# AOE-V should be based on AOE-3 **URL:** \ **Category:** III - Discussion\ **Created:** [June 3, 2022, 7:39pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/aoe-v-should-be-based-on-aoe-3/205602 "2022-06-03T19:39:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
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I feel that AOE-3 is a great game and although it is not the most popular, ironically it is designed to adapt to different tastes and styles of play due to its great diversity of mechanics. That’s why I think the next Age of Empires sequel should be inspired by AOE-3. AOE-3 touched on so many new concepts that it’s a shame AOE-4 didn’t consider any of the many things that AOE-3 considered and implemented: - Alliances with local populations. - Mercenaries and outlaws that you can hire. - Cattle raising. - Treasures spice up exploration and give slight advantages when you get them. - Maps with a lot of details (Although all AOE have it, including AOE-O, but I don’t know why in AOE-4 there are no flying birds or crocodiles). I mean Gaia in general where the details do count. - Very unique civilizations with very unique units. - Metroploli and experience mechanics, which in short are supplies and/or support with technologies or politics from the capital. - ‘Leader’ or ‘Hero’ type units that can scout or give Bonuses to your troops, and have different abilities. Surely I have things to comment on, but I think the contributions of AOE-3 should not be discarded, which in turn is based a bit on AOM. I also think that these mechanics would apply to any period of setting and not only to the era in which AOE-3 is set (Since the discovery of America, until almost the 20th century). It could for example apply to classical antiquity. * * * **AOE-4 Forum:** [AOE-V should be based on AOE-3](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/aoe-v-should-be-based-on-aoe-3/205603) --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/aoe-v-should-be-based-on-aoe-3/205602)._