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Dear Dropoff Site. You will be sorely missed by some. I remember when I played my first Age game, AOE, and my surprised when my 13 ft. tall villager finished fishing and carried back a wobbling fish. That was a good fish and dropped off at the Town Center. That was only the beginning of our drop-off relationship.
The excitement of figuring out that rocks were not suitable for stonemines and finding a shiny gold mine to build a storage pit! I will never forget.
Then, I remember well, the AOK dropsites. They diversified! You, dear Dropoff Site, multiplied. In long stalemates, entire forests were depleted, gold and stone mines exhausted, leaving scattered lumber mills and mine pits. And dear granary, how I shall forget thee.
Oh, AOM... You took one of them early. Stone was not to exist any longer and in its place, favor. Damn you, favor!!! There was to be no appeasement of favor, for there was no dropoffsite for favor (except the greeks, but I preferred norse).
And finally, we come at the end. Dear Dropoff Site, you are gone from existance. The resources don't need you anymore. But I do.
But I do...
ESO: oats
ESO2: dirtyoatmeal