> The main dev of both this titles Rick Goodwell mentioned A* was used in Empire Earth the first time, older AoE1 used an older less CPU intensive algo. Citati

> The main dev of both this titles Rick Goodwell mentioned A* was used in Empire Earth the first time, older AoE1 used an older less CPU intensive algo. Citation? The only mention I can find about the pathfinding algorithm used by Age of Empires is this: http://artho.com/age/pathfinding.html http://artho.com/age/pathfinding.html A* is supposed to be an optimization of Dijkstra's. I don't know why you call it CPU intensive.