Age up times

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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Hi all,

I have been reading a lot about aggressive/acceptable age up times in AoE II-DE. And while I have found them useful to get better, and focus on the goal (I used to love studying every tech at each age), I did want to ask the community if the numbers that are typically seen are given in actual human time, or game display time.

I ask because I play on Speed-2.0. I just hate watching villagers saunter over to build a house.

In real time I can level up at 6:30, but obviously in game time this means 11:00.

I just wanna know if I am actually off by a factor of two.

Cheers yall!

-JAG

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Most (or maybe even all) guides will use the ingame timer.

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You should see in-game time at the top of the screen. If you can’t see it, press F11 a few times.

Ranked games are played at 1.7 speed.

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Thanks for the reply. So i saw a video guide at casual speed. And the game timer wasnt on. But the player didnt level up til ~7 minutes in real world time. Which i guess would be about 11 minutes on the game clock. Is that what im understanding? Or do people really only take 3 minutes (real time) to level up.

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This table shows the perfect up times (ingame clock) which you want to hit based on the number of vills of the BO.

So if your goal is 21 pop (+loom) at reaching feudal age, then 11.00 min is pretty bad (9:40 is perfect time, so you already have 100 seconds of idle time at your TC.

If you are doing some 25+2 (without loom) FC build, then reaching feudal age at 11.00 is pretty good (10.55 is perfect time to reach feudal age in that build, so just 5 seconds of idle time).

So reaching feudal age at 11 minutes can be good or bad based on your strategy.

For your example at the stream: 7 minutes in real life is around 11 minutes on the ingame clock. The references in this post are all based on the in game clock.

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jeebus-H thanks for clearing that up.

But uhh… im guessing “vills”= villagers, but what is “BO”?

And i hear you about depending on strategy. I usually play against moderate and can win with little trouble. But theres a cheevo for beating hardest…i suspect thats gonna be the lords work

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Vills is indeed villagers.
BO = build order.

If you want to know more about Build orders:


This is a great guide with lots of Build orders to get you started.

If you like videos, then i could recommended the following:

Both are playlists with lots of info about build orders. These guides might be more focused on multiplayer, but are also very useful against the AI.

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Thanks so much. Ive been playing since middle school but now wanna get good in my 30s since im bored shitless. I appreciate your patience and more importantly the in depth nature of your responses.

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Here are age up times for generic and civ specific

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