Talk:Age of Empires II

Extra Space

Is there any way to delete that extra space right after template:age of empires series? If it's a bug, report it to bugzilla.24.65.69.8 (talk) 02:57, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

'Burning Oil' my left foot! =

This is in the article: "Towers are equipped with the ability to fire arrows and drop burning oil on unfriendly units, and are often used in conjunction with the wall in defense mechanisms."

there is no burning oil in the game. I'm going to edit it out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.214.201.225 (talk) 17:33, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Compatability problems and 'burning oil'

The 'toxic grass' and the graphic issues with grass, trees and water is very common on most PCs, regardless of operating system. It sometimes occurs if you play on an older system or if the graphic drivers are not installed or outdated ones are installed. It can also occur if you are overclocking your CPU and the overclock is unstable. To fix this, all you need to do is press ALT-TAB on windows computers to switch back and forth then this problem will be solved.

That is incorrect information as this trick does not work consistently under Vista and not at all under Windows 7. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.209.186.241 (talk) 21:17, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Seems like someone is unable to use google but is very happy to deface wikipedia articles. Let me google that for you: http://www.google.com/search?q=age+of+empires+toxic+grass —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.209.186.241 (talk) 18:55, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

As for the 'burning oil' from the towers, some towers if the units get too close to the tower for it to attack, you can research a technology (I think at the university building) that will allow the towers to attack units even if they are at the base of the tower by dumping hot black tar or oil over the units causing damage to them. 169.241.64.5 (talk) 14:37, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Your right about the upgrade, called 'murder holes' and allows towers to shot arrows towards their bases. (Gloryify (talk) 09:10, 18 June 2009 (UTC))

Idle Unit Button?

There is an Idle Unit button, but it is specifically for locating villagers. Twichybunny (talk) 22:00, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

No It can locate idle trade carts and trade cogs too! Gloryify (talk) 09:06, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Release date

Can you add the release date, it's September 30 1999? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.134.136.190 (talk) 10:19, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Done.12.199.45.138 (talk) 15:27, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

AOE 2 Civilisations.

If I have one problem, there's no civilisations. There's no table showing the four types of civilisations at all so it's hard to know the kinds that are available when someone decides to play this game. I'll be happy if someone resolves my concern because there's a puzzle that seriously needs to be solved. Its not hard but at least it's not to dull or boring to read this article. Johnnyauau2000 (talk) 14:21, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Civilisation lists/tables are not needed in wikipedia articles, see the WP:VGSCOPE guidelines. They are already adequately summed up in prose in the gameplay section. QueenCake (talk) 14:55, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

In that case, will anyone do the same with AOE 2 Expansion Pack? The other page still has it. Sometimes, the rules will go as far as make the article as generic as possible. Johnnyauau2000 (talk) 03:53, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Feel free to do it yourself, the article pretty much needs a complete re-write to bring it up to scratch. QueenCake (talk) 21:38, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Should we at least make mention to the fact that there are four different types of civs? Gloryify (talk) 09:56, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Campagin Summary

Should there be a summary of the storylines of the campagins. Gloryify (talk) 09:48, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Characters

Should there be a mention to the major campaign hero's and characters in a gaming and historical sense. e.g. Joan of Arc, William Wallace. Gloryify (talk) 09:53, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Compatibility Problems section, keep or not? Give opinions please.

http://www.google.com/search?q=age+of+empires+%22toxic+grass%22&hl=en&start=80&sa=N Google has 51 results when I check for Age of Empire and "toxic grass". The game was released before Vista existed(before XP was even out even), and Windows 7 isn't even out yet! Is listing its problems for those two operating systems necessary? Don't most old games have trouble running on Vista, unless you select the option to run them in Windows XP mode? And why mention there is no patch from Microsoft yet? A game that was released 10 years ago, isn't going to get a patch, no one expecting that. Everyone please give your opinion. Should the section called Compatibility Problems be kept? Dream Focus 19:10, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Defiantly not needed, as was noted the game is a decade old hence the problems are to be expected. The google results seem to be mainly forum posts from users asking about the problem, no results from any reliable source, my feeling is this is just a minor issue by the few users who still play the game. Delete QueenCake (talk) 20:15, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Definitely needed - it's an issue with this game for these two operating systems.Otherwise please provide a link to a patch or a fix for the issue. Just because you cannot use google obviously (by using different search terms you easily get 1mm hits for the problem), this problem doesn't go away! SO STOP DEFACING THE ARTICLE OR PROVIDE A FIX FOR THIS ISSUE!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.209.186.241 (talk) 20:21, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Just because its an issue doesn't mean it is notable enough to be included on Wikipedia. Provide some reliable sources with the section (not just a link to a google source containing mainly forum posts in your summary), if it is to be kept. QueenCake (talk) 20:24, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

I guess 960,000 people are wrong and it is not an issue, QueenNazi: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=age+of+empires+colors&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

Aztec and Mayan architectural set.

New World is official name of new architectural style, NOT Central American, South American, or Mesoamerican...

Do not believe? See: http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/gs/feature_previews/age2_aztecs/age2_aztecs_790screen002.jpg http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/ageofempires2thece/images/0/54/?tag=thumbs_below;thumb;54

STOP CHANGING THIS! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.77.92.173 (talk) 07:23, 8 August 2009 (UTC)