If one of your biggest weaknesses in AoM is scouting, I highly recommend playing the Atlanteans. Why the Atlanteans? Well, for one, you don’t need to have your oracles walking around every single minute, and two, if you want favor, you’re going to have to scout. This is actually very advantageous, and I think the devs actually made a huge breakthrough with this change, because it could help remind players to scout their opponents base every once in a while.
Now of course, idling scouts could lead to bad habits, but you could easily fix that by watching your favor count. If it’s going up slowly, just check on your oracles to see if they’re too close to one another, and thus it will (hopefully) lead you to always check on your scout(s).