[Character_Pitch_4582]

What would he change/add to the game if he was still a dev?

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Ask how much economic analysis went into balancing/designing units, upgrade costs, eco upgrades, etc.

What were the KPIs used and what would he do differently today for analyzing these things?

[sdwvit]

What is his favorite doom 2 level

[Affectionate-Tone680]

Ask if he’s ever considered joining the playerbase and hosting lobby games

[redbarebluebare]

What does he think about using your TC as a weapon by TC douching?

Or thoughts about the teleporting monk bug in AoK?

Predictions on the new Rome update?

[Fruitdispenser]

I remember in the Old AoK Heaven Games forums someone asked him about the Byzantines having the Eastern Europe architecture and he said something like the Middle East architecture was a better fit for them than the Eastern Europe one.

Does he think the current Mediterranean build set is a better fit than the Middle East set?

[Runelite_HD]

Did he or the team ever consider buildable bridges to cross narrow water sections on maps?

[Dennis6540]

What are his thoughts on how Infantry is regarded in the game, where Archer/Knight Rushes seem to be the common strategy, and how little Swordsmen are used, and what he might propose to change in the game to make them more popular to use?

Maybe a Barracks alteration based on Age Of Mythology.

Medium Infantry (Men@Arms) Heavy Infantry (Pikeman/Longsword) Champion Infantry (Halberdier/THS/Champion wherever available.

Total cost could depend on access, say it would be cheaper for Persians/Huns/Tatars, and pricier for Celts, Teutons, etc.

[Azot-Spike]

Ask him if he likes how his AoK civs have evolved in time and if any of the civs he designed is currently being played very differently to what he expected

[abductedPlatypus]

I always wondered if mechanics like optimized build orders, pushing deer, luring boars (and laming 11) were intendedly designed advanced mechanics – and perhaps any thoughts he has about them in their practical use today.

I think the answer is no to most of these, but I’d love the answer to be yes 🙉

[Gaudio590]

From is view as a professional game designer, si it better to keep pumping out new civs for ever or there should be a *definitive* number of total civs?

What’s his oppinion on innovative mechanics like the shrivamsha, the hussite wagon, the ratha, etc? (Let him know his original plan for the Samurai has now come true in the form of the Ratha.)

Also, as someone else asked for in a comment above:

“Basically an extension of the video guessing the new civs units but including Dawn of The Dukes and Dynasties of India.”

[harooooo1]

Ask him about the purpose of the longsword / swordsman unit.

Were they initially supposed to be decent vs cavalry?

Currently the unit is a very bad choice even against knights, the situation where we would think they should be good at.

[Timmeck2]

It would be incredibly cool to get his opinion on some build order / strategies.

In an earlier interview he was surprised about a standard smush, how about showing him some creative games/ players?

Some ideas:

– Quickly go through some notable Lyx clips from the 2vs2 world cup
– Opinion on the longest game ever
– A typical Hoang game
– Rubenstocks Persian douch into villager fights
– Any kind of Arena- clown atonement-monk war (Bonus points for showing him the MBL clip)
– Get him amazed with some incredible Viper Quickwall compilations
– Show him a forest nothing 256x tech mod game

It’s always so interesting to see how game designers react to people using game mechanics creatively.

Feel free to pitch in with mote notable strategies/ clips!

[not_consistent]

I got no questions.

Just appreciating Sandy.

He’s a legend and helped make two of the longest lived games out there in Doom and AoE2.

[ponuno]

How to be cool as him?

Or something about dynasties of india

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