Every time a thread is made, people supporting both versions of the game go in and flame the other side (generally Age I people flaming Age II)
Age I people like to say that Age II is for noobs, but I can't seem to find a reason I would consider valid for this
Major differences:
1.) Age I - larger troop upkeep - this requires people to sit around and farm much more to feed their massive armies. I do not believe that farming NPCs makes you pro
2.) Age II - Facebook - outside of picking up a few cav in the first week, and the resources from allies (also pretty useless after first couple weeks), hunger no more facebook buff is the only important one, lowering your troops upkeep another 50%, in turn reducing your NPC farming requirements more. Yes you can get free ammies too, but that is just nice, not seeing anything noobish there
3.) HCs - I like this addition. It is something else to fight for and drafting enemies is always a fun way to **** people off. They are also harder to acquire in the first place (than an npc 10) and cannot port, so they are fairly well balanced
4.) No instant troops - I like this as well. Nothing is more frustrating than whipping another player just to watch him instantly create a new army because his 10 alt accounts that have bots running all day just ship over resources
5.) Less reason to cheat in age 2 - I am in no means whatsoever saying people don't cheat in age 2, but with queuing troops ALWAYS taking time, having unlimited supplies of resources is less important.
6.) Hero level cap - without instant troops, there is not need for level 1k+ heroes so that you can make instant troops. Instead of mindlessly grinding a single hero to the highest level possible, you now mindlessly grind a lot of heroes to 100 and 150
7.) HH - I see the good and bad about these. Something else to make evony a ton of money for sure, and they provide a large advantage to you over those that don't have them. I like them although they make the idea of a server merge very difficult (not that they work amazingly well in age I)
8.) Colonize only - YES, this is noobish, but was remedied on na20 and above, so I'm not talking about colonize only servers lol
I'm sure I'm missing a couple other big differences and please, feel free to add
But of the above, the main differences I see are more upkeep in age 1 as well as making instant troops. Changing neither seems noobish to me.
If you are going to reply, please make an effort of supporting your argument with reasoning

