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Awesome to see AoE, and games in general being future proofed. Sad when functionality is lost because someone turned off a server.
The company shut down and turned the servers off, but luckily someone created an implementation of the match making server.
And even to this day the community is fully alive and growing, they even continue to develop the game, and have taken it far beyond the original.
It’s called Forged Alliance Forever.
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Vikings are a very good archer civ, full tree and the free handcart is a top-tier eco-boost.
I just distinctly remember getting slaughtered by Paladins, and having very few good options to counter.
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I feel like it is important to point out that Steam does not require games to have any DRM. Not even Steam's DRM. It's entirely up to the game developer and/or publisher. Many games on Steam are already DRM-free where you can just back up the files and play without Steam.
Thank you for pointing that out. I am afraid that AoE is probably not one of them though? Maybe the old AoE versions will be open-sourced one day, that would be awesome.
Awesome to see AoE, and games in general being future proofed. Sad when functionality is lost because someone turned off a server.
This happened with supreme commander. The company shut down and turned the servers off, but luckily someone created an implementation of the match making server. And even to this day the community is fully alive and growing, they even continue to develop the game, and have taken it far beyond the original. It’s called Forged Alliance Forever.
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It probably won't matter. When I play a "random civ" game with my friends, I always get Vikings. On maps with no oceans. For real, though, it's really great to see this game continue to live on.
Vikings are a very good archer civ, full tree and the free handcart is a top-tier eco-boost.
Hamachi appears to still be a thing, but I would prefer something open source.
Tailscale sadly doesn't support multicast, which I'm assuming most games use for LAN discovery.
ZeroTier maybe?
We tried this at a LAN-Party in December and couldn't get it to run. I am happily trying it again for the next LAN-Party. Nice to see development on this project. :-)
Curious what your use case is as opposed to using the official LAN support? For me, I'm trying to get it working completely without internet, ie on a plane. It's so sad to me that built-in LAN requires an internet connection.
while i think that it is well worth it, i am not the person who pressures other people to buy things for a single-digit-attendence one-time get-to-gether LAN-party.
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Thank you for pointing that out. I am afraid that AoE is probably not one of them though? Maybe the old AoE versions will be open-sourced one day, that would be awesome.
Probably also because it's a multiplayer game and you want to try to stop cheaters.
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I just distinctly remember getting slaughtered by Paladins, and having very few good options to counter.
With non-unique units paladins can only be countered by upgraded halberdier, heavy camels or a huge mass of arbalesters. Monks counter them in small numbers but in late game when they're massed they're almost unstoppable unless you have halb/camel in equal numbers.