Frustrated with lack of competition!

[Emperor[1G]]

Im seriously losing interest in the game, and not because of its horde of bugs and what not, those I can live with. Its the lack of any kind of competition! Night in and out, me and my clanmates host everything from 3v3's 2v2's even 3v2's against clans as well as general public. We're 11-0 versus clans, 11 different clans. Its gotten to the point no one will even play us.

After a month and a half of this game being released, you'd think there'd be improvement, but there isn't! Want an example?
Tonight in a 3v3 I went Spain, my allies were clanmates Desperado and Moooveziiig as Pontus and Brutii. Ok, so we had a Roman. Pontus and Spain especially are on the low end of the spectrum. Our opponents were Selecuid, Carthage and Sycthia. FOUR ARMORED ELEPHANTS DIVISIONS BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM NO LESS. Result? Clear victory, with our opponents scoring less kills combined then any of us singly. The Sythian had 54 kills.

We faced two clans tonight in 2v2 format, and beat both in under five minutes. We're not talking about Close Victories. I haven't lost a game since the first week the game was released!

I don't think its a matter that we are that good, I think its more a matter of people being THAT BAD. Am I just being arrogant? Is there something to this Im missing? Are the best players just not playing the game yet? I didn't play Shogun or Med online so I don;t know what to expect. I have well over 250 games played now online and I have MAYBE a dozen losses. I'm growing tired of this game quickly and I don't know how to rectify it.

Ive written a couple strat articles and a few instructional audio commentaries, and I figure maybe this will help some, but this won't fix the problem anytime soon. Bah I don't know anymore.

[Sp00n]

Yep most of the veterans arnt playing Rome online as its far inferior online to MTW and Shogun.

That and theres widespread cheating going on.

MizuSp00n

[CBR]

As I see it RTW has pretty much ruined the established MP community so most people playing online are new players. It will take some time before the new players/clans become skilled.


CBR

[Puzz3D]

I only played about 10 RTW MP battles about a month ago. That's all I needed to know I didn't want to spend my time playing RTW MP. I've experienced much better gameplay in the previous games. I've been working with CBR to bring the gameplay in barocca's STWmod for MTW/VI close to what it was in original STW, and it's quite close to that now. I'm converting all the original STW maps to MTW so that the STWmod can be used to play out the battles in the STW multiplayer campaign that Elmark is going to run. CBR is also improving his Community mod for MTW/VI, and both mods will be released as a package for online play in MTW/VI. If the RTW v1.2 patch fails to sufficiently improve multiplayer, I think a fair number of vets may start using these mods for MTW/VI, and we'll get a high level of challenge in those games if that happens.

[sweetzero]

As the other replies have stated very few of the MTW vets have gone over to RTW. Rather than just whining about the competition have you tried helping out some of the new players and giving them some training? I remember 18 months ago when I moved from sp to mp, one of my best friends now in the TW communty offered me some help and tips and spent some time showing me army selection and tactics. I've never forgotten the help he gave me and I do my best to help other new and inexperienced players in the TW games, although quite often my help is turned down.

The new clans do not understand the game and the subtleties of coordinated teamplay and until they do I'm afraid your games will not be very enriching.

[Cheetah]

Well said sweetzero!

[Cheetah]

Emperor, I really dont want to hurt you but what is the point of this thread other the bragging about your victories against this and that clan? Sweetzero raised a valid point when he pointed out that if you want improved opposition then there is something you can do for it by helping out new players (even if it has a "low return", which we know because RTK has a training system to help new players). His wording was indeed unfortunate but he already apologized for it. If you have nothing constructive to add then it is indeed better to close this thread.

and, yes, before you second guess I am an RTK too, RTKs are everywhere

finally, just to answer your original questions:

Am I just being arrogant?

yes

Is there something to this Im missing?

definitely, yes

Are the best players just not playing the game yet?

so so, some playing some waiting

GL and HF