In the first version of Age of Empires 3, the Trading Post cost 250 wood and had 3000 HP. In Asian Dynasties, it was changed to 200 wood and 2500 HP, a change that still exists today.
There is a growing debate about reverting this old change, the idea being to nerf several non-standard build orders altogether, for example, the Portuguese 10/10, the French 12/10, as well as other strategies like the British GMT.
So, I decided to open the serious debate in this thread, and also leave a popular poll. Thanks.
How much should a trading post built on a TP line cost for the average civilization?
200 wood (No change)
250 wood (like in the OG version)
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Clarification, this also leads to changing the cost of native TP to 125 w and 125 food and tTambos to 300 w.
remember when everyone cried about even a single no-tp map in the standard map pool? What if we made a tp unaffordable age 1 for everyone (except otto and USA [with their very logical and balanced free tps])
its also worth mentioning that tps were 25% stronger back then, the income from tps was nerfed.
In my experience on the forum, those polls with multiple options are not very conducive to debate. But yes, it is a good option, but I prefer 200w or 250w, no middle ground.
and now because I’m thinking about it, this would be a massive buff for civs that don’t need a tp in matchups against tp dependent civs. Happy russia noises I guess
Wouldn’t this also be an even harder nerf on tp maps for civs that need to use their wood for other things such as Dutch and Russia? +50w makes a tp to contest a 4 or 5 tp stagecoach line even more unattainable imo.
