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Remember that you actually have to trade resources to get gold in the game? Well it seems that there were plans that these resources were to be given to the player you traded with and that for each trade workshop he had built, trading would get more expensive. There were a couple of other interesting things, like you can actually still build the trade workshop (requires a technology to be researched from the market) and one of the included help files actually explains the purpose of the trade workshop. I'm not sure whether this might be a newer or an older revision of the age scheme than the one that includes the imperial age (or perhaps the developer got it mixed up with the empire age?). It didn't mention anything about an Imperial Age, but there were graphics for researching the ages as follows: Stone Age -> Tool Age -> Bronze Age -> Iron Age -> Dynastic Age -> Empire Age -> Republic Age. Unfortunately the concept of 7 or 5 ages (never heard of a concept with 6 ages?) has already been scrapped but there were some interesting graphics I found. I did manage to find an earlier beta of the game from February 1997. These additional Ages were actually implemented and working in the game in April of 1996.That last sentence made me think, maybe somewhere out there, there's a beta with 6 or even all 7 working ages. Beyond the Iron Age, players could achieve 3 more Ages including the "Imperial" and "Republic" Age. The original design of Age of Empires had been designed to cover not 4 but 7 Ages. But, how, I wondered, could this be done in a truly meaningful way? Then, a thought occurred to me. Moreover, I was absolutely committed to the high level premise that such a game be more ambitious and encompass an even greater scope then its predecessor. I felt it was truly important that whatever was done, that the game must go beyond the frontier forged on AoE. I was searching for "7 ages" AoE, because I remember the thing about the 7 ages and found this: The cartoon Berry Bush on the AoEBeta site is probably used as a placeholder, like AoE stuff in the AoK beta. Search "Age of Empires" Esteem download, and see what the first result is.Ī year or two ago, I downloaded an AoK 0.9.7.222 Alpha Version, and was surprised by it mixing AoE, AoK, and strange beta stuff that looked different from both AoE and final AoK. I don't know if it was the CD or what (maybe a corrupted empires.dat), because that never happened again after that.Īnother thing was that Phatfish's beta that I read about mentions "Esteem" (post 46): At the time, I did not know that you weren't supposed to, but I remembered it because it becomes a catapult when it dies, and because it disappeared from the list when I installed RoR. RoR heroes have internal names like Hero_09, which can be sometimes found in the Help box.Ī really weird thing is that the very first time I installed AoE (around 1998), I could place a Black Rider in the editor. There's also another Beta Ruins, the Traitor, and the Space_Ship cheat (all in the Composite Editor, which is awesome, by the way), and the infamous Volcano. I also remember reading about a road that would make units go faster when walking on it (probably the Build-Road, ID 5022 in language.dll). * Republic Age (Language.dll ID 7066, also some SLP graphics) I found that the final AoE was supposed to have 7 ages: I searched old interviews, gaming sites, archives, and forums and found out some stuff about the beta. I downloaded the Horse and Trade Workshop templates, and thought, maybe there was even more stuff in the beta. That got me thinking about hidden beta stuff in AoE, as well. I read about AoK's beta units and downloaded the Hidden Units scenario. The very first time I visited AoE Heaven was around the time AoK was coming out. I am a new user on the forums making this thread to share information about the beta, and so other people can do the same.