Creating new civs for AoE 1 is very simple. The real job would be to create completely new architecture sets.
It’s nice if there are separate branches in the Technology Tree for each region:
Hellenic Technology Tree - Greek and Roman sets
Middle Eastern Technology Tree - Mesopotamian and Persian sets
South Mediterranean Technology Tree - Nile, Carthaginian and Levant sets
Asian Technology Tree - Far Eastern and Nomadic sets
Barbaric Technology Tree - Celtic and Barbaric sets
Of course, I mean a specific branch of Units that would be suited to regions / cultures. The current Units would be subdivided to be in keeping with the history of the regions / cultures. So we would have brand new units for each “Region”. This way, we wouldn’t need any separate UUs for any of the civs.
22 new civs? It’s a joke right?
The 16 that we currently have hardly differ, as to add a total of 38 and how many architectures. How many new units do you need to make them slightly different?
Be a bit realistic, a new DLC is unlikely, but if it were, it would have about 4 or 5 civs …
The problem is always - and this has been a frequent topic - that it is difficult to add more civs that make sense historically. With Sumerians or Phoenicians as an example, there are already a few that are disreputable. They were one of the first great peoples, but (at least for me) were not empires.
Romans, Egyptians, Persians, Assyrians, Chosons, Hittites, Shang, Yamato - yes, I would call them that. Babylonians were culturally too important to leave out. Greeks even more and were a big culture (Minoens and Makedoniens included). With the rest one can argue. But I think that just because there are a few civs that could have been left out, that’s no reason to add more civs that have no business being there.
I saw a YouTube comment like this on Radiohead’s Daydreaming music video of someone’s brother ODing to that song, you know my heart just breaks whenever I see stuff like this. Life is so cruel sometimes. If I could give my life to save this guy’s dad I would.
When I come back to this game, whether playing it or thinking about it in some way, I can’t help but feel how many things can be done to improve it.
Right now, I’m rating this game a solid 7.5 out of 10, but it’s a real shame Microsoft isn’t trying harder to raise the stakes in the game by improving what’s already there, and expanding horizons through paid downloadable content and, somewhat frequent updates to eliminate errors, big to small.
I saw today a dream that Microsoft made some sort of announcement about Age of Empires series, but what grab everyone attention is that there was something which indicated that they were going to make either AoE1DE new expansion or AoM DE. Since it was dream everything is also bit blurry and confusing, but what was clear it was about ancient time.
I love Age of Empires I, it was my first ever RTS game and I played it endlessly when I first got it and have tons of fond memories with it but the game hasn’t received an update in years and it really needs some polish. It doesn’t seem you the devs have any interest whatsoever in the game. Why don’t you care about the game that started the franchise?
Snide comment: You know your precious AoE II wouldn’t exist if AoE I wasn’t released first.
Snide meme:
Update: Because of patch 46777, I’d say the devs do care and I think they just forgot about AoE I because of all the AoE II stuff that has been going on.
There are members in the AoE I community who would give up everything they’ve got to save the game, and I’m pretty sure that’s something the AoE II community can’t say.
