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Just until that opposing villager goes by and converts you. Yay sheep-scout!

Chris Rippy was so clever with all of the sounds in the game, there are lots of secret shout-out to his musician friends (Papadakis). Chris moved from sound design AOE into production on AOK and was just awesome on both projects. If you're out there Chris - people still Wololo me all the time.

If you were a stones throw from the old ES offices - do you remember the Benihana restaurant there? Notice any similarity between that and the Asia building set? Yeah, we could see it from our offices...so we took their roof.

Here's an amusing story - we kept getting reports from MS that the grass was colored wrong 'too yellow' - they quit doing that bug report after they did a field trip to our office and said "Oh, the grass just looks that way in Texas!"

Tons of people asking about AOM-HD - I have no insight into Microsoft's plans, but in this industry, if people are really clamoring for something and supporting the other products it is bound to happen some time.

It is in every way AOE2 - the gameplay is what you are expecting, the challenge, the fun is all there. The graphics are better and it runs on your current computer, plus Steam community and workshop. It IS AOK/AOC