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New calculations for determining construct and build times - Age 2
Major change here from Age 1 to Age 2
Previously the formula used to determine construction, research and troop build times was as follows
Construction = 0.995^Politics Level multiplied by 0.9^Construction Tech Level
Troop Build = 0.995^Attack Level multiplied by 0.9^Military Science Level
Research = 0.995^Intelligence Level
Now everything has remained the same except for 1 very important aspect. The 0.995 has now changed to 0.9986
What does this mean?
Well in Age I remember how 432 attack got you instant warriors. Now you have to get to 1546 attack which is impossible with heroes capped at level 100 (or 150 for historical heroes).
Some examples of what to expect.
An attack hero with level 10 mil science and 294 attack building 1000 archers
1000 archers Age 1 = 7 ? hours , Age 2 = 22 ? hours
3600 warriors Age 1 = 1 hour , Age 2 = 5 hours
An intel hero of intelligence 150 researching something that takes 20 hours
Age 1 = 9 hours 25 min
Age 2 = 16 hours 12 mins
Politics is effected in the same way as intelligence
For high level heroes the troop build time has been nerfed substantially. The days of instant armies are over and mega armies as well. When you consider the fact that the instant warrior attack level of 432 now means warriors will take 4 seconds to build and the instant archer level of 959 means archers take 31 seconds the days of mega armies are over.
Food will not a problem in Age 2 because it will take you a ridiculously long time to build an army large enough to chew through a lot of food
As for attacking anyone, well given an archer tower will shred around 5-10 archers and can be built quicker than 5-10 archers the odds are stacked against the attacker in a more ridiculous way than ever before
Using the current formula the difference in troop build speeds between someone with a 100 attack hero and someone with say a 300 attack hero is 32%.
You would think the 300 attack hero would be able to build troops considerably faster. Maybe 2 or 3 times faster. Actually the 300 attack hero guy can build troops only 32% faster than the 100 attack hero guy. Age I that margin is 172%.
There is very little reward in having a high level hero in Age II and given the fact you cannot extend beyond level 100 unless you find a historical hero,
The Excalibur, easily the most potent thing in Age I along with the highly prized onwar are now rendered literally useless in Age II. Given the most you will ever really be able to build in a city per day is around 10k of archers, wood and iron will rapidly become worthless items deep into a server life. They will be as worthless as stone. You can produce 5 times the amount your can use on troop building. You can get by with 1 iron and 1 wood city and the rest food cities to counter the burn your food stratagem.
The one real positive about this is you will not have many food issues. There will be a much smaller reliance to farm, especially with halved troop food usage.
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