10 Tips for Controlling Villagers and the Economy [Age of Empires 2] [ES SUBS]

0:00 - Intro
0:53 - Shift Queuing
2:02 - Fishing Mechanics
3:11 - Food Harvesting Priority
6:16 - Repair or Replace
8:20 - Saving Luring Villagers
9:02 - Dropping Resources in Any Newly Built Resource Drop-off Building
10:53 - Milling vs Long-distance Hunting
14:44 - Denying Farms by Attacking Them
15:24 - When to Collect Stone for a Castle
17:05 - Comparing Buying Food with Farming for it for Early Castle Age Boom

[Diurdii]

I have to say, I've watched a fair bit of AoE tutorial and guide vids, but the knowledge you put out is high quality man. Usually they focus on unit counters and build orders, but the tips you give are far more useful. Ever since I started being mindful of how much a vill collects on the way up to castle, how many vills are needed for constant production, rebalancing my eco with the market, and all the other tips you've given I have improved a lot more than with any other AoE content creator. Keep it up man

[TheBigZeppelin]

That skirmisher trick to deny farm food collection blew my mind. Great content as always, man!

[gamerisdc]

Market abuse has always been something taught to me as a "never do". Now I know it can be a potential opening into a boom

[arjungopikrishnan]

Dude! Amazing content! You put so much effort into this, it's amazing

[boxbox]

Still an underrated channel. I like your insights on the game mechanics. Build order guides are a good way to improve gameplay - to a certain level. But only your videos gave me a better understanding of how and why build orders work and when it might be better to deviate from them.

[roym]

Top quality nerding... between sotl, t-west and survivalist we are spoiled for top quality nerding.

I’m around 1350 elo and was surprised the market prices were so balanced. I’d also looked down on market abuse unless absolutely necessary. This puts it in a very different light indeed.

Nice one.

[mickyor]

I wasted so much time dropping wood at the TC before building farms, that was mind blowing

[traceystevens]

Survivalist videos are up there with the best..I've played over 2000 hours and still picking up new tips.

[l-phantoaoe]

survivalist making the world more efficient one video at a time, love them!! keep them coming man, wp

[bigbingo]

I need to learn more about eco Management this video is perfect timing

[sharkhuntd]

I viewed so much videos from pro players and this kind of video is one of the best! The building -> boar trick was new to me. Keep up the excellent work!!

[TheCotonBalboa]

1000 hours into the game and i never noticed that you could deny farm usage by attacking it. I always kept my range unit to stand trying to harass the villager. Thanks for the useful tips!

[TacSav]

I started really sinking my teeth into aoe2 about a month ago and this is the kind of stuff i need! It really clears up some questions I've been asking myself. However, some question remain. With respect to boar saturation and decay, I've been approaching it with the same logic as you presented here and tend to go against my build orders (even though I assume they're correct, being they're by Hera). I go 10 on boar before sending all 4 to berries, since i just don't see the point in going berries while I have boar and sheep decaying. Why do pro build orders tend to have 7-8 on boar, then 4 to berries, before going up to 10 on boar?

[MikeEmpires]

Thanks, man. Great video. Your work definitely improves my gameplay.

[italianlawyer]

Man do I love subscribing to AoE channels <3

[agencccc]

I didn't know that attacking farms denied them

[maximinomorgado]

thank yu survivalist, you are so cool

[FacundoFerrara]

100 to 150 elo contained in a single video. Amazing.

Survivalist, the content you churn out is just outstanding.

[Irish]

This is by far the most useful tutorial I have ever seen. Thank you for making this, subscribed, hopefully you have other friendly intuitive content like this!

[greenjelly]

It is a pity that almost all help for lower rated players is focused on mechanics and not on strategy. The top players are at the top because of their ability to strategize.