-When workers are attacked by enemy units, unlike every other RTS, instead of continuing to work, they run until they or the enemy dies/stops attacking. The AI loves to pester your workers but not kill them. There is no alarm bell to ring to get your citizens in a safe area, you are fucked until you get walls. Citizens can only hide inside fortresses. This aspect of the game is so irritating and completely ruins it for me. -The UI is merely okay. No auto-repair toggle, poor notification of being attacked, and does not scale in size(which is understandable for the time, but would be nices since it has 4k support). Tooltips are non-existent and only say what your highlighting, but don't give any info at all. -Game has a variety of balance issues. For example, buildings have a stupid high amount of HP and the AI builds a ton of them, however siege weaponry hardly makes a dent along with your troops wailing on them. Want to know why? For some reason they decided to take an other wise very grounded game and blow the doors off of it with priest and shaman. These units can cast stupidly overpowered natural disasters and it appears the game requires you to use them. Like if you've played Warcraft 3, you know Thrall (the Farseer hero) has an ultimate of an earthquake it does small damage to buildings and slows units. Well these priest/shamans, I kid you not, have an earthquake spell 4x as big and completely LEVEL all buildings in the AoE very quickly, especially compared to siege equipment. WTF? -Resource accumulation is slow, even on very fast game speed. The odd thing is, this game is made by the company the made Age of Empires, yet metal/stone resources are near infinite rather than fairly limited like in other RTS games of the time. -Very small number of maps compared to competitors. If you don't like water maps, you get a choice of plains or highlands. This game is just old. Maybe it was okay at the time, but I would stay away unless you have special nostalgia.
