AbstractEmpowerer

Age of Empires III: DE III - Report a Bug
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The tech NatXPApacheEndurance has an additional buff to units with the tag AbstractEmpowerer… and the only unit that has that tag is the Griot.

As far as I can tell, this is the only use for the tag and it seems like an unintended interaction between two entirety unrelated concepts that were mostly scrapped.

The effect is negligible, I’m just more curious about what was intended purpose the AbstractEmpowerer unit type.

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I think the obvious answer is that they created the tag with the idea of having it available if they ever create another similar unit. If tomorrow they decide to introduce a unit or technology that gives a buff to a building’s production just by being nearby or assigned to work there for sure will receive the tag