val scouted and SHOULD have seen vil on STONE; delhi has no META reason to be on stone so; vald should have known; AND I think thats why vlad did NOT go 2nd tC song but tried to zhuge nu rush; but didnt presss IMO.
And your 2nd point “unexplored” is EXACTLY the scare for going 2nd TC as delhi; will you have enough ghazi and eco to deal with vet spears and PG???
A lot of that eco is trade. Abbasids often go pretty heavy on traders late game, especially on very wall able maps. It’s not like going 2-4 TCs in AOE2 was rare. Heck most pro AOE4 games end in feudal or early castle age. Sure most civs go 2 TC most of the time, but it’s not like that’s some crazy super-boom.
Vortix complained about the game’s static defenses, the patch only changed Keeps; When Vorrtix analyzes the patch at no point does he mention that all of the game’s defenses have finally been resolved.
This game, which fortunately was a mirror, conclusively demonstrates that Fast Castle does not defeat Boom; With an average collection rate of 40/minute, each villager recovers his investment in a short time
Proposal Increase the villager’s cost by 10% to 55 food or 20% to 60 food.
Increasing the cost of each villager will make it riskier to make Boom and gives a counterplay to Fast Castle vs. Boom