ShadowOfHassen

I usually have a few farm fields but don't bother with more because the descriptions say they lose efficiency as they go on. Lat game just cues up 15 or so of the animal meat I can and then have my horsemen slaughter them. I also use fishing boats. So you mean you'd make the citizen soldiers less effective and add a male citizen that you could train? For some reason I think that would detract from the "In zero AD your soldiers can work" mechanic. I don't think that A. is very intuitive for anyone who comes from age of empires and besides realistically it makes sense. You don't chop trees with wooden axes. You'd need metal for the axe heads and meat to feed the people who improve them. (You could say you need wood for handles, but handle wood is not hard to find, just reuse the old one or grab a good tree branch. You wouldn't need four times as much wood as a house)

It is probably a skill thing in some regard. I don't play fast and furious, I like to build myself up slowly. I will work on being better, but the issue is I can't learn if I get killed within the first ten minutes of medium. What I basically meant to say though is I'm not an absolute newbie when it comes to RTS. I know. Do you know where I could do that?

I don't know how you all operate here but changing resource categories doesn't sound too hard. If other people are busy, I could make the change...

I've been playing the game recently and have some suggestions. First, could the game's unit encyclopedia be expanded to include historical information. I want to know the history behind every single civilization unit and hero. I love the hole women citizen/ citizen gather mechanics, however I have a few problems with how it works in the current version. First, I noticed the female citizens are in the support category, but their support effect was removed. Should that be changed? Second, while female citizens are useful in early game, they are pretty much useless once you get to age three. By then you have enough men to chop wood and mine and all the fruit bushes are gone, and the farms aren't really efficient. I just use the coral and horsemen. If I get attacked, the women all die (they aren't that durable) and my economy is stopped. It is almost more efficient to kill them all, so I can train soldiers. A solution to this (I think) would give the female citizens a late game form of resource gathering. I know that in Hellenistic period Greek and other Hellenistic societies the women mostly stayed home.(But not always) At the home I have read that the women sometimes wove cloth for people to sell. Maybe in the third age there should be a house upgrade that if you garrison the female citizens in the houses, they give a small trickle of metal. Garrisoning the women would also protect them from being slaughtered. So another issue I had is very easy and easy are too easy for me, but in medium I get slaughtered. I don't think it's a skill thing because I've played Age of Empires III Battle For Middle Earth and Empire at War and not had that much of a problem. But before I can even start building soldiers to defend myself, the AI comes in with 40 + soldiers. I know AI in games is tricky, and it might be hard how to iron the kinks out, but I have a suggestion. Could you change the resource gathering upgrades at the store house's resources? Not how many resources, but what resources I have to use. Because if I am playing and need wood I would naturally want to get the wood upgrade, but I can't because it costs even more wood which I'm going to need for everything else (because everything except female citizens cost wood in the beginning) I remember in age of empires II realizing that in order to upgrade a resource income you had to use the other two resource and thinking how smart it was gameplay sense. Also, it doesn't seem right that the stone and ore upgrades cost the same resources. Do you think it'd be possible to change the upgrade types to Axes: Metal and Meat, Stone: Wood and Ore, Ore: Wood and Stone? The baskets are fine, but if the others were changed it'd help me be able to get wood quicker early game, which will help me be able to get more men before I get attacked. It also balances out the fact that two upgrades require stone and metal, which doesn't seem well-balanced. One last feature request, could you add horse trampling? I loved in Battle For Middle Earth, being able to run orcs over with my horsemen. Trampling is something Calvary did in real life. Units could have trampling and trampling resistance, and you could integrate it with formations so that wedge formations does more "trample effect" than other formations.