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    News Archive 1998 April – September

    Headlines – April 15, 1998

    Windows98
    Yamato/Assyrian revisited
    Scenario Contest
    Heaven Top Ten Downloads
    Agetoon by Aaron Graves
    Voting Sections
    Search the resources of Heaven
    History Tidbits-Battle of Cannae
     
     

     

    Windows98
    Looks like this summer, around the end of June, Microsoft will release Windows98. You can read all the information you want about this on the Microsoft site. –Omnivac

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    Yamato/Assyrian revisited
    Some interesting comments from Laksamana, followed by some of my toughts…

    Laksamana: I started as a Yamato player, and are still pretty good at it. I have an average bronze time of about 13-14 min with Yam. However, after a while, I grew really bored with this. The biggest complaint I have with Yam/Yam/Assy type games is that they are extremely formulaic. 90% of people playing these games rush a.s.a.p. to bronze, pump out CA/cavs and go for the villagers. I don’t know about you, but trying to shave mere seconds off my bronze time just so my opponent doesn’t stomp my butt gets boring after 20 games or so (same reason why I don’t watch track sports or swimming). You could try the old scout/bowman rush, but this is generally a gamble. A tool rush (particularly a scout rush) depends on you hitting your opponent very hard and very early. Unless your opponent is fairly inexperienced (or unlucky), holding off the rush is little trouble. And you’re much slower to bronze now because of the wasted resources. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen effective bowmen/scout rushes (even a nasty Sumerian vilager rush once!), but they’re very much in the minority, and few players can execute them with any hope of success against an experienced Yam/Assy player.

    Playing only Yam/Assy/Shang ignores the many, many other races in the game. How many people (newbies excepted) play Greek? I know some people (not enough!) who are beginning to switch to Egyptian/Hittite/Minoan now, precisely because they’re sick of playing default/inland/Yam-Assy-Shang. And this is partly why I’m looking into high resource games, which seem to even out the bronze times for different races, and allow a much greater range of tactics. This doesn’t mean I’ve stopped playing default/inland, and I don’t dictate what others can or cannot use. If you wanna play Yam/Assy/Shang, go ahead. I don’t mind losing. 🙂 It’s happened so often, it’s almost a way of life.

    One thing I really hate is that some incompetent Yam/Assy players refuse to believe that a “slower” civ can actually bronze at the same time (or even faster) than them in a default game (some luck needed, of course. This is a random map). My time with Phoe ranges from 14-16 minutes, almost as good as most average Yam players (not the elites who hit 13 consistently). I’ve been hearing a lot of “cheater!” lately from sore losers who can’t understand how a Phoenician (Oooo, imagine that!) who can bronze faster and beat them at their own game. I don’t mind losing, but I can’t stand cheating.

    Wether a strategy game is in real time or turn based, as soon as you have ressources to gather and an economy to maintain, games will be formulaic. There’s no way out of this unless the game is extremely balanced, and some sort of limits are put in the game. Even then, when over one million players start to disect the game, the best course of action will be found very quickly. Rules could be changed so that Assyrians and Yamatos don’t have an edge in the beginning, but the rest would remain the same and the first one to get there will have a good option to win.

    With that in mind, is there hope against the yamato and Assyrian rushers? Well, first, ANY civs can be as fast as them. Keep your villagers working 3-4 tiles from their buildings and you will suffer a loss of 1 second for each trips. Any civs bonuses (+30%woodcutting for phoenicians, Stone for Babylonians, etc…) will be faster than the 30% walking speed up to ten tiles away. That is a tree 10 tiles away from the Town Center, a Phoenician woodcutter will get wood faster than an Assyrian woodcutter. I play Egyptians almost exclusively and don’t have problems bronzing at 15 mins and faster. I played them since the beginning and have adapted them to the current trends in strategies. Sure, I got my butt stomped at first quite often, but eventually you find a way, you’ll be in almost all situations and know what to do. You’ll wonder, instead of 20+ villagers and trying to go bronze, what about 16 villagers and going to tool to build walls ASAP. And then, is 12 villagers faster for doing this? How much time do you lose, and is it worth it?

    Eventually, you almost hear your opponents curse. They must build a Siege Workshop and at least one Stone Thrower to get in. More minutes for you. Then you’ll be horrified to see cavs in your town. You swore all the shallows were walled, but overlooked the transports in the equation. Then you’ll figure if it’s worth it to build walls all along the shores. How much time it takes and modify again your strategy.

    AOE is a learning process, and you learn when you lose. Stick with your civ and don’t take the easy way out. Playing Assyrians and/or Yamatos, you will never know anything else. Although I agree that they have an advantage in a 1v1 game, it’s not the case in a team game. An Egyptian/Persian/Phoenician team for example can beat anytime any combinations of Yam/Assys, given equal experiences from all the players. Particularly if the above team are players that played their civs for over 4 months, and evenmore if they know each others well. – Omnivac

    Scenario Contest
    You have until April 30th for designing the best singleplayer scenario on the net. You can find all the information here. Be sure to read the rules very carefully before submitting. Our judges are already working, and so far the quality of the scenarios are quite good. Look forward downloading an excellent singleplayer scenario pack in the beginning of May, after the end of the contest. – Omnivac

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    Heaven Top Ten Downloads
    Most wanted list! 
    – 03/23/98 to 03/30/98

    LW TW   D/Loads
    1 1 The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire Campaign 936
    3 2 The Curse of Ra Campaign 688
    2 3 AOE v1.0a Patch 491
    6 4 Stoyan Ratchev’s AOE AI Editor v1.0 461
    4 5 AOE2 Trebuchet .avi 455
    6 Age of Stone Singleplayer Scenario 377
    5 7 A Story of Honor – Part I Campaign 375
    8 8 Destroying the Heroes of Persia Campaign 345
    9 AOE2 Knight .avi 333
    10 10 AllTaunts v1.0 (26-369) LOOKOUT! 9.46 Mb 332

    LW is last week position, TW is this week position, and D/Loads is the number of downloads for the given period of time.

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    Agetoon – By Aaron Graves
    Toons size
    Two things to look for. One is the bytes size. Keep it small, and send your toons in .gif or .jpg formats. Bmps are annoyingly big.

    Two is the actual size of your toons. Keep it small to fit in a web page. Don’t send toons the size of AOE screenshots. We’ll have to minimize it and loss of details could occur. Edit it so it will have the final look you want. Thanks for your cooperation.

    New toons
    Don’t worry if your work is not in the toons section. From now on, toons will make the frontpage, and then go in the toon section. So depending on the number of submissions, this could take 4-5 days before you see your artwork in Heaven. – 
    Omnivac

     

    More Agetoons here.

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    Voting Polls
    Heaven voting section
     has 2 new topics added. What is your preferred population limit, and what type of player are you (the lonely singleplayer or the conquering multiplayer) ? – Omnivac

    Searching in Heaven
    Find that little piece of heaven!

      Search for

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    History Tidbits
    Daily fix of real old news
    Thanks to Jan Hjelm for sending a good description of the Battle of Cannae.

    Great battles
    216 BC – Battle of Cannae

    In August 2, 216 B.C.. Hannibal – general of Carthago in Numidia – defeats Terentius Varro – Consul of Rome – at the Aufidus river near the city of Cannae in southern Italy.

    Hannibal with his 50.000 men fought with their backs against the river which at that point flows in a shallow “U” form. As he had his left flank touching the Aufidus river, he didn´t have to worry about being outflanked by the 80.000 Roman troops, in fact his whole tactic was based on this secure flank. His center consisted only of a thin line of infantry. Hannibals main force was concentrated on the flanks. The left and right wings each contained deep phalanxes of heavy infantry and eight thousand cavalry next to the river on the left. His open right flank was guarded by two thousand cavalry. In the rear his camp was protected by eight thousand men.

    Varro, feeling confident of victrory with his more than 80,000 Roman soldiers, accepted battle, but as he saw that Hannibals flanks were well protected, Varro decided to crush the Carthagians by throwing allmost all his men through Hannibals center. With 65,000 men in his center, 2,400 cavalry on his right and 4,800 cavalry on his left he sent the remaining 11,000 men to attack Hannibals camp.

    After some preliminary skirmishes, Hannibal let his light center advance into a salient against the Romans. When the Romans reacted by attacking the center of Carthago, which slowly started an orderly but fighting retreat under the sheer might of Varros forces, Hannibal let his heavy cavalry on the left crush the opposing Roman cavalry. Hannibals cavalry rode after that around the Roman armys rear and attacked the Roman cavalry on Varros left flank from behind while Hannibals right flank attacked the same cavalry from the front. The Roman cavalry panicked and fled the field, pursued all the way by Hannibals right flank cavalry.

    The heavy cavalry of Carthago turned back to assault the rear of the Roman infantry who had pressed back Hannibal’s thin center line. While this happened Hannibal let his left and right infantry wings turn against the flanks of the Roman center which had advanced deep due to the weak center of Carthago. Now the weak center stopped their retreat and dug their heels in as the encircelment was complete. Varro, boxed in, unable to maneuver lost approximatively 60.000 men as his army was thoroughly destroyed.

    A footnoteDuring WW1 the same tactics was copied and used as the Schlieffen Plan in the Ardennes – learn from history.

    (want more? Then go to “History Tidbits – The Collection”)

    The Real-life game of Age of Empires
    Here’s my contribution for the history tidbits. Telling the real-life game of Age of Empires. I hope everybody will like it, and I will try not to make it look like a boring history class. Well, this doesn’t exist but that’s my opinion. 🙂 Read and enjoy. – Omnivac

    (Want all the story? Then go to “History Tidbits – The Chronicles”)

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      Headlines – April 14, 1998

    And then, they were twelve
    Scenario Contest
    Heaven Top Ten Downloads
    Agetoon by Hamlet
    Voting Sections
    Search the resources of Heaven
    History Tidbits
     
     

     

    And then, they were twelve
    The last angels finally arrived to take their own little clouds in Heaven. Rasz will join Deepwater in the Academy, where you will find all the tips and secrets to help you be the best AOE player ever. It will focuse heavily on multiplayer games, while not neglecting the numerous singleplayers out there. Zen has gathered his little builders to meet Deep and Rasz, and they will completely renovate the Academy.

    The Docks will be no more. Instead, look forward the Siege Workshop where the AI Master Infymus will assault your brain cells with all the tricks unimaginable to create the best scenarios ever. You’ll be happy to hear also that his upcoming editor will make AI and PER files editing easier than tieing your own shoes.

    The new Holy Trinity of the Granary has already started to fly on their own. Grenadier is your host presently, with SpineMan and Zen as co-Angels there. Now wanting to rest on our laurels, Hamlet will be redesigning the Granary and it will have a lot of new features. You wanted reviews for the scenarios and campaigns, you will have them. You wanted top ten lists, pick of the week/month, you will have them. SpineMan and Alexander will be the chief reviewers, with a host of little cupids as external reviewers.

    You don’t know where to go when Heaven is missing a little information? Then the Town Center is for you. With over 160 links concerning only Age of Empires, you are sure to find what you want. In all this maelstrom of information, your site is missing, or you’re unhappy with the review of your site? Then Azoic is there for you and he will be happy to add your site, or re-review your site when it is updated and/or revamped as well as when you have good arguments to convince him to take a second look.

    Need to make new vict…err..friends, then check out the ICQ list in the Tavern. The Tavern is a section for the players, where you can tell and read stories, organize games and help new players to be initiated to the wonderful world of multiplayer games. Always count too on the mysterious presences of the Innkeper and the Pardonner. You never know when they will show up.

    As for the news, Hamlet and I will keep you informed of the latest developments concerning Age of Empires.

    Where’s the other two, you may ask? Well, surely by now you know Archangel and Vidguy. If not, then maybe you should take a look at Age of Empires 2 Heavenand learn all there is to know about the great next rockin’ game from Ensemble Studios. – Omnivac

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    Scenario Contest
    You have until April 30th for designing the best singleplayer scenario on the net. You can find all the information here. Be sure to read the rules very carefully before submitting. Our judges are already working, and so far the quality of the scenarios are quite good. Look forward downloading an excellent singleplayer scenario pack in the beginning of May, after the end of the contest. – Omnivac

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    Heaven Top Ten Downloads
    Most wanted list! 
    – 03/23/98 to 03/30/98

    LW TW   D/Loads
    1 1 The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire Campaign 936
    3 2 The Curse of Ra Campaign 688
    2 3 AOE v1.0a Patch 491
    6 4 Stoyan Ratchev’s AOE AI Editor v1.0 461
    4 5 AOE2 Trebuchet .avi 455
    6 Age of Stone Singleplayer Scenario 377
    5 7 A Story of Honor – Part I Campaign 375
    8 8 Destroying the Heroes of Persia Campaign 345
    9 AOE2 Knight .avi 333
    10 10 AllTaunts v1.0 (26-369) LOOKOUT! 9.46 Mb 332

    LW is last week position, TW is this week position, and D/Loads is the number of downloads for the given period of time.

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    Agetoon – By Hamlet
    Toons size
    Two things to look for. One is the bytes size. Keep it small, and send your toons in .gif or .jpg formats. Bmps are annoyingly big.

    Two is the actual size of your toons. Keep it small to fit in a web page. Don’t send toons the size of AOE screenshots. We’ll have to minimize it and loss of details could occur. Edit it so it will have the final look you want. Thanks for your cooperation.

    New toons
    Don’t worry if your work is not in the toons section. From now on, toons will make the frontpage, and then go in the toon section. So depending on the number of submissions, this could take 4-5 days before you see your artwork in Heaven. – 
    Omnivac

     

    More Agetoons here.

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    Voting Polls
    Heaven voting section
     has 2 new topics added. What is your preferred population limit, and what type of player are you (the lonely singleplayer or the conquering multiplayer) ? – Omnivac

    Searching in Heaven
    Find that little piece of heaven!

      Search for

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    History Tidbits
    Daily fix of real old news
    For a while Heavens angels will bring some history tidbits and trivia in this column. Look here every day for your daily fix of “old news”. – Hamlet

    (want more? Then go to “History Tidbits – The Collection”)

    The Real-life game of Age of Empires
    Here’s my contribution for the history tidbits. Telling the real-life game of Age of Empires. I hope everybody will like it, and I will try not to make it look like a boring history class. Well, this doesn’t exist but that’s my opinion. 🙂 Read and enjoy. – Omnivac

    (Want all the story? Then go to “History Tidbits – The Chronicles”)

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      Headlines – April 13, 1998

    New Angels in the sky
    Scenario Contest
    Heaven Top Ten Downloads
    Agetoon by Ratty the Wise
    Voting Sections
    Search the resources of Heaven
    History Tidbits
     
     

     

    New Angels in the sky
    Give a big welcome to the new Angels in Heaven. The new Holy Trinity of The Granary will be SpineManGrenadier and Zen and look forward for some big changes there. Zen will be redesigning The Academy and Deepwater will be your new Academician. Some big changes there also.

    The senior angels that remains, AzoicAlexanderHamletVidguy, myself and the big head honcho Archangel wishes good luck to the old angels, FatCat, HallMaster and Hemlock for any projects they’ll undertake, and wishes to thank them for their work and time here in Heaven. With one more angel than previously, you would think that it’s enough, but no. Watch out for for other new angels soon.- Omnivac

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    Scenario Contest
    You have until April 30th for designing the best singleplayer scenario on the net. You can find all the information here. Be sure to read the rules very carefully before submitting. Our judges are already working, and so far the quality of the scenarios are quite good. Look forward downloading an excellent singleplayer scenario pack in the beginning of May, after the end of the contest. – Omnivac

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    Heaven Top Ten Downloads
    Most wanted list! 
    – 03/23/98 to 03/30/98

    LW TW   D/Loads
    1 1 The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire Campaign 936
    3 2 The Curse of Ra Campaign 688
    2 3 AOE v1.0a Patch 491
    6 4 Stoyan Ratchev’s AOE AI Editor v1.0 461
    4 5 AOE2 Trebuchet .avi 455
    6 Age of Stone Singleplayer Scenario 377
    5 7 A Story of Honor – Part I Campaign 375
    8 8 Destroying the Heroes of Persia Campaign 345
    9 AOE2 Knight .avi 333
    10 10 AllTaunts v1.0 (26-369) LOOKOUT! 9.46 Mb 332

    LW is last week position, TW is this week position, and D/Loads is the number of downloads for the given period of time.

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    Agetoon – By Ratty the Wise
    Toons size
    Two things to look for. One is the bytes size. Keep it small, and send your toons in .gif or .jpg formats. Bmps are annoyingly big.

    Two is the actual size of your toons. Keep it small to fit in a web page. Don’t send toons the size of AOE screenshots. We’ll have to minimize it and loss of details could occur. Edit it so it will have the final look you want. Thanks for your cooperation.

    New toons
    Don’t worry if your work is not in the toons section. From now on, toons will make the frontpage, and then go in the toon section. So depending on the number of submissions, this could take 4-5 days before you see your artwork in Heaven. – 
    Omnivac

     

    More Agetoons here.

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    Voting Polls
    Heaven voting section
     has 2 new topics added. What is your preferred population limit, and what type of player are you (the lonely singleplayer or the conquering multiplayer) ? – Omnivac

    Searching in Heaven
    Find that little piece of heaven!

      Search for

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    History Tidbits
    Daily fix of real old news
    For a while Heavens angels will bring some history tidbits and trivia in this column. Look here every day for your daily fix of “old news”. – Hamlet

    (want more? Then go to “History Tidbits – The Collection”)

    The Real-life game of Age of Empires
    Here’s my contribution for the history tidbits. Telling the real-life game of Age of Empires. I hope everybody will like it, and I will try not to make it look like a boring history class. Well, this doesn’t exist but that’s my opinion. 🙂 Read and enjoy. – Omnivac

    (Want all the story? Then go to “History Tidbits – The Chronicles”)

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      Headlines – April 11, 1998

    Easter Egg hunt
    Poll results
    Scenario Contest
    Heaven Top Ten Downloads
    Agetoon by Ananda
    Voting Sections
    Search the resources of Heaven
    History Tidbits
     
     

     

    Easter Egg hunt
    GameStats Easter Weekend Contest
    Go to our host GameStats, and look everywhere for some nice prizes to win. – Omnivac

    We have something special for you this Easter Weekend! How about a little Easter Egg hunt!?!? We have hidden 8 Easter images throughout the GameStats main website. Each image has two letters on it. Simply find all eight images, unscramble the letters, (hint top letters always stay on top), and mail poll@gamestats.com telling us the three words that you find. We will draw one name from all of those who submit the correct three words. The first place winner will receive a brand new copy of BLADE RUNNER as a gift from GameStats. There will be consolation prizes for the second and third place runners up. Good Luck!!!!

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    Poll results
    Since when do you play AOE?
    Some interesting results has come up from the poll. The majority of the players are those from the early days of AOE, and they still continue to play. To this number, new players join them, better shown as the around 400-500 weekly download of the v1.0a patch only here in Heaven, and this not counting all the downloads made everywhere else. Age of Empires is still well and alive, and has made quite a succesfull following. – Omnivac

    Since the Beta 6%
    Since November 
    39%
    Since December 
    22%
    Since January 
    15%
    Since February 
    8%
    Since March 
    8%

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    Scenario Contest
    Scenarios
    You have until April 30th for designing the best singleplayer scenario on the net. You can find all the information here. Be sure to read the rules very carefully before submitting. Our judges are already working, and so far the quality of the scenarios are quite good. Look forward downloading an excellent singleplayer scenario pack in the beginning of May, after the end of the contest. – Omnivac

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    Heaven Top Ten Downloads
    Most wanted list! 
    – 03/23/98 to 03/30/98

    LW TW   D/Loads
    1 1 The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire Campaign 936
    3 2 The Curse of Ra Campaign 688
    2 3 AOE v1.0a Patch 491
    6 4 Stoyan Ratchev’s AOE AI Editor v1.0 461
    4 5 AOE2 Trebuchet .avi 455
    6 Age of Stone Singleplayer Scenario 377
    5 7 A Story of Honor – Part I Campaign 375
    8 8 Destroying the Heroes of Persia Campaign 345
    9 AOE2 Knight .avi 333
    10 10 AllTaunts v1.0 (26-369) LOOKOUT! 9.46 Mb 332

    LW is last week position, TW is this week position, and D/Loads is the number of downloads for the given period of time.

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    Agetoon – By Ananda
    Toons size
    Two things to look for. One is the bytes size. Keep it small, and send your toons in .gif or .jpg formats. Bmps are annoyingly big.

    Two is the actual size of your toons. Keep it small to fit in a web page. Don’t send toons the size of AOE screenshots. We’ll have to minimize it and loss of details could occur. Edit it so it will have the final look you want. Thanks for your cooperation.

    New toons
    Don’t worry if your work is not in the toons section. From now on, toons will make the frontpage, and then go in the toon section. So depending on the number of submissions, this could take 4-5 days before you see your artwork in Heaven. – 
    Omnivac

     

    More Agetoons here.

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    Voting Polls
    3 new poll added
    Heaven voting section
     has 3 new topics added. One is what resolution do you use to view Heaven to help us make a better site. The other ones concern more AOE and wants to know what type of player you are (from the lonely singleplayer to the conquering multiplayer) and what is your favorite population limit. – Omnivac

    Searching in Heaven
    Find that little piece of heaven!

      Search for

    goto top of news

    History Tidbits
    Daily fix of real old news
    For a while Heavens angels will bring some history tidbits and trivia in this column. Look here every day for your daily fix of “old news”. – Hamlet

    (want more? Then go to “History Tidbits – The Collection”)

    The Real-life game of Age of Empires
    Here’s my contribution for the history tidbits. Telling the real-life game of Age of Empires. I hope everybody will like it, and I will try not to make it look like a boring history class. Well, this doesn’t exist but that’s my opinion. 🙂 Read and enjoy. – Omnivac

    (Want all the story? Then go to “History Tidbits – The Chronicles”)

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      Headlines – April 10, 1998

    Difficulty levels and lions
    Zone challenge #2
    Come as you are Tourney, with Wildcards
    Scenario Contest
    Heaven Top Ten Downloads
    Agetoon by Dudley
    Voting Sections
    Search the resources of Heaven
    History Tidbits
     
     

     

    Difficulty levels and lions
    The truth once and for all
    Some claims that more lions are present in multiplayer games with the difficulty set at hard, or less lions if the difficulty is at easy. As far as I know, it was never the case. At least from my observations. It was always random as I saw lots of lions in easy games, and few lions in hard games. As to wether or not they are more or less agressive, here’s what Dave C. Pottinger has to say. – Omnivac

    Difficulty level only affects CP play in random map games and any multiplayer games.

    In single player scenario games that have setup the PER files accordingly (i.e. our campaigns), the lions, gators, elephant kings and the CP units are less aggressive at the two lowest difficulty levels (we don’t allow them to see as far as they would normally).

    Dave C. Pottinger
    Engine Lead
    Ensemble Studios Corp.

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    Zone challenge #2
    Zone vs CGW
    The dust has settled, the body count has begun and already the Zone is preparing for a new war. This time they plan to conquer the CGW civilization. Here’s some more info for the actual battle plan, followed by some tidbits about the recent war…err..massacre, from fellow Angel and war reporter Azoic. He even managed to join in the fray. – Omnivac

    We’re still recovering from the battle with OGR, and we’ll have a full report on that war soon. But this time, we’ve chosen to challenge the fine folks atComputer Gaming World magazine! Come to the Zone on April 23 at 6 P.M. Pacific Time in the War Cry room to witness the carnage. Representatives from the Zone and CGW will be playing Age for bragging rights!

    OGR got shut out 0-7 Vs Zone
    The zone players were picked from an internal ladder at MS. I assisted with 2 of the OGR defeats, One I single handedly got crushed, the other with Doug we got stampeded together. Hanging my head in shame. – 
    Azoic

    Individuals
    Chameleon 
    vs AOEH_Azoic – zone wins
    BaddApple 
    vs Doug@OGR – zone wins
    Ben 
    vs John@OGR – zone wins
    Deano 
    vs Garth@OGR – zone wins
    Rage 
    vs David@OGR – zone wins

    Teams
    glitch, Bear 
    vs John@OGR, Garth@OGR – zone wins
    Stormbringer, Joshua 
    vs AOEH_Azoic@OGR, Doug@OGR – zone wins

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    Come as you are Tourney, with Wildcards
    Constructive comments welcome
    A Tourney is in the work on the Zone. Here’s the actual outline, and where it stands at the moment. Send comments, suggestions and toughts to MrSnappy. For now, it plays like this… – Omnivac

    Players – 4 per match, played in multiples of 4

    Game length – Each match to last 1 hour. Use game timer to keep track.

    Winner – To be determined by points.

    Reporting scores – All players in a match must report the scores of all players in the  match. Please make a note of all scores as soon as the match finishes and report them to tourney host.

    Bracketing –

    First round matches set up randomly.
    Second round matches as follows, 4 highest point totals make up a match, second 4 highest make up a match and so on.
    Third round proceeds the same way with the exception that the 4 lowest scores are now dropped out of the tourney. proceed in this manner till you have 4 players in the final round.
    Winner is the one with the highest score. Post all 4 names to the list of tourney winners so that players in the room know who the better players are.

    Special rules –

    All players will play the civilization they first show up in on the AOE launch screen. No changes will be allowed or made. The host of the match will monitor, those refusing to switch back will be disqualified. The game will be setup with out them. Host will close out their spot, bumping them from the game.

    Tourney Host or designate will host the match. Then drop from the game after successful launch, thus creating the “Wildcard” of extra easy to get resources, just have to find them first, and defend them.  :))

    Dropped players will have their point total at the time of drop. If a player is dropped in the first 15 minutes, the match can be restarted. Dropped player must make every effort to return to the DM room as soon as possible. Other players in a match must note time of drop. If before the 15 minute period, all players in the match must stop and restart. If after the 15 minute period, please make a note of the dropped players score.

    Scenario Contest
    Scenarios
    You have until April 30th for designing the best singleplayer scenario on the net. You can find all the information here. Be sure to read the rules very carefully before submitting. Our judges are already working, and so far the quality of the scenarios are quite good. Look forward downloading an excellent singleplayer scenario pack in the beginning of May, after the end of the contest. – Omnivac

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    Heaven Top Ten Downloads
    Most wanted list! 
    – 03/23/98 to 03/30/98

    LW TW   D/Loads
    1 1 The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire Campaign 936
    3 2 The Curse of Ra Campaign 688
    2 3 AOE v1.0a Patch 491
    6 4 Stoyan Ratchev’s AOE AI Editor v1.0 461
    4 5 AOE2 Trebuchet .avi 455
    6 Age of Stone Singleplayer Scenario 377
    5 7 A Story of Honor – Part I Campaign 375
    8 8 Destroying the Heroes of Persia Campaign 345
    9 AOE2 Knight .avi 333
    10 10 AllTaunts v1.0 (26-369) LOOKOUT! 9.46 Mb 332

    LW is last week position, TW is this week position, and D/Loads is the number of downloads for the given period of time.

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    Agetoon – By Dudley
    Toons size
    Two things to look for. One is the bytes size. Keep it small, and send your toons in .gif or .jpg formats. Bmps are annoyingly big.

    Two is the actual size of your toons. Keep it small to fit in a web page. Don’t send toons the size of AOE screenshots. We’ll have to minimize it and loss of details could occur. Edit it so it will have the final look you want. Thanks for your cooperation.

    New toons
    Don’t worry if your work is not in the toons section. From now on, toons will make the frontpage, and then go in the toon section. So depending on the number of submissions, this could take 4-5 days before you see your artwork in Heaven. – 
    Omnivac

     

    More Agetoons here.

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    Voting Polls
    3 new poll added
    Heaven voting section
     has 3 new topics added. One is what resolution do you use to view Heaven to help us make a better site. The other ones concern more AOE and wants to know what type of player you are (from the lonely singleplayer to the conquering multiplayer) and what is your favorite population limit. – Omnivac

    Multiplayer issues
    Write
     now! What multiplayer improvements, multiplayer enhancements, or new multiplayer features would you love to see for Age of Empires 2, that are missing in Age of Empires? What is on your wishlist for multiplayer? – Omnivac

    Comments on AOEII
    Write
     now! You can also leave you comments in the form on why you think your #1 choice of the new opinions in AOEII is the best! – The Archangel

    Searching in Heaven
    Find that little piece of heaven!

      Search for

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    History Tidbits
    Daily fix of real old news
    For a while Heavens angels will bring some history tidbits and trivia in this column. Look here every day for your daily fix of “old news”. – Hamlet

    (want more? Then go to “History Tidbits – The Collection”)

    The Real-life game of Age of Empires
    Here’s my contribution for the history tidbits. Telling the real-life game of Age of Empires. I hope everybody will like it, and I will try not to make it look like a boring history class. Well, this doesn’t exist but that’s my opinion. 🙂 Read and enjoy. – Omnivac

    (Want all the story? Then go to “History Tidbits – The Chronicles”)

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