It’s better to end here. I’m sure you love the game too, that’s what’s important. I’m just saying that you don’t have to be so pessimistic with a game that is already underestimated and by lowered.
Everything they have said about the possible realities and conditions of the game is not bad, but it is not supposed to be the idea of this forum.
Yes but honestly I don’t want to have another reprimand from the moderators again, I’m already marked at 2 for the moment including 1 unfair
Agreed. I’m really curious about what direction AoEV takes. I really can’t picture a post-Industrial Revolution AoE game. I don’t think it would feel very AoE to me. I suspect if ES had developed it like it was planned to do so I wouldn’t have been really excited about it way back then, either. In that regard perhaps focusing on smaller periods of time as you suggest would be a wise move. And quite frankly aside from perhaps WWI the WWII period is overly saturated with every genre of game, you can think of.
In short, I agree with you totally about the core gameplay loop not fitting in a modern setting.
I hope AoEIV has a long life cycle because aside from the curiosity of what time period AoEV takes place in I don’t want to think too much about it lol. Conversations like this may stray off-topic but usually, it’s the only time when topics like this are broached.
As I’ve said before, there is still a lot of interest in more 3DE DLC outside of the forum and Discord. I try to remain optimistic as hard as that can be sometimes.
Says the guy that refuses to make WoL DE 
You’d have to do all models from scratch and given there were an incredible amount of units, it would have been a loooooot of work and the mod would have been like 100 GB, easyly
Sure, but what would you propose here? Indian camels but Ottoman artillery?
I had an idea I had been tumbling over with using a unique Age Up system where each option helps fill out Persia’s unit roster, which is otherwise barebones. By choosing a dynasty with each age up, you get a new unit type to train, as well as an economic benefit. This way, the Persians would be a modular civilization that could be min-maxed, or versatile. Overall, the Persian roster would emphasize fighting at range (is that too much like the US), with a Persian commander trying to keep their units away from the enemy when engaged in battle.
Basic units:
Infantry:
Cavalry:
Artillery:
Dynasty Contributions:
Age II
Age III:
Age IV:
Age V:
I did some reading to make a legitimate Persia proposal, but I honestly thought it was gonna be a real DLC. The main issue here is mostly whether to design it as an Asian civ, which feels silly but I guess not too distanced from what India is, or just design a culture to go alongside it as well.
I like you idea. I had something similar in mind. However, instead of obtaining new units, you would obtain upgrades for the Persian units. For example, if you promote the Turkic peoples , you would improve units like the Qizilbash while if you choose the Iranians you would improve the Ghulams.
Maybe it could be a mixture of both, where you could obtain both unique units and upgrades by picking a faction or dynasty when aging up
Right, I think the issue is that while my proposed dynasty system makes a lot of sense for the Persians, it wouldn’t fit with any other hypothetical Middle Eastern civilization, such as Moroccans or Omanis. I actually think the African alliance system works better for these two civilizations.
Dynasties could thematically work for Tatars, where we have a lot of choices for different Khanates, but would impart a very different set of bonuses from Persia’s.
In the case of the Omani it might work, albeit with some differences. Maybe you could choose to become “more African”, representing the Sultanate of Zanzibar or stay more Arab (representing the modern Sultanate of Oman).
Maybe the first option could grant some African mechanics or units.
I don’t really like the idea of Morocco as Middle Eastern by principle. Like what realistically makes it Middle Eastern?
Is it because they are Arabs? Because then Egypt wouldn’t be a Middle Eastern civ since most of the population identifies as Misr rather than arabic. so there’d be a really weird gap there.
Is it because they speak arabic? Because Persians sure do not speak arabic.
Is it because they are muslim? Because then Hausa sure should become a Middle Eastern Civ.
So I’d rather just cut it at the safe spot and just have Middle Eastern be civs that were actually primarily located in the Middle East. (Which makes a funny case for Oman since they moved their capital to Zanzibar eventually, but such is the case of colonial empires.)
Of course, there’s also a lot of people who are gonna argue for a Middle East Ottoman civ, which is very much its own can of worms. Although a very, very important part of the Ottoman Empire was located in Europe during this period.
I’d rather just play it safe and have Morocco as an African civ, most likely the devs think the same.
I agree, it wouldn’t make much sense to give them similar mechanics to the Persians, althought I’m not sure if the African mechanics would fit them either, since they seem to be made for Sub-Saharian peoples. They’re in weird spot
Nah, I actually designed a Moroccan civ for certain mod once. The Livestock Market was a little bit funky but not the worst, the Age up System and Palace fits like a glove.
This is far from being right.
Age of the world mod , has made more than 4 civs with own models, textures and is far from being 5 gb lmao
Aren’t there less less civs?
Well, I remember it was one the reasons one of the devs said, in the WoL Discord itself or maybe not*. Another one was that every patch the mod was going to break, but 3DE has additive mods now. And that it wasn’t known how modable the game was going to be
*It was that the models would have to be made from scratch to have the same visual style
At the start the game was not very modable , but that changes sure.
We will still stick to legacy, because it’s easier and we can out in the game what we want to.
Imagine putting wols Brazil into DE
Ban incoming , with the vills being slaves , and the tech to make them generate more resources being " whip the slavess "
Hahaha, enjoyable but I have to say wow what a scandal a moderator who goes off his lines and behaves like this, I won’t report you because I don’t find anything strange in it everyone can say their word as long as they don’t become facts.
No, it’s just the truth, that’s how it is in wars of liberty
Nothing I personally would say or do, but it’s a fact
Chad WoL aknowledging slavery. Also, since the begining, Ensemble, Age 3 has been tipotoeing around the US civil war and you added Confed Age up. In fact, I got into WoL because I wanted to beat some enslavers ######### and #######, so they #######
In WoL you can literally whip the slaves. They fight using capoeira too
Edit: I can’t add the link, for some reason, but just look the Brazil civ in WoL
AoE I or AOM with card system would be my new favorite game