Sumerian_Leper:
No, not six times slower.
See, AoE seems to make the units move using a round-robin kind of thing. Blue moves, then red, then yellow, and so on.
So playing blue would be almost exactly like taking white in chess. You get a slight edge, but if you suck you'll lose anyway.
Shiny:
"Wedsaz, I'm curious who were these great you played with??? You say you knew CD?"
Played with CD a few times, was fun. Also played with some others he was playing with. Played with matty about half a dozen games as well, at least I'm pretty sure it was him; he wasn't using the name maimin_matty, he had some clan prefix and was invis on the zone list, but the playing style matched with what was reported of the rumble for rome tournament so he was probably just trying to have some fun without all the newbies chasing him.
"Around that time, from reading the forums, it seems like rated play was getting real big, yet you've never played a rated game???"
I didn't like the crowd in rated games, most of the time. They had crappy allies, cheaters, weird stunts like 2v2s where your ally always "mysteriously" quits (not dropped!) a minute into the game, bronze-high-gogogo freaks, and other unpleasant things.
Tournaments meanwhile had very tight schedules, and even then I couldn't always make time when the tournaments got scheduled so I didn't bother trying.
Besides, I didn't want fame. It's too much trouble, if I had been well known on the zone I would have had to smurf to avoid getting spammed.
When I played it was to explore new strategies, or for some light fun. Going into rated games or tournaments didn't go well with that, so I didn't.
"This seems kind of odd, especially with your ego."
Perhaps you overestimated my ego. I really don't care for fame or even respect. I just like strategy, and it upsets me that I haven't been able to adjust them for the past 3 years.
BlitzkreigComin:
"the "expert" group was kind of small back then"
Not that small. Some like CD became legends, but there were many others who didn't post strats and didn't play in tournaments (for similar reasons as myself), but could still play a good game.
I only played half a dozen games with matty, none of them very spectacular, and it was a long time ago for him. He probably played thousands of games of AoE and AoK since, and saw hundreds of thousands of names go by. I would have been very surprised if he remembed me after all that, wouldn't you?
"Matty needs to show some respect to such a legend as wedsaz...LOL"
Nah, I don't think anybody's good enough to be worshipped. I wouldn't expect any more respect of him than I would give to a total stranger.
"I now will pick blue and I expect to be the very best player in RoR."
See my answer to Sumerian_Leper's post.
"Thanks for the constant laughs wedsaz!"
No problem. You're more fun when you're laughing than when you're yelling curses, btw.