
The game portrays the European colonization of the Americas, between approximately 14 AD. Its successor, Age of Empires IV was released October 28, 2021, for Windows. A remaster titled Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition was released on October 15, 2020. It is the third game of the Age of Empires series and the sequel to Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings.

An N-Gage version of the game developed by Glu Mobile was released on April 28, 2009. The PC version was released on October 18, 2005, in North America and November 4, 2005, in Europe, while the Mac version was released on November 21, 2006, in North America and September 29, 2006, in Europe. The Mac version was ported over and developed and published by Destineer's MacSoft. I'm wondering what implications for plantations this will have for Non european civs.Age of Empires III is a real-time strategy video game developed by Microsoft Corporation's Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios. So I applaud the effort to be more historically accurate, just like how Japanese in AoE3 can't eat meat which ends up translating into a different civilization with a different strategy, but at the same time, it is a video game and taking some historical liberties to simplify the gameplay should take the lead in my opinion. But if it's "coin" does that mean it doesn't exist for the Inca either? So if the resource is "gold" Inca would mine it. The Inca didn't even have a concept of money, it was all barter or mit'a, the labour they had to perform for the government as a form of tax. But does that mean that they didn't have a currency (AKA coin) of some kind? As many people have pointed out, the Incas and Aztecs definitely did mine gold but their money (once again, what we could call their "coin") didn't utilize it. The change here is that the Natives of the USA (So just Iroquois and Sioux), according to the interview, didn't mine gold. It's all there to have a feasible gameplay mechanic.

Killing aquatic mammals, growing a plant and mining a metal all give the same resource even though they're wildly different sources. This coin you can gather is the same resource you get from Tin, Copper, Silver, and Gold mines. Same with hunting whales, they give coin, not food. Like how plantations produce "coin" because you sell the cotton grown there. Coin is a more broad term, that for the purposes of AoE3, is used to explain why you can get a different resource from certain sources on the map. The problem here is this: Are we going to call it "gold" or "coin"? Gold is well, gold, the precious metal we mine out of the ground and many cultures coveted.
