A crazy idea just crossed my mind and I decided to share with devs and community.
I was thinking about how AoM and the whole AoE franchise community usually are really interested in History and Mythology and how much we learned thanks to this franchise.
Also, I simply love quiz games. So, imagine a game mode where we have small gaming + quiz competitions?
Examples:
A) Player starts with Chiron (just because he is know as a wise character) and One question like “Which Greek Hero killed Medusa?” (easy level lol). Then, player needs to micro his Chiron to reach the right “answer” on the map as soon as possible.
B) In other “phase”, player needs to micro as good as possible to kill between 1 to 5 enemy units without loosing his own single unit within some amount of time. If player kills lets say 3 units, he has 3 questions to answer in some fair amount of time.
C) variation of B, where instead of 3 questions, player receives 3 “hints” or characteristics related to some mythological character or event, and then needs to pick between 5 options or something like that.
D) player gets 1 meteor to strike the right god statue that answers question 1. If its right, he receives next meteor, if wrong, next meteor gets delayed in idk, 3-5 secs.
Score could be calculated with time, damage and of course: right or wrong answers.
In my mind, it would be some challenge that could happen each period of time like Community Challenge or be something bigger and constant like Arena of the Gods.
If this was a “monthly challenge”, it would have the advantage of giving time for developing new ideas each time and you could use some kind of theme for each Challenge, giving some “absurdly tiny” tips on social media.
This could generate interest in history / mythology nerds (like us lol) that do not play RTS, introducing the franchise to other publics.
Of course what am I “suggesting” is a bit complex, but I felt like I could share this weird idea with you lol