In-line with the "meet other players" bit, would anyone be interested in doing a stress test with a mod I am working on? So far, I've only had three players max, and I'd like to see how the mod performs with, hopefully, 6 in a 3x3.
I'm also chasing a desync error that so far has proven difficult to replicate, and I think it might have something to do with lag, so if the additional lag of more players causes desyncs I know that I'll have to go and do some optimizations to my scripts.
The general plan would be to make a 3x3 game with cheats enabled and quickly spam units, god powers, and rituals, and see how much lag is created and if desyncs occur.
The mod page here is
https://aom.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=19,30162,,30 and the page on steam (with the current version and tech tree pdf) is https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2544640732. If you're interested, you can find me on steam or on discord.