I agree with your point, game should be played like you want, but the problem is that you require a high amount of villagers to win, there is less army management and a lot of villagers, this makes ugly a s at the same time is not fun to watch.
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I don’t know what do you think would change from limiting villagers, because if you see tournament matches, despite pros having a lot of villagers they use every single resource.
Limiting villagers would only make the game slower if you don’t modify the villagers collecting rate…
Also this is a RTS game not a total war, large epic battles are not assumed.
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Be careful, that’s not bad… that’s how you win by defending the wonder… it’s still valid…
Yes, that’s why I prefer 40-50 villagers to maintain an orderly economy and not have to do too much macro…if I want to have too many villagers collecting resources, I’d better play sim city or farmville xd…
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My intention is that the Meta favors producing military units and being aggressive, if producing 150 villagers works it is because the Meta favors them with a boom strategy
But I do see pros and no pros gain advantage by being agressive.
Me for example, yesterday, played against french as english, done a lot of longbows and spears and erase that guy in feudal.
Playing as Delhi the same, a lot of military is done in feudal to get sacred sites and raid enemy.
@HasanIchess A game I just played:
Map control > Villagers
He had no more gold in his map.
and I didn’t put up any walls. Just the one in the market because he wanted to trade, but I killed the traders with a few horsemen and he refused.
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PUP
If I was passionate about city management, I’d rather play “Manor Lords” but I came to ae4 for battles and war strategy, please give more importance to the army, for God’s sake!
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I could sure use more graphs to help convince me that 120 villagers is enough for me and that I would never want more. Please keep 'em coming!
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Well this thread helped me discover that this forum has a mute feature.
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Everyone publishes what they like and what interests them. There are posts with many comments and likes but they have been closed due to toxicity
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For sure. But 400 villagers interests me. If I owned AoE4, I think I would post charts of how I quickly reach the pop cap in 90% of the games I play 
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Manor Lords is what AoE 4 should look like…
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If you open it in another thread, I will answer you about this topic
Na,i´m fine with that…it’s only an opinion…
As Beastyqt said, patches should be based on the data of professionals not the average
What I just wanted to point, is that not everytimes the guy with more villagers just win because he had more villagers, this is an oversimplification of the game.
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Yes, this is no secret. The franchise has been kept alive due to the success of AoE2. AoE 4 was therefore modeled as an iteration of it. This should not surprise anyone.
Yep, we agree.
My entire post was line-by-line counterpoints to the OP.
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