With them notifying the whole game that someone has a relic, people are going to really build up before they are willing to venture out and grab a few relics. In AoK:C, relics didn't play a major part in multi-player games, unless they went on for a good while. I can remember many well matched games, where I was ina bit of a stale mate with someone, because the whole map's resources(minus some wood) was wiped out....I generally won those, but it was only because I grabbed relics early on. Anyway, the relics were a nice bonus in AoK.....they seem to be much more important now, and it looks like our classic 70-100 villys and a constantly fed, army dessimation(sp) of the entire map style is perhaps, in jeopardy. As much as I like to absolutely wipe someone clean off the face of AoK in a game, I think that, perhaps, some alternate victories were presented(and i'm not counting those no one ever used in multi-play games i.e. king of the hill, wonder race, regicide....). However, frankly, if it still just boils down to a steaming cauldron of army conquest....well.....heh, i'm alright with that
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[This message has been edited by Lord_Spud (edited 03-28-2002 @ 11:31 AM).]