AoE2 Slav farming bonus (update)

Slav farming got a whole lot better!
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Game: Age of Empires 2 HD with Forgotten Empires, African Kingdoms, and Rise the Rajas expansions. Results current as of patch 5.8 (Dec 2018).

[@Ayy_Doll_Fiddler]

See? Slav squatting improves efficiency. All that is needed are tracksuits.

[@jamesgeorgi170]

Perfect for potato farming.

[@mullerpotgieter]

And Nike shoes. You need the synergy

[@Ayy_Doll_Fiddler]

Muller Potgieter Da!!!

[@nicoparra1990]

@@mullerpotgieter Only adidas blyat

[@boldandbrash7050]

Just played a game with a few buddies vs. a hardest AI with Ivan's Slavtastic Adventure on the chokepoint meat-grinder deathfest referred to as "Black Forest." Due to our compulsive nature to build defenses and the AI's compulsive nature to carelessly send entire armies to be massacred by said defenses WW1 style, we were there for a while. By the end, my humble peasant farmers had amassed nearly 70,000 food overall. The Druzhina Halb/Boyardee armies I fielded where glorious and, fueled by chebureks and kvass provided by the gentle workers, squatted over the corpses of the blayts who dared to attack the dearest Motherland. Overall I give the Slavs a 5 outta 5, a slavstapeice.

[@NeonLine]

amen

[@Hughjasslol1]

I've stopped playing AoE because of college, but I still watch your videos cause I love your voice

[@notsogreatsword1607]

I stopped playing because I lost the disc. When I was 11. But I still watch because of his voice too! That and nostalgia. But if his voice were annoying no amount of nostalgia would keep me watching lol

[@history_blender8870]

Hmmmm. Some affair is going on here. 🤔

[@123beyaahqb]

Lol Im in college and my lesson starts in 9 minutes, watching his videos right now hahha gonna play aoe2 tonight

[@MikeEmpires]

I love how you can’t have too much knowledge of Age Of Empires 2. One of the greatest games of my life.

[@ubelmensch]

*I'VE JUST BEEN IN THIS PLACE BEFORE*

[@Q3hero]

BANE?

[@Handconnonierr]

​@@Q3hero no SoL put 1 video, delete it and then upload this one :D (both was similar name and with interval -1 minute )

[@Q3hero]

@@Handconnonierr I know, I watched them both

[@Ghostofpast]

AND NOW IT'S TIME TO GOOOOOOO

[@nicklasveva]

I just started playing AoE 2 a lot recently with my friends and I am really enjoying myself trying to find the perfect civ for me. I always find your videos entertaining and admire that you still are so passionate about all of your research in this game, and that a large amount of people still watch this stuff. I have been binge watching your civ guides, unit performance etc. and I've taken a lot of your advice to heart and felt that all of your videos have improved my game knowledge by a tenfold! Keep making these wonderful videos :)

[@TheArklyte]

Slav farming bonus is called Crippling Depression. The more you farm, the less you think about your life.

[@CyrusVorazan]

Hey guys, spirit of the La Hire.

[@bitzkitgordon2505]

From Joan of Arc ?

[@yrret1996]

Bitzkit Gordon 1

[@LangeXander]

I was waiting for this. Felt so much better when i randomly played them.

[@mrwasgehtsiedasan3278]

Can I study Age of Empires 2 somewhere? :D

[@Sharnoy1]

Right here! Right now!

[@srujan9427]

SOTL University of Canada

[@oladushek8515]

Voobly.com and Aoezone.net

[@nathangamble125]

Probably. Several people have studied Starcraft and written papers on it (mainly regarding Artificial Intelligence designed to play it). I know some people have made custom AIs for AoE2 as well, so there's some useful material you could study. I'm a Starcraft AI developer (not at any formal level, but in my spare time), and I think that more RTS AI research can only be a good thing for everyone trying to find the best solutions to problems.

[@baldawen]

Nathan Gamble tbh that the hardest difficulty AI was just cheating instead of playing better was pretty lame. It would have been great if they changed that.

[@thescourgeofgod4847]

Man, will you not update the Britons, Teutons & Slavs overviews?

[@Volcano4981]

I think *that* is what's coming up...

[@emperorcaesar4311]

If you look at his older videos, you'd see a trend where he did videos on civ mechanics before the actual civ overview. So, Slav overview is probably coming soon.

[@Dagsschiller]

I'm still waiting for this

[@dontspikemydrink9382]

@@emperorcaesar4311 oh.... really

[@dontspikemydrink9382]

@@Volcano4981 you think wrong

[@oscarvozzi7548]

I was expecting this from the T90 24 hours stream. Fuck yeah

[@SomethingEls]

Thanks for the updated vid! Good work and fun to watch, as usual!

[@viethung9419]

Why the hell does a civilization with farming bonus have free "tracking" which only costs 50 food :'(

[@Khotgor]

The reason is Slavic Squatting

[@rixille]

Something so fascinating about how these little details can matter. Thanks for the upload!

[@hurtigejler3264]

Today was the first time i saw your Channel Finaly someone hwo makes Quality AOE II videos!

[@TirOrah]

Instant upvote for Dr. Evil's finger quotes! (Although you'd get one regardless, because I love your informative videos. I barely play this game anymore and when I do, I just fight the AI on lower difficulties, but your videos still taught me a lot.)

[@30Salmao]

Please, remake the Slavs civ overview. The way you did it in 2015 if not the informations themselfs might be outdated. We got no RANKS there D:

[@lordswaggity1213]

Spirit of the law is back!

[@pleaob08]

Love your videos!

[@hackigamer376]

you really did a lot of work to collect this information.Love your hard work bro.😃😃

[@PhoenixAlaris93]

Slavs bonus upgraded Wishes they would fix the bugs in the campaigns.

[@santiagohartmann913]

So you update a update video Ok

[@notsogreatsword1607]

Santiago 403040 I'm curious why there was a double upload- I got two notifications. Does that mean he just wanted to change something?

[@shatzinorris1417]

Again, This is awesome work, thanks.

[@ArpitSingh-ht2qn]

I play aoe2 and have watched your every video just because of the beauty of mathematics that always creeps in

[@moch.farisdzulfiqar6123]

Remember guys, watch this video with 144p quality to feel authentic slavic experience.

[@bristleback3614]

Ordinary farmer: Slav farmers are just to lazy Slav farmer : Hold my vodka

[@monsieurpipi1]

I think another interesting update would be about the early Viking navy. In the civilisation overview, the Vikings are very well rated but bow that they don't get the fireship, I think they're below average now...

[@ramosfelipe]

Great video and comparison!

[@PatrickRCleburne]

Great videos, thanks for putting these out!

[@erwinwendler4621]

Love the updates! Keep em coming ❤

[@jonasernst6694]

Soo many Videos. PLEASE keep IT up

[@RaNatale]

You are the best age of empires youtuber ever. Would like to get your opinion on the overall strongest civs.. :)

[@PsychCaptain]

Pretty cool. Thank you.

[@dextercochran4916]

Is good balans, Comrade!

[@hukuando]

As an economist, I really appreciate your quantitative analysis. My favourite by far though, was your analysis on trade cart routes. #brainyisthenewsexy

[@spectre9065]

Next video: Magyar Villagers vs various wolves in map editor.

[@hbarudi]

Looking better for the slavs with their farming especially the benefit in the early ages before the late game with hand cart researched.

[@bskorupk]

It always amazes me how the RTS Genera of games has stood the test of time, even the community spans generations! :)

[@Arpy459y]

Hi Spirit Of The Law, I love your videos ^^ There is a thing that always confuse me about attack animation and actual hit by units. I saw that sometimes a spearman doesn't have to complete his attack animation before damage applies, and has to do like 2 attack animations before damage resets, while scouts has to complete the animation before applying damage. Could you explain it? Nice work anyway ^^ EDIT: I actually looked into the editor, some times the damage applies after 1 attack animation, while other times goes for 2-3 animations. My question is: is it based on the matchup? Like having a Scout hit a villager applies damage as soon as animation ends, while with spearman after being damaged needs more animations to apply the same damage. How do attack animations work? Firing rate is not always the same.

[@chrummi4082]

He already said something about it in a video, but i cant find it right now... it has nothing to do with the matchup, its just that the animation and the attack speed dont match each other. for example the animation for japanese infantry is the same as for other infantry, but their attack speed is different. The most obvious it gets when you watch rams, the moment when they actually do damage is basically never the moment it attacks in the animation. Thats only true for melee attacks, for ranged attacks the attack speed and animation are correct.

[@sygmaone]

Arpy459y I know it was not addressed to me but based on your experience described and mine over the years the animation has nothing to do with the actual damage cycle (if I can call it like that, sry im not native speaker) maybe im wrong but I always had this feeling for example when I watch rams in duty, the damage happens completely off-sync compared to the animation :D

[@Marcara081]

Stop Everything!!! There's been a farming update!

[@TheRAMBO9191]

I heard EA told them don't worry about it, no one plays story missions. :'{

[@lamegamer4607]

Green would have loved being Slavs. "Growing strong"

[@magisterdino2718]

How many videos can SOTL make about Aoe, damn. This game has a lot to talk about it

[@samvodopianov9399]

Proud to be Slav

[@Techischannel]

For a game from 1999 it looks alot nicer than alot of newer potentialy higher buget games.

[@palanikumar7877]

Hit like if you don't bother playing the game but still love Spirit's Videos for his voice and pun...!

[@GoldenRoyal5]

CAMPAIGN VS HISTORY NOW

[@pieterpretorius9743]

Spirit is bae.

[@carbon1255]

Ahh thanks, I read someone criticising you over this. I'm guessing you did too? snappy video, thanks.

[@jetstar232]

holy shoota mama... ANOTHER VIDEO?!???? 👏👋👐👏👏👏👏👏👋👐👐👏👏👋

[@Hackmaul5]

I squatted while watching this video

[@erenkorkmaz9321]

nice vid

[@ricardocontreras5839]

Recently started the tournament King of the Desert 2, look at it

[@phoenixbythefire4555]

F antasic! They are my favorite Civ! Boyars and spears for everybody!

[@mordor423]

Hi SOTL, I discovered your channel about a week ago and have been binging on the awesome content non-stop. I have one question: how did you manage to get degrees in Biology, Psychology, Education etc? Amazing channel, its made me like my favorite game even more :D

[@davsr7789]

Stupid KZbin I was suscribed to you before, but aleast this video showed up and I notice that, idk why those algoritms unsub people randomly

[@sibis3384]

You Slav, you farm bonus

[@muroderepolho69]

Hey SOTL, I would love to see you playing more nothing maps for t90's streams

[@candrarazaka4351]

Probably slav chinese and teuton team combos is interesting atm

[@masternobody1896]

Finalyyy I install age of empires 2 hd

[@dragonrykr]

YOU SLAV YOU LOSE

[@ThZuao]

We need a mod that puts adidas stripes in the Castles and Town Centers, turns the farms into beets, the Mill into a vodka still and the villagers squat down to work, all while a Hardbass midi plays in the background.

[@leonsennin]

ah so you did make the video, I was waiting for it since you mentioned it to T90, also when will you play Tristan 1v1? We all want it! You must do it! or else I'll release your face, you deleted the video but screenshot is a thing muahahahah

[@gibranhenriquedesouza2843]

A video about candidates to the 32nd civilization.

[@robertharris6092]

They should just make it affect all parts of farming. 15% faster gather and 15% faster movement when moving around and dropping off.

[@ericbridge8419]

*Slavs OP*

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

Farm! FARM! FARM FOR THE MOTHERLAND! WE NEED FOOD TO DEFEAT THE WEST!!

[@user-hp7bk5so6j]

Might sound a bit dumb to ask this here, but do you get the Slavs when buying the African DLC or do they only come in the forgotten empires dlc? And do you get the balance updates for the base Game or only depending on which DLC you own?

[@emanagel2449]

Hi Spirit! I'm from Argentina, reloved aoe2 cause your vids!, I have a question, is there any research about the mayans farming rate, and why is slower than any other civs?

[@20xd6]

If your numbers are +- 0.1, then you shouldn't have 2 significant figures (0.00) in your table.

[@thesen8]

Was this reuploaded? Either way I get an excuse to watch the video again.

[@thyme8668]

Nice

[@Sean.Vosler]

The Slavic population of eastern Europe expanded during the sixth century, bringing their customs and language. Although there is no consensus about their homeland, scholars generally looked north of the Carpathians. Russian archaeologist Valentin Sedov, using the Herderian concept of nationhood,[85] proposed that the Venethi were the proto-Slavic bearers of the Przeworsk culture. Their expansion began during the second century AD, and they occupied a large area of eastern Europe between the Vistula and the middle Dnieper. The Venethi slowly expanded south and east by the fourth century, assimilating the neighbouring Zarubinec culture (which Sedov considered partly Baltic) and continuing southeast to become part of the Chernyakhov culture. The Antes separated themselves from the Venethi by 300 (followed by the Sclaveni by 500) in the areas of the Penkovka and Prague-Korchak cultures, respectively.

[@Sean.Vosler]

Early Slavic society was a typical, decentralized tribal society of Iron Age Europe, organised into local chiefdoms. A slow consolidation occurred between the seventh and ninth centuries. During this period, the previously-uniform Slavic cultural area evolved into discrete zones. Slavic groups were influenced by neighbouring cultures like Byzantium, the Khazars, the Vikings and the Carolingians, influencing their neighbours in return.

[@Sean.Vosler]

As an agricultural people, they constantly sought an outlet for the population surplus. Suppressed for over a millennium by foreign rule of Scythians, Sarmatians and Goths, they had been restricted to a small territory; now the barriers were down and they poured out".[88] In addition to their growth, the depopulation of eastern Europe (due, in part, to Germanic migration) and the lack of imperial defences encouraged Slavic expansion.

[@Sean.Vosler]

The Slavs managed to keep up their agriculture (and a rather efficient kind of agriculture, by the standards of the time), even in times when they took their part in plundering Roman provinces. The booty they won apparently did not (at least initially) create a new military class with the greed for more and a contempt for peasant's work, as it did with the Germans. Thus the Slavic model proved an attractive alternative ... which proved practically indestructible. Slav traditions, language, and culture shaped, or at least influenced, innumerable local and regional communities: a surprising similarity that developed without any central institution to promote it. These regional ethnogeneses inspired by Slavic tradition incorporated considerable remnants of Roman or Germanic population ready enough to give up ethnic identities that had lost their cohesion".

[@justpettet3506]

hopefully t90 uploads the game you cast with him

[@Qardo]

After this long. Doing nothing but Age of Empires 2. Thought about expanding...oh trying Age of Mythology? Age of Empires 3...Wait! Don't run away! It isn't that bad....

[@nathangamble125]

Yeah, it's got some fun mods, like Wars of Liberty.

[@shadowscall7758]

Age of Empires 3 isn't a bad game, I am playing through it again right now, actually. The reason it got such a bad rap was because it was such a departure from the traditional Age of Empires formula that it probably should have not been associated with Age of Empires name. If it hadn't, it wouldn't have gotten so much crap.

[@elbiscochogamer8095]

i think that the cavalier archers of the slavs need a little buff

[@TheRealVictorVVV]

I heard Mayans had been fixed too.

[@sage3350]

Hey Spirit! Could you do a video on how important is the Elite Upgrade for the Castle Units vs it's cost on units (maybe in a situation of an imminent battle) I know it sounds kinda silly but I'd like to know when it's better to invest in the upgrade (be it right away and keep your units or have an increased number of units and if it'd make a difference in both cases)

[@Zigg33]

NEXT VIDEO HARDEST UNIT/UNIT COMBOS TO COUNTER

[@stephenh9483]

I'm a slav player: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 e6 ..... Lol I like them in AoE2 aswell

[@richardlopez882]

Got a question i have an old pc with aoe 2 and conquerors was wondering does the computer "cheat" or what i was playing on moderate diff the have super fast advance times and there army is big really quick like in first 20 mins or so

[@hurtigejler3264]

AOE II is really fun! My dad bougth it for me so we could play together

[@Sagar_Patelv28]

What if Teutonic Knights and Samurais get Druzhina (by conversion or something like that) I tested it and felt gooooood.

[@93Russki]

slav op

[@Cyrikyty]

Slavs shouldnt have an effective extra wood cost on farms compared to other civs. They just use their farms faster, but they still get the same amount of food. Basically the other civs would have needed to sow extra farms to get the same food output, which offsets the slavs having to reseed theirs more often.

[@kape2978]

You Slav, you farm?

[@gtu660]

hardbass

[@NobodyAgeofEmpires2]

This video might have been better to make after the slavs farm rate is nerfed. Many pros in the balance group have said this is likely

[@shadowscall7758]

Why would it be nerfed? How it was before was basically a bug. This only fixed the bug.

[@NobodyAgeofEmpires2]

@@shadowscall7758 many pros think it's op. Ask them

[@Thebestroll]

I thought the title was slave farming bonus

[@yrrgallerte354]

I miss the intro...

[@JavierHernandez-pc3gu]

Anyone know the song at the end of the video?

[@muhammedmalik1308]

Guys do you know how to get villager in house?

[@lyssword]

What is the single most expensive unit to have fully upgraded and out on the field? or 10?

[@s0ulsc0ur]

these t90Farms ......

[@yowut8075]

African Kingdoms??? THEY WUZ KANGZ!

[@solarranks7281]

Hey, I'm sort of a noob, please make a good video on proper defending against rushes thats mostly where I'm weak

[@drachenrecke5090]

You slav you lose

[@skyacaniadev2229]

What about Mayan now?

[@fredluden2298]

What are your guy’s favorite civs to play?