Friday 2 May 2014

HOW TO ADD MORE CARDS IN DECK

welcome again for this cool trick in age of empires 3.
Everyone knows that there are atmost 20 cards in the deck, but after doing this trick you can add upto 44 cards in your home city shipment deck.


There are 4 sections in the deck corresponding to 4 ages[I ,II, III, IV].
There can be atmost 11 cards in each sections  so you can add upto 44 cards total.

JUST FOLLOW THESE SIMPLE STEPS AND YOU GO...

BEFORE THIS UNLOCK ALL THE CARDS IN YOUR DECK

1. open build a deck in single player or multiplayer.
2.In the left side you see a section named "available decks". there is only one deck named "my deck".



3.Add 20 cards in this deck.
4. In the left section click on create and create a deck named "deck1". add some cards that are not in my deck.




5. Now you have two decks named  my deck and deck 1.   
                     >>  Note that there is no same card in both decks and in eack section I,II,III OR IV , the  sum of cards is not exceeding 11.

6. close the game and Go to  “My documents/My games/Age of Empires3/savegame” folder 
      7     Find for “sp_name of homecity_homecity” like sp_london_homecity.
      8.    Open this file in text editor like notepad or notepad+.
      9. search for <name>my deck</name> & <name>deck1</name>


           
 
           



  10. Now copy all the cards from deck1 to my deck  or mydeck to deck 1  b/w <cards>......</cards>
  11. Check that there are no two same cards in mydeck or deck 1.  Save the file .
  12. Run the game.

You will see that you have more than 20 cards in your deck..:)[here 39,but you can add upto 44, 11 in each]


   

Here is an alternate method  for this trick.in the homecity file in save game folder.
 - search for  <activetechs>
  



-here you see all the active cards  in the deck. just copy any of these <tech dbid=.....</tech> to my deck  and change <tech to <card and </tech> to </card>.

- YOU CAN ADD UP TO 44 CARDS IN DECK AND NOT MORE THAN 11 CARDS IN EACH AGE SO  VERIFY THE CARD NAME BEFORE YOU COPY...... HAVE FUN..:)





Thursday 1 May 2014

HOW TO UNLOCK ALL THE CARDS IN THE DECK

Trick to unlock all cards to use them in deck for homecity shipments.
Its a simple trick.. follw these steps:

  1.           Go to  “My documents/My games/Age of Empires3/savegame” folder 
       2.            Find for “sp_name of homecity_homecity” like sp_london_homecity.
       3.            Open this file in text editor like notepad or notepad+.
       4.          Go to line “ <skillpoints>xx</skillpoints>"
       5.             Instead of xx write the desired level say 99.
       6.             Save it .
       7.             Run Age of empires.
  8.            You will see that you have 99 unlock points in the game as shown.

                            
      
            Now you are able to unlock all the cards in the deck .
            After this you will have to active these cards in build a deck.




HOW TO CHANGE HOMECITY LEVELS

Here is the trick to increase homecity levels to whatever you want.

Just follow these simple steps and you can increase homecity levels in just seconds.

Close the game and
       1.           Go to  “My documents/My games/Age of Empires3/savegame” folder 
       2.            Find for “sp_name of homecity_homecity” like sp_london_homecity.
       3.            Open this file in text editor like notepad or notepad+.
       4.          Go to line “ <level>xx</level>”
       5.             Instead of xx write the desired level say 66.
       6.             Save it .
       7.             Run Age of empires.
     8.            You will see level 66 in the game as shown.
                       
                           

Stay tuned have fun…



CIVILIZATIONS AOE3

There are 8 civilizations in age of empires 3.


-SPANISH
-BRITISH
-FRENCH
-RUSSIANS
-GERMANS
-DUTCH
-PORTUGUESE
-OTTOMAN


   

The Spanish is one of the best civilization age of empires 3.
The spanish have a very strong military including both hand infantry and cavalary but there is no granadier units in spanish civilization.
The advantage in spanish is that the home city shipments arrives faster than any other civilization that is 27% faster .

BEST UNITS  Lancer, Missionary and Rodelero
                       Pikemen are the rpyal guards here.



  
 

The British is known for the strongest economy in the game as you can quickly train settlers.
The manor house replaces house costs 150 wood  and you can get a free settler with every manor house built.

BEST UNIT: Musketeer, grenadier and Hussar.
                     congreve rockets are the best heavy artiliary units.
                     longbow man are good at starting ages.



  

French economy starts slowly in the game but the french settlers are very good in fighting skills than any other civilization.
Slowest economy makes french not to attack early.

BEST UNIT: strongest cavalary unit -the cuirassier  and skirmisher( the guard).



  


The Germans are also slow in economy. These have two types of settlers .
The settler wagon builds faster and also collects resources at a faster rate .
The unique advantage in germans is that  you get free uhlans with every shipment.
The germans start with the ability to send mercenaries from their home city (long before other civilizations).

BEST UNIT: Skirmisher, Uhlans and war wagon(heavy ranged) the best cavalary units.




  

The Russians have fewer settlers at starting gives focusing on economy.
Settlers are trained in a batches of 3 at a time. Also infantry units are trained in groupss of 10,5,4.
Hand infantry of russians are not so good but trained at a faster rate in group of 10.
They have a unique buildings the blockhouse that acts as outpost and trains infantry.
Russians have many unique military units cossack, sterlet etc.

BEST UNIT: Grenadier and tarter cavalry archor.




  


Dutch settlers limited and are costs 100 coins instead of food.
They can build 2 banks to get over slow economy.
There are many good updates to defense and economy.

BEST UNIT: Ruyter, Fluyt and Helberdier.



  

The Porteguese  can quickly produce settlers by starting the game with two towncenters.
and you can get town center wagon with every age upgrade.
They have the unique advantage- the spyglass: you can easily spy on the enemy.

BEST UNIT: Musketeer and Dragoon.
                   Organ gun is the unique light artiliary that is good against infantry.








The Ottomans are known as the unique  and typical civilization in game.
Settlers spawn automatically from town center of no cost but at a slower rate. building a mosque gives a upgrade to speed up settlers training and settlers number. so this doesn't create a big difference at all.
They have colonial age accessing to artilary units.
Barracks can train only one type infantry unit.

The ottomans has unique military units abus guns that are good against infantry and great bombard that are good against buildings and artilary.

BEST UNIT: Hussar and Grenadier 

                     




THE BEST CIVILIZATIONS TO PLAY WITH ARE : 
                                                                    SPANISH      - FOR THEIR EARLY SHIPMENTS
                                                                    BRITISH       - FOR GREAT ECONOMY
                                                                    GERMANS    -  ATTACKING CIVILIZATIONS
                                                                   OTTOMANS   - UNIQUE BENIFITS


Age Of Empires 3- LITTLE INTRODUCTION




AOE3 is a real time stratagy pc game. It can be played with computer players, on lan connections with your friends or online via interned on ES server.

While playing with single computer player the user has to choose single player in main menu and then select skirmish. Here you can select a random player to play with.

There are many other basic options like game speed [slow/medium/fast], difficulty mode [easy/moderate/hard/expert], no. of players [2-8]

other options are:
     
GAME RULES

1) SUPERMACY: In supermacy the player resources starts with an explorer , a town center wagon ,5/6        settlers and carets of food ,wood and coin of 100 to 200 depends upon the map and the civilization.
 You have to earn resources from the begining of game by training of settlers/villegers in town centre.

2) DEATHMATCH: In death match ,game starts with 5/6 settlers,towncenter and a lot of resources 0f 10,000 each of food wood and coin.
 you have to train settlers as well as upgrade to your age.


    STARTING AGE
  The game has many ages like nomad ,discovery age, colonial age, fortress age, industrial and imoerial age .
You can start with any of these ages.

By default the starting age is discovery age, in wich you can only train settlers no soldier training is done.
Soldier training starts in colonial age. so you have to just collect 800 food for reaching in colonial age.



You can create a LAN game by selecting multiplayer in main menu and then select LAN.

You see some options like manage homecity, choose cards, build a deck , customize, play etc

MANAGE HOMECITY:
Here you can create a home city so that you can play with some unique benifits of that civilization.

CHOOSE NEW CARDS:
Here you can unlock home city shipments cards so that you can bring home city shipments .
For this,you have to add these cards in your deck .

BUILD A DECK: 
Here you can see two sections in right side.
the upper section shows the cards that are active in your deck and the lower section shows the unactive cards in the deck. the unlocked card appears in this section

You can add upto max. of 20 cards in your deck. so choose carefully before adding these cards.
Cards in the deck are very helpful in your game for upgrading buildings units etc.


After building your deck you can play with your friend via lan connection.
-Difficulty in lan game only work when a bot player is also added to the player list.
-you can choose game speed, map,game rules and starting age before starting of the game.
-When there are more than two players you can choose team1 and team 2.
- When you are ready click on the raady button and the game starts now 5..4..3..2..1..go and a map loads.... here you go