3v3 / 4v4 gripes: Bad pocket players

[MILNOR]

This happens alot but I cannot stand players in pocket position (the middle) who camp their entire army in their base and dont respond to calls for help. What makes it worse is that they are almost always the ones who type "My teamm8s sux!" if you get broken down but 2-3 other players at once. Anyone else who plays with random players get this?

[ExTiNcT_SaNitY]

All the time, that's why I try to keep it down to 2v2.

[Sten]

Plus with 8 players is extremely likely to have a player drop or the game to lag.

[Jadam]

Will the player drop/mp lag addressed in the upcoming patch? Does anyone know about this?

[Crimson]

Originally posted by Jadam:

Will the player drop/mp lag addressed in the upcoming patch? Does anyone know about this?

I get pretty sick of seeing questions like this. It is *impossible* to fix player drop or lag. That's due to network issues that are out of anyone's control. Doesn't matter how solid the game's networking is.

[leandrombraz]

I think most players on AoEIIHD don't even know what is to be the pocket, they have no clue what is their role.

I'm keeping down to 2v2 as well, but even in 2v2 I get some situations that are even funny when I watch the replay (I always do that to see what I did wrong), like today, I got rushed (well deserved, I was slow), my teammate refused to send me help because he was being attacked too. When I watched the replay, what he called an attack was merely the enemy scout on his TC, that he could easily deal with garrisoning, while I was being raped by archers (which I told him). It's like they don't realize that after you are dead, they are the next.

[giant perfecto]

yep

[ExTiNcT_SaNitY]

Really wish there was an achivement for such, and we could see it before game starts, if it's a clueless n00b or a decent gamer.

[eyeball_kid]

I'm sure SaN will laugh at this as I was his partner in 2v2 once and admittedly played horribly...but I recently played a 2v2 vs. a clan where I just so happened to have one of my best dark/feudal/castle build-times ever, and was ahead score-wise of my opponents. I noticed my ally's score was significantly lower than mine... researched cartog and noticed he was still in feudal at 25 minutes eating berries with no farms. fml.

[MILNOR]

Is there a way or exploit that lets users decide who gets pocket position?
If not that would be an awesome feature to add as you could get dedicated position players or you could position your less expieranced friends in the middle.