AI Should Ask To Surrender, Have Multiple Personalities

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@Eightnon

they were hellbent on making it an esports title, whereas all other games didn’t focus on competitive play and therefore offered a very colorful PvE experience, with lots of stuff to read and replay.

Better say, the older games were balanced about both aspects from the beginning. Tournaments always were part of AoE which is why Microsoft sponsored a 100k tournament for AoE 2 back in 2001 and pro players like Daut or Capoch are active for over 20 years now.
Also, for an esports title, AoE 4 is missing basic features the older games have, such as sharable replays.

Regarding the AI - I also made a topic back in August:

AoE 4's AI needs more personality and improvements

I guess it’s no secret that a good chunk of players within the AoE series just loves to play casually vs the AI, whether with friends or in Single Player and imo, AoE 4’s AI lacks in this department. In past AoE games, the AI had a lot of personality attached to it. This was achieved through various ways, e.g. naming the AI after historic leaders of the faction it was playing. It also had multiple possible names available as you can see in the example screenshot from AoE 1 below where all AI op…