Start with a Declaration of Friendship and some trading and then work your way up from there. Either way, you’ll first need to establish strong diplomatic bonds with a faction before you’ll get access to that option. Or, if you’re so inclined, you can trade away one of yours. When it comes to major factions, you can try to convince them to trade you one of their cities instead. Once you have enough allegiance with a Free City, you can vassalize them and then either let them remain independent or absorb them into your empire. Free Cities are usually your best bet since you can easily increase your allegiance with them via pacts, trades, and the occasional quest. However, convincing other factions to part with their cities takes a lot of work. No wonder popular YouTuber 2kliksphilip dubbed AoE II as "the game that keeps on giving.The diplomatic approach is arguably the best way of acquiring new cities in Age of Wonders 4 since it gives you access to cities that have already been developed. While this certainly can't have helped its case, one would have expected a similar pattern of renewal for the first and third games, even though neither entry can touch The Age of Kings when it comes to active players. It's tempting to argue that the second game's success stems from continued remakes and remasters, that an HD edition followed by a definitive edition have helped to keep the game fresh and ever-present within the RTS market. In comparison, Age of Empires III's Definitive Edition hasn't made it above 10,000 since October 2020. From November 2019 to August 2022, the Definitive Edition of AoE II has not once dropped below 20,000 players at peak, occasionally breaking the 30,000 barrier but never dipping under that respectable threshold. Considering that its numbers are by no means disgraceful, it may be more beneficial to look not at where AoE IV is defective and instead consider just how AoE II has achieved such longevity.
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