I don't know how you guys practice but I always practice on ESO now with a test ID. My test id is a 1700 or so and when my friends come over they get to play using him or when I need to try something new I use him. Heres why:
I tried vrs a hard computer. I had a 7:28 Ra heroic pattern down and it was preety flawless. The computer never even posed a slight threat. I tried the exact same thing online vrs a posiedon player. I made it to heroic at like 11:00. Why? Rushes, horsies. Forward building. So now my Ra Heroic rush strategy included crenalations, an extra tower, ringing my primary gold mine with houses, Walls and an extra priest.
I had similar adjustments to all my strategys practices vrs the PC. So now online some people get mad at me when I go to heroic in 9 and say NOT FAST ENOUGH and then resign and Try again vrs someone else. I would never do this with my real ID though.
Strats I have seen lately and practiced (If anyones knows any other popular ones let me know)
**Posiedon Calvary Rush (PCR)
Zeus Hoplite Rush (ZHR)
Hades Toxote Rush (HTR)
**Fast Ra Heroic (FRH)
**Isis Turtle (IT)
Loki Hersir Rush (LHR)
Thor TA Rush (TTR)
[This message has been edited by IDCAMS (edited 12-13-2002 @ 09:38 AM).]