Age of Empires II building and AI

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@ElevenBarley622

I think that’s one reason I really like that game.

You like building limitations like was done in AoE3? I can’t tell from how you worded things,as you said you “really like that game” (AoE3??) after saying you like building a bunch of towers/structures.

To me, it seems odd and I can’t fathom anyone wanting build limits, so I wanted clarification. If you prefer AoE3’s way with limitations, I wonder why?

@ElevenBarley622

Also, I’ve noticed something peculiar about the AI in the game. If you play a custom skirmish scenario, an enemy AI will suddenly give up once you harass them with your units enough, even if they haven’t lost many structures. Why is that?

Try hitting “104” and see if that stops them. You may need to do it via “AI Commands” in the chat window access via the trumpet icon; and make sure “Everyone” is the audience for your “104” chat first.

• Note: I actually don’t know what the exact method needs to be, but I asked devs over in a different thread here.

Here are a few main threads about this topic, with recent activity because it seems “104” isn’t working 100% reliably these days… and it’s had a checkered past in terms of success rate:

• AI too sensitive. They resign way too early. Please fix
• How to stop the AI from resigning?
• AI Keeps Resigning

@Mercy9545

In AoE II, you are kinda limited by the amount of defensive structures that are viable to build because stone is a scarce resource on the map.

Somewhat limited, but kind of not really because at the Market you can keep buying stone with gold forever.

I’ve played games vs. AI where I’ve bought so much stone the cost of it was off-the-charts expensive. IIRC, it visually caps the price for stone in the Market UI icon at “9999”. (At least it did in AoE2:HD. I haven’t tried to buy so much of any one resource in DE yet.)

• Or maybe it was “99,999”?. Either way, you can make it really expensive and keep buying it, although the price reaches a max at some point, at least visually (I’m not sure if it was actually getting more expensive than 9,999 or not. Visually in the icon, though, there was a max. There is a max value that gets displayed for the collected resources at the top of the screen, too; at least in HD )

With this, I’ve made tons of castles, tons of wonders, tons of walls, and tons of towers in any one match.

@Mercy9545

The AI will resign if it is far behind and losing stuff, though it won’t do so if you type ‘105’ to it (there was a bug where this didn’t work anymore, I don’t know if they have fixed it).

For AoE2:DE, “104” is the command to use, not “105”.

• 104 tells AIs not to resign
• 105 tells AIs it is okay to resign

AoE2:HD had different commands for this. I think it was “100” and “101”, respectively; but don’t quote me.