10 Tips for Controlling Villagers and the Economy [Age of Empires 2] [ES SUBS] 

I have to say, I've watched a fair bit of AoE tutorial and guide vids, but the knowledge you put out is high quality man. Usually they focus on unit counters and build orders, but the tips you give are far more useful. Ever since I started being mindful of how much a vill collects on the way up to castle, how many vills are needed for constant production, rebalancing my eco with the market, and all the other tips you've given I have improved a lot more than with any other AoE content creator. Keep it up man

That skirmisher trick to deny farm food collection blew my mind. Great content as always, man!

Market abuse has always been something taught to me as a "never do". Now I know it can be a potential opening into a boom

100 to 150 elo contained in a single video. Amazing. Survivalist, the content you churn out is just outstanding.

Man this kind of videos is pure gold!

Still an underrated channel. I like your insights on the game mechanics. Build order guides are a good way to improve gameplay - to a certain level. But only your videos gave me a better understanding of how and why build orders work and when it might be better to deviate from them.

Survivalist videos are up there with the best..I've played over 2000 hours and still picking up new tips.

Dude! Amazing content! You put so much effort into this, it's amazing

Man do I love subscribing to AoE channels

I viewed so much videos from pro players and this kind of video is one of the best! The building -> boar trick was new to me. Keep up the excellent work!!

survivalist making the world more efficient one video at a time, love them!! keep them coming man, wp

I need to learn more about eco Management this video is perfect timing

Thanks, man. Great video. Your work definitely improves my gameplay.

This is very helpful! I totally relate to your opening statement and the tips in this video highlighted some things I can improve on. Thanks

This is by far the most useful tutorial I have ever seen. Thank you for making this, subscribed, hopefully you have other friendly intuitive content like this!

Top quality nerding... between sotl, t-west and survivalist we are spoiled for top quality nerding. I’m around 1350 elo and was surprised the market prices were so balanced. I’d also looked down on market abuse unless absolutely necessary. This puts it in a very different light indeed. Nice one.

A very helpful video for sure! Thanks a lot and please keep uploading these types of videos!

Excellent quality material man, thanks a lot for the effort!

dude this was so informative thanks for doing the research, villager work time is such a cool unit!

High Quality editing, well done!

1000 hours into the game and i never noticed that you could deny farm usage by attacking it. I always kept my range unit to stand trying to harass the villager. Thanks for the useful tips!

Another great instructional video! Thank you!

Great stuff, hard to find all of this info so well put! Spirit of The Law level content here! :)

Great content man, as always

Top content as usual. Amazing stuff.

Nice video SurvivalistOfTheLaw 😉👌🏻

Your videos are amazing!! Thank-you! :)

I wasted so much time dropping wood at the TC before building farms, that was mind blowing

Amazing video!!

8:06 this is why the planet is dying

Great content. Thank u!

I love your videos. So insightful.

bro this is so good like spirit of the law but another level

Man thanks so much for this

Thank you so much for this!!!

This was all super helpful

You obviously put in a lot of time on this video, thanks.

9:20 caution: building docks don't cause dropoffs despite being collection point for fishermen. Garrisoning to TC also causes dropoff.

Great tutorial. Lol at ~5:45 mark.

thank yu survivalist, you are so cool

At 5:36 if you guys start earlier with the boar " as i do" for faster rushing. The best way to control your villagers is to slolwy build up the count until there are 10-12 on the boar. Have them all at keybind number 1 then ctrl click 6 of them so that 6 are left selected then keybind them to 2. Now that you have 6 vils on each keybind while they are still working put 2 sheeps / cows on each side of the TC and send each group to one side with shift so they finish the boar and movd to sheep. Preferably if #1 grps have more vils to the left "for example" then it takes the left sheep to avoid bumping Generally speaking though, if you start with cows or sheep as our man said ir depends on boar distance, i do like lompardia for example where boars are especially far and i always start with cow. So i end up doing 7 vils at first cow and the 8th pulls the boar then 2 or 3 on wood depends on your team and 2 builds 2 houde + mill + collects berries is what i enjoy doing. Then the rest of the vils go back to boar. I do it like this because i hate losing food to decay so i build up at least 7 before first boar. On arabia it is usually a "-1 " rule where sheep is much less meat but boar is also much closer so it is more like 6 then boar or you can delay the boar for one more vil if you hate fast boar decay which i do "thus i try to find ways to reduce it"

Didn't know the farms went idle when targetted by military. great tip!

great video

Hey guys Spiritualist here . Today we have math to do. Great and educational video , really easy to understand and use it in game. Less thing to worry about when I understand the reason for using each numbers of vill on each resources.

Aoe is such a complex game and I learn something from every one of your videos! I never knew that you can drop off food at dock after turning hunter into fisherman, but not with non-food resources. Looks like a feature and not a bug lol

"instead of overly complicating things like some mathematician" -SpiritOfTheLaw: So I took that personally

Thanks for the video. I want to point out that regarding the decay, mathematically it is almost always best to finish the resource that has less food first then switch into the larger one regardless of the decay rate. Simply, when there are two resources decaying simultaneously, the best action is to stop one of them to decay as quickly as possible, hence your overall decay rate drops significantly in a very short time. Therefore when there is a sheep and a boar decaying, the best is to send everyone on sheep first finish it and move to the boar.

One thing I do want to note, it's always better to collect the dear first and than the boar. The decay on the boar is higher but the time to fully deplete it is also a lot longer (*2.5) so you will lose less food if you first focus on the dear thats rotting and than move over to the boar (in situation you have to chose) not the otherway around.

I feel personally attacked by that intro

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Legends say that to this day, he is still trying to use deer as fertiliser for his farms.

Love it love you

Hey Survivalist, quality content here, thank you! :) I'm thinking about little different build orders (milling deer, 7 on sheep, etc.) and came across the idea of luring deer with a pre-mill militia (technically difficult, since you cannot attack the deer obviously, so you press follow). If done without a mistake, it leads to consistently more food (and later farms). Is it worth it?

I have finally decided to return to AOE. This is the first video I'm going to watch since my return

I would think that using the market to buy up to Castle Age would be really good for Turks with their faster gold mining, especially considering they have no other eco bonus, plus gold isn't such a rare and important resource that early anyways. Then buy stone to get that first castle up to start making Jannis

I started really sinking my teeth into aoe2 about a month ago and this is the kind of stuff i need! It really clears up some questions I've been asking myself. However, some question remain. With respect to boar saturation and decay, I've been approaching it with the same logic as you presented here and tend to go against my build orders (even though I assume they're correct, being they're by Hera). I go 10 on boar before sending all 4 to berries, since i just don't see the point in going berries while I have boar and sheep decaying. Why do pro build orders tend to have 7-8 on boar, then 4 to berries, before going up to 10 on boar?

I didn't know that attacking farms denied them

Crack

Instead of overtly complicating things like a mathematician - spirit of the law triggered Proceeds to watch the whole video - oh it's all math. Spirit approves!!! Great video.. loved the skirm tip on farms and thanks for validating my panic market abuse

It is a pity that almost all help for lower rated players is focused on mechanics and not on strategy. The top players are at the top because of their ability to strategize.

The market point was interesting, hadnt realised buying food early is more efficient than using inefficient farms. Makes me wonder why for fast castle builds, even on arena, players don't buy 200-300 food but go with a few dark age farms. Collecting gold is even more efficient than dark age farms. Even with Turks you don't see this much for whom it is even better.

boar respects building regulations and calms down 😆

Some reason when I build something all my villagers stop what they’re doing and go help and it’s annoying as hell. I just want that one villager to do it and I can’t get the villagers to do anything else until there done. No idea why it’s doing this now because before it wasnt. I’m on Xbox controller if that makes difference, thanks.

Again at the last point, why not buy wood which allows building many farms with less villagers on wood than usual then juat let the new villagers go to wood automatically? I mgiht have missed something there

hey can u make more videos like this with the: how many vilagers it nneds to put on a resource for 2 stables knights or smth like that

Something that has always bothered me is the maximizing food decay thing. Most "build orders" I have seen put 7-8 on boar and 4 on berries.... with berries being the slowest form of food gathering, logically it makes much more sense to me to do it like in this video with 12 on boar (also how I did it before I started checking official build orders). Then you could just send those 4 extra vils to berries and 8 to sheep/deer once boars are done. . Idk, maybe there is something I'm missing here.

Hello, survivalist of the law here

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Hey just a quick notifier that the heroku app's https is broken, at least for me. So awesome what you put together there btw!!

Supposed to be a game, now I'm studying it haha

How to do this on xbox

I love this kind of video. I still wonder though... is there an obvious reason why most build orders want only 6 vils on sheep?

I play rise of nations and that market is so strong. So when I play the occasional Aoe II game I know to hit that market.

How to prevent villagers from walking all the way behind the woodline when sending them to wood? This problem occurs to me very often

10:18 Could you explain to me exactly how the "Khmer" ability works? I have tried several times to use this, but my villagers always need a mill or the town center to deposit food :(

Every time I try to shift queue wood then 10 minutes later I'll get an idle villiger on the woodline. Has anyone else noticed this? It's like after they finish the shift tasks they don't auto go to another tree

Not 6 on sheep and 7 on boar?

YOU NEED TO MAKE A DISCORD

Now i understand why hoang puts so many villagers on gold

Milling deer: If I recently calculated correctly in my head, then: As Goths/Aztecs you usually shouldnt mill deer, because you can efficiently (in 1 trip) hunt with 2/3 vils. U agree?

2:24 how do you know these things what the heeck

i've noticed that even with shift queuing my villagers tend to kill 2 sheep and 2 deer at the same time. Usually 3 vils go to one deer and another will go alone to kill another deer, which will run away and die really far away. ;_; stupid vils

i wish i was stuck at 1200

Wtf the subtitles are in spanish? Nothing against, but as the cat, i dont do it,