I sent an email to Ensemble Studios that chariots dominates too much if speed to 2.0 and gave alot of links with no responses. The reason why Microsoft discontinued old games because they didn't wanted to create modifications to the game the old code, so they decided to create new games with new engine technologies that was long time age, the only thing they could do is to remake it from scratch; but I really hope if made doesn't really changes the gameplay just make chariots less dominant and fix the delay of multiplayer games and also fix the bug with bots which causes lag. Does improving networking on the game should impact on gr's and voobly's performance? And also if resign to fix the lag and dropped sometimes, also more space for watchers or a room provided for watchers like a HLTV from cstrike on aoe that would make aoe popular again, you see we all started on campaigns. HLTV is a server which connects to the game especially just for watching it can handle depending on the bandwidth like 3 thousand spectators and it doesn't lags the game just the watching.
Also file map transferred like conquerors and also saving method in case of disconnections. Btw, HLTV also saves the game as a replay and is no longer size than 30 mbs or even 8 or 5 if only 40 minutes of play imagine instead of downloading a whole video.
I played against with magma I don't remember he was teaming
with jmai had persian and magma choson they own us, virrey had egyptian and I had minoan I walled my base twice and I stopped calvaries then magma started killing my minoan composite bowman with calvaries with 1 upgrade dmg and 1 armor spammed around 70 calvaries and they beated us that proves a good player can own chariots however, hoplites are useless and broadswordman, the only hoplites that are good are from greeks with slingers can own or with bowman against camels or calvaries.
Monstermash is the founder of gamespy, halo and I guess he created a sample sold to microsoft of neverwinter nights something called. Would be cool for gamespy to support NAT or someone who has money to create a good patch to play but no changing the whole game just balancing.
You are from BoW sasuna and I, also if I learn programming will be cool if I can do something for the community at least improve latency and reg like counterstrike has special server for bullets registrations with a tool which anyone can improve, also something called interp to guess the position of the player if latency occurs that could be done against units.
Another thing will be to recruit and teach new players which Max_Crazy provides the basic assyrian strat on hills many new players are playing only hills something good or recommend via marketing age of empires rise of rome with multiplayer tutorials and recommend on amazon age of empires and rise of rome and conquerors. Because some players migrate to other aoe.
Make TV like Arirang will be cool see all these koreans watching a game 11.
[This message has been edited by plismo (edited 07-22-2010 @ 10:48 PM).]