Hey guys spirit of the law here
it's been a long time since the last one of these where I answer some frequent comments respond to interesting questions, or
correct errors in recent videos
Starting things off a frequent question lately is my take on age of empires
Definitive edition for anyone who doesn't know the first age of empires is being updated and re-released. I imagine at a minimum
I'll do at least one video about it because I feel there's quite a bit of interest in that so far
There's only a few things we know about it for sure like that
It'll have an overhaul of the graphics and sound I'm curious to play it
But honestly I haven't sat down to play the first age of empires game for fun in
Probably over five years and that's not because of the graphics or music in retrospect after playing age of empires 2 a lot
I saw the original game a bit clunky to go back to in at original State
It's missing a lot of really nice features that I've gotten used to like being able to recede farms and actually having Villagers start working
Automatically there is a suggestion that some gameplay and quality of life
Improvements like that might be included which I think would be important to bring over age of empires 2 players
Regardless of what exactly the changes are I'd still like to do a video to show it to you guys when it's released
But don't necessarily expect Civ overviews or anything like that well maybe one on the yamato
They're japanese after all next (go yams')up over the last couple years I've had various people suggesting. I look into patreon
I've been on the fence about this in the past
But I've decided I am going to start one for people who are able and happy to support the channel
There's really no pressure with it. I'll continue to make videos regardless of what happens with it
I Understand lots of people aren't in a position where they're willing or able to pledge money and those people should not feel guilty about that
fact at all
I just want to put the option out there for people who have been asking and feel they want to give back the only reward
Up there right now
Is that anyone who pledges a dollar or more per month
Will get access to some videos before they're posted on YouTube the link to that is in the description
Next Patera 6 left the comment that apparently brands can kill hunting wolves in one hit
I tried it out, and it's completely true regular wolves only take two damage
But dire wolves are insta killed as well as hunting wolves put the hero unit orulu the wolf we can see it's actually hit
With 100 and 65 bonus damage, which is more than battering rams do against outposts camels may no longer be boats
But apparently some wolves are still buildings
next on the samurai versus champion video
Western Richer was wondering about the valuation of gold compared to food he points out that I rarely take that into account when talking about
cost-effectiveness and instead tend to favor talking about Total resources
I guess the answer is that properly weighting those two is a difficult thing to do and
Impossible to do in a way that everyone agrees with for example
I try to convert wooden food into gold during the Scorpion video, and I think that created some confusion
And push back the relative value of gold changes a lot based on things like whether there's trade, or if it's a water map
Wood can easily go up to a hundred and fifty gold or more at the market on a map like metropolis
Or islands for example or completely bought them out by thirty minutes on a different map
I think one of the strengths of my videos is that I'm transparent about how I'm testing and
Calculating things ultimately I think the videos still have value even if you end up disagreeing on the resource issues specifically though
It's something I am trying to keep in mind, and I'll continue to play around with ideas for taking it into account
Antares31 on the Aztec multiplayer scenario video
Suggested that Catalonian Fields would be another good candidate for the same multiplayer overhaul
I completely agree with that, and I think some other good ones would be the saladin level with the city under siege or
possibly the first Barbarossa mission
I would definitely try any of those maps if someone made them into balanced multiplayer
Versions if you put one up on steam make sure you also link it as a comment in that video
So other people can check it out now a more general question I get sometimes is whether I'll play more city
Skylines or any other game that was sort of a special thing and even though the reaction was better than I expected
I realized that age of empires is what the vast majority of people are here for that being said I do appreciate suggestions
And you're welcome to keep leaving those next Cuma Roma threatened to make me watch a compilation of badly placed
Farms unless I upload more often of course I gave in and posted two videos immediately
Afterward so I got out of having to watch that so although
I think that's a great idea for a video and clearly other people do to so someone should get on that
Another comment had an interesting thought experiment about how well an all tech
Civilization would rank among the others in the game my feeling is they probably do quite well in the early game
They'd basically be the saracens and fall behind any civilization with a good economy bonus, but in the late game
They wouldn't just have every powerful unit like siege onager, paladin and arbalest
But also every combination of powerful units you can get I think that's why they'd be dangerous
But it would be interesting to see a play out an interesting follow up question is what
Civilization would you pick if you had to play against and all tech's opponent I know what civilization
I'd pick and it's the same one
I always do
Switching now to the spirit of the flaw portion of the video in the all tech video people were wondering if I meant to suggest
That saracens get imperial camels when you enable all techs that was a mistake on my part
I'd meant to say Indians who do get their imperial camels in all techs saracens though
Definitely do not I also suggested rattan archers would have less Hp in all techs
But the Vietnamese Hp bonus is only for archery range units
Now sort of related to this a popular comment on the villager gathering video was about the 2.5 in the formula
I think a few people were under the impression the
0.5 was from the 1/2 tile thing I'd mentioned I do make plenty, but this time it wasn't a typo
I just jumped ahead and simplified the formula what it's really saying here
Is that the time it takes to walk to the camp and back is the distance multiplied by two and a half
That's because Villagers walk point 8 tiles per second so as an example
If they had to walk four tiles one way you multiply that by two point five and you find out it takes them ten seconds
To do that the whole half title thing had to do with what number, we're using for the distance
so if it looks like four tiles away
We should actually use the number three point five we then expect the walking time to be around nine seconds
Which is what we see people who haven't watched the video probably have no idea what I'm talking about
But it was a common confusion which I probably contributed to in how I present it
Switching now to the wonders video kris ned Kindly reminded me that I only have 29 years left until we promised release date for supremacy
Production is running a little behind schedule the original director backed out, so we've brought in Michael Bay
He's asked to do some reshoots, and it's gone through the special effects budget a bit faster than I anticipated I'm cautiously optimistic
We'll still hit the original release date of July 19th
2046 maybe don't book that day off work quite yet, though moving on Tony G commented on one of the games
I played against the hardest AI that I remind him of Bob Ross
And maybe a happy happy Village right there with a few different houses
And some nice houses there, and maybe make a little wall around it ok fair enough. I can see it
I do actually watch Bob Ross videos while editing and it's interesting how that manages to leak in sometimes
Finally, I just want to share something very cool that someone sent me that some of you guys might like a couple of phd students
From Germany wrote a paper in the same vein as the paladin upgrade series on the channel
It's quite short and very entertaining with lots of pretty graphs and equations in terms of mathematical rigor
I'd say it's a clear step beyond what I did in this series if that sounds up your alley
I have a link in the description, but that'll do it for this one. I would enjoy reading your comments and messages
So keep them coming. Thanks for watching guys, and I'll see you next time