Beyond the Iron Age, players could achieve 3 more Ages including the "Imperial" and "Republic" Age. The original design of Age of Empires had been designed to cover not 4 but 7 Ages. But, how, I wondered, could this be done in a truly meaningful way? Then, a thought occurred to me. Moreover, I was absolutely committed to the high level premise that such a game be more ambitious and encompass an even greater scope then its predecessor. I felt it was truly important that whatever was done, that the game must go beyond the frontier forged on AoE. I was searching for "7 ages" AoE, because I remember the thing about the 7 ages and found this: ![]() The cartoon Berry Bush on the AoEBeta site is probably used as a placeholder, like AoE stuff in the AoK beta. Search "Age of Empires" Esteem download, and see what the first result is.Ī year or two ago, I downloaded an AoK 0.9.7.222 Alpha Version, and was surprised by it mixing AoE, AoK, and strange beta stuff that looked different from both AoE and final AoK. I don't know if it was the CD or what (maybe a corrupted empires.dat), because that never happened again after that.Īnother thing was that Phatfish's beta that I read about mentions "Esteem" (post 46): At the time, I did not know that you weren't supposed to, but I remembered it because it becomes a catapult when it dies, and because it disappeared from the list when I installed RoR. RoR heroes have internal names like Hero_09, which can be sometimes found in the Help box.Ī really weird thing is that the very first time I installed AoE (around 1998), I could place a Black Rider in the editor. There's also another Beta Ruins, the Traitor, and the Space_Ship cheat (all in the Composite Editor, which is awesome, by the way), and the infamous Volcano. I also remember reading about a road that would make units go faster when walking on it (probably the Build-Road, ID 5022 in language.dll). * Republic Age (Language.dll ID 7066, also some SLP graphics) I found that the final AoE was supposed to have 7 ages: ![]() I searched old interviews, gaming sites, archives, and forums and found out some stuff about the beta. I downloaded the Horse and Trade Workshop templates, and thought, maybe there was even more stuff in the beta. That got me thinking about hidden beta stuff in AoE, as well. ![]() I read about AoK's beta units and downloaded the Hidden Units scenario. The very first time I visited AoE Heaven was around the time AoK was coming out. I am a new user on the forums making this thread to share information about the beta, and so other people can do the same.
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