I play in Plains. I am not in a clan. Most of the people on my friends list long ago left for AoK or EQ or real life or god only knows what. I enter the games I find and play with whomever happens to be there. Random games with random partners.
First, it is just hard to get six people in a room agreeing to anything like reasonable settings. I long ago stopped insisting on no reveal and 1.0 speed. It's hard enough to get six people to agree on RM for crying out loud.
So anyway, it finally looks like you've got six and the host launches. One bozo immediately exits and you are down to five. Or for some other reason someone doesn't make the set up room. Five in set up, host posts settings. Complaining begins. Full tech. Iron age start. High resources. Then someone starts taunt 14. Then someone else starts to go through the taunts sequentially from 1 to 25. !Mute. But no, one of them knows !Nomute. Another player leaves in disgust and you are now four.
You start a 2v2. Game starts. One of the other players completes the following sequence. H-C. Select two villagers, B-E click. Select other villager, B-G, scan for berries, click. Having got his start going at 1.0 speed this sportsman then immediately goes ++ to get the game up to his preferred playing speed 2.0.
But it doesn't matter because at about the 4 minute mark you get the trouble communicating with player x message. And so now you are playing a 2 v 1.
That's the way life seems to go for me on the zone. Do any of you get to play 3v3 anymore?
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!