I tried this and it took me 17 mins and 3 seconds lol. Well done to all the players, i never thought it was possible in such a short time. And thanks Interjection , great video :)
Challenge #2 asks the community to raise a colony to the imperial age in the fastest possible time. Results are in and the top 5 times featured here are literally insane! I should have made this video a whole lot sooner, my apologies to everyone who was waiting! However, it still took me a huge amount of time to put this together so if you enjoyed it I would appreciate it very much if you pressed the like button to show that you did :)
I usually never comment on TH-cam, but I have to say this video was very well put together. It really shows how much effort you put into it. Also, hats off to all top 5 players for those remarkably fast times. Here's to the next community challenge!
i was watching this cause the ESO is down for maintenance again! great video, some really great times too! don't think i could ever beat those! very clever play and use of the maps too
Hey man also, A great job with the editing, and even intense sound effects, got my heart racing lol! Aklak absolutely smashed the record, insane, only with 10 settlers! Takes me like 30mins to go Imperial with like 99 settlers haha! Again, great job Interjection!
Thanks man, I'm glad it got your heart going. I was really worried that this would end up basically being some really intense music on a dull recorded game. Glad I got the desired effect :)
this is amazing, my age up times are terrible in comparison, even though i know it is possible, i just haven't the skill to do it so quickly, very impressive
It was really positive experience for me to watch this video and look on the game in a different way. Stealing enemy's resourses and all the other tricks really impressed me !
Rain blew gently on the shudders of the café. Eloquin knew it was time to shut down for the day. He went to grab his lead pipe to close-shut the front door to the 3-star restaurant, but a sudden pinch to his shoulder caused him to kneel down and understand the delinquency of his recent shoulder-injury. He knew it was acting up again. He immediately felt for his phone in his pocket to call Lintallin - his 12-year old neighbor. However... Something was amiss. What could it be? What was preventing Eloquin from dialing Lintallin - his beloved neighbor? Of course! He left his phone on the midnight train! Alas! If only he took his pills that his black doctor prescribed for his shoulder pains... But wait! Something he just remembered... The alarm! The alarm intended for the police to alert them of burglars! If only he could reach it... There he laid, hovering over the lead pipe like some sort of diseased-ridden caterpillar... If only he could reach the button. He crawled with all his might, only to come across a crack in the floor. A crack in the floor? Surely not! Surely not in his beloved 3-star café! He had to investigate... He pulled the tiled floor; searching for the root of the problem of his damaged floor. He pulled; he wripped; yes, he even cussed; but suddenly! The floor fell beneath him! He was crumbling like the Russian he was! Oh, the pain he had... Poor, little Eloquin had fell on his shoulder, not without buckling his knee - his other passed injury caused by a passing train... Eloquin knew his was in vast trouble, but the button! The button had destroyed! Along with the entire top floor of the café... There he cried... For days... Never knowing if any customer would ever return to his store. Not many people often showed up to "Eloquin's steamin' pile of harshdiddies". I mean, who turns up to a 3-star restaurant when there's millions of 4, or maybe ever 5 star restaurants laying about... He wept; he sobbed; he lost controls of his bowels, until... His phone! It was in his pocket the entire time! How silly of old Eloquin! He quickly made haste to call the ambulance, but... Oh, no... The phone wasn't his... Nay! It was his nephews!!
that one trick where you convert all your food into coin, couldn't that last game queue'd up for some livestock then unqueue'd them to get the food back while still getting the coin?
fun to try out, but no practicality, this requires build orders and cards that have no value in a treaty and the extra time in imperial does not make up for the lack of say being able to use fur trade at 36 min or the military upgrades you will miss out on by including crates nd the like. I wonder how fast i could do an aztec water boom. Will have to try this
Wow. It's Boneng, thank you very much :). If you can make this work in a 1v1 then go ahead and email me the recorded game. A recolt strat would be pretty funky. aoeinterjection[at]gmail[dot]com ;)
amazing times!!!!! I remember the same contest - for IV though using nilla was on Texas - and in 7.10 if I remember correct.... Could be fun to have a contest using only nilla civs and maps
Odeton won it with French on Texas in 7:27. He deleted his starting towers to give exp to the CPU so that it would send more crates for him to steal. I think the prize was a trip to Ensemble Studios in Dallas. There were also prizes (ES merchandise I think) for the fastest times with each civ. Little bit more info here: www.ensemblestudios.com/archive22006.aspx and here: forum.agecommunity.com/forums/thread/984677.aspx
Interjection Also, you can ignore any recorded games I sent to you like 2 months ago cus they were from when I was MS or 2nd lieut so they're pretty irrelevant :P
I don't know how they're gaining xp and home shipments so fast. I couldn't do this if I was getting one home shipment after another. They've got a secret to gaining xp for those home shipments I've never seen before.
+450rmack They actually don't send very many shipments at all, the shipments they do send they got of the back of the early TPs and the fact that early game shipments come quite quickly :). I checked all the recordings, every's legit!
it seems to me some players (#1 for sure!) used maphacks to see where the cows are on the map... did you not say "no hacks"? Of course technically he could have saved, looked for all the cows, memorized their placement and loaded, but I think hacks are more likely. and I wonder - if Umeu had used a settler in his opponents base to gather crates as well - would he have won? I think so
People asked me if they could use the cheat code "x marks the spot" to reveal the map to see if they liked it (and I suppose to see where the livestock was). If they liked the map, they'd then use the restart game button which single player has which would reload the exact same map. (or they could save it and reload as you suggested). They'd then play on the map normally and not use any cheats/hax :). Eiterway, the motive behind me saying that cheats and hacks were not aloud was mainly to stop people collecting resources faster than settlers can in a normal game, placement of livestock isn't really in the same league in my opinon. I can confirm that I checked all the times submitted for cheating, gather rates are all normal and all resources accounted for. (Checking Aizamks time was difficult because he qued so many cows/sheep just be fore he clicked up but in the end all the resources where accoutned for, no extra. It is possible that Umeu's time would have been faster if he stole resources, but he didn't think of doing it or chose not to in his game :), It does make you wonder though :)
i didnt steal res because auracania is such a long map and walking the vil across the map wouldve almost not made it worth it. i think aklaks bo is better in the end. but i do think auracania is better with the tp. but no sure. cba to check now :P
SoWeMeetAgain Nah, if you're going to be stealing crates you want to vs Expert bot and non-treaty. If you use treaty there's that annoying building restriction which would prevent you from using trading posts.
Interjection NO !!! it wasn't Treaty and it was in Expert mode ! why the enemy didn't attack ?!!! the enemy should attack atleast at 5-6min in Expert mode or Even Hard mode
wonder why the iroquis didnt age up with the vills. they would have had the maximum amount of time to gather him recouses, and use the crate age up as age 4 ageup to make age 5 cheaper, and use the fast age up for age 5
for second place, i dont get why he would ship cheaper trading posts. rather wait till age 2 and get 3 trading posts for free which is the max you can build now anyway
Well, I originally intended to give away a key to the player who set the fastest time using treaty and to the fastest player who didn't use treaty (because I thought some people would be annoyed that they could have used treaty but thought it would have been against the rules as I didn't say anything about it in the video when I set the time). But it turns out that once even more times were sent to me, the fastest time didn't use treaty anyway so it made no sense to reward Aede who came in 5th with a key as the player who set the fastest time using treaty. I have bought a second copy of the game on Steam to give away but in the end I decided it would make more sense to give that key away in another community challenge. I did buy a second copy of the game though :P
Interjection oh.... I shouldn't have asked, I should have just been proud of the fact that I was mentioned in the description! Lol thanks for letting me know!
@@JourneytoBetterSelf 13:12. I went looking through my email back 6 years haha I can send you the replay if you'd like xD Haven't played in a few years since I deleted my Steam account, but age3 is one of if not the best game I've played. Glad you're enjoying it :)
There's no way I could do this faster even having seen how Aklak did it, these guys would have spent hours trying to get the perfect crate start and perfect map and perfect CPU bot who leaves shipments on the floor
Interjection haha king of crazy strats more like it. macro isnt really an issue in this challenge cuz its on slow speed. you just need the right bo, right civ map etc. ty interjection was alot of fun
By macro I meant the choosing a BO and being able to execute it side of macro. But you're right. He's still a monster though. This was a lot fun, just a pain in ass to make this video, but I'm very happy with the result :)
Interjection ye now i saw his strat i probably shouldve done something similar on auracania. i basically wasted 2 shipments with the 3v and atp. if i had 1 tp and then done his bo, the tres n stuff on auracania, i think i couldve beaten his time by a bit. tho maybe not, u only need so many shipments
Yeah, I can understand. I was just pointing out you say one right but the other differently when they have the same French ending. Btw, I think you have made my game play a lot better and I enjoy watching and waiting for your next uploads!
I tried this and it took me 17 mins and 3 seconds lol. Well done to all the players, i never thought it was possible in such a short time. And thanks Interjection , great video :)
Challenge #2 asks the community to raise a colony to the imperial age in the fastest possible time. Results are in and the top 5 times featured here are literally insane! I should have made this video a whole lot sooner, my apologies to everyone who was waiting! However, it still took me a huge amount of time to put this together so if you enjoyed it I would appreciate it very much if you pressed the like button to show that you did :)
boxlars24 AOE3: Tips & Tricks: Idle Settlers
do you still make aoe videos?
yes
38:00 that ivan's voice lmao.
Kim Bong Un lel
I usually never comment on TH-cam, but I have to say this video was very well put together. It really shows how much effort you put into it. Also, hats off to all top 5 players for those remarkably fast times. Here's to the next community challenge!
Thank you very much, this is one of my favorite videos honestly :)
500... the amount of seconds you need to get to imperial.
Haha "of course he can, he's umeu" :DD nice vid man :)
i was watching this cause the ESO is down for maintenance again! great video, some really great times too! don't think i could ever beat those! very clever play and use of the maps too
why would they want the game they already own? why not make the reward some potatoes
So you can make another account for online play
i'd take the potatoes
I think everyone who entered was okay with the game :)
+Interjection so they can play noobs or what?
Hey man also,
A great job with the editing, and even intense sound effects, got my heart racing lol!
Aklak absolutely smashed the record, insane, only with 10 settlers!
Takes me like 30mins to go Imperial with like 99 settlers haha!
Again, great job Interjection!
Thanks man, I'm glad it got your heart going. I was really worried that this would end up basically being some really intense music on a dull recorded game. Glad I got the desired effect :)
this is amazing, my age up times are terrible in comparison, even though i know it is possible, i just haven't the skill to do it so quickly, very impressive
gg, this video had even greater entertainment value than your regular ones.
It was really positive experience for me to watch this video and look on the game in a different way. Stealing enemy's resourses and all the other tricks really impressed me !
I'm glad you enjoyed it! :). I'll certainly be releasing more videos like this soon!
Wow that video was so much more entertaining than i thought it would be.
18:40 what a clever move!
the cows/farms strategy was just GENIUS!
Wow it usually takes me 12 minutes just to get to age 4!
lolololol it sounds like your on drugs at the lowest play speed
+musicforthewin2 LOL
That was just fucking AWESOME
This was awesome!
Kikematamitos so this is where you get ideas from your videos huh? good
Soy sub
that winner is next level.. 35 seconds better than the 2nd place. lol, well done
Rain blew gently on the shudders of the café. Eloquin knew it was time to shut down for the day. He went to grab his lead pipe to close-shut the front door to the 3-star restaurant, but a sudden pinch to his shoulder caused him to kneel down and understand the delinquency of his recent shoulder-injury. He knew it was acting up again. He immediately felt for his phone in his pocket to call Lintallin - his 12-year old neighbor. However... Something was amiss. What could it be? What was preventing Eloquin from dialing Lintallin - his beloved neighbor? Of course! He left his phone on the midnight train! Alas! If only he took his pills that his black doctor prescribed for his shoulder pains... But wait! Something he just remembered... The alarm! The alarm intended for the police to alert them of burglars! If only he could reach it... There he laid, hovering over the lead pipe like some sort of diseased-ridden caterpillar... If only he could reach the button. He crawled with all his might, only to come across a crack in the floor. A crack in the floor? Surely not! Surely not in his beloved 3-star café! He had to investigate... He pulled the tiled floor; searching for the root of the problem of his damaged floor. He pulled; he wripped; yes, he even cussed; but suddenly! The floor fell beneath him! He was crumbling like the Russian he was! Oh, the pain he had... Poor, little Eloquin had fell on his shoulder, not without buckling his knee - his other passed injury caused by a passing train... Eloquin knew his was in vast trouble, but the button! The button had destroyed! Along with the entire top floor of the café... There he cried... For days... Never knowing if any customer would ever return to his store. Not many people often showed up to "Eloquin's steamin' pile of harshdiddies". I mean, who turns up to a 3-star restaurant when there's millions of 4, or maybe ever 5 star restaurants laying about... He wept; he sobbed; he lost controls of his bowels, until... His phone! It was in his pocket the entire time! How silly of old Eloquin! He quickly made haste to call the ambulance, but... Oh, no... The phone wasn't his... Nay! It was his nephews!!
that one trick where you convert all your food into coin, couldn't that last game queue'd up for some livestock then unqueue'd them to get the food back while still getting the coin?
Thank you for this video, and for this challenge
fun to try out, but no practicality, this requires build orders and cards that have no value in a treaty and the extra time in imperial does not make up for the lack of say being able to use fur trade at 36 min or the military upgrades you will miss out on by including crates nd the like. I wonder how fast i could do an aztec water boom. Will have to try this
Haha funny interjection with umeu and the trade man lol !
Need more videos like this!. Good stuff.
At 22:15, you mention 18 llamas = 5400 food after fattening, but I think it's 7200. Maybe you were thinking of sheep (300 food each)?
Wow, this is epic! This may be a legit order for 1v1 for FI
Wow. It's Boneng, thank you very much :). If you can make this work in a 1v1 then go ahead and email me the recorded game. A recolt strat would be pretty funky. aoeinterjection[at]gmail[dot]com ;)
Great vid man. :D
insane
amazing times!!!!! I remember the same contest - for IV though using nilla was on Texas - and in 7.10 if I remember correct.... Could be fun to have a contest using only nilla civs and maps
I believe they had to use level 1 homecities for that too, sounds pretty fun
lol - I don't remember that part - but its likely
Odeton won it with French on Texas in 7:27. He deleted his starting towers to give exp to the CPU so that it would send more crates for him to steal. I think the prize was a trip to Ensemble Studios in Dallas. There were also prizes (ES merchandise I think) for the fastest times with each civ. Little bit more info here: www.ensemblestudios.com/archive22006.aspx and here: forum.agecommunity.com/forums/thread/984677.aspx
yea - thats the one I remember - nice find Absoluvely
Bring this series back man!
about time
Honestly you've been either very lazy or extremely busy :P
Also, I'm a Captain now :D
I must admit that I've been both busy and lazy and that the combination has really hurt my TH-cam output. Good work on captain! :)
Interjection Just watched it, definitely worth the effort :P
Thanks man :)
Interjection Also, you can ignore any recorded games I sent to you like 2 months ago cus they were from when I was MS or 2nd lieut so they're pretty irrelevant :P
this video is one of these things that only people who truly play the game will understand
exciting video!
aizamk has some crazy cow strats
Indeed he does #cowhax
i like the music at the last minutes of the vidio
Nice Video editing
I don't know how they're gaining xp and home shipments so fast. I couldn't do this if I was getting one home shipment after another. They've got a secret to gaining xp for those home shipments I've never seen before.
+450rmack They actually don't send very many shipments at all, the shipments they do send they got of the back of the early TPs and the fact that early game shipments come quite quickly :). I checked all the recordings, every's legit!
Allak is still playing??? Woow
Iroquois twice in a row :)
I am actually sad that vanilla civ didn't seem to have made any strat which could compete with them :(
Yeah, it might be nice to do a vanilla civ only challenge next time :)
6 years ago, I wonder if this is still the record...
I guess it is still the record.
I know its a bit late but I thought 1) I actually enjoy these challenges and 2) what about fastest 200/200 challenge?
Hey, nice idea with those CCs!
Also, did you drop the idea of just casting good games? Or are you working on those as well? :)
I'll still be casting good games, I've just been a bit busy lately. I want to get back into it properly :)
Are there any more challenges available?
Maybe a challenge could be max settlers the fastest? Or who can kill the AI on expert the fastest?
+Joshua Sommer actually, we've don't both of those. Should find them on the channel somewhere if you look through the videos
+Interjection thanks mate
I Liked too much. So you know if should have others civs doing this things...??
?Any other challenges coming up
it seems to me some players (#1 for sure!) used maphacks to see where the cows are on the map...
did you not say "no hacks"?
Of course technically he could have saved, looked for all the cows, memorized their placement and loaded, but I think hacks are more likely.
and I wonder - if Umeu had used a settler in his opponents base to gather crates as well - would he have won? I think so
People asked me if they could use the cheat code "x marks the spot" to reveal the map to see if they liked it (and I suppose to see where the livestock was). If they liked the map, they'd then use the restart game button which single player has which would reload the exact same map. (or they could save it and reload as you suggested). They'd then play on the map normally and not use any cheats/hax :). Eiterway, the motive behind me saying that cheats and hacks were not aloud was mainly to stop people collecting resources faster than settlers can in a normal game, placement of livestock isn't really in the same league in my opinon. I can confirm that I checked all the times submitted for cheating, gather rates are all normal and all resources accounted for. (Checking Aizamks time was difficult because he qued so many cows/sheep just be fore he clicked up but in the end all the resources where accoutned for, no extra.
It is possible that Umeu's time would have been faster if he stole resources, but he didn't think of doing it or chose not to in his game :), It does make you wonder though :)
i didnt steal res because auracania is such a long map and walking the vil across the map wouldve almost not made it worth it. i think aklaks bo is better in the end. but i do think auracania is better with the tp. but no sure. cba to check now :P
From Swiss There we have it, folks
From Swiss
are you sure about that? you could have collected crates more than once if you had used treaty mode ;)
SoWeMeetAgain
Nah, if you're going to be stealing crates you want to vs Expert bot and non-treaty. If you use treaty there's that annoying building restriction which would prevent you from using trading posts.
Where to download the full version? Is it payed Game?
8:20 great.
I've done this shlt in less than a min
+NuclearSoldiers Medium rare please and Give me liberty or give me coin??
+Ronod Nanirusu Legit
Bruh im laughing after 4 years lmao good one.
why the bot never atack when not is treaty?
They either set the difficulty setting low or the bot is programmed not to attack before 10 minutes or something like that :)
Interjection NO !!! it wasn't Treaty and it was in Expert mode ! why the enemy didn't attack ?!!! the enemy should attack atleast at 5-6min in Expert mode or Even Hard mode
+Imperial Games he said they programmed it...
Are they pausing the game frequently to instantly control their settlers and animals?
Yes
wonder why the iroquis didnt age up with the vills. they would have had the maximum amount of time to gather him recouses, and use the crate age up as age 4 ageup to make age 5 cheaper, and use the fast age up for age 5
for second place, i dont get why he would ship cheaper trading posts. rather wait till age 2 and get 3 trading posts for free which is the max you can build now anyway
first place, why did he sent his villagers back to his own town?
what about the second key you wanted to give ? :)
Well, I originally intended to give away a key to the player who set the fastest time using treaty and to the fastest player who didn't use treaty (because I thought some people would be annoyed that they could have used treaty but thought it would have been against the rules as I didn't say anything about it in the video when I set the time). But it turns out that once even more times were sent to me, the fastest time didn't use treaty anyway so it made no sense to reward Aede who came in 5th with a key as the player who set the fastest time using treaty. I have bought a second copy of the game on Steam to give away but in the end I decided it would make more sense to give that key away in another community challenge. I did buy a second copy of the game though :P
Do you guys not hear or see even the guy at the end was a little fast? List fast Motion? But the clock was counting slower than a second
Jordan May I edited the playback speed if the video, the time was legit
Interjection how to play with iroquois in age of empires 3?? and what's the name of the map in place 2???
Abdelaziz Abid you need to have the Asian Dynasties pack for it
Natte Harry ok than you :)
Natte Harry Acctually you need the Warchiefs expansion pack to play the Iriquois
Awesome :D
Those guys...
where we can download this records ?
How did Aklak hit 20 Settlers gathering in the end? What did i miss?
Petras Nils He aged up with 10 settlers to industrial (or fortress, can't remember which)
Interjection
Thank you, i was completely baffled...
So does this mean I (Red_Ninja2) got in the top 10? (Since I'm in the description I was just curious)
I'll put the leaderbored in the description in a couple of days but I can tell you now that Red Ninja set the 24th fastest time :)
Interjection oh.... I shouldn't have asked, I should have just been proud of the fact that I was mentioned in the description! Lol thanks for letting me know!
BROS Clan Well, if we only count one entry per player then you came in 12th ;)
Oh that's better! Thanks!
I'm mentioned in the description! :D Could I know what place I got?
22nd fastest time submitted out of all times submitted :). But if we only count 1 submission per player then you were a lot higher!
Hehe cool :D
@@CalebPendergast Whats your time?,
i know this comment is 6 years old,
i hope you still do play the game :).
@@JourneytoBetterSelf 13:12. I went looking through my email back 6 years haha I can send you the replay if you'd like xD
Haven't played in a few years since I deleted my Steam account, but age3 is one of if not the best game I've played. Glad you're enjoying it :)
@@CalebPendergast wow bro after 6 years.
Nice time record :)
What is your name in age 3?
aede probably has the only remotely functional strat haha
The ottoman 1 was cool but was water and treaty
Any video for French....?
hi interjection!
improved mod?
how did aklak know bout this why isnt he on eso anymore??
Probably on the RTS sanct forum
easy, you didnt prohibit cheating or specify the starting age
third place?
Im General_Ringo :)
I prefer to start nomad
winner: 29:36
Aizamk the goat
Interjection can you do this faster
There's no way I could do this faster even having seen how Aklak did it, these guys would have spent hours trying to get the perfect crate start and perfect map and perfect CPU bot who leaves shipments on the floor
ok
oh no someone disliked the video :(
25:17 lol
damn aklak. anti climax XD
Better luck next time Umeu
lol aklak also couldve been faster even. congratz :D
Interjection haha king of crazy strats more like it. macro isnt really an issue in this challenge cuz its on slow speed. you just need the right bo, right civ map etc. ty interjection was alot of fun
By macro I meant the choosing a BO and being able to execute it side of macro. But you're right. He's still a monster though. This was a lot fun, just a pain in ass to make this video, but I'm very happy with the result :)
Interjection ye now i saw his strat i probably shouldve done something similar on auracania. i basically wasted 2 shipments with the 3v and atp. if i had 1 tp and then done his bo, the tres n stuff on auracania, i think i couldve beaten his time by a bit. tho maybe not, u only need so many shipments
only ottos and iros lol
I think it's funny you say iroq-wa and Trav-oys
Azbazzer The correct pronunciation is Iro-qua. and Trav-wa (but I still say Travoys for some reason)
Yeah, I can understand. I was just pointing out you say one right but the other differently when they have the same French ending. Btw, I think you have made my game play a lot better and I enjoy watching and waiting for your next uploads!
Ha! At the beginning he says ladies and gentlemen! As if ladies play video games! Even if they do, very few play AOE!
penis
Collin Buckley penus
Okay pajeet
I know 3 who play aoe 3 and two ladies who watch videos of aoe 3 ... leave the ridiculous
Only 08:20..... Pretty slow.