What is Antiquity Mode? Suggest adding better description

Recommend adding more description for Antiquity Mode. Info on it is pretty scant and vague.

Things like:

  1. What’s the purpose of oysters (i.e., gold)?
  2. How to take advantage of oysters (i.e., fishing boats only, or can villys gather, too)?
  3. Why is it called “Antiquity Mode”? (The only reason I kind of know what it is referring to is due to forum discussions talking about some era that took place before AoE2’s time-frame or something. I have a feeling the name alone gets lost on many people. I first thought of antiques at a thrift store and was like ‘huh?’ :smile: )
  4. Is Wood Trading just for Trade Cog boats, or Market trade carts on land, too?
  5. What maps does it work on, or not work on? Oysters don’t work on all maps.
  • Why do oysters only appear on certain water maps? Shouldn’t they be on all maps with water if it’s enabled? If not, how do you know before starting a map that it will not work? It’s a lot of trial and error to find a map that has them. And even if oysters don’t work on certain maps, does “wood trading” still work on every map / every water map? If not, why not?

Plus, any other pertinent and relevant info we should know.

Current state:

 

By comparison, other game modes and menu items have a lot more description:

I think it was added to the game at the same time as one of the DLCs (RoR?), but since I didn’t buy it yet, I was a little clueless about it. Trying to figure it out requires more effort than should be necessary (i.e., Google searches or trial and error)

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