🛠️ Feature Requests for Age of Mythology: Retold

Age of Mythology: Retold Discussion
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Hey devs & fellow Myth lovers - first off, loving the game and all the work that’s gone into bringing it back to life! I’ve been deep into Retold and wanted to share a few feature requests that could make gameplay smoother and more strategic :backhand_index_pointing_down:

:bullseye: 1. Double-click Hotkeys for Buildings

Let hotkeys work with single + double click options. Example: press once → selects Town Centre. Press twice → focuses camera on the Town Centre. Saves so much time mid-battle.

:cow: 2. Hotkey for “Move Livestock to This Location”

When selecting livestock, a simple hotkey to send them to your preferred Town Centre would be amazing — no more digging around the bottom-left UI button every time.

:crossed_swords: 3. Increase Military Selection Cap

The 100-unit limit feels ancient (pun intended). Let us select all military units or raise the cap - big battles deserve big control.

:red_question_mark:4. Visual Icons for “Random Japanese/Greek/etc.”

Instead of the plain black pic with a question mark, show a faint pantheon icon or show 1-3 of the pantheon gods with a :red_question_mark:over the top for “random” picks. That way I don’t have to hover over :red_question_mark: every time just to remember who I picked or who other people have picked if random.

:handshake: 5. Treaty Mode Option

Add a customizable treaty mode (e.g. 5, 10, 15 minutes) where no one can attack - so we can build, plan, and actually admire our cities before chaos breaks loose.

:camping: 6. Nomad Start Mode

Start with a Villager Centre you can place anywhere to create your Town Centre. Nomad in AOM is pretty limited. You’re stuck with 2 maps. Why cant I use any map and allow me to start anywhere I like just like AOE4.

:shield: 7. Population-Limit Mode Without Settlements

Late-game comebacks are brutal when map control = population advantage. Give us a mode where pop isn’t tied to settlements, so turtlers (like me) can bunker down and rise again like a phoenix.

:castle: 8. Increase Tower & Castle Caps

Please let us build more! If I want to turn my city into a fortress of legends, let me. Optional higher caps for towers and castles would make builders and defenders very happy.

Thanks for reading - these tweaks could make Age of Mythology: Retold even more epic for both casual and competitive players. :fire: Let’s keep the myth alive!

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I only had this problem with the limit in the Campaign.

I can hardly imagine how anyone can build 15 castles in one game? Does that take two hours to play?

It just dawned on me. In AoE 3, I often had 1v1 battles that lasted 1:40. In this game, not a single battle lasts longer than 45 minutes. I don’t know how they managed it. This is probably even a good thing.

I don’t even know what kind of 15-minute Treaty is. I understand 40-minute Treaty.

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Wow, there are actually zero in this list I don’t agree with. Personally 5–8 are ones I don’t really care either way about, but it’d be good if the options existed for people who want them (just keep ranked the same as it is now!).

Your points 1 and 4 remind me of a tiny but easy-to-fix bugbear of mine with the game currently.

Let us double click to select a god on the major god selection screen.

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40 minute treaty seems insane in Retold. With no pressure, you can easily be in Mythic Age with a huge economy before 30 minutes, and even 20 minutes isn’t much of a challenge.

5 minute treaty basically means “no quick rushes” a la Kronos time-shifted temple prometheans, or New Moon cavalry, etc.

10 minute treaty allows for either a fast Heroic or a big Classical army push.

15 minute treaty lets you FH into a big Heroic push and/or a 2TC boom.

20 and 30 minute treaties allow for variations on the above, but with Mythic instead.

40 minute treaty is the point at which you’re probably expecting a wonder or titan.

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This is what I want the most. Plus I would like to have double keyed hotkeys in general. Like instead of W= build granary , Q+W= Build Granary.

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If you assign a group to a building, it already works exactly as you want.

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Yea but I want to keep my control groups for my army and have pre set hotkey for my TC. AoE IV does have this it makes setting up hotkeys a lot easier.

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I guess this varies on how you play.

To me 10 min treaty would allow Fast mythic or any sort of 2 - 3 tc heroics

15 min def 3 tc mythic

30 min treaty is Wonder time

Theres an old video from boit of what would competitive treaty look like. It was old aom but you could get fully upgraded mythic units in less then 15 min. Retold’s eco is faster.

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