I really want to see a new type of map that will introduce many new strats and change the whole style of the normal one. My suggestion is to introduce a map that literally has no gold. You start as normal but without a single pile of gold in the whole map. The map is an open map style same as Arabia, with many animals to hunt, the map also doesn’t include any relic, so you will depend on the market to get your gold, and on the trash units as a main army for the game, of course by this, the castle age time and imperial will take longer with no gold around, the game will be messy as hell, and new strats will come around. Of course because the map has no gold at all, there will be civs have the advantage over others, but still it will depend on the most about how will you balance your eco and army with no gold. This map can be shown in ranked in the map pool if they introduced it.
Seems like this would be really hard to balance. The game seems already hard enough to balance, judging by all the “please nerf this, please buff that” threads… wouldn’t removing gold from maps pull the rug completely out? Is just my hunch, but I don’t know.
You or someone could probably easily test this out by modding a map with zero gold and zero relics on it. Actually, if you are able to do this, you could play and enjoy whenever you want… and pretty quickly, too. I just wanted to say, in case you don’t happen to muster enough community or dev support for it, and were curious to try.
I don’t know how easy it is to mod maps in DE, but I made a custom map or two in AoE2:HD that I enjoyed playing… and it wasn’t terribly difficult to do. Even added extra relics, extra stone, and extra gold piles. I started with an existing random map script (.rms) file… and edited it in Notepad to my liking (renamed the file, of course) – leveraging some of the help info that was available for modding. One element that I think would’ve been pretty easy to do in HD, if I’m not mistaken, is remove gold completely from the map. One would hope modding in DE is just as easy, if not easier, than HD…
PS: I, personally, wouldn’t really want to play a map with no gold on it
Well you will have the choice already to ban/pick. The thing is, this map will bring new meta for its own by having no gold on it and it will encourge the early feudal aggression or making the game all in feudal war and trushes.
You can easily change a map script, so it wont spawn any gold or relics. Create your own maps without gold and relics and host them into the lobby. No one is holding you back for doing this.
I dont think these should be made into an official map. Even many great tournament maps arent part of the official map pool in DE, but are community made. So dont except a wild idea to turn into an official map.
Just create some maps without gold, host some tournaments with big names. And maybe you are lucky and your map will turn into an official map.
I won’t need to… I don’t play ranked games or MP with anyone other than friends I’d, personally, rather the dev’s time be spent on single-player vs. AI/private unranked match enhancements (the sky is the limit) than make this map that (at least so far) nobody is stating they want
Well you will get new maps and civs to play single player with new civs “Villages/Duchy” as new empires in age of empires. You will enjoy so much. Gl hf.
Did you really want to hear thoughts, or only opinions that echo your own? I felt I was pretty cordial and forthcoming with my thoughts and tried to help regarding modding, etc. You take such offense to your idea not being liked by four people that you give me the dismissive ‘gl hf’. Thanks Equalizer938341
Actually there already are a few maps like that in the game → in the Megarandom map script.
However it’s really rare to get a map like that and if you don’t know what’s coming your civ might have a big advantage or disadvantage…
