i am a concerned strategy gamer, I have played aoe, aoe2 and all of that and to be quite honest the multiplayer sucks. only 8 players can play at once, why only 8 why not 16 or 24. that would make things interesting. Also in aoe2 the maps were small even when I selected huge the map was still small. I would like to see a huge map that takes more that 1 minute to circle around.
My other problem i have with aoe2 and hope to see vastly imporved is that bull**** trade system if you can ligitametly call it that. just send some trade carts and boats and you get gold. how boring. Personally I would like to see a little role playing element added to these games like trading techniques on weapon fighting to gain extra bonuses against enemies and such. I don't know just please don't stick to just gold. However I did notice that in the aoe2 scenario maker there was a trade workshop which did nothing. Id sure like to know the story on that.
Well that's all for now. I am really looking forward to AOM and no matter what ill buy the game cause I love stragety games.