Thank you for the update. Could you change the colors/textures of civilian units so that they look different from soldiers? With many civs it's impossible to distinguish between soldiers and men civilians.
This makes you look like a cheater, If your have only question is to setup three barracks. Enabling auto-queue doesn't eliminate the resource supply.
If you came to my topic to stretch it to 5 pages, so that even the developers refuse to read it, then you are a troll. Choose for yourself.
Poking the barracks every 30 seconds is not a game, it's the job of an elevator operator. I want to manage the war, not the queue in the cafeteria.
I don't know about this part. I haven't played AOE2 in so long that I can't say anything about it. AFAIK borg and Valihrant were also good AOE2 players. I don't think one should change the complexity based on the current skill of the lobby users.
I think it would be interesting to see statistics of nr. of players over the time. How a releases draws in players, how it may go down over time. Maybe with elo ranges.
For myself I can say that I don't have as much of a competitive drive as before "enhancement mods" were around.