The Asian Dynasties

Yes, AoE3 has gone platinum and to celebrate this magnificent achievement, ES is hosting a new contest with juicey prizes at stake.

This is the announcement from GameSpot's official web-site:

Microsoft Game Studios and Ensemble Studios have revealed that Age of Empires III for the PC has gone platinum. No official numbers were released, but both companies tout the strategy game as the fastest-selling chapter of the franchise since being released in October.

To celebrate the game's success, Ensemble is hosting a contest for fans of the game. The company is looking for speedy Caesars, movin' Mussolinis, and quick Qadaffis to compete against each other to see who can reach the Industrial Age the fastest. Through the game's Web site, contestants can upload recorded games and track the competition.

The fastest fascist will receive a pimped-out computer courtesy of Intel, and the second and third place finishers will be awarded Nvidia 7800GTX and 7800GT graphics cards, respectively.

So go check it out at AgeCommunity.com!

This post has been edited by ^Glorious^: Feb 17 2006, 16:31 PM

Awesome!

Objective:

Use any civilization with a level 1 Home City and get to the Industrial Age (IV) as fast as you can.
Settings:

You must play a single player skirmish using a level 1 Home City and the following settings.

Map - You may use any random map that shipped with Age of Empires III, except for Saguenay and Carolina.

Game Rules - SupremacyFactory

Starting Age - Discovery Age

Difficulty - Sandbox

Player handicap - Off.

Game Speed - Any.

Record Game - On.

Free For All - Off.

interesting for the treasure hunting aspect. I wonder if I could select a map tough rahter then leave it at random.duno what that means, but I assume not much changesseem like slow would help you the most

So looking at this for the first time a few things jump out at me.

1. portugal, you'd get a lot of villagers quickly + free housing. and you can produce trough again up.
2. explorer micro will win the game, since the basic strats are all kinda similar, and easy to replicate.
3. I think a lot of people will learna lot about starting cards for civs in this go around. shipments will be interesting

Black Foot, based on your plan for portugal, this is your chance to shine.

cool competition



Argh I just tried a game with my level 50 spain on carolina, didnt know that you had to use lvl 1 and no carolina (sucks ).

Good luck to everyone who will try to beat me at this, Ill be trying this 24/7 i want that computer .

This post has been edited by Evry1: Feb 2 2006, 00:30 AM

I've tried once and my time was 10:39 with Dutch.

My time was ~9:20 on carolina

You're too good.

carolina is disallowd

i know lol .

Thats true, but I'm working on it with brits cuz they seem to be the most effective for starting hc cards. I'm trying uber hard on this =)