Talk:Age of Empires II/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

2.0b patch?

What is 2.0b patch? As i know the final one is 2.0a (http://aok.heavengames.com/), someone have download link and/or information about this patch? Maybe it's something like unofficial patches for The Conquerors (1.0d, 1.0e and 1.0e Final) but why no one write about this and place as official patch?

Mongolian Wonder

Zolotaya Orda/Golden Horde/Złota Orda is really Wonder of Mongols? As i know this is not building, but Mongolian country/state/organisation, etc. Better option is write Genghis Khan Tent/Genghis Khan Personal Tent (like here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=777Du5gS64M in 03:34, yes i know other Wonders in this movie can be incorrect). Heres photo of Genghis Khan Temp from Google: http://www.thelongridersguild.com/Ger.JPG (looks like this Wonder from Age of King), very hard to find any photo of this building...

Quality of the article

While this article is decent enough, I feel it needs a bit of editing for style, so as to make reading it more pleasant. Also, this game is a very popular one, played by many people. Maybe a Sales paragraph might be in order, so as to reflect the impact it has had on the gaming industry and gamers worldwide? This game was one of the landmark games for the Strategy genre... Please comment.The Nouv (talk) 10:53, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

AIScripters

They currently have a reconstruction notice up. The wayback machine hasn't archived them in a while (http://web.archive.org/web/*/aiscripters.com), but the most recent posts in their forum are from 2003 (http://www.aiscripters.com/tonto_ivb/index.php?act=SC&c=22). I'm voting that they be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.8.105.140 (talk) 05:14, August 24, 2007 (UTC)

Here is the correct link to there tournaments forums http://www.aiscripters.com/ivb/index.php?showforum=9 and its very much active. There main website was not being updated with new versions of AI because they were regularly being posted on there forums and are available on forums. Acetylcholine 08:02, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

rogan

which unit had the "rogan?" quote again? or was it a number-emote? --84.164.106.177 13:35, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

re: the 'rogan' quote was used by villagers Mrormisterhenry 18:12, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Willing to help

I've played AoE (but not AoE2), and I can see from this article that the concepts are very similar. I'm willng to help re-structure and re-phrase, which is what Wikipedia:WikiProject Strategy games seems to think is needed. You can see examples of my style at Master of Orion, Master of Orion II and Space Empires III, on all of which I've done major edits. Please leave a message on my Talk page if you'd like me to help.Philcha 13:47, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Multiplayer POV

Biased not at all. Somebody with knowledge of subject should tell the "truth". Tuntis 23:44, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Multiplayer

The Zone was a popular place to play, with over 1000 people playing at a time.

The Zone probably had 30-80 thousand players playing at the same time. AoK had 2-3 thousand at its max and Counquers had even more.

After a hiatus, Gamespy was proclaimed as the official successor of the Microsoft Zone, however it was soon realized that not many players decided to join Gamespy. Instead two prominent websites were advertised in the Zone game rooms: Empires Legacy, and Gamepark.

No, Ensemble Studios decided to go with GameSpy after Empires Legacy missed their deadline (19 June, the date Zone closed). Empires Legacy contacted Ensemble Studios through Age of Empires III.

After a huge argument between EmpiresLegacy.com and Gamepark.eu, GamePark had created a better zone for players, and so by player choice EmpiresLegacy redirected to GamePark after they had lost.

This is wrong too. Empires Legacy was closed because GM_Leader_L450 (the guy paying for the server) got fed up with EL never finishing their client. When it closed they remade www.empireslegacy.com to a vote. The vote was about what site Empires Legacy should link to which GamePark won.

Around the end of 2006, Gamepark had about 100 players playing Age of Kings, equaling the MSN Gaming Zone in popularity; Microsoft though, still supports Gamespy. Currently [which date is this?], there are over 100 Age of King players playing in IGZones.com due to its recent popularity and the Age of Kings players have stopped going to GamePark.

I never used GamePark but 100 players is not much and not equaling to Zone. So far no AoE Gaming Server can be compared to Zone. Zone was the starting point and is still the site AoK links to (if you start the game on your computer). IGZ got more then 100 players playing. www.igzones.com

There is also a direct IP multiplayer

It needs to be clear that IP games are played through your AoK game on your computer and not a Client. This is what GameSpy uses which is a major part why some people are switching to IGZ.

So who am I to say all this?

I'm known as Perfect on AoK and I play Custom Scenario. I was a mod on Empires Legacy, IGZ, vGo (Old AoK CS Forum) and GameFanatic (Current AoK CS Forum). I've been playing AoK for about 5 years. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.217.207.131 (talk) 19:52, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

AoK Heaven

There's a lot of advertisements for AoK Heaven which from what I know is an AoC site and I've never heard any AoK CS players refer to it nor use it. Have heard about RM and AoC players using it but that's it.

I did view it a bit but didn't see any aok parts.

AoE2 Strategy Center is a place to find strategies and guides to use in Age of Empires 2. Guides are mainly intended to use in Age of Empires 2: The Conquerors but some may also be able to use in the Age of Kings.

Would be good if someone removed all these AoC links and all the AoC text in the AoK section. AoK Heaven is not an AoK Site, nor is AoE2 Strategy Center.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by WOC Perfect (talk • contribs) 21:03, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

damn,The good old times..Why did msn zone got rid of the online. This is a legendary game,shame on msn zone. hey guys you know where they play online now becuase i still think there are at least a 100 gamers playing online.

Question

Why can't we have a picture of the game's final version? Bane of Durin 06:03, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Umm....as far as I can see, we do. Can you be more specific? Dihydrogen Monoxide ^♫ 06:39, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Soundtrack Song Titles

The song titles seem to be a little wacky, are they correct? 206.252.74.48 (talk) 18:35, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, they are-- Freshbakedpie ^{(Wanna talk?) \'_'/} 19:56, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Aachen Cathedral?

Is the British wonder really the Aachen cathedral? Seems quite strange since it's located in Germany, and doesen't seem to have anything to do with England! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.8.238.23 (talk) 00:33, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, a German building commissioned by a French king seems like an odd choice for the Britons... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.52.132.224 (talk) 22:13, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

It's actually just weird. Try opening the scenario editor, and put down a British wonder right next to the Cathedral. You might note that the British wonder is simply a rearrangement of portions of the Cathedral building. The Cathedral building looks strikingly similar to the Aachen Cathedral (also odd, as the Cathedral building is never used for the Aachen cathedral in the campaigns). Coanda-1910 (talk) 07:31, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Actually, neither "Germany" nor "France" as we know them today really existed back then; Karl was a Frankish monarch. And it gets more interesting: if you look here [1], you'll see the cathedral identified more accurately as the Frankish wonder. I wonder if they came up with two wonders for the Franks, then moved the extra one to the Britons. Brutannica (talk) 22:05, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Reception, Sales and Awards?

Where are they? I've added a reception section that so far has a small reviews table so I hope others will expanded it from there. Stabby Joe (talk) 12:51, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Citations

It would be nice if somebody could give a citation or two for the first...2/3 of the article. I've lost my manual, but I suspect a lot of it could be sourced to that.Coanda-1910 (talk) 00:42, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Yep Freshbakedpie (talk) 18:28, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Patch 1

I changed it to show the bugs that seriously affected game play, not bothering to list all of them. If I didn't explain anything properly so that someone who has never played the game before could understand, please discuss it here, so we can make improvements. Dream Focus (talk) 23:12, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Trash talking, spam bots, and immaturity on the zone

Would this be appropriate for the article? Perhaps it was common on all Zone hosted games, and elsewhere. I on occasion ended up in a game with some immature imbecile who started using the most vulgar language imaginable to insult my mother, among other things. In the open chats in the Zone rooms where people go to find others to join a game with, more often than not some pervert would be screaming some indecency, or a spam bot would automatically repeat the same advertisement or harassing message. There was no way to report things to a moderator and have the person banned. Since it was a common experience for those playing the game the article is talking about, I was thinking perhaps it'd belong in the article, for historical purposes. What does everyone think? Dream Focus (talk) 23:09, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

I reverted edit that erased patch information

I believe the patch information is valid for an encyclopedic article, since it was a major factor in this game's history. It provides details of the game when first released, a reason why there were many unhappy players, and how it evolved over time. Also, the reason given for erasing it, could be used to wipe out most of the article. So, I reverted that edit. Dream Focus (talk) 06:23, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Specialty Units

Who got rid of the specialty units table? Can we get that back on?

Dinochess (talk) 23:49, 18 September 2008 (UTC) Dinochess

Notes to self

• http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3094/1500_archers_on_a_288_network_.php
• http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3137/profiling_data_analysis_.php

Giggy (talk) 05:03, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Extra Space

Is there any way to delete that extra space right after template:age of empires series? If it's a bug, report it to bugzilla.24.65.69.8 (talk) 02:57, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

'Burning Oil' my left foot! =

This is in the article: "Towers are equipped with the ability to fire arrows and drop burning oil on unfriendly units, and are often used in conjunction with the wall in defense mechanisms."

there is no burning oil in the game. I'm going to edit it out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.214.201.225 (talk) 17:33, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Release date

Can you add the release date, it's September 30 1999? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.134.136.190 (talk) 10:19, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Done.12.199.45.138 (talk) 15:27, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Campagin Summary

Should there be a summary of the storylines of the campagins. Gloryify (talk) 09:48, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Characters

Should there be a mention to the major campaign hero's and characters in a gaming and historical sense. e.g. Joan of Arc, William Wallace. Gloryify (talk) 09:53, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Compatability problems and 'burning oil'

The 'toxic grass' and the graphic issues with grass, trees and water is very common on most PCs, regardless of operating system. It sometimes occurs if you play on an older system or if the graphic drivers are not installed or outdated ones are installed. It can also occur if you are overclocking your CPU and the overclock is unstable. To fix this, all you need to do is press ALT-TAB on windows computers to switch back and forth then this problem will be solved.

That is incorrect information as this trick does not work consistently under Vista and not at all under Windows 7. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.209.186.241 (talk) 21:17, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Seems like someone is unable to use google but is very happy to deface wikipedia articles. Let me google that for you: http://www.google.com/search?q=age+of+empires+toxic+grass —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.209.186.241 (talk) 18:55, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

As for the 'burning oil' from the towers, some towers if the units get too close to the tower for it to attack, you can research a technology (I think at the university building) that will allow the towers to attack units even if they are at the base of the tower by dumping hot black tar or oil over the units causing damage to them. 169.241.64.5 (talk) 14:37, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Your right about the upgrade, called 'murder holes' and allows towers to shot arrows towards their bases. (Gloryify (talk) 09:10, 18 June 2009 (UTC))

Aztec and Mayan architectural set.

New World is official name of new architectural style, NOT Central American, South American, or Mesoamerican...

Do not believe? See: http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/gs/feature_previews/age2_aztecs/age2_aztecs_790screen002.jpg http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/ageofempires2thece/images/0/54/?tag=thumbs_below;thumb;54

STOP CHANGING THIS! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.77.92.173 (talk) 07:23, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Compatibility Problems section, keep or not? Give opinions please.

http://www.google.com/search?q=age+of+empires+%22toxic+grass%22&hl=en&start=80&sa=N Google has 51 results when I check for Age of Empire and "toxic grass". The game was released before Vista existed(before XP was even out even), and Windows 7 isn't even out yet! Is listing its problems for those two operating systems necessary? Don't most old games have trouble running on Vista, unless you select the option to run them in Windows XP mode? And why mention there is no patch from Microsoft yet? A game that was released 10 years ago, isn't going to get a patch, no one expecting that. Everyone please give your opinion. Should the section called Compatibility Problems be kept? Dream Focus 19:10, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Defiantly not needed, as was noted the game is a decade old hence the problems are to be expected. The google results seem to be mainly forum posts from users asking about the problem, no results from any reliable source, my feeling is this is just a minor issue by the few users who still play the game. Delete QueenCake (talk) 20:15, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Definitely needed - it's an issue with this game for these two operating systems.Otherwise please provide a link to a patch or a fix for the issue. Just because you cannot use google obviously (by using different search terms you easily get 1mm hits for the problem), this problem doesn't go away! SO STOP DEFACING THE ARTICLE OR PROVIDE A FIX FOR THIS ISSUE!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.209.186.241 (talk) 20:21, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Just because its an issue doesn't mean it is notable enough to be included on Wikipedia. Provide some reliable sources with the section (not just a link to a google source containing mainly forum posts in your summary), if it is to be kept. QueenCake (talk) 20:24, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

I agree with the OP that this should be included. Asking for "reliable sources" or "official sources" is ridiculous. Looking through online forums, it is clear that this is a widespread issue that seems to affect everyone running the game on Vista and Windows 7. I doubt that MS is going to post on the website for the game that it does not run properly under these operating systems. Even if the OP is posting this issue because he is experiencing the issue (highly likely IMO), it appears to me that the others don't even have the game or run it under Vista/Windows 7. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.169.36.11 (talk) 01:59, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

• Non-notable issue. As pointed out above, it's an old game and it's expected that it has problems to run in newest operative systems. Also, no sources. --Enric Naval (talk) 20:39, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

• The OP is not saying that the section should be included. He is asking for opinions, read his comment again. --Enric Naval (talk) 07:48, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

• The only two that seem to want it, are similar IP addresses, both with almost no edits among them other than trying to put back in the same material into this article. One of them has been blocked for three months do to their constant adding of information everyone else keeps reverting. Dream Focus 11:54, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

The other IP address has now been blocked as well, for obviously being the same person. Dream Focus 18:04, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

AOE 2 Civilisations.

If I have one problem, there's no civilisations. There's no table showing the four types of civilisations at all so it's hard to know the kinds that are available when someone decides to play this game. I'll be happy if someone resolves my concern because there's a puzzle that seriously needs to be solved. Its not hard but at least it's not to dull or boring to read this article. Johnnyauau2000 (talk) 14:21, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Civilisation lists/tables are not needed in wikipedia articles, see the WP:VGSCOPE guidelines. They are already adequately summed up in prose in the gameplay section. QueenCake (talk) 14:55, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

In that case, will anyone do the same with AOE 2 Expansion Pack? The other page still has it. Sometimes, the rules will go as far as make the article as generic as possible. Johnnyauau2000 (talk) 03:53, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Feel free to do it yourself, the article pretty much needs a complete re-write to bring it up to scratch. QueenCake (talk) 21:38, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Should we at least make mention to the fact that there are four different types of civs? Gloryify (talk) 09:56, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

I disagree. The Conquerors expansion lists the civilizations and links to them without further elucidation, and I think it is OK to list the names of the civs here. I do agree that they should not be expanded upon, other than links to the wikipedia articles of those civilizations themselves. This article mentions "the civilizations" several times within the article, but the User never gets a list of which civs they are? I will add them. // Mark Renier (talk) 06:26, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Idle Unit Button?

There is an Idle Unit button, but it is specifically for locating villagers. Twichybunny (talk) 22:00, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

No It can locate idle trade carts and trade cogs too! Gloryify (talk) 09:06, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

There is also an idle military unit command (comma key). 85.165.59.105 (talk) 23:42, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

elite unit

Why isn't there anything about the elite units?83.180.41.89 (talk) 16:22, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Population limit

It said that the smallest population limit is 75. In Age of Conquerors it is 25, and as it is an expansion pack to the Age of Kings, I assume the same applies for the Age of Kings. So I changed it from 75 to 25. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.62.76.215 (talk) 00:04, 30 August 2010 (UTC) I'm changing it back. This is about the Age of Kings, and not the Conquerors.McBenjamin (talk) 17:01, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Gameplay Reference to a civilization only in the Conquerors.

When I was reading this article, a sentence read, "The population capacity, which can be capped at anywhere between 75-200, is based on the number of houses, Castles, or Town centers-the main building in a player's town-which have been built (except for the nomadic Huns who don't require houses.)" I removed the "(except for the nomadic Huns who don't require houses)" twice because this is about the Age of Kings, not the Conquerors. McBenjamin (talk) 03:53, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

"Forgotten Empires" Addon

This new freeware addon needs to be mentioned in the article, as it expands the game just as significantly as "Conquerors" did before. I also would restructure the article, giving each game/addon a different paragraph and headline (AoEII, Conquerors, Forgotten Empires, ...). See here - http://www.forgottenempires.net/ -- Alexey Topol (talk) 08:20, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Not keen on the whole Sequels section

The whole section doesn't really pertain to AOE2 itself. May I suggest it be replaced with a "Releases" section discussion the expansion packs, ports and complete collections instead? --Lenin and McCarthy | (Complain here) 02:13, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

This article may not meet the FA criteria

Hi, I'm just letting readers and possible past contributors know; this article may be nominated for an FAR before too long. Among the problems I have found with the article and placed on WP:VG:

"Gameplay overly long and divided into too many subsections; too many short paragraphs in Development and Sequels; intro a little too detailed (e.g. does it really need to list all 13 civilizations?); Reception a little long (perhaps a Legacy subsection is in order); some awkward wording and sentence structure" Tezero (talk) 19:59, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

New redirect (for now) for the soon to be new expansion article

As new details and a tease was released for The African Kingdoms expansion, I decided to make a redirect of it to this article, as a redirect for now, until even more details are released so we can begin working on that article as a whole. The redirect is Age of Empires II: The African Kingdoms. As its slated for a fall release, we can expect to be able to work on this article sometime in the coming months. —Mythdon 20:16, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 7 December 2015

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Discussion about merging with Age of Empires II HD

I'm opening discussion on merging Age of Empires II HD into this article. Due to a lack of distinct information and there being very few changes between the HD and the original version. There are some reviews for an adequate reception section but there is nothing to write about development or design. I don't think a reception section is enough to warrant a separate article. The1337gamer (talk) 21:51, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, there's really nothing different between the expansion pack and the actual game, and the Hd article really isn't an article. It would make total sense to just make a small section for it in the main article. Possibly put it in the Development or Sequel section? To me that's the only problem we're facing here: where are we going to merge it? Thatguytestw 19:11, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Actually, now that I think about it, this is a FEATURED ARTICLE we're dealing with here. We'll/you'll need to be extremely careful to make sure that the new section looks featured-article worthy. Thatguytestw 19:16, 11 March 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thatguytestw (talk • contribs)

Merge it, HD article has no body as it is, and if we were to expand it, it would be a copy-past from the original version's article. --Soetermans. T / C 11:42, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Okay, I understand that the two articles have been merged already, but I think now with the African Kingdoms DLC and more in the works, it would make more sense if AoE2:HD had it's own article. The two games are vastly different in the time they were released, who published them, the ecosystem (Steam), the reception, etc. --Waqqashanafi (talk) 04:58, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Problems

Since the HD release and its multiple expansions, the article was pretty much outdated. The new content, which has sentences like "It includes new maps, campaigns, and units, a new game mode, and numerous balance and gameplay adjustments" appearing twice exactly the same, does not correspond to the quality of the rest of the article. Nevertheless, its biggest problem is sourcing. There are entire sections without any footnote, namely #Singleplayer campaigns. Things like "Deathmatch mode allows players to begin with large amounts of resources, creating a focus on military dominance, while in the regicide mode each player is given a king unit, winning by killing all of the other monarchs." also needed a citation, for example. Épico ^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:04, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Don't disagree really, but in the particular case of the Singleplayer campaign section, which basically serves at the plot section of this article, there typically isn't any sourcing. Plot is typically viewed as being sourced to the game itself, so there's usually no need to denote it. -- ferret (talk) 12:35, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

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FA standard?

I came here to look for some info and was pleasantly surprised to see it was an FA. Then I started reading. Unfortunately, since it was promoted 11 years ago, not only has this degraded from where it was, but the FA standards have risen. If this was put to FAC now, it would be quick-failed on prose and sourcing issues. I'll give those who have this page on their watch list a good amount of time to start pulling up to current FA standards, but otherwise, I am afraid it will have to be time for a review of its status. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 20:54, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

No takers? I'll file for FAR and see if a wider audience can pull this around - SchroCat (talk) 16:23, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Mac OS release date

According to an old Macworld article, the Mac OS version was in beta in 2001 and the porter's website says it hit final by November 1, 2001, so how could it have been released in 1999? -Logan (talk) 01:48, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

          Thanks I have now adjusted this on the current article Spy-cicle (talk) 18:51, 11 June 2019 (UTC)