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Have you played an RTS game? Look at Age of Empires 2 or 4. The ELO system has a nice normal distribution. My brother, myself, and a few friends have been play
by the__alchemist 5y ago
Have you played an RTS game? Look at Age of Empires 2 or 4. The ELO system has a nice normal distribution. My brother, myself, and a few friends have been playing for 20 years. I'm top 30%. My brother's top 60%.
Everyone watches streamers, micros, max-performs their civs, uses strong unit comps, does all the economic tricks like luring boars, knows the counters etc.
Starcraft 2 was similar, although ELO was tougher to determine since it was grouped in leagues.
- throwaway6734 5y agoWhat's your current elo?
- the__alchemist 5y ago1150 in Aoe2, 1250 in Aoe4.
- throwaway6734 5y agoOh cool, I'm at similar level in AoE2. I've found that if you consistently make vills & army you can compete pretty easily at this level. For the most part I play random civ, don't use hotkeys, and don't use build orders and it hasn't been too rough. Lately I've been playing more teamgames and spending more time watching streamers play (shout out to survivalist!).
- the__alchemist 5y agoNice! It really is amazing watching the community over time. Techniques like house walling, archer kiting, scout rushes, hit+run vil attacks with starting scout, boar luring, deer pushing etc went from being rare/high-level play, to something everyone (above 800 ELO at least) does!
- throwaway6734 5y agoDefinitely! When I was younger I didn't even realize you could consume boars or deers