Originally Posted by
Piraal
not really, I mean sure upkeep on troops is less, but that just means you can have a bigger army, and thats what everyone does, regardless of if archers cost 9 food, or 4 food for upkeep, ppl will still try and have as much as they can keep up with, so farming NPC's hasn't changed at all, except for the fact that you have to send your ballistae ten times as far to get the same amount. Which really, just makes farming more of a pain, then it already was in age1, but most ppl farm just as much.
I'd honestly even say there more farming of NPC's in age2 then there is in age1, just b/c the odd time in age1 you'll find some dumb guy that can't defend himself hordeing like 500mil food, and you just clean him out.