Originally Posted by Maximvs (Post 136090)

Building your own scenarios is a bit of work... because you have to put "triggers" in for the Computer to react to.

For example, you send your army to attack "X" and when it gets attacked - a "trigger" there forces the computer to start pumping out soliders. Another trigger at location "Y" may make the computer start an advance to attack your armies (if you've given him an army to atack with :) )

There are basically two builders - the Multiplayer Builder and the Scenario Builder. It sounds like you built the Multiplayer Builder (which then you have to play the map in Multiplayer Mode for the computer to use the map - otherwise the towns will just sit "empty"). You can play these and the computer will use them if you play the maps in Multiplayer (just choose all computer players - and make sure each as a Town Centre, enough food, wood, stone and gold to start with and three Villagers so he can get working).

Originally Posted by Evil Kid Bugs (Post 136463)

Phooey on AoE and it's sequels, I want the ultimate game:

Age of Bunnies

Failing that, maybe Elmer's game, WabbitCwaft

-ekb-

Originally Posted by League (Post 135543)

WWI and WWII as an age each (who knows for the names though), a Nuclear Age? the modern age? It's kinda tricky as it all rolls into modern happenings, and is quite condensed, especially concerning the first 2 games. Empire Earth was decent with the units and all, though that only had 3 collective periods with 5 civs for each of those periods. I'm thinking that nuclear units should not be something you can build, because any attempt by Empire Earth to make atomic weapons was cheesy. As well, as far as I know, there have only been two bombings, so eh. It could be something that you build up, and be like some sort of score or something.

I have a million more ideas of a kind concerning Age of Empires: I'd probably like to make my own version some day.

Originally Posted by League (Post 136952)

EE2 also has the space "water," cheesily done as well. Some of the stuff in the future though was cool, like the secret police (can't recall if that was specific to a campaign, or in the first EE).

Thinking of the space has brought to mind an interesting idea: what if you played on a globe? The standard sky view would apply, though the thing would rotate: it'd b the only true effective way to get space items in there. Still, we're talking about Age of Empires, which, being realistic, only delves in what has already happened (and not in what probably won't).

Hey Teach, I can PM you my brother's account name if you want. You could play each other sometime.