Well, I for one hope for beavers.
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As food or gold?
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Beavers are a bit on the small side (though so are chickens and hares), and Iām pretty they donāt contain much goldā¦
Gold.
No, but beaver pelts were extremely valuable at some point in time.
Silver mines giving gold seems odd to me.
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Yes, in AoE 3 you have coal mines (2,000 coins), salt mines (10,000 coins), and the most powerful, diamond mines (100,000 coins). However, the last one is exclusive to the South African Revolutionā¦
(in AoE 2 it could simply appear on some map in South Africa like Gold Rush, but in Extreme mode instead of gold mines it has a single diamond mine in the middle of the savanna map surrounded by lions with 100,000 gold, and players fight over it)ā¦
That came laterā¦the fur trade led to the Beaver Wars in the 17th century between the French and Algonquians against the British, Dutch and the Haudenosauneeā¦here Samuel de Champlain fighting against the Hauds at Ticonderoga (New York) in July 1609ā¦
Beavers were also eaten historically, and selling animal products is already represented by selling food at the market.
Maybe itās just me, but I find animals giving gold weird, especially with instant drop-off like foxes have. I understand what it represents, I just donāt think itās a good representation. I think it should at least require drop-off at a market.
In the Video of Zetnus, it says at the end that there are new animal strings in the game without models. Some are very similar to existing models, jo they could just be renames of models.
The list is: Dingo, Alligator, Emu, Leopard, Cheetah, Wartthog, Bush pig, Urial, dog
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So another African DLC (and maybe an Oceania one) is on the way too?
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Yes, probably renames only. Dingo (Arabian Wolf) and Alligator (Crocodile) were present before. My assumptions for the other ones:
- Emu ā Rhea
- Leopard, Cheetah ā Jaguar
- Warthog ā Wild Boar
- Bush Pig ā Javelina (new version)
- Urial ā Argali
- Dog ā predator modified to use the War Dog model, representing a stray dog
Cheetahs look nothing like jaguars, so this wouldnāt make sense
These animals look nothing alike.
These animals are also wildly from different places. I donāt think we can get DLC hints out of them.
Urial are from Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan.
Bush Pigs are from East/South Africa.
Warthogs are from all of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Emus & Dingo are from Australia
Itās a real mix of animals.
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Aboriginals dlc or a forgotten type one?
Thereās a random map called Dingos that got a remake fairly recently, but the ādingosā in it are just wolves. Maybe there is/was a plan to add an actual dingo unit to replace them ā and maybe use emus as huntables on that map.
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Sure, Iād also like to have distinct sprites for those animals, and a tame cheetah which people used for hunting, too. But those are only strings rather than units, so I expect them to work just like Dingo and Alligator - renaming the creature depending on the map or biome. Iād be positively suprised if those were added as distinct animals instead.
In AoE3DE, Boars look like Warthogs, Crocs reuse the Alligator model. The African Buffalo (named Water Buffalo) in AoMR is also used to represent its Asian relative. Sometimes they take the effort to create or alter a model for a new animal related to the existing ones, sometimes they donāt.
Unlikely, given they make the Tupi look like a good civ idea.
Itās likely for map variety.
Honestly, Im kinda umsure what to think about the Tupi. Their history under Portugal and their relation with the Europeans is super interesting, but adding civs with practically not any interesting stories while independent feels wrong. It bugs me way more than them not using stone irl
I think I would have much prefered to get any other Andine civ, the Ecuatorian Jibaros or the Caribbean Tainos over them.
What kind of pre-European stories did the Taino have? Their history is extremely scarce.
Its not that their history is great but more in the sense that the Tainos had a bunch of armed rebellions in the timeline, such as Enriquilloās