want to get bogged down in a Clan, but i`ll have a look.

I really do find that there is very little honour among Online Players in Empires for all their talk. All the hoopla and jumping up and down for multiplayer like it`s wonderful, yet it`s way overrated. I forgive CA`s crap BAI because it at least doesn`t quit on me when it seems like it`s losing. I must be playing against children and sore losers.

Online Players suxx and blows (except maybe clan which I haven`t tried yet).

[Monglor]

Ranked games are full of this type of thing and to be honest I don't see any point at all in playing them. What's rank even for? What's it meant to mean? Will it get you laid? If you can't play a game for the fun of it without needing rank or stat buffs or anything like that why even play it?

[blonkers1234]

Ranked games are full of this type of thing and to be honest I don't see any point at all in playing them. What's rank even for? What's it meant to mean? Will it get you laid? If you can't play a game for the fun of it without needing rank or stat buffs or anything like that why even play it?

Because their awesome as, didn't you know?
/sarcasm