Some problems I've noticed.

I've noticed a few things that don't make sense when playing online. First of all, a lot of the maps I get are bullshit, with resources so far away and things so spread out it's a logistical nightmare and screws me. It seems to happen a lot on Arabia.

I lose control of units totally. Today I was playing and I noticed that my army was moving by itself. I would mass, and if I wasn't paying attention, they would all run off towards the other players Castle and die, no trigger for it, not enemy in their LOS. I sat there and redirected them over and over and finally got them to pull back, but it fucked me all up.

Units do not attack. It's not a stance thing. They just won't fight back. Everything can't be done with a patrol, sometimes I don't want my units walking back, I want them to move and sit and attack on sight, seems to be hit or miss on my units ever giving a fight. It's infuriating. It's not just units, my castle refused to fire on the enemy until I select the castle and then right click the bad guy. It's fucking great battling and wondering what the hell is happening only to realize that the castle fire is idle. It's not murder holes, I know what I'm doing.

There seem to be too many ways for people to set up a loss for their opponent with options. FPT "friends pick teams" guranteed fucking by people who are all working together. I see a lot of Black Forrest games where it's 4v4 and I'll sit there forever seemingly playing a farming sim, until the attack starts, and then one of my allies just drops out and quits. It happens all the time.

What's up with the community only playing on the Black Forrest, Arabia and arena maps, with an occasional gold rush? Black Forrest sucks. Arabia? Ok, but why all the time? Has the community heard of the dock that exists in the game? Or that there are water maps, Archipelego, Baltic, Highlands, etc? I've only been able to play on 2 water maps in 1v1v1v1v1v1 games. I've tried hosting, but people aren't interested in any diversity in their experience.

I think the reason many people are as good as they are in rating is because there is no variety (almost as if people have spent years playing only one way, on one map, and WILL NOT vary) and people set up bad situations in the options before the game and will sabotage their team with a junk account for their friends.

I've lost out on numerous wins due to lag becoming a problem and people not cooperating with the continue/save and exit option. I've sat there for 20 minutes trying to out wait the losing team so that I can walk away with a deserved win only to end up giving up and quitting so that I can have my life back.