Auto-Eco Explained

How does Villager Priority stack up against a traditional build order? What are the primary advantages and disadvantages of auto-eco? Is auto-everything ruining the game? I answer these questions and more in a deep dive into the new villager automation features in Age of Empires 2 for Xbox.

00:00 Intro
00:39 What is Auto-Eco?
01:34 Automatic Boar Lure
02:08 Automatic Farming
03:06 How Does Villager Automation Work?
04:20 Militia Rush Preset (Drush)
05:25 Naval Preset
06:16 The Best Way to Use Auto-Eco
07:16 Disadvantages of Villager Priorities
09:20 Is Auto-Eco Bad for the Game?

[justinstreicher]

I like to play casually and I use auto-eco advanced controls from dark age. My timings are usually a minute behind what a BO says it should be but I'm fairly competitive around 1100 elo on Xbox. Auto eco is a big pain, but so is manual eco so just pick your poison really

[AegisAuras]

I’ve noticed a few issues can be alleviated by turning auto farm creation off. This will stop your villagers from using all your wood suddenly when berries run out. It will also prevent them from placing farms in dangerous places like a mill rather than the TC.

If villagers as assigned to food through auto-eco but there aren’t enough farms available, you’ll get a warning message that there aren’t any food sources available. This is a good prompt to build more farms manually.

[thesocraticatheist]

I am around 1300 elo in ranked 1's and teams. The auto eco of course is not helpful in dark or feudal age, but I think it starts shining way before post imp. Once I hit castle age, and I am triple pumping villagers out of three town centers I have found it very useful. It can be manipulated and even turned off if needed like if you have a resource collection building in range of the enemy. You dont have to leave it on, but generally speaking putting it on collect all once I have three TC's seems to work fine, and lets me focus on other things.

[livingechoes]

Found this on your post from Reddit. Liked and subbed. You had some great content so far keep up the excellent work!

[polpettaio]

I know it's a controversial topic, but for me it should just be improved. The Dark Ages is mostly the same for everyone, and just requires you to be able to hit keys better than most. I'd rather improve the AI ​​to manage the economy from the customizable auto eco commands, which would be more comfortable than selecting each Villager. Construction without the need to select a vill (why select a villager, in the dark Middle Ages, to build the houses when I could simply place them and the artificial intelligence sends the villager closer to building them?) In short, a more customizable management of the automatisms.
Anyway, helpful video as always.

[eldenmox]

My issue with console right now is with getting raided it’s too hard to micro your eco to keep it going if you are able to fight the raid off leading me to turning auto on to get my 100 vills working again and then they just start running to their death. Then as they die the auto eco just keeps sending more of my vills to the same place to die. The way this works on console no matter if you use auto or not it’s completely in favor of the more aggressive player even way more than on pc and don’t get me started on castle drops cause if your opponent lands one near your eco it’s gg.

[XboxAffrayer]

As a controller only 1400 the auto eco works just fine. It's been more or less tuned based on expert level play and stats. With that being said knowing your specific civ and knowing how to get almost to castle age before using auto eco. Mastering the Art of war challenge " early economy" and "fast castle" are good starts to getting times down.

[GeneralWakka]

Nice video! Next SotL for console players???

[dominiquedo]

Since the game dropped on xbox i have been playing casually against AI trying to get used to the all the buttons and stuff. I like playing the Teutons, with the cheaper farm the AI are less likely to use all the wood. And the UU is somewhat effective without micro management. I'll follow any build order without the auto-eco right untill i'm ready to boom in CA. The necessary buildings are layed out and it seems to go pretty smooth. I'll use the basic preset and then go to the manual wheel to remove one of the gold preset an add one on both wood and food to start with. If i leave it as it is i'll have an overkill on gold income compared to the other res.

[ulfie]

Love your channel! Use to play the game as a kid and I’m only getting back into now it’s on gamepass. Is there a shortcut to force drop off resources?

Would be nice to see a castle age video too.

[danhawes]

Is there a way to turn auto completely off once you’ve selected one in game? I can’t figure out how if there is

[jvan]

So basically dark age you do your villagers and auto scout for best results

[pikaman]

Hi ! I am using google translator for this message! I don't understand English, do you have a web page with your tutorial in text version? That we can easily translate :) Thank you.

[ironkobe]

If you wanna be good don’t use auto eco

[stevetorres]

It’s ok but once I turn it on I can’t find a way to turn it off.

[ironkobe]

I hate you can’t forward build with this thing on well you can but they will run away after a build

[FullOilBarrel]

they should do some shit that just keeps producing units without having to click it each 30 s in a 30 minute game which is really stupid