Impossible to find opponents in my age which is medieval

[Aspergaon]

Hi, I am Asper, level 73 with 1,461 medals in Gold III league, still holding in Medieval Age.

Before I grow to gunpowder I am focusing in earning medals, upgrading my walls, clearing forest and, overall, learn the best strategies to attack and defend.

The problem is that Finding opponents in my same age is almost impossible. I understand I should be able to fight against 1 age up, 1 age down, and my own age but this is what happens:

- I find 90% gunpowder, which are normally too strong for me and offer me very few medals to win and the risk of loosing a lot of them.

- I find less than 1% medieval age opponents which is my same age. The logic would say I should find the mayoritopponents in my same age

- and the rest 9.9% are strange or completely broken classical age opponents, or with no towncenter or with huge super advanced weapons. I havent tried to fight the advanced ones but the ones with no towncenter the game crashes when trying to fight against them.

 

[Jane Monroe]

My personal opinion is to stop focusing on medals and concentrate on resources. Lose at least 600 medals and you will find plenty of worthy opponents. You can easily regain the medals later in the game when they are more significant.

 

[Aspergaon]

I believe there are 2 main purposes of the game: to battle and of course win battles, and to be an overall winner. Winners are the ones who own more medals not more resources. Right now, resources don't matter to me because I don't need them. I should be able to fight at least against my own age medieval players if I am superior to them they should work hard as I did to have that privilege . Loosing medals is against the purpose.

 

[Cannibals]

I think there is also a league range in matchmaking i.e. you get matched according to medal total too. It may be that there aren't many potential medieval opponents for your level of medals. To find more medieval opponents you may need to lose medals to get down into the middle of the medal range for most medieval bases. Another option would be to advance to GP age to access better offenses.

 

[maggiepie]

The game isn't designed to be played according to your beliefs about the medal system (that's not meant to be a judgement). Essentially what is happening is that in the medal range you are in there are far more GP players than medieval- the medieval players are at lower medals (again, it doesn't matter that you believe they should be higher, there are not). Your offence isn't capable of handling the GP players. So I think the strategy you want falls more under maxing out you offence completely (don't bother with defense which you can catch up with later), and age up as fast as possible in order to max out that ages offence as well. As you age up and increase your medals you'll also be finding many more powerful EA players, though. Unfortunately resourses are also essential to game play in order to max your offense then eventually catch up your defense.

 

[Gambrinus]

you need to focus on going up to GP and maxing your attack army. all the defense buildings, walls, and economy stuff can wait till later and catch those up as you go.

 

[Guest]

The advice you are getting here is correct. First Medal count, and then Age, are considered for matchmaking. The more you progress in Medals, the more likely you are to matched to a higher Age, as most players have not chosen to pursue Medals over Age. Doing so will require patience on your part, if you wish to avoid being matched to Gunpowder players.

 

[maggiepie]

Hallelujah!!! Thank you for explicitly confirming this!! I cannot like this post nearly enough

 

[Aspergaon]

Well the conclusion is clear, go up to gunpowder, but just want you to get this: What I personally enjoy better in this "game" is to battle the most possible and to fulfill the challenge of successfully defend and successfully attack. The more you battle, the more fun! this is what it is all about! To be capable of destroying bigger opponents, with a more intelligent strategy and this is learned by trying and trying and trying. Lets see how far I can go being a little medieval player against gunpowder even enlightenment giants!

 

[DestroyerArcher]

It gets reduced to town center sniping in industrial(for now).

 

[Redgar]

I made exactly the same mistake at the beginning, but it was enough for me to climb up to 1200 medals being in mediaval and facing no opponents to drop medals on purpose.

The main goal of the game is to get to the last available age first. The next goal is to build lvl12 walls, caz they look better ))) all other goals are secondary, but league reward helps in building walls so a lot of ayers gained some medals.

 

[amissingwyfarer]

after reaching 1800+ trophy, if you win, you get 1-2 medal, but if you lose, you lost 25-30 medal..

 

[Eddie F1]

Interesting self imposed challenge.

You can upgrade only TC's and roads (for XP, even though I'm sure 73 will get you into EA) all they way to Industrial and keep your Medieval army intact.

 

[maggiepie]

Best of luck! I hope the frustration of your personal goal does not end up wearing you down.

But, you've discovered your 'issue' is not one of a 'bug or known issue', but rather more applicable to (inefficient?) 'Tactics and strategies'

 

[Aspergaon]

I will keep in my goal until I upgrade all of my walls and clear the most forest possible. I already have 1,517 medals and keep going! And yes, "Amissingwyfarer" I already earn in average 1-2 medals with the risk of loosing 20+

 

[maggiepie]

There is really no purpose to clearing forests when you don't have anything to immediately fill that space. This is a waste of resources, time, and workers that could be better spent on weirdly maxing out your walls right away (?) or aging up, or on defensive upgrades. You've picked yourself quite the strange strategy that is counterintuitive to ultimate success in the game (the kind of success that you are looking for).

 

[Aspergaon]

maggiepie, the more space the more time your troops have to react against an attack. By the time the opponent gets to his attacking goal, time is passing by and you are stronger to receive him. Later in the next ages, space will be needed. While I upgrade my walls and clear forest I keep practicing on attacking stronger opponents with different strategies. Have you ever attacked only with miners? jajaja, its crazy and doesnt work but I am having a lot of fun doing experiments, learning how to better defend and better attack.

 

[maggiepie]

The more space the longer it takes for your troops to reach an invading target, and the better opportunity for an invader to make full use of that space to plan an attack that will have your defenses running all over the place. I'm sure it wouldn't be a long shot for me to assume your base is very spread out, which is an ineffective design. I am in a later age than you, and an excessive amount of space is unnecessary. You clear space when you have something to put in that space. But, you know better the type of challenges you'd like to create for yourself. You'll either adjust or throw in the towel.