I'm not playing it much, i'm actually pretty bad at it, but it's totally fun. We mainly play aoc in wine, which works very well on local LANs but is crappy via internet, same without wine, which was the initial spark.
Nobody had suceeded in creating a clone with potential at 2013, so we took chances and are still trying to do it the "right" way.
I think the last year I played about 40h of aoc, so actually not that much, and haven't played aoe:hd yet.
Yes, but you don't see BOTH block types on the big tape. Swapping bits requires one block for each state, but the green ones are missing from the tape screenshots.
This will not work as described.
I think his design is a good idea, but still does not work.
I build a better harddrive (with 4 kb storage!) over a year ago, imgur link will follow.
Now to the design problem in this HDD:
see that all the blocks are blue in the platter?
No way to swap each of the bits without magically creating new green blocks.
My hdd solves that problem by having BOTH block types available on the platter. But see for yourself:
Let's see how they'll try the next step.