Working Wells, Aqueducts, and More! 

I like the idea of neutral objects that can be built and help everyone.

Minor buffs and debuffs from terrain and weather could be interesting

Farm should have different design for each upgrade in the mill and the remain of food in it. Outpost look dark age even in imp. It's also no have visual upgrade when the range is increase

One idea I had that is somewhat related to this is building bridges between shores. I know that bridges are actually just cosmetics build over tiles in the water that units on land can walk over, but I think it could be interesting if you could "build" land tiles on water to connect two opposite shores between each other. (You can see this if you "torpedo" a player with bridges.) This would probably have to have a high stone cost and take a lot of time so as to not overshadow building ships.

To add more such features to the game, we need a third buildings page for the villagers to build more kinds of stuff... Or expand that 5x3 grid of buttons...

I'm not so sure about being able to make more buildings in the base game unless they are something that adds a lot to gameplay. Each addition increases the learning curve for new players.

actually having wells are aqeuducts in map generation could be really fun, like it is a better spot to farm, but outside of TC range, so you need to build towards it, maybe in castle age with a new TC, or risky earlier in Feudal with walls and stuff. You could just treat it like any other ressource node

Love these ideas

I always thought about sea walls and a way to make them balanced (no fishing ships quickwalling). Basically a sea wall can only exist on a shoreline or adjacent to a fully built sea wall. If a built seawall loses those requirement, it collapses.

I like this idea. In halo wars, another ensemble game, there were "hooks" in the map that provided bonuses that weren't all necessarily resource based either

broski ahead of aoe stuffs

These videos are really cool. Have you had any Microsoft feedback on any of these ideas or ones from other videos??

wow those are all cool, id love to see what else you create

WE NEED THIS NOW

Why??? Why couldn't we see the last aquaduct part completed??? Why did you do that?! Litterally unwatchable video! Beautiful ideas and mod. The statues and wells/fountains remind me of BFME 2, dwarves have them, too BUT the macro is much less intensive so you have time to think about them in regular game mode. Not sure it could apply for aoe2 RM 1v1. In TG, it'd be nice, the road too.

I've watched a couple of your videos and I strongly believe that we need your ideas. We need AoE II AE, Admiral's Edition. Ok, now seriously, it'd be dumb that Microsoft or Forgotten Empires don't hire you for game design. These are simple ideas that add a lot to the game, and it's not easy to create such simple things. And it's super cool that they're both visually pleasant and functional. Most of these ideas would probably be better exploitable (from a gameplay point of view) as civ/regional bonuses, such that add more variety to the game, as in "oh, now I want to play as the Romans to use the aqueducts" (I'd make that a "regional" building for Romans and Byzantines, maybe? Though it'd need some more balancing to avoid those civs to become OP).

I find it interesting, but only for campaign purposes. For random or multiplayer, it is already too complex to be viable

Another comment: I would like unique economic building and unique military building for every civ instead of just a few.

Honestly farming on sand should be impossible without these but I guess that's too disruptive

Age of mithology approach to relics was the same as presented here(small buffs as long as you have it instead of small amount of gold). AOE 2 is a chess kind of game with the civs being similar to each other so twists so big as that budha statue should not be in the game. The neutral statues or wells would mess up players as they would have to build more agresive so most likely they wont be implemented as to not upset the balance. Good video,and good ideas but for the wrong game.

what about weather Sandstorm: less accuracy Snowstorm: Less attack speed Rainstorm: Less work efficiency Thunderstorm: Less production speed Heatwave: Slower moving speed Windstorm all effects combined but not as major Tornado: Everything takes damage and is GG

I tried to make the custom civbuilder work. I did saw it as a thing in the game but the datapack showed a red exlemation Mark and i dont have the brain oomph to fix it ): _Sad hyena noises_

Aoe "4-2"

do you have a discord server?

We need SWGB Definitive Edition :(

yk ppl would abuse the wells and build them everywhere. Scrap that idea

Aqueducts should no longer act as walls, except the "water tower" angles & edges. No need to elaborate why, just look at them

Fantastic stuff man, really admire your work. This is the sort of stuff I absolutely *love* seeing talented modders like yourself implementing, pushing the boundaries of the game in a tangible way. Are you on Discord? If so please do hit me up! I'd love to work with you.