Yeah, some discussion about it here, too:
As I said there, I think it should be an option at least.
For ranked games, yeah, have it a toggleable lobby option, perhaps? For official AoE tournaments, might be cool to have them off completely, if they don’t do that already. What do you think?
Repeating what I said in the other thread, some players attack just because they see they see they are nicely ahead in score. Others quit a game just because they have the lower score for too long or by too much, or because they get alerted that the enemy aged up to the next age before them.
I think decisions to attack, and other decisions in the game (when to build stuff, when to age up, etc.) should be based more on the intel you’ve manually (and more painstakingly) gathered and/or how strong you think your might is, rather than by simply seeing in the lower-right of map that you are in Castle Age (III) and your enemy is in Feudal Age (II) still, and you have 300 more points than them… or whatever be the case.