Monday, April 23, 2012
Coop Quests
Need help on quest: Show Our Power
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Stuck for ambushed armies ?
There's a bug if you use priest to convert ennemies. All ennemies units need to be killed to complete the quest.
Regards,
Tooltoy
|||Did you figure it out?Co-op quest help
|||Me & My friend has this problem, I reported it as a bug about a week and a half ago :) just let your friend do the mission while you watch, both hand in and continue not seen this big since then.|||Yeah, I watched him finish the mission and since then I haven't seen the bug. I also sent a bug report so hopefully that helps.|||If you have nothing it's a bug, but usually u will have less, like town center and a few workers, unless its a coop quest the party leader will have more units / better tech than you, just so its not too easy
question:does medpack stack with hyginus
Does advisor hyginus who grants infantry recovery stack with medpack tech?
No idea where I should post this but does anyone have any Idea?
Considering most other stuff stacks very well anyway I'd have to guess that it does, although it is a little difficult to test.
Sea People Quests help
What level are you?
In the live build you will need level 19 to unlock the next quests.
|||I think you also need to have "Defending Mycenea" done if you don't already.|||yeah once i got lvl 19 they unlocked for me, thanks.
Challenge - Ultimate farmdown or whatever its name is
I am having trouble with this.
Its the last of the build 10 farm quests.
I always end up with 8-9 farms and the time runs out.
any tips how to do this?
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Or if you want something faster than watching youtube...
Make 12-15 villagers, gather food. Have your scout find cows, gather food from those. At 12 villagers, have some gather wood, age up, have all on wood. Make a storehouse. Collect wood. When you have enough wood, make farms using all your villagers.
Clitus attacks quest
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I believe you can kill him after the 15 minutes is up since that's a separate goal.
[Moving this to Capital Cities and Quests]
|||This is correct. :)|||yeah you just keep defending against general clitoris until he then shows his face, then u can stomp him and drop some G's LoSt~ style
Why charge gold to sned messages / items?
|||its called a money sink, most mmos have them. they are desisned to help deflate the economy a little bit. different mmos use different money sinks but most use mail fees as one.
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also, yes the fee is designed to deter people from sending mail, without the fee people would send pointless stupid and useless mails and clog the mail system up.
(sorry for the doublepost, cant find the edit post option)
Tutorials need work!
We killed these guys already (quest)
Any advice on this one? I am sure someone out there completed it. it seems as if the AI doesn't have to play by the same rules I do here. They can produce troops so quickly in mass quantity.I am not even doing this on elite.
If anyone has a strategy to this I could certainly use the help, I have failed/restarted this quest about 50 times.
|||I have beaten it on elite a few times. I havent figured out all strats yet so this is just an example...
I go for a map with water, either small ponds or the little lake. Then up to age4 fast with cheaper age4 advisor and wall up a bit.
Now the water... I fish a bit while heading for age4 and when I hit age4 I go ballista trireme in the lake. Ballista trireme are quite nice in taking out elites from a distance (without getting hurt themselves) and once u got some (10-15 or more) u can hold ur ground forever. Then build up troops and kill the AI.
|||well my issue is surviving even to age 3|||I just go early 2 archery ranges and mass archers. I add up more archery ranges as I get enough resources. I also stay pretty long in age2, at least until I get 100 pop, often times 140 or until I can constantly produce from 3-4 military buildings. When i have enough archers to easily fend off their attacks, I go and run around their base killing their villagers and eventually I get a big archer ball (40-50++ archers) and I just kill everything.
But essentially, you want a to make a lot of army in age 2. At least 3, maybe 4 military unit producing structures before aging up to age3. You don't even need to go to age 3 tbh. With 60-70 age 2 archers with constant reinforcements, you can easily stay in age 2 and kill everything.
|||I have my best gear on hoplites/peltasts. I level up to Age2, build about 5 Hypathists to kill the first 2 waves or clubmen, level up to Age3. In Age3 I build hoplites in 2 barracks and peltasts in 1 archery range. Having the hoplites blocking in melee/archers in front and the peltasts optimized for attack kills the enemies very fast. Hoplites have much hitpoints, so you do not have to rebuild many of them and the peltasts should not die at all, because they stand in the second row. Maybe hoptlites/archers will also work well against melee units, but not so good agains other archers. Then build up to 40 hoplites and 20 peltasts. With the Age4 advisor I can level up to Age4 with 600 food/wood/gold and 360 stone, but you should be able to kill the enemy even without that.
Everything depends on the gear you have. With all the gear from the Arena, you can kill them very easy. With only +20% gear it is harder. I havent tried it on elite yet.
bug in quest - show your power
you have to kill 3 waves with 2 rams in each wave
objectives: kill 6 rams, kill 3 waves
but if you have priests and convert some of those people, then it wont count as "killing the wave"
you have to select your own unit and click "suicide" and then you win the wave. ...lool
Desert cavalry
The Desert Cavalry unique unit is named "Roamer Djer". You can find him (an advisor) in quest drops, rewards and moes. I have a rare version of the advisor for sale if you're interested.
There's a subforum named "Trading Post", you might want to post there in the future.
cheers , what does your version do?
|||It trains the experienced desert cav from the fortress/citadel. All other unique units are actually trained for the fortress or citadel. :P
rare = experienced unique unit
epic = elite unique unit
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In my experience, desert cav are one of the better unique units. I see them go for at least 1k most of the time for the epic.
They have vicious attack, they are fast and have lots of HP. The only thing that beats them for greek are fully epic Hipps.
Its also really neat to see the way the models of the units change from common-uncommon-rare-epic.
Troy quest should be a repeatable
|||What they really should have done is make New Troy a real city...
|||Indeed sir!
Challenge give to the needy,
You want to make about 20 villagers(maybe less) to do it. Make sure your advisors are all economicly based (and not millitary).
Some people research the market tech to reduce tribute penalty, I do not, because it needs you to mine more gold than I would.
thanks ill try that
Reminder: Argos sells rare consumable recipies, for 75 gold
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people like to make a profit on those too lazy to shop around, it makes sense financially. if it really bugs you, you can tell people on chat about this if someone is inflating the prices.
it could also be that thyre selling more than one consumable, mabe 10, and that thier combined cost is somewhere up there.
Breaking Eggs - Quick Chest Grabs
Hi all,
I'm sure there's some of you still struggling to farm (god forbid i say that word) chests on the Breaking Eggs quest.
Here's a video of me grabbing all chests within the first 10 minutes, of course note it could be done alot faster using this same strat, i'm just not looking to break any time records... ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSgzQ8rKxJk
And yes, it's on Elite...
Which quest gives access to troy?
|||Mycenae iirc|||
As long as you keep doing the Mycenae quests from Agamemnon, you should continue down the path to Troy.
Where can you check the Quests you have completed?
|||You can see which quests are completed in your quest log. Once quests are turned in, there is no way to check which quests you completed.
Challenge - Kill the Docks
Its much easyer to destroy them via water, since there are towers and a lot of units around there. You even waste lees time via water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN8X5WJu-Vc
Premium Quests?
When the game comes out, do you guys think that the will the premium quests will be repeatable? I wouldn't want to spend money on a quest pack for it to be over in a day or two..
Thanks Guys
|||The current booster pack is designed to be repeatable. I presume they all would be.
Challange: keep them under our wing
is there a maximum ammount of time to playing challange: keep them under our wing? or can you just keep playing it for like 1000 times?
and 1 more little question: can you (and how) change the collor of your city and settlers?
|||Theres no limit as i know, and no, no color changing for now ...|||You can change the color of your city/etc to dark blue, allies to yellow and enemies to red. It's somewhere in the optionsi cant finsh help the mecerean trader!
it says to rescue the family members by transport and I DID!plz tell me what i have to do
|||Did you bring them to the designated area with the blue arrow after you've rescued them?|||
oh thanks
|||Dude...Quests are too easy
As soon as i hit level 20, i found the quest not challenging any more. Before that i had problems dealing with catapults, otherwise no other concerns.
From level 20 onwards i had ballistae and hippikons. Now every quest follows the same pattern: tech to age 4 and build hippikons and ballistae. Then it's just a steamroll over any army. Ballistae take out the masses and buildings, hippikons defend the siege units and finish off any other unit left.
Not wanting to sound like a complainer, but its getting boring. I dont need to restart any mission, dont have to think about new strategies, just ballistae and hippikons. Maybe in higher levels there will be better quests (i'll be level 30 soon), but right now its boring.
If someone suggests pvp, there arent any players in my tier most of the time.
|||I agree that quests seem easier to complete as one passes level 20...especially, after getting access to ballistae and hippikons. These are powerful weapons. For a while, I got stuck with the quest to destroy a wonder. After a few tries -- each lasting more than an hour -- I went to my technology tree and made changes, including getting access to the technologies mentioned above. I was able to finally beat the 2, or 3 quests I was having trouble with.
Yes, it is easier, but the choosing of weapon, along with other strategies, is part of the game. For instance, I like using priests to convert enemy troops and villagers. I get free people and weaken the enemy at the same time.
For repeatable quests, I re-play them as Elite. Makes them a bit harder, requiring you to change strategies.
By the way, speaking of catapults, for some reason, they disappeared from the quest to destroy the wonder, after I got the ability to build ballistae and hippikons. That I found kind of weird. May be it is just that I didn't give the chance to the computer (enemy) to create them, as I would start attacking them earlier in the quest.
|||I agree with you, its very easy, but i think its because its only a beta, they are more concern about make it work, than make it hard for us, after all they are fixing the egipcian civilization, and are gonna make another one civ, i'm felling a little bored too, but let's have faith that they will make it hard in the proper time. there is also the fact the not all the player here have the same skill, it's not productive to them if some one can't pass of a mission.|||You decide to play like that rendering the game boring instead of building different units or trying different tactics and then you complain about it being boring? This game is in BETA do you really think that making it difficult for players is of top priority? - I mean come on use your brain.|||xX FaTaL SHoTz wrote the following post at 05-03-2011 7:23 AM:
"You decide to play like that rendering the game boring instead of building different units or trying different tactics and then you complain about it being boring? This game is in BETA do you really think that making it difficult for players is of top priority? - I mean come on use your brain."
So you're saying, in your games, you play randomly? That makes no sense. In games, people should aspire to be better, instead on playing bad on purpose, because the game is too easy. That will make them sloppy and bad. Quests should be challenging, fun, interesting. Not boring and easy. AI should know how to counter the simplest strategies.
You should use your brain, instead of turning it off when playing the game(because it's too easy).
|||the hardest quest i've done so far is the Co-op Thelma and Irene ( i think thats the name lol)
was actually freaking hard for some reason, had to restart one time
|||Like Thelma and Louise ;D|||I think that AI over 20 should be harder to defeat, i dont think its so much about quest i think its more about AI.|||All of the quests are way too easy. I think they are doing it on purpose to please the MMO crowd.|||As an accomplished "age of series" player, I have to accede with the written above. However I profoundly dissagree with general opinion, that the quests should be more challanging. Since an extensive amout of veteran players, including myself, want to indulge in pvp asp. With those easy quests, the road to lvl 40, where one could get involved in some seriuos pvp, is without rocks and thorns, it's actually paved (for me quests usually take enjoyable ~10-15 minutes). Juste a thought ...
As a more "casual" player I actually like the relatively easy (i actually don't find them very easy but at least they're not super-hard) quests. Really hard quests would just have me frustrated and quit, whereas with the way it is now, I can concentrate on building my capital city, etc. This may prove some of your points on attracting the "wrong" kind of player, but as one of them I like it :)
I've played all the Age games too, so I'm not some noob looking to mess things up (I played the computer on Easy or at worst Normal in those games)
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I recently hit level 20 and i'm beginning to notice this as well. Hippikon are beasts, all i do now is turtle at the start, get my economy going, then build 6 priests, 6 battering rams and the rest of the food supply in Hippikons, i haven't lost a battle since no matter what the enemy throws at me i rofl stomp it.
One of my battering rams can 2 shot towers... and if all 6 of them are beating at a Fortress it dies in like 5 seconds.
It seems like they made siege weapons overpowered... i mean when one battering ram can 2 shot a tower that's pretty op if you ask me (and i only have the +19% damage for the battering ram, so imagine of i had the epic gear equipped). Oh and by the way the towers i'm talking about are the upgraded ones.
|||I had a bit difficulty with an early game, where the enemy used catapults. I'd say it was a little OP, as it dished out great dmg over a very large area (unrealistic strong by the way). Had to defend 2 town centers.
Else the AI has been extremely passive and boring. The only thing it's good at is launching some "rush" attacks. Problem is it doesn't step it up. It should judge how strong you are, and make a force that can do some dmg, rather than just send small armies. even in late game.
Dock Rats! - Any advice?
It looks like I´m really stuck at the quest "Dock Rats!". You have to repair 8 docks which are offshore and you start right next to an enemy base. The docks are additionally protected by towers. I don´t even manage to repair one of the docks and I always get smashed by a huge enemy army after a while. So, I guess I need your help. Should I rush to Age 4 and destroy the enemy base with ballistas and hippokons (or whatever they´re called) and head to the docks afterwards? Or try another tactic?
The quest is pretty easy. You don't need to go to Age 4 at all to complete it. Just put a fortress in your base early in age 3 to protect your base and roll out with some rams and an army to cover them to take out the enemy base.
|||Easiest way is to produce a handful of toxotes to protect your base in the early game, then rush to age 3, and finally mass inf/tox/cav whatever you prefer to take down the AI. You don't need to go age 4.|||I just completed the quest. Thanks guys :)
|||I Finished it in age 2. I just made a couple of transports anda fewtriremes to absorb the tower fire. I even did the argos cow quest on that one as the cow happened to be on on the shallow pathways between the docks. I completely ignored my base which got attacked and all villagers killed. My micro was mostly spent in avoiding the tower fire and moving to next dock to repair as fast as possible. You do have to sacrifice a couple of triremes to prevent the towers from shooting villagers or transports. If you micro carefully, you will end up with about 4 triremes that are near death by the time you finish the quest.|||All you need is one or two fire boats/triremes with a fishing boat behind them to repair as they take fire from the towers. Once you kill the tower repair the dock with your fishing boat.
I can't complete this quest: is not in my city or in the others
|||Your referring to mamu peepaws and ol man Fischers quest I believe. Im pretty sure you can turn this quest in at anyones quest building who has them. I have both, you can visit me and try that if you like. In the chat window type: /visit Prawnasaurus. Then have a look and see if you can turn them in there.
|||thanx, it is the ol' man quest
Quest query - Up for a bit of fishing
Heya new to the beta, and came across this quest - "Up for a bit of fishing?" - all is great with it except one thing that's bugging me. On the 'red' island there is a chest to be claimed, however I haven't found a way to get at it. :( My tiremes managed to kill the guard, but I can't seem to figure out how to get over there. No paths across the river like in some other quests and no way to make transport ships.
Am I missing something? :D
Ty in advance
|||Cheapest way would be the Recon Man consumable that spawns a scout.. costs 3 gold to buy..
Mycanae War Council 1v1 (Tier 4 Quick Match)
I have played 2 matches with this guy, the first one i lost and i left, the second one i won... balistas rock xD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Elf3fl4ebs
|||Enjoyed your video. Was fun to watch.
A few tips to help you improve your game:
1. It doesn't look like you use shift queue orders. Using queue orders can come in handy when you have to do multiple things at the same time in a very short time.
2. Use shift + click for producing five units (4 in queue) instead of clicking five times on the icon.
3. You can use control groups for buildings as well instead of only binding them to units.
4. Sometimes your opponent likes to hide from you. If you've lost your scout in the early game, use the scout consumable to summon a new one and use your new scout to explore area's covered by FoW or build watchtowers.
5. I see you don't have "game time" enabled. You can enable it in options. Game time can help you plan an attack on a certain time or improve your build order.
6. You need better gear and advisors! :P
Quests in Argos that require to gather 7500 resources (Question)
These quests are unbelievably simple. Sometimes I do the 3k of each resource repeatable when i want a change of pace.
If you rush them with hypaspists and spearmen, you will take out the enemy TC and itll all be over, just sit back and gather.
pop 160 in 15 mins
I am missing something. I have tried this Quest four times and each time I seem to have a pop level pre set to 140 . As soon as I hit 140 I am told there is no room for "whatever" ! I am spamming Vills, Fishing boats &Hyps. However if it will not let me build any more housesI am flumuxed.
Any help would be much appreciated.
|||Build additional Town Centers, each gives you 20 more population space|||for that you will have to go to age 3, making ships it was the easyest way for me to do them, including the 200 pop quest:DBreaking Eggs to Make an Omelette (ELITE) - YouTube Video
Hey Guys,
A lot of people were saying it's impossible to do this quest elite solo at the moment, so I just thought I'd upload a full vid of me doing it. Now obviously I make a lot of mistakes like letting a lot of workers die and letting the first lot of rams go free for all on my buildings, but that just shows it's not that hard with some concentration. The link ishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3du5VcVrE4for part 1 out of 5, and I am currently uploading them all at the moment. I'll make a smoother run in one video later today, this is just the first time I've used YouTube is all, but I'll have a sped up run with background music or watever.
Now all you need to do is this:
- Upgrade to Age II
- 2 Workers on stones, 4 on wood
- Upgrade to Age III and get all 6 workers to make the market then go back to mineral patches.
- On Age III make infinity workers and get all workers to help make Fortresses
- Get 40% trade upgrade from market ASAP
- Only once 40% trade upgrade is done (around 2nd castle), then trade for more wood/stone for 2 more castles
- You should have 3-4 castles on first attack (build 4th castle a bit out of way of southern position so they dont atk workers building)
- Exhaust northern and north easterly stone patches, then go for gold (with workers on wood at the same time)
- Attack RAMS first and foremost, focus them down with ur forts (I hotkey mine to 2) and then focus down rangers one by one so workers can repair while melee either attack the front or run around
- Only call back to town center when in danger of getting attacked, you can call back and then throw them to a diff patch that has no enemies
- I use the following advisors: 15% faster buildings (and 15% cheaper), walls cost 60% less(for small gaps) and forts cost 50% less(and more health)
- The tech tree I use is full market, full economy(besides farm), full fort, full tower, full wall, in that order if ur a low lvl player
- I'm level 35, but I did it at 33 with almost no castles dying, trick is to focus rams asap and just as important, dont let villagers die
Any questions please ask. P.S. This is the first YouTube vid I've posted, so any suggestions would be good. Ill post a smoother one today and one of A Lot of Rogues Elite quest.
|||Sorry that theirs no sound, but it's just game sound anyways, chuck on a good tune while u watch :) Like I said, my first vid lol. My next one will have sound and better quality video.|||If you don't want to watch the entire thing jsut watch part 1 and part 5 :P|||I've made a video that is just over 10 minutes long and shows everything from my build, and entire strategy sped up for ease...Watch it here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC5oWYT9730
Enjoy,
BaronEmpire
|||Made an 8 minute vid, got music n crap, very clean run.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TRAK740?feature=mhsn#p/u/5/yK-iD0TY_Cg
|||lol could say crap music lololz j\k...kinda...
EmpireBaron
|||3:00 minute epic rush. Nice work!|||This build is pretty solid. I have a similar one I do. I actually think doing this in COOP, you may be able to annihilate the computer AI through fort pushing.|||Wouldnt hurt to get the +25% building hp academy research?
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actually it may because the cost of building a market and upgrading it is not necessary when you can focus using your wood on building more firepower(fortresses)
EmpireBaron
YAY...1000 hits on this vid thx everyone
What cities are available right now?
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Well ***, look who it is.
Also level 26 and the content in Argos seems really sparse, I've only got some boring dock-related missions. Following the current trend of when we get areas, I'd imagine that a new one is unlocked in the level 29~ area.
Fast way to get advisors and patterns is through buying chests at a Moe's Mystorium and opening them. Level 25 chests get you a lot of level 25 Advisors, etc etc. Moe's Mystorium is a shop found in certain player's home cities if they've acquired them, ACE OF WARFARE is one such person.
It's basically still gambling your chance on drops however.
Good luck dude.
|||Is there another city after Mycenae, Troy and Argos? I got some "Spartan Points" in very early quests, so I was hoping to reach Sparta at a point in the game, but I´m Level 34 now and still no Sparta...
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There is no Sparta... (yet?)
Libya and Nubia are the Egypt equivalents of Troy and Mycenae.
Shame there are not more cities, at this point.
Challenge - Keep them under our wing
Here it is my "how to" make this quest easyer and make 5000 exp + 3 treasures in 10 minutes.
Since the first times i tried this challenge i died badly it took me some time to find out how to make it easyer ... here it is :D, enjoy :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqkXCG3GpjM
|||nice vid...here's mine sped up a little to save some time also have Breaking eggs to make an omelet...both elite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB65QNaj06Q
EmpireBaron
|||There is a way to beat this building any towers, move your workers behind the building and just repair when needed. repairing doesn't take resources and the enemy never comes behind it to kill your workers.|||No edit button that I can see. but it should read "There is a way to beat this without building any towers,"|||repearing buildings does cost resources (very little)
but is there a maximum to play this mission? or can you keep playing it forever?
|||you can play it forever, and in relation to building repairing, if a building has 1hit points and u get it repaired full it almost costs you as if u build a new tower, repairing depends on tower hp and max cost.
|||On this Mission repairing the main Building DOES NOT COST ANYTHING no matter what it's health is at when you start|||Funnily enough what Deralore says works :D
http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/6048/keepthemunderourwing.png
sometimes one of them sneaks through and knocks one of your villagers out but I finished with 9 out of 15 so thats all good
|||great, its another bug to fix xD|||
here you go, my video for this quest (bugged in beta)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRtPF-38yJA
ps: in this video I got lucky because the first chest was protect by archers only, so I built only 2 towers. If there are more units build 4-5 the most distant you can do between them so they wont stop attacking even if units are near.
ALWAYS try to build towers in CROSS format like this :
Tower
Tower Chest Tower
Tower
Easier to kill units =)
thanks for the video, ive learned something from those towers ...
Get the workers in and spam them by the other side while the ground is blocked and they cant pass lol... interesting hint xD
|||I'll post my video of the elite run I did at level 26 iirc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p70I2lHTyBg
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Chests
That happens to me when I get disconnected from the game. Restart Age of Empires Online and try again; it should work.
EDIT: Totally misread that, sorry.
This appears to be a fairly common bug. The only fix is to restart the quest; as I usually collect treasure after completion, it sucks. I usually just finish the quest and treasure farm with the quest Keep Them Under Our Wing for compensation.
Help! "I'm Nothing Without You"
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The only way i was able to beat it was a few builds back.
You have to spawn on a map with the "chokepoint" mountains, the one that has a central passage, but is the only way to get into your base.
Wall up the hole between the mountains, and start building towers. One person should be teching to palintonons or ballistas.
I focused on building troops and towers to defend the pass, my partner built the defenses.
Also interesting of not is that you can cast consumable bandit fortresses up on the mountains overlooking the pass, they will be invincible for all intents and purposes.
|||yea this quest is very hard wich makes it fun. its the first quest you get that is really hard but it is possible so hope they dont nerve it
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Damn, yesterday i played with a guy and we played a lot of games, i recorded some but not those missions. There are some tricks there, if i get another chance to make the video i will upload it and post here :P
|||Forts work well for taking down elites, if you can get a couple of forts up along your frontline (ie. where you're building your defensive line), you should find them easier to deal with. The forts will take quite a bit of beating before they go down... and the more you have the better, because the cost of 3-4 forts is far less then what you'd spend fighting them off with units..
Villagers make good distractions to, if you find the units are hitting the fort quite hard, run a villager or two by the units and they'll stop attacking and go after the villager instead, so just keep him running around and around, by the fort(don't let him get hit) and they'll be dealt with in no time..
I can't say I found/find any of the co-op quests to be difficult in any such way minus the repeatable "You Complete Me", which I'm fairly sure is impossible.
Basically, if you EVER have the choke-hold mountain map, just build wood and stone, get a wall up at the choke point, have you and your partner put up 3 towers each on the wall. That defense will hold you until you can build castles, once you can build castles, just each put down one and maybe 1-2 more towers, depending on how hard you got hit. You will be absolutey 100% clear after that. I literally went afk after we built castles for a couple of minutes and nothing changed. Once the castles are down, just build w/e army you want. Once you have your army you can just trample them. Hell, build all Peltasts and Pandromes for all I care, you'll still win.
This win shouldn't take more than 30min.
Co-op : Live together, die together.
The ending part of a mission... co-op are interesting quests :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khoSD-5TzwU
|||It's definitely a great idea to multiplayer quests. Not that I can think of a way for Microsoft to fix it but I feel that when doing the quests, ending it is always a let down. What I mean by that is throughout the whole quest, you're always struggling to stay alive. But, once you've established yourself in a stronghold it's basically snores ville. Even as you did, you basically just rollfaced their whole base with ballistae's and a handful of phalynx's.
How me and my friend did it is basically the same thing, built a wall up, build all the tower centers, guard towers, and fortresses near the walls where they were concenrtating fire, after that, we left all our newly built men also near that point, eventually once we became pop. capped we just let loose and rolled them all through with hippikons, hoplites, archers, and ballistae's (most of the units we originally had while defending).
You basically do the exact same strat with every single co-op quest, that's the let down. But great idea and fun to do, until you know the routine.
[Co-op] Challenge : Its a suicide wrap
Survive for 20 minutes + destroying the enemys :)
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kCQSRBAyXw
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smiwy3jpY6g
PS: duno why in the part 2 the audio is bad, but anyway just watch it :P
|||How is your Ally Yellow? My friend hosts and Im the Second player but hes Blue and I am Always Teal. Also good job ;) Coop is win|||How I did it was I actually didn't build a defense. I just ended up rushing the top two then once th bottom two start attacking I just had whatever troops were in my base to defend and the army that took out the top two did a flanking strike. After that, I just afked.|||
The reason the other player is yellow is because friend or foe colours are enabled, you can toggle it with ALT + F...
QUEST Keep Them Under Our Wings w/ video
Here is "Keep them Under Our Wings" on Elite Mode with low level gear...Enjoy
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB65QNaj06Q
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Where is everyone getting epic Gear...
I have been doing "we killed these guys already?" on elite over and over again and am still not getting gear...Although I havn't been able to win much PvP it seems I am out geared and not very great at PvP but still should be another way to get gear no???
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|||Ehm I guess most people farm Rallying at the Temples Elite and then either go buy boxes at Moe's Mystorium or buy epics that other people found|||
Ok thanks...
EmpireBaron
|||Get level 40 and type /visit DarkNav , there is gear paradise for me :PNeed help in Challenges = A friendly little loan and give to the needy
hi
I need a help in thesechallenges, I can't understand how I tribute them. which tools I should use?!!!!
quest 1
http://prntscr.com/1uxdw
quest 2
http://prntscr.com/1uxdy
any help guys to how I do these quests?!!!
|||Copied from the New Players Guide:
To give/tribute resources to another player, look at your resource
counter at the top of the screen and click on the numerical resource
count. This will take you to the Tribute Panel which will let you send
resources to your specified party.
Remember, when you tribute resources they are not sent 1:1. There will be a resource penalty.
|||And last I knew there's a 100%(?) penalty for trading(you need to send twice as many resources.)|||Not if you do the market researches
|||While that's true the market techs aren't available to research till age 3 I think. And I definitely wouldn't recommend advancing to age 3 in those tribute quests. I find it quicker to just gather the extra ressources in age 2 than advancing and researching.
Trees in your Capital City
Hey guys,
I've asked it before ingame and I'll ask it here again, as my trees in the Capital City are anoying as hell, any way to remove them?
Regards
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Is there a reason you can't remove them? I think it's quite harsh as you get a random starting area and next to that workers can also remove it ingame. Seems logical enough to also be able to remove them in the Capital City.
Or is it just me who thinks like that?
Alright thank you all for the fast and clear answers, all I have to say is that I'm hoping they put such option in :)
Cheers!
Am i finished
I am only at level 29 and seem to have run out of quests. There are plenty of repeatables but nothing that seems likely to move me forwards. Is therea list of the "story arc" quests somewhere so i can see where i went wrong ? Is there nothing after the sea pople are defeated ? There is plenty of map left.
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|||Sadly yes, there is an end to the quests currently. Your only choice, should you desire to level up, is to powerlevel with repeatables. Hopefully there will be more quests in the next update.|||
"There are plenty of repeatables but nothing that seems likely to move me forwards"
well, while your playing repeatables, this is a great time to find out more aboutyourself. you can freely test out new strats and units, and see what fits you best. maybe theres this advisor you always wanted to use, or see how a combo of 2 units you liked worked out. maybe you had this lvl 16craft design that you alwayswanted to build butcould never get the materials for,ormaybe you couldmake your city just the way you alwaysimagined, complete with avictorious Learicorn leading the way. you might wantto amass a huge amount ofwealth and set up a massive multimillion gold trade network with several otherrich freinds.you can practice your strats and how fast you can manage to beat the ai.you can find out its weaknesses and striength, and find a way to use that to your advantage. better yet, why dont you play elitequests with a freind, doubling the fun, or if your feelingAwesome, some pvp with people your lvl.dont rush youself to lvl 40, enjoy the ride, and feel free to explore all the game has to offer.
"Is therea list of the "story arc" quests somewhere so i can see where i went wrong ? Is there nothing after the sea pople are defeated ? There is plenty of map left"
cheer up, you could always make up stories for yourself. but failing that, dont lose hope.be assured that the devs are (hopefully) making some more awesome quests to play. and you can always wait for egypt to come out, wich feutures a whole new hosts of quests to play.
|||Sadly your kinda finished. Theres a lack of content in this build. I heard there were more quests in earlier builds. There are CO-OP quests and PvP from there. Really the quests should last well beyond 40, but at present they are all done (single/COOP) by level 32. Then its time to grind up to 40 and grind some more to get the gear you want. Fingers crossed development team realises the massive lack of Quest content and does something about it in future builds.|||
Thanks everyone.
Its been fun and its only a beta so i look forward to additional content later (i would like to get some of those Nubia points).
Just wanted to make sure i was not missing something completely.
Time to finish out the challenges and concentrate on PvP i think.
Requires Egyptian Civilization ????
[Protect our people] - Can't achieve it.
Hello fellow Aoe players. May you excuse my terribad english (i m belgian).
I have a little problem with the myacenian quest called "Protect our people" wich involve to protect the 2 TC's of 2 allies that don't do anything for their defence. For that you start with 200 of each ressources and a racks.
The problem is : i can't match the power of the very first "special units" i cross path with in the campain (the big shiney ones). They wreck even my hyppa so easily and i can't product enough men to flood them. And a few minuts later when the catapult come and 5 shots the TC's i can't shot them down quickly enough.
I m spec in construct so i tried to drop some bandit towers. They work well against the meatshield but get wrecked as soon as the first catapult arrives. I can't focus the catapult with my men cause the cpu goes mass toxote and decimates all my army in a few seconds.
I don't have tested mass cavalry yet, can it be effective ? What advices / tips have you in mind when it comes to this quest ? Do i need to build directly in my allies bases ?
Looking forward to some nice advices. thank you
Alarios
|||Build your base in theirs instead of where you start...or co-op it|||I remember this quest being too easy. I completed it on my first attempt by just defeating the opponent.|||Just rush the enemy, worked for me :) I used basic spearmen + a bandit summon of 5 more spearmen to destroy their barracks, so they'd only get those "special" units, then I continued to spam them with Hysps~ and destroyed their TC, then just finish off the villagers and it should complete the mission, even before the 30 minutes timer runs out.
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have to admit this one is not as easy as others mentioned maybe they tuned the mission after ppl telling it was to easy,
but i do have same problem, cant build fast enough troops to finish him or to defend other towns,
got complete wiped out by first 2 minutes of quest, also by this special units he uses.
I'll give you an easy way, which i suggested to a friend, and helped get him through the quest..
The map has a center pass that connects the two sides, and there are points either side leading to either allied camp, it looks something like this on the map(obviously not as square though).
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What you should aim to do right near the start is wall in the top most parts of the access points... so it's something like this..
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Then focus building up a force inside the town on the right, and to a lesser degree a force on the left side also... noting if necessary you can use the interconnecting pass to move units from one side to the other.
Generally the AI focusses more attention to the right side, so most of your attention should be there, just be ready for the occasional attack on the left.
Improve your walls, build towers, build anything that will distract the enemy when the attack comes, use that distraction and flank the enemy to get the catapults, then finish up the guys he has...
Keep at it as long as you need to, them wipe him out...
The walls are the key, keep building em, don't forget to replace them and build a few layers of wall if you feel it helps..
Remember, you're the smarter player, you already have the advantage, take control of the game.. (it's funny i have a friend who has similar issues, but the moment she's in a coop she's a faster rusher than i am - it's a confidence thing)..
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Miraculously managed to protect the Town Centres. Maybe the program realized that it's my 17th go at this quest and decided to be nice and not attack the two towns on the side and attack only me! ;D
P.S. Keep building repairers handy in case of desperate rebuilding of the Town Centres!!
Well it's Alarios again.
Thanks for your concern i post for the followers who would know how to pass this very first difficult questin the game. I confirm that rushingthe ennemy TC with spearmen works very well. Don't even try to go tech 2 it's useless, morover the ennemy will tech and spend all his ressources to go tech 2 first so the TC is not covered.
On my first (and only) attempt i went with 12 spearmen and all my villagers used as a meatshield. Got the spearmen focus the TC while my villagers killed ennemies one who were repairing (caution of the repair).
Destroyed TC at 25 min (exactly) left on the counter.
|||i have tried already 5 times with no success for the moment
i will try again tonigh
but if something could post a video it would be really great
|||Hi, I had problems with this quest too, and checked forums here, saw there were more people in the same seat as me.
So what I did (and perfected) was;
All villagers on berries, and created 7 spearmen (and 4 in queue) moved up with my scout to their base (villagers and spearmen followed but stayed a bit outside where the TC couldn't hit them) ran in with scout and built a watch post to tank the TC then stormed in with my troops just hitting the TC.
I destroyed the TC before it teched up and that was before the 26:00 mark. After that I cleaned up villagers and won at 25:35 left.
Yes, I had trouble on this as well. Mainly because they have access to premium units and Age IV tech, which completely overwhelms any number of military units I attempt to shove out. And yes, I've tried rushing.
I'm a decent AOE III online player, so I know how to rush somewhat (it would change from game to game) but the rush fails and I end up dying with 13 minutes left on the clock.
I might just do other quests to try and level up and get more tech.
|||yesterday i finally manage to do it.
The only working tactic is go to rush them:
- put all the villies on the berries
- each time you can create a villy do it
- once the town center queue is filed just build some spearmen
- once that you don't have any more gold, take everybody and rush its town center
you should finish by killing everybody around 25 minutes in the timer
Don't try to compete with him, his units are too strong
|||This took me a couple of attempts also.
I finished it using a method that didnt need rushing to begin with (I didnt even think to try that).
I began with 5 on berries, 5 on wood, 3 on gold and 4 on stone.
I then created two villagers to build.
I first Built two AT on the right village (they attacked it with bandits but got beat by the TC), then repaired the TC.
Whilst this was happening I took one unit off Stone and began building Archer Barracks (after aging).
Then basically spammed archers and also built two towers on the left village, and in my own base.
Then It became a matter of farming wood, gold + Houses of spam archers.
I dumped them in the middle of the map, and had them run the either village that was attacked, and also kept a small number at my base.
It sounds complicated, but to me this way wasnt two hard, you just have to make sure you have towers to repel the first few attacks + build up.
Need help with quest: A few good men
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If i remember well that's the quest wich ask you to save 2 people from ennemies camps.
Hum i would like to help you but you aren't very accurate in what give you a hard time.And this quest is basically a versus map on island style skirmich map. So there isn't any walktrough for this one.
If you fail that quest you need to train your PvP skill. After 15 minutes the 2 two CPU are going to spamm you with massive armies that they'll send by transport. I could manage the quest by rushing very aggressively the first camp (the one located on your own island), and then i builded a solid economy and a massive trimere squad.
You can rush easily the first CPU but the second will build a strong defence during that time so isn't rushable. The tips is to pin him on his island by destroying any docks he could build and intercept the merchand transports he could send. If you destroy a full loaded transport it's a fatal blow to his economy.
You can wait for him to totally drop out of income (his island is very small with not much ressources) or drop a massive army and bait his to the shore where your trimeres will welcome them.
Last advice : once the first ennemy is rushed build watch post on the island ASAP. Because the second CPU can send vills on your island to build a small economy.
Elite Rallying at the Temples 3 MINUTES Youtube Video
Here is me doing this quest in just over 3 minutes...video sped up slightly enjoy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7aT6FosJOA
EmpireBaron
Feedback: Greek Quests Levels 4-10 (Build 5164)
This thread is a place to provide feedback on the following Greek quests:
Get The Goods
A Show Of Support
Here They Come!
We Found Them
Helping Out a Neighbor
Advisor Protection
Baby Steps Back to the Throne
Show Our Power
Draw Them Out
Reclaiming the Throne
Challenge: Buy the Farm
Challenge: The Faster Farmer
Challenge: Farming at the Speed of Light
Challenge: Farmasmic Farmania
Challenge: Easy with the Farming Slugger
Challenge: It's the Final Farm Down
Challenge: Kill the Docks
Challenge: Keep Them Under Our Wing
The Bandit Leaders
Draco's Legion
Clitus Attacks
Homer Run
Fishing Our Waters
The Port Master's Children
The Bandit Armada
Thanks in advance!
- Team GPG|||In Show Our Power, each wave comes out way too slow. I had about 100 pop and was just sitting there waiting for the next wave to pop out. It wasn't very fun.
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My thoughts as a first time player (got my Key in March but could't actually find time to play till now):
'We found them' is extremely easy. You get 8 Hetaira (sp?) at the start which are strong enough to kill everything on the map in 5 minutes on their own, including treasure guardians. And I didn't even lose a single one of them in the process. You don't actually need to build anything else. I'd suggest lowering the number of Hetairas to 4/5 or so or starting with a different unit type.
In 'Show our Power' the timer doesn't update properly. At the beginning it's 6:00 till the first wave but after the first wave it stays stuck on 0:00 so there's no indication when the other two waves arrive. They did arrive some ~3 or so minutes later so it's not a problem of them not spawning, there's just no indication of when they do.
I was surprised that I managed to beat the 5 min farm quest (Final Farm Down?) in my first try (with like 3 seconds left). Challenging but doable.
Show of Support is much quicker to beat!Collecting treasures on the old quest map was a hassle, taking way too much time.
We Found Them - Is this quest supposed to be super easy with 8 Hetairoi? I finished it in 3-4 minutes tops.
Homer Run - Too many resources on the map. Computerenemy spits out a crazy amount of units.
Side note: I'll be honest that I am missing some of the low level equipment loot drops from quests. I would like to see some more gear mixed in with the materials.
Clitus Attacks - Quest complete music plays after killing Clitus before timer reaches zero. Quest complete music restarts after timer reaches zero.
Show Our Power - Definitely showcases GPG large scale battles in a good way. Oh, and nice random spawning of a Hippikon near my town center. 
Draw Them Out, Reclaiming the Throne - May find it odd, but I like how treasures on these maps are hidden down pathways and behind enemy gates at the edge of the map. Reclaiming the Throne seemed to have a very small number of enemy units (after the first big wave) on defense. I was expecting Mycenae to be well defended. Maybe I took out the 4 military buildings too early. 
Homer Run seems like it needs work...tweaking somehow.
It's on a MASSIVELY resourced map, and you have like 6 allies...but those allies just sit there and get killed by a massive, massive horde. Either ditch some allies or make them be more than meat shields, maybe.
We Found Them: This was way to easy. I didn't pay attention to this thread to notice that it was pointed out and i started raiding and it was so easy to just keep going that i walked right through the enemy. Maybe less starting troops or just remove the cav unit all together. That raiding party would be good for a quest that is much like egypts quest where you need to kill 25 (?) villagers in like 10 min type quest. but in this quest they are just too strong.
|||I agree, Homer Run needs a little work. Too many resources. And the allies are pretty much useless besides being meat shields from the bandits hordes, but the quest itself said that they would not do anything to help. Also, I feel the loot drops contain too much materials and not enough equipment. My starting storage house is full of the materials and I was lucky enough to find someone to buy 200 pine planks from to build another storage unit.|||
When I played Homer run, I surrounded his base early and he couldn't get out. The other allies didn't play any part at all. Seemed a waste. Would have been more of a challenge if I had to help out the allies or something. I think if a map that big is in the quest it would be a good challenge for micromanagement. Perhaps step up the AI a bit?
On a similar note, most of the quests are a bit too easy. The only one I had trouble with thus far was the last farming quest (Farmania I think its called). I failed that quest about 4 times and only by about 2-5 seconds so it was actually the most enjoyable so far because it provided a bit of a challenge. Im now level 13 so this is in reference to all of the level 1-10 quests.
On the quest "Reclaiming the Throne"...I'm playing it at level 11 (maybe 12), so I might be a tad behind the "target" levels, but it's listed in this thread...
One of the rewards is a rare belly bow, used by gastros. A unit that can't be unlocked until level 20. Can that reward be removed/swapped to be something that someone doesn't need to hang on to for 10 levels to use?
Misspelling on a reminder:
"Reminder: Challenge Quests
Remember, you aren't required to do every quest. If one is too tough, you can always try it lagain later."
|||prawnasaurus wrote the following post at 16 Apr 2011 12:24 AM:When I played Homer run, I surrounded his base early and he couldn't get out. The other allies didn't play any part at all. Seemed a waste. Would have been more of a challenge if I had to help out the allies or something. I think if a map that big is in the quest it would be a good challenge for micromanagement. Perhaps step up the AI a bit?
I did that too. Offense is the best defense, right? :pThough I agree that the allies weren't actually needed.Might edit in more feedback later. :)EDIT: Forum messes up when quoting like this^, might want to fix that. Paragraphs aren't paragraphs anymore. :c|||Challenge: Kill The Docks. I think you have WAY to little time to complete this quest. I have tried 4 times, and I have not even come close to complete it. The closest i got was destroying half of the first dock. I think the timelimit should be at least 30 minuttes.|||I feel that "Reclaiming the Throne" was too easy. While the beginning attack took be by surprise, after you defeat the first three or so waves, all you need to do is take all your anti-building units (rams, somatophylaz, and hetairoi) and 10 toxatai to defeat the enemey. I did not even know my units killed Thyestes. |||accidental repeated post
Quest - Last minute clean up - Help
can anyone help me? As soon as i get to the 3rd age or start building additional barracks (archery) or guard towers, the enemy attack in large quantities. I try and use priests to convert them but they just attack too quickly...
|||Two ways of completing this
1) Vills rush, send like 20-30 vills and hope for them to survive the towers.
2) Build a strong economy and attack the ennemy with castle units (somato-things) that are very tanky and effective against buildings. In shorter terms : spam Tox / Soma and let the Tox focus units during your soma crush the buildings.
A few tips :
If you can build like 2 castle in the entrance of your camp ... defence will be ok as the ennemy doesn't build any siege units
Before attacking with your Tox/Soma army, assign some shortcut to small groups of vills and send them on 2-3 location to repair the watchpostes
If you don't posses the Soma units advissor, farm xp and buy the siege building then spam some siege
Wait for an attack and crush it with your castle and strong defencce and then attack quickly
If you see your attack is a failure and your units are dying make them focus vills because they are less tanky and you can damage his economy.
|||awesome!!! went for the villager option and it was soo much easier than trying to build an army 1st.
Many thanks
Quest help, dock rats!
Thanks for tips|||
I attacked their city at the same time that I repaired the docks, and my villagers werent attacked at all. So i would suggest building up an army and keep the enemy busy defending their own city.
View and buy gear from other cities crafting halls.
That is actually a very good idea. I applaud you, good sir.
It would actually make crafting somewhat useful. :D
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I like this idea a lot as well!
I think I'd like to be able to set the fee for using each craftingrecipe. If you get a super-rare Epic recipe you should be able to charge a premium for others using it. Also, it would create competition between cities.
Only problem I see here is it's one more thing that will contribute to chat spam. Too bad there wasn't a persistent city directory that showed what services available there, and maybe a short advertising blurb. Maybe to stay on that directory, you have to update your listing there every 24-hours, or you disappear from the directory? That way one can go look to see who they want to visit, and you could start handing out bans for spamming chat withadvertisements.
Co-op only quest [You Complete Me]
I started AoEO around a week ago and I'm currently level 29. I've had a lot of previous experience with RTS's and have found nearly all of the previous quests very easy, however this one seems impossible.
In this quest, the AI attacks with around 10 spearmen (including a few elites) at the 3 minute mark. Me and my partner are fairly competant yet we consistently got roflstomped! In the previous quests in this coop only line the AI would attack at 5minutes which is easy enough to cope with by spamming units, though in You Complete Me, even if we both start making spearmen off the bat and defend with our forces combined, they're still wiped out by the early spearmen. The only way to survive seems to be microing your units around your town center/guard towers to wear the opponents down whilst your villagers gather safely south of your town center, though we just get wiped out in the next few waves which consist of elite hoplites,elite hypasists and eventually lots of pelt spamming...
Help please?!? I'd greatly appreciate a basic build order that will have a worthy defence by 3 minutes. As I'm newish I've not mastered build orders, and going for tech 2 for an archery or stable is too late and will get stomped by the 3 minute elite spearman rush... I was thinking perhaps rushing to Age 2, focusing on early gold and using consumable summon units to defend initiallyy? Nothing else seems to work for me...
PS first post :D
|||I have occasionally run into this in solo. Gernerally all I have to do is keep the scout handy. The AI spearman will chase him around the map for eternity if I wanted them too. This works for me in solo, just gotta micro that scout well. Cant see why it wouldnt work in CO-OP.|||Get a castle up near your TC as soon as possible. The AI is not using any Siege and that turns that tide in the quest. Things get much easier after that.|||
best thing to do is mass toxotes, and attack their base when u have 20+ (just kill some vills, retreat when his army is too big)
fortress might help u for a while, but it gets hard when they are coming with elite prodromos
that quest gets easier when u are lvl32 (u can buy epic gear in argos store with argos points)
to survive their early rushes, just run around with ur scout a bit (close to ur towers, so they get damaged)
|||Yeah... whilst scouting i did notice how dumb the AI was to chase my scout away from my city but I didn't think much of it really. I have been having them chase my villagers/spearmen around but you still lose a lot of resource gathering time. It's only really the early game that I'm struggling with... is it even possible without abusing the poor AI to chase your scout?
And as for fortresses... well it seems that elite units are passable as seige units lol. I'll try it out with the scout lure again, thanks for answering.
|||Me and my friend were trying it also but it is way to hard I think it is for like level 35+ but we can get it at level 29....its to hard for that level and they spawn way 2 fast also|||
Yeah... whilst scouting i did notice how dumb the AI was to chase my
scout away from my city but I didn't think much of it really. I have
been having them chase my villagers/spearmen around but you still lose a
lot of resource gathering time. It's only really the early game that
I'm struggling with... is it even possible without abusing the poor AI
to chase your scout?
And as for fortresses... well it seems thatSounds like a gear issue. Fully geared Forts mow though any elite apart from siege units.
elite units are passable as seige units lol. I'll try it out with the
scout lure again, thanks for answering.
|||I had alot of problems with this quest too. I did it at level 27. I failed with about 5 different partners, but eventually I found a really really good level 40. I forgot what his name was, but he gave me a lot of tips that have really helped me improve my game. Just keep looking for a really geared level 40 and you should be fine.|||You bumped up my very first post XD I've done this on elite over 30 times now. Twice solo (team mate lagged out). Gear makes all the difference.
Quest: It Burns - cant turn in quest eventhough its completed
Cant turn in the quest It Burns (get 30 villagers to the marked area)
It says completed but when I go to Argos by clicking return to quest city there is no character to complete it. Is this a known problem or has anyone got an idea how to turn it in?
Nvm
I am blind as always ^^
PS: where is the remove topic button *-) probably its just here but i cant find it ^^
Docks in your Capital City
Currently, it is impossible to move your Dock. I would like to see Docks being movable in your Capital City; Also where Courier Boats appear when you recieve a new message. The reason for this is that I want a sort of dockside market in my city, and my current dock location is terrible for that; there is a much better location north-east of the current dock location.
So, yeah. Not a big suggestion, definitely not high on the team's priority list if it does get implemented, but it's just an option that I'm sure many players would appreciate, coupled with movable trees, or even paying a fee to get a completely new capital city area.
|||heh I would like to move my dock aswell.... but since that option is no longer available... well I guess it will remain as it is
Good ol' Peepaw & Bella come home - cant find quest giver
I have completed the 2 quests Goold ol' Peepaw and Bella come home but cannot find the quest giver.
In case he has moved I have tried all the cities to no avail.
Any ideas?
Regards
Dred
Thank you Meta
How do I get a Logger's Hut?
There should be a General Store in your Capital City. From there, purchase a Construction Store blueprint.
The Construction Store sells all of basic workshops.
Final Farm Down Guide =]!
Hey guys this is a short video tutorial on how to complete the Final Farm Down Challenge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTvL_8SnGko
Enjoy
-WudiLegacy
Final Farm Down (10FARMS in 5MINS) Youtube Video
Here is a video of me doing Final Farm Down with commentary and tips.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTvL_8SnGko&feature=channel_video_title
Enjoy!
Quest: Hold The Fort - Stuck
Hey guys, ok I am completely stuck on the quest "Hold the Fort". I have tried resourcing just food and wood initially to jump to tech III, but by the time I am able to get seige weapons to take their base out they have already got siege and are wiping out the fort.
Any advise here is greatly appreciated.
Cheers
|||I was stuck on it too, but a lvl 28 guy helped me, So better call someone to help you on this one.|||
I beated it on the first try, i 'rushed' untill Age 3, built a fortress and spammed Petzhetairois(or whatever their name is) against the enemy, it worked fine :D
Yeah I was the one who helped Nubster, just destroy the 2 siege workshops that they have built away from their down and it will dramatically slow down the time it takes for them to attack.
|||I'm also stuck on this quest. I've tried every approach available. Rushing to build a fortress(walls and towers too), rushing to destroy the enemy(Did not work, their siege units utterly destroy any unit I can produce) And then just plain old building a major defense around the fortress, although that doesn't do anything as the enemy seems to have siege units regardless of whether you destroy their workshops or not. :(|||I managed to get a stroke of luck. It put me on a map where the fort was located on an island. The only way for them to attack it was to walk along a sand bank across the island.
So I built a few thiremes and put them on watch. Granted they didnt stand a chance with the siege weapons but certainly gave me a chance to get men built up there to mop up a few stragglers.
Cheers for the advise guys :)
|||Here's a video of me beating the questhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DycJaFYT0to
It's like most other "defend for X amount of time" quests where you're better off just going and killing the CPU instead of defending.
which quest gives the best...
We killed these guys already! Elite
Has anyone done this quest on Elite on Solo..
I managed to (for the first time), finish this quest on Elite in Coop yesterday, but it was damn hard, my survival basically hinged on erecting numerous forts, not much different to how you'd use them to survive on Breaking Eggs.
Have any of you guys managed to get this quest done on Elite but going solo, and if so, what tips do you have for surviving?
|||watch a vid on youtube. Fortress+desert cavalry and well placed buildings help. The trick is to take out the elite catapults|||
As far as i can find, there isn't a video of it on youtube, at least not for this particular quest.
Not sure what you mean about the catapults, i've never seen any, just units and rams.
Also unclear what is meant by the villager and scout attack, surely that's suicide, the enemy starts off with units by the towers doesn't he?
I must have done this quest at least 10 times in the last week. Several times solo (elite). Two things you need to be able to do to be good at this game:
NEVER stop making units. Don't stop making villagers ever. Even when your base is being terrorised by 10 elite spearmen 3 minutes in, don't forget to keep producing. Likewise for military units. Don't get population capped - always have at least one villager creating houses after 3-4minutes. Add a second villager onto house production when you get 3-4 unit production structures.
Economy management: Commonly find yourself sitting on 1500 wood, or suddenly starved of other resources? You're doing it wrong. That would should be spent on more stables/barracks/archery ranges. Don't make farms early - pick berries, hunt animals, fish from the waters. Always think one step ahead - be aware that your gold mine/berry bushes will run out soon, and sent one villager to create a storehouse ready at a new location...
You don't need a single fortress or extra guard tower to beat this quest on elite. If you efficiently manage your economy, and continuously pump out of 4 unit producing structures as soon as possible, it's an easy win. I find it most effective to start with an archery opening (kite with toxotes so you don't lose units, even to pelts/saris). I then swiftly move to Age 3 and work on peltalists. Then I'll be stocking up on lumber and cutting back on archery production to wack down a dozen farms and 4-6 barracks lor stables to spamhoplites/prods, which serve as meatshields whilst my main ranged damage works through the enemy. Battering rams can be useful, though arn't necessary if you've wiped out the opposing army.
Hmm.. I get an armoury after 3-4 archery ranges are up and go for an early upgrade. Similarly, whenever you have excess lumber, build an academy for the 10% faster unit production research.
Mass peltalists in a choke point created by houses/archery ranges around your town center/towers can hold off anything, if you have good gear on them. Don't wait too long to transition into Age 3, but at the same time you shouldn't but stopping unit production to get there. If you kept producing villagers the entire time, you'll be able to get the spare 400 wood for Age up whilst simultaneously producing from 3-4 archery ranges as well as making houses.
|||You guys make it sound so easy to beat this quest, even in Elite. I think it's BS. The problem with this damn quest is that the enemy come and attack very eary, and they never stop coming. I tried managing my economy and producing infantry, but doing so I can only advance to Age 2. I can have enough soldier for the first two attacks, but not for the third, when they come with archers, calvary, and a bunch of others. It takes them less than 3 minutes to destroy my entire town.
Villagers are not able to gather resources fast enough, even with advisors and increasing their carrying capacity. I simply can't beat this damn quest.
|||pramit57 wrote the following post at 11 May 2011 9:39 AM:watch a vid on youtube. Fortress+desert cavalry and well placed buildings help. The trick is to take out the elite catapultssry, posted this in the wrong topic. Its for elite rougue questI too find it near impossible to finish elite quests. IMO, they should increase the rewards for completing a elite quest|||Played on coop again yesterday, we got an easy game this time, the map that came up was the one where you both get boxed inside a canyon, with cliff areas either side, it made the quest a hell of a lot easier.
Usually the map is more open and tougher, and like the last poster it's usually tough to manage eco, build units and age... it's a tricky quest, but it's definately do-able if you both work together with your coop partner.
Single player i've not managed to complete yet, but i'll be working at it... (i like the challenge - it wouldn't be half as interesting if i never got beat)..
I still find the forts more cost effective, and require far less management, which makes it easier to focus on other things.
I find archers die too easily, but i'll agree if managed, they should do a good job, i tend to find hypas work for the first few waves, then i usually switch to peltasts to counter the archers that follow, from then on it's usually a mixture of the two until i can age again and add Hippi's and Hetairoi into the mix.
S0ulSky, thanks for the tips..
I do much like S0ul Sky said... but slightly different.
First wave you kill by TC/tower fire, just let them hunt your scout around it and they die.
Then I build 4 raxes with hypaspists for some defence (and raid vils if I can). However this will not work very long since computer builds archers, so I advance to age3 and build 4 archery ranges. From here on I just go hoplites/pelts, it works well. Then at end I add some siege to help finish it.
|||I manged to complete it solo on Elite only once mostly because AI acted strange and never finished off my town when it could have easily done it.
I've been trying to pull it off again since but didn't have much sucess. That 3rd wave with a lot of cav. is the biggest problem. It just sets you back too far to recover again.
|||I do this at least once a day on Solo. Yes the opening can be a bit rough but I like it. Generally I aim for a very balanced army. For me I go Hypas first, then a few spearmen and then Tox to back up. Try to bait the first wave into your towers. If your in trouble just use your scout as bait. I usually have about 8 villagers on food to start of with and then expand out into wood and gold. When that third wave hits you want to have alot of spearmen (preferably with Black Iron Horse Catcher) to deal with it. Once the third wave has gone a usually go for T3 so I can get the stronger Pelts and Hoplites.
If your having a big problem with it, it might be your gear. Once you get your gear up this one is challenging but you should still be able to complete it every time. Just gotta get the right balance of troops.
To me this is the best quest in the game. Its not really farmable, its a challenge, it requires a good military balance and gives you a level 40 loot drop at completion. Cant say all that about any other quest.
|||Yeah it's a good quest, generally it's quite challenging... tough but fun...
I'd love to see a vid of someone doing this solo....(a record game option would be great about now, *hint hint* MGS)..
If your having a big problem with it, it might be your gear. Once you get your gear up this one is challenging but you should still be able to complete it every time. Just gotta get the right balance of troops.
Good gear is necessary, sadly.
|||this quest is easy if you have lvl40 epic gear for toxotes (from shops, with empire points), and a decent gather tool.
all you need to do is spam toxotes, keep producing units at all times, and do armory upgrades if you have spare resources.
for the first wave, just lure enemy units away with your scout, they will follow you long enough to get a decent army up and running.
i'll upload a vid tomorrow, where i finish it solo (dont forget that i have good gear, so it will look easier then it actually is)
We Killed These Guys Already?
I've done this quest a couple times and somehow the computer magically has age 3 units at the beginning of the game. I tried rushing and get murdered... anyone have suggestions?
I tried defending myself until age 4, so I could get superior units, but the computer stays on you like white on rice.
|||Rushing won't work. Mainly because they start off with a few elite units and if your units aren't upgraded, they will die easily to the units from the AI.Fend off the early two rushes with spearmen/hypas or just let them run around in circles around your towers following your scout. Basically after that, all you need to do is mass toxotes and hit and run if you have speed on your toxotes plus a nice range.
Kokosbloem had a nice video with him solo'ing this quest on elite but somehow it got taken down. There's another thread discussing the same quest over here:
http://forums.ageofempiresonline.com/forums/2/53369/ShowThread.aspx
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Especially on Elite.
I'm having a lot of fun with it. It would be more fun though it the hard part came from a smarter AI instead of constant pressure from huge armies.
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My recommendation isfirst defence and then attack with splashes.
I built walls and houses around guard towers as soon as possible if resources are ready.
Workers are working on relatively remote resources for safety, closer to town hall harder to save them or gathering slow.
Anyhow you candefend your area with wall and house, of course with range attack units and guard towers.
You have to accumulate splash unit like balista, 5 or more balista with some other units you can easily wipe out enermies.
Recommended attack force: 5+ balista, 30+ worker(I mean a most villager), 5+ priest <== your army will be getting bigger, actually villagers are very attractive to enermy units, your priest are happy with that.
|||Has anyone beat this in Elite mode? It is hard enough to get it standard mode but I can't figure out any way to get even close in Elite mode...|||meokazi, dont try to do this quest in elite (solo) when u arent lvl40 yet. just go lvl40, get some epic gear (from shops in players cities), and spam toxotes (if you have speed boots, use them on tox!)
|||uploaded my recorded game again:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q52vNWbLes
i putted speed on 1.5x to fit in 15minute timeframe
Challenge Keep them Under Our Wing (Elite Mode) Guide
Just follow this short guide by Twinkie. This quest at the moment is easy pzzy =]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QD4K_OirEQ&feature=channel_video_title
Enjoy!
-Wudi
Treasure Chest Run (5 Uncommon/Rare/Epic Treasure Chest in 3mins)
This quest give you lots of rare/epic item and advisers. You can easily get all 5 chest in 3 - 4mins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_MEgh3Oaf4&feature=channel_video_title
Enjoy
-Wudi
The drops can be quite poor/average sometimes, often you'll need to do 4-5 runs just to get a few things worth selling.
Occasionally though, something really nice drops..
Here's my approach, same thing, just done differently... :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPCxlmVzXv
Need help with You Complete Me
Known problem in this questline. Do this in co-op and it will be a lot easier. Walls and other defenses are a must if your units aren't well armored.
You could also attack and lure villagers to your towers in the early game to put a dent in the AI's early eco.
This quest becomes a lot more doable after you get better equipment. Get to Age 2 ASAP and spam hypta's from the barracks you start out with and try and get an archery range up ASAP. You can use archers and hypta's to hold off their early attacks while you and your ally wall off your bases but be sure to leave a section of the wall open so you can funnel all of the AI attacks into there(if you don't leave a hole in your walls the ai will just knock them down and you will be screwed). At this designated point just mass both of your armies and build towers/castles and it's gg from there.
I'm level 40 and I still haven't been able to do this one on elite but I haven't tried it with a partner who was over level 35. I'm thinking to do this one on elite you have to be over level 37 and have some really good gear.
Archers are a bad investment on this quest, don't waste the resources, they'll only attack with Peltasts the minute you mass the archers, and your archers will be mince meat in no time at all. Well archers will work for the first few waves, but they'll die instantly when the enemy sends peltasts in wave 3-4... (not worth it imho)..
Hypa's are a far better investment.. and should keep you going long enough to get to Age 3, at which point you should aim to have at least two forts and add more as resources permit, they work really well for taking down Elites..
|||Can someone please do a video of this? I've attempted this about 20 times already and have failed miserably. We have gotten closer though.|||if you want, i can co op with you right now, i bet we can beat it easily together|||I gotta finish up something, but I'll be on in 20 minutes or so. Thank you!
|||actually, i got to go to sleep in 10 minutes :( maybe tommorow then|||I'm coming!!!
PVP
Ranking system is pretty cool, but at the same time, to also lables everyone so new people get less practice. I got in to AoE 3 pretty late and I can still hardly find matches cause my rank is to low.
If anything they need to fix the match making first cause I don't like wating 3 years to do a simple one v one.
|||As soon as I wake up in the mornings I start the search for a pvp match, get a bowl of cereal, and wait till a match comes up. Sometimes it takes 5 min sometimes it takes a hour lol. I sometimes turn the game into a small window and do everything else on my computer till a match comes up. It's pretty ridiculous to find a match but I'm so addicted. I can't wait till the game actually comes out and then pvp will be amazing. Hopefully lolNeed Help with the 140 pop quest
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This thread has a few tips that might help you. It is the follow-up quest for the 140 pop one.
http://forums.ageofempiresonline.com/forums/thread/47343.aspx
strategy for defending against rushers in PvP.
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Dear TouchiestLake85,
That is a good question. I believe some
of the higher level players such as IBubble, Yoncore,
S0ulsky,Themistaaot is more knowledgeable than me to this question. I
will try my best to cover your question from what I experienced and
seen. (note to others: feel free to add more)
Scouting - Scouting is VERY VERY important. Good players tends to build watch post very early to monitor the enemy base. This help you see what exactly is coming so you can counter your enemy effectively.
Build your military facilities early - I
see many newer players build their Barracks or Archer range way to
late. You want to pop out some military units early because you can use
them offensively and defensively! Your best offense is literally your
best defense!
Level up - If your opponent is lvl 30 and you are lvl 20. He should own you because there is a huge gap in equipment and skill points.
Do your research - Watch more videos and read the forums. Knowledge is power my friend. =]
Play more - I love this one. =] and it should be pretty
self explainable. (Practice makes perfect, don't be afraid to get owned!
I personally rather play against experienced players and get stomped so
I can learn from my matches.)
If you want I can always walk you through a game or to via skype. =]
Best of luck,
-EmpireWudi
http://www.youtube.com/user/iLoveAOEonline
P.s I will be uploading some rush videos tomorrow from one of the top players in AoEo atm. Stay tuned! ^__^
|||thank you very much.i am really looking forward to your videos|||The bestdefenseis a strong offence.|||
Towers can be a good basic defense in the early stages of the game, especially against Toxote rushes. They also have a phycological effect aswell, that if most players see a tower shooting their archers, the run them away.
However, towers have a minimum range, so the player may just run all their Toxotes and stay at the tower base, if the tower is outside Town Center range. A good basic 'turtle' strategy is to build towers so their base is covered by the Town Center fire, or have towers support each other. My fastest rushes have been stopped by a few measly towers.
|||I would say the above advise is verybad and won't work against good people. You'd need multiple towers to protect each of your resource types, and if it were me, I'd just run under tower fire to snipe out villagers, then retreat whenever you garison. Even if I lose a bunch of tox, you still lost tons of resource gathering time, and several villagers per run-by, whilst my economy is continuing to expand without harassment (or resources wasted on towers/stone mining)
Make units fordefense.
|||I think what most people consider as a rush isn't a rush at all. Iron Age warfare is part of the game and if you don't make units at that stage, you're not playing the properly. This doesn't mean that you can't be defensive and go for a fast Golden Age, but you still need to make units. Build toxotai (+spearnen if you see sariss) and guard your base from harassment. Build watch posts around your base and intercept any attack.Favorite Strategies/Tactics
TURTLE STRATEGY:
I love playing the turtle strategy. If you can get walls, towers, and a good army up and defending your villagers so they continue working without threat of attack is the best way to keep resources coming in. Then if you build more walls, towers in key strategic positions. Then put a market and a town center as far away from each other as you are willing to stretch your lines, you can gather a lot of gold with just 10 merchants units. Then you can use the extra gold to buy needed resources or trade resources for gold. Then you can crank out the units and if you keep your walls in good order and keep the enemy busy on as many fronts as possible victory is almost assured.
I won a 2vs2 battle as a lvl 10 against a lvl 9 and 10 after my ally had been killed within about 8 minutes of the game starting or so. I had rushed to get walls up and a good amount of spearmen and after getting to the next age had towers in built. My lvl 9 enemy built a forward base on the remains of my former allies base and was trying to keep the pressure on me. I however made him come to me and used my towers, archers and hoplites to beat him back.
Soon enough I had plenty of resources, troops and began to move. I eliminated the enemy's forward base and began a slow march towards the lvl 9's town center (I was sending reinforcements to them and also repairing so towers/walls). Soon enough I beat this enemy and also beat back the troops the lvl 10 sent. I then began the final push and beat the lvl 10 who had suffered alot of causalities trying to save his ally.
While the Turtle Strategy is very effective, it only works when you give yourself time. If your enemy rushes you and your villagers are not gathering for more than 3 minutes or so, you are almost doomed. I personally never rush any opponent. I want to fight the enemy at their and my best or at least after the first 10 minutes of the game (the first 10 minutes I consider a grace period, if you havent attacked me, I wont attack you for a good while).
|||Favourite strategy: Relentless attacking until opponent is overrun.|||I wouldn't recommend a defensive strategy. You never see the best players play defensively. They use their offense as defense.|||LOL and what happens when your opponents sees that and rushes age 3 makes 3 TCs then rushes age 4 with 4 times your economy?
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I approve of this thread.
I myself have tried this a lot and seriously. It works. Unless they get to many siege weapons personally I've done it with priests and ranged units so far, but beware, a good siege with enough force, would make a terriable destruction upon this strategy! But most likely this is going to work if your oppoment is willing to attack you. Been in many maps where you can attack from all sides which is basicly a tough situation but as the saying goes. A good defense is a good offense.
yea it works if he attacks in a horrible position, but as i said earlier what happens when he doesnt attack? you get so far behind it isnt even funny
when i was lvl 20 or so people always this this and i just....didnt attack until i maxed on stupid unit compositions like hops + ballista +ram, those games werent even close but certainly long. I mean if i see someone invest ALLtheir money in defense im not attacking why would i. I'll just get a massive economic lead and crush your turtling ass later.
Okay, okay, settle down :P This is just one of the strategies I use, plus I just started this thread to discuss peoples' favorite strategies/tactics not to down other people cause they play a certain way XD But yes, you can race for an economy if you don't see your enemy attacking you, but that just depends on the game and what info you have on your current enemies moves.
Not saying there is any "perfect" way to play, but you have to play to how the game develops in the first 10 minutes.Like the game I had where it was 2 vs 1 i had to mainly play defense (but my economy was unaffected because I built good defenses/troops) until the time came that I could go on the offensive and then won.
So eh, you can think what you want. Just please keep this thread clean and many talking about your favorite strategies/tactics, if you wanna discuss how you can beat what is said here, start your own thread that refers to this one. Thanks xD
"Best players" is from game to game, when you start a new game you are new, although your past experiences can help. Even the best players can make mistakes and lose epically xD Plus its not like we have anything tracking who won unless you tape it and put it on youtube.
So yeah, thats all i have to say on that :P