Age of Quantity?

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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I don’t know. Maybe they think we’re fighting too much.

Also how did you manage to write a post with so few characters?

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e.g. compared to Vikings, Armenians could be seen as a minor civ.
Considering a subciv under the umbrella of Armenians, it will be a rather minor one.
We could set a range that the new civ should varies from as big as Vikings, to as small as Armenians. Lesser ones like Genoa or Venice shouldn’t be added.

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As long as we haven’t gotten at least 1 American and 1 African DLC, I want more civs. And even afterwards I’m in favour of more of it. The only DLC I liked so far post-DE (apart The Last Khans with its great Central Asian flavour), is Dynasties of India. Just because some people have gotten the civs they wanted doesn’t mean that other people shouldn’t get the civs they want just because they have a feeling that “Now it’s enough because I got my insert fav civ from a DE DLC. I don’t want this other culture I didn’t bother to read more about”.

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I think there is room for 60 civs.

Starting from 45 :

  1. Jurchens, Tanguts, Khitans → 48 (with Korean and Chinese campaigns)
  2. Serbs, Croats, Romanians → 51 (with Slav, Turk and Magyar campaigns)
  3. Somalians, Songhais and Nubians or Swahilis → 54
  4. Chimus and Mapuches → 56 (with Mayan campaign)
  5. Iroquois and Dutch (but we have to push the timeframe to 1650, something we can consider now that AOE3 will not receive any additional content) → 58
  6. Vandals, Thais (with Roman, Viking and Japanase campaigns) : some sort of the forgotten naval DLC → 60
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Those are very good suggestions. Expand the current game system and give more choices.

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Thank you! More civs is fine, especially if it helps keep updates coming, in general. My vote is for some more creative things on occasion, though.

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60 is a good number. But I will say 64 is better number. Considering upcoming DLC will add 3 new civs - Jurchens, Tanguts and Khitans, and Koreans campaign, we will have 48 civs in total. So that will give us 16 more rooms. My suggestion would be -

South America - Mapuches and Chimus. (with Mayans campaign)
East Africa - Nubians and Somalis. (with Turks campaign)
South-East Asia - Cham and Siamese. (with Chinese campaign)
Central Asian - Khazar, Sogdians and Gokturks. (with Magyars campaign)
India - Pashtuns, Kannadigas and Sinhalese.

For last 4, either -
Africa - Any two among Kanembu, Swahali, Benin, Shona, Congolese, Songhai, Soninke
America - Zapotec and Musica

or just add 4 Africans.

If this DLC doesn’t include Khitans, Central Asian DLC needs to be split into two.

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There’s no maximum limit for quantity of civs, they’ll keep adding while they sell.

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I don’t totally agree.
They found a beautiful way to make money, without degrading the core game with a boring european split : Chronicles. They can add a lot of stories !

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I don’t really think of there beeing a civilisation cap.
Why should they stop adding civilisations when people keep buying DLC? Like ever?
World of Warcraft is also still getting new DLC.

As long as they don’t start adding to many civs at once everyone will have many months to learn the new civs. I don’t think 4 civs/year are too many to learn.

Of course the more civs they add the less popular ones are left to be added, but that’s where Chronicles comes in and allows civs from a different time period to be added.

But I don’t think we run out of civs any times soon. We only have 1 civ in South America and people already want to split apart the HRE.

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I think we need more maps. There are very few maps I like, so would appreciate more options. Age of Quantity should hit the map section

As a player who plays vs. AI all the time (unranked), I play for the experience and immersion, not for the robotic competition of it.

Unfortunately, 95% of the land-centric maps look like hand-sculpted arenas rather than natural, organically formed land areas. I don’t want mirrored land and water features. No historic battles had mirrored lands, so it’s weird to me that it’s so hard to find natural maps. I end up playing the same one or two maps as I try to avoid the mirrored arena look AND have green scenery (I rule out snow, sand, and archipelago maps, or maps where water is so encroaching on land that ship fire can reach towns). It’s pretty impossible, though

I know MP ranked people would hate having organic maps, so just add a filter for the natural ones and don’t put them in ranked map pools.

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