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this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2026
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It really, really isn’t. It’s really quite terrible in comparison. I was actually quite saddened, because I first played it like 15 years ago, but then replayed it late last year and was excited to see how much it had progressed, but it still really felt like the early alpha game of my memory.
hmmm what exactly u like more about AoE than 0AD?
It's less that there's anything inherent to 0AD I don't like, and more just that it doesn't really do anything well. It's poor enough in terms of UX that it's impossible for me to even evaluate its fundamental game design.
Here's the comment I wrote up after my latest experience.
So u played one game, and dint like it because u didnt read the culture tree and didnt know what to do with thr units. I guess fair.
Just some things tho:
The game is also downloadable the normal way not just as torrent. The "sexism" thing has been fixed, pesants now have random gender.
That is...more than a little bit reductive.
Oh cool! Glad to see! 8 months ago either it wasn't an option, or it wasn't presented very prominently.
That's ok, but like I said in that thread, the problem isn't really the sexism (that was just an added factor), it was the game design that came with that. The unintuitive way some military units can also do eco work, but some can't, and there's no simple or intuitive way to know which is which.
And as much as I liked the idea of having a trade-off that you have to decide how many and when to send citizen-soldiers to battle vs when to hang back on eco didn't feel good. Maybe with more experience that gets better? But first impressions matter, and it definitely doesn't feel as good as Age.