I said East Asia. That is a region that has not been touched in decades in terms of DLCs.
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East Asia is an smaller region than Africa, Africa is a continent with many regions, some arguably completely unexplored, and the Vietnamese are part of the sinosphere. We have 5 E Asiab civs, only 3 or 4 african ones
Either way I want more east asian content ofc
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I respectfully disagree. The African set is used by 2 civs while the Far Eastern one by 5. Admittedly thereâs no Chinese, Korean or Japanese campaign in the game yet but when you consider that
- Africa is the second biggest continent.
- Asia is the continent with the second-most civs.
- There hasnât been a DLC about Africa for 9 years.
- The Far Eastern set is used by 5 civs and going by the track record of the devs they probably wonât add a new architecture set in the near future.
- The African architecture set has 2 civs to pick from.
- There are a lot of great options literally everywhere in Africa.
I would definitely put the priority now on Africa. Though for those who like campaigns (I am not especially excited about them), it is definitely a shame that thereâs no Far Eastern campaign yet in the game yet except the Mongol and the Vietnamese one.As a side note, Iâd much rather see a Far Eastern one than yet another Euro one.
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People have different priorities.
There is no objective way to measure what part of the world deserves the next DLC more.
The most reasonable way it to make whatever the most people want, even if itâs in the same region as other civilisations.
btw:
Japanese and Koreans are the only civilisation outside of Europe that doesnât have a regional unit if you count Camel Rider as a regional unit.
An African DLC would be the best opportunity to add regional skins though.
I just looks so wrong to have whit skinned units for African civilisations.
It is kinda acceptable for most other civilisations because the skin tone is not a pale white and a little more into brown ish.
The villager clothing brakes a lot of cultural rules in a lot of places though.
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The regional skins are important especially for priests, villagers and queens. More animals too! None new ones since the AOE2DE came.
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Monks and Monasteries so every civilisation can finally have the correct religion.
There is already regional Monks for one region, why not all.
Second is regional villagers.
At last we have regional Trade Carts now so thatâs something.
Not sure why they seem holding back with adding new unit and building sprites.
Are they afraid that increasing the file size of the game would be too much for some people?
There wasnât a single new Architecture Set added to AoE2DE, even AoE3DE got an entirely new one in a DLC and most of the buildings do even look different between the civilisation in that set.
AoE2DE with 3x as many players gets like 5 new building skins and 5 new unit skins per DLC.
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Messing with China sadly is probably sort of off limits because especially adding like a Tibet civ for example, which would be awesome, could result in the Chinese government banning sale of the game in China. I was just looking at this question, because I want to see a Siam/Thai civ and was trying to think of another civ that wasnât too niche and wouldnât be a risk to sale of the game in China and I was having trouble getting something tbh.
Regional monks and unique castles for all civs not just the new ones are probably my highest priority in customization of existing civs personally. Regional vils could be interesting too though.
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Because thatâs when we have the most accounts?
I mean Mongols and Japanese have to do with each other like Malians and Ethiopians so sharing the set is not a good argument. It actually proves the opposite, that East Asia is still terribly lacking almost as if not as Africa (which at least has two campaigns).
I think itâs just kinda poc to say Africa because yeah itâs the most obvious thing one could say but thatâs not the only obvious miss in game.
I mean there are some objective points but people definitely force their way to the point of creating a climate of âthis is objective so you must agreeâ.
And even if itâs a no-brainer that Africa needs more, in the end âDe gustibus non disputandum est, the heart has its reasonsâ etc so whatâs the point to argueâŠ
My priority may be late antiquity because I love it (most people actually think it shouldnât even be in game so if African lovers are complaining what should I do?) so I can agree that Africa is underrepresented but itâs not that you need to dictate your tastes on me.
A nice compromise is calling for Vandals in game since late antique Africa seems otherwise non existent in historical sources (apart Ethiopia and such). Vandals were not African but happened to settle there right? A lot of Romans were technically African too.
Jokes aside, Vandals would be one of the most unique civs to have in aoe2 but theyâre seen as another euro civ.
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Personally for me I want europe completed with vikings campaign and two more civis going in the same vibe as previous dlcs.
People are very bad at âdiplomacyâ.
You shouldnât make people feel bad for their opinion or they will start getting angry at you and refuse to listen to your points.
You gotta convince them of your points by being nice to them and making them like you before you present them your points.
âYou are wrong, my opinion is correct because X:â is not very convincing.
âThose are some valid arguments, especially X, but I personally think Y is more important because Z:â is something youâll more likely be open too.
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Iâve said this many times, a China DLC focussed on Tang Dynasty and Silk Road would resonate well with the Chinese market and the self-important Chinese. Tibetans, Jurchens and Gokturks plus Chinese campaign and some new building sets.
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