Over the past month or so I’ve been working with multiple members of the active community to put together a list of suggestions to improve the game through QOL changes while specifically avoiding changes that could affect balance. We’ve put together what we think is a good list of general improvements to the game that could help everyone without requiring a large amount of dev time or worries about balance changes.
Below I’ve included the list of suggestions, with shortened descriptions as needed for ease of reading, if you’d like to see the whole list and the full thoughts of the contributors, the google doc is linked here: Age of Mythology: Retold - Proposed Improvements - Google Docs
General/Community Suggestions
- Reduce Fear Of Missing Out Elements in community events (Suggested by ManneredDesert7) - Implement a means of obtaining limited time event items for players who missed out.
- Additional stats in player profile (Suggested by Deniho) - Similar individual stats to site like aomstats.io in game
Ranked Suggestions
- Allow having multiple game profiles
- Rank Divisions
- Allow for pausing of Comp Games when both parties agree (Suggested by ExiledCourier)
- Allow Players in Ranked to vote for a Rematch (Suggested by NickCamp)
- Persistent Ranked Team Groups (Suggested by ZagorathAus) - Allow players to remain in the same team ranked party after a match ends
Lobby/Game Setup Suggestions
- Persistent Lobbies for Non-Queue games (Suggested by Thanik) - Allow players to stay in lobby after game ends
- FFA Queue
- Allow for custom games to start without every slot filled (Suggested by NickCamp)
- LAN custom game lobby (Suggested by Slush G) - Allow custom games to be invite only.
- Publicly Visible Data-Modded Custom Lobbies (Suggested by Thanik)
- Search bar for map selection (Suggested by Skray)
In-Game Suggestions
- Show relic individual icons on a big map.
- Improved rejoin mechanisms after Crash (Suggested by Looki) - Rejoining after crash, pause on crash, toggleable
- Hotkeys to automatically add a unit to a control group (e.g. BAR) (Suggested by Thanik)
- Remove Control Group / Selection unit limit for the player (Suggested by Thanik)
- Add Pre-Queuing techs and aging up on Consoles (Suggested by NickCamp)
- Add drawing and text boxes in-game for team communication and personal planning (Suggested by Deniho)
- Allow for separate military and economic rally points (Suggested by Ashinferno)
- Allow player to set which temple/dock spawns free myth unit on age up (Suggested by ZagorathAus)
- More UI/HUD Adjustment options (Suggested by Croissantini) - Lock Camera max zoom, toggle enemy healthbars, health bar size, top down perspective toggle.
- Add a way to access the Compendium and detailed descriptions for units/buildings/techs from the train/build grid at a building, villager, etc. (Suggested by McLerristarr)
- Add a rate-of-change / delta view toggle for the various Postgame statistics (Suggested by Thanik)
- Allow the player to specify whether units should keep formation (move at slowest’s speed) or move at best speed (Suggested by Thanik)
- Add a “Follow this Unit” Command (Suggested by Thanik)
Spectator Suggestions
- In-Game notification when players join/leave the game
- Spectator UI Improvements (Suggested by ByTor75) - See caravan/fishing ship counts as applicable in UI, allow adding global trackers for units, etc (see main doc)