What is defined as "Laming"?

[NEFARIUS]

I have seen queer strategies in-game, and have come across the term "laming". What are some strategies that you consider "laming" and how do you think it is defined?

[Ham]

Killing opponents sheep, stealing opponents boar, is considered laming. IE: lame

[OldGamer]

Originally posted by Ham:

Killing opponents sheep, stealing opponents boar, is considered laming. IE: lame

also laming used to mean stacking up against your enemy by building walls in the dark age around their base (typically BF) so they had nowhere to grow.
However, alot of the tourney players now actually play like this lol. It has become meta.

[Strawhatya]

Google, no need to make a thread out of that.

[Terminator]

You can easily google the general meaning of laming, but it is harder to find what is considered laming in AoE II. So I think this thread makes sense.

[woodsmanac]

Originally posted by Strawhatya:

Google, no need to make a thread out of that.

Well he got his answer didn’t he?
Maybe he doesn’t like google.

[Strawhatya]

this is the first thing that comes up if u google: aoe2 laming
https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/231qvt/opinions_on_laming/

it coudlnt be more in detail. he cant get a better answer here.
its absolute place and time waste to post something like this, sry but its just a fact.

[woodsmanac]

Originally posted by Strawhatya:

this is the first thing that comes up if u google: aoe2 laming
https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/231qvt/opinions_on_laming/

it coudlnt be more in detail. he cant get a better answer here.
its absolute place and time waste to post something like this, sry but its just a fact.

Facts shmaks.

[VIKANG]

Originally posted by Strawhatya:

this is the first thing that comes up if u google: aoe2 laming
https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/231qvt/opinions_on_laming/

it coudlnt be more in detail. he cant get a better answer here.
its absolute place and time waste to post something like this, sry but its just a fact.

You post a new thread every other day looking for people to play with. That is what really takes up unneccessary space on this forum (can't really grasp how you've found noone btw but that's beside the point). He asked our opinion on what WE consider lame, not the people in the reddit thread. Get out of here with this negativity.

[VIKANG]

To the topic at hand:
What is considered "lame" varies bewtween players. I don't consider stealing an opponents resources to be lame at any stage in the game, regardless if it's luring a boar with your scout or towering up the enemy stone to mine it for yourself. Fact of the matter is that if you can't defend against the lame you probably wouldn't have won even if your opponent didn't lame.

Edit: I realize this answer doesn't really clarify what most people consider laming. Laming is when you go forward to the enemy base very early and deny them resources in some way or even send your scout before they have loom to try to kill one villager. For example going in dark age to put walls around the stone or gold of your opponent is considered laming.

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[Davyxdavez]

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[Basarab Laiota]

Basically preventing someone from harvesting a resource by stealing it, blocking it off by making walls or deleting it outright (killing a deer, removing a straggler tree). It's a part of the game so you shouldn't feel bad about incorporating it into a strategy, but yeah it might make people upset.

[NEFARIUS]

I personally percieve it as exploiting the game mechanic "flaws"(the "feel" one might get from meta-gaming in a D&D session).

[VIKANG]

Originally posted by NEFARIUS:

I personally percieve it as exploiting the game mechanic "flaws"(the "feel" one might get from meta-gaming in a D&D session).

If they were in fact flaws then they could have been patched ages ago. An exploit in my mind is something which abuses a broken, unintended mechanic.

[OldGamer]

Originally posted by ♛:

Originally posted by NEFARIUS:

I personally percieve it as exploiting the game mechanic "flaws"(the "feel" one might get from meta-gaming in a D&D session).

If they were in fact flaws then they could have been patched ages ago. An exploit in my mind is something which abuses a broken, unintended mechanic.

It's a competitive game guys. Not a happy hippos game for kids.

If I want gold. I am going to mine it wherever on the map.
Map control. And the map is all mine.
:)