This mod started out as a 'Buildings Mod', with the objective to add more nice and useful buildings to the game, but many more improvements where needed and many ideas where coming so the 'Improvement Mod' was born. Working with the Steam and non-Steam versions of the game, this mod tries to upgrade the game with small, big and necessary tweaks, changes and adds to make the gameplay more interesting, fun and challenging. All known bugs from the original game have been fixed. It's being updated very often and everything is of the highest quality and bug-less. Check out the "Features" tab for more details. This mod is only for TAD but requires AOE3+TWC+TAD 1.03.

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1 comment by mandosrex on Dec 25th, 2011

Now some important facts about this mod.

Well, it started over a year ago and since then it has been continuously updated, every month with numerous updates. This is how I work, I like to release new versions as quickly as I can, and don't like to make people wait. Maybe it is not the best strategy but it is my strategy.
At the beginning, I only wanted to make a mod which adds more buildings, I for one like to build and make nice towns, so I focused on adding unused buildings like the ones from campaigns. But, I had far more ideas, and while it was a lot of work for one man I still started to work on them anyways.

What can you expect from this mod?
Well anything I can say. This is a very big project.
The first place where this mod appeared, a place I use even today as the main website to share it and immediately release updates, is AoE3 Heaven Games. Since it's release, my mod had the most downloads, comments and ratings in the modding category from the website, and will have so a long time from now.
Like any serious mod, mine has many revolutionary ideas and much 'eye candy'.
If you want to know what the mod is all about read the setup's 'Readme Information' or the 'readme' file after you install the mod.

While I work completely alone on the mod, over time I did used ideas from the community and accepted/requested help with various things from people who support my work.
I also used stuff from other popular or less poplar mods, sometimes with permissions, sometimes without, but I always gave credit and respected those who made them.

I don't know what more can I say, so if you have any questions be sure to ask.
And you might wanna check out the mod more often on it's blog than you check it here if you want to stay up to date, because I will release updates more often there than I will here.

For the end I want to apologize for my poor English, I try my best but I know I am far from speaking it perfect. This has not affected the quality of the mod in any way, I always double check every word.

Complete change log in the "Features" tab, here on ModDB.
Check out the mod's blog and forum for more details!
Thank you for your time and I hope you will enjoy the mod!

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Improvement Mod version 5.2 (manual install)

Improvement Mod version 5.2 (manual install)

Oct 11, 2012 Full Version 17 comments

Every version of this mod should be installed on a fresh, unmodified version of 'Age of Empires 3 The Asian Dynasties' (must also include 'The War Chiefs...

Improvement Mod version 5.2 (installer)

Improvement Mod version 5.2 (installer)

Oct 11, 2012 Full Version 8 comments

Every version of this mod should be installed on a fresh, unmodified version of 'Age of Empires 3 The Asian Dynasties' (must also include 'The War Chiefs...

Improvement Mod version 5.1 (manual install)*OLD*

Improvement Mod version 5.1 (manual install)*OLD*

Aug 15, 2012 Full Version 2 comments

Every version of this mod should be installed on a fresh, unmodified version of 'Age of Empires 3 The Asian Dynasties' (must also include 'The War Chiefs...

Improvement Mod version 5.1 (installer)*OLD*

Improvement Mod version 5.1 (installer)*OLD*

Aug 15, 2012 Full Version 7 comments

Every version of this mod should be installed on a fresh, unmodified version of 'Age of Empires 3 The Asian Dynasties' (must also include 'The War Chiefs...

Improvement Mod version 5.0 (installer)*OLD*

Improvement Mod version 5.0 (installer)*OLD*

Jul 31, 2012 Full Version 0 comments

Every version of this mod should be installed on a fresh, unmodified version of 'Age of Empires 3 The Asian Dynasties' (must also include 'The War Chiefs...

Improvement Mod version 5.0 (manual install)*OLD*

Improvement Mod version 5.0 (manual install)*OLD*

Jul 31, 2012 Full Version 0 comments

Every version of this mod should be installed on a fresh, unmodified version of 'Age of Empires 3 The Asian Dynasties' (must also include 'The War Chiefs...

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FGB29X
FGB29X 10hours 53mins ago says:

Hey guys i want to ask what are the bugfixes when i update via improvement mod patcher

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mandosrex
mandosrex 5hours 34mins ago replied:

Impmod.blogspot.ro

Version x.x, those are updates released through the patcher.

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BobBuilder
BobBuilder May 15 2013, 6:48pm says:

I love the mod so far, it works fine on single player via steam. I was looking forward to playing online with a friend,(both of us have version 5.2 installer), and I couldn't play with him. I host and invite him and the message for him is "CRC mismatch." Is it possible to play this mod online? With others that have the same version mod?

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mandosrex
mandosrex May 15 2013, 7:54pm replied:

You can play the mod on multiplayer but "CRC Missmatch" means your copy and your friend's copy of the game are not exactly the same, maybe he installed an official patch and you didn't and so on.

A guaranteed way to fix this is to have one of you to zip the entire game and send it to the other one. Not a fast solution, I know, but it will work. Either that or re-install the game the exact same way, you and your friend.

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BobBuilder
BobBuilder May 15 2013, 8:00pm replied:

Turns out it worked by launching it via the mod patcher. Works fine now, only we cant be the Americans.

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DalekDan
DalekDan May 13 2013, 7:15am says:

So i've played the mod..finally got it all working (thank you btw I should have tried the defaults thing but it never crossed my mind), and i had a thought about the banner army at the fortress feature you've implimented; what if the European powers had a consulate but in reverse; the ability to hire armies/levies of their colonies/protectorate states. (ie; Britton -> India, gets sepoys and and elephant or something like that) it definitely ties in with the colonial power theme..and reality. This could also feasibly replace lumber mill, bakery etc.. with a medium to good trickle of a particular resource that vassal provides (eg, wood form india).

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mandosrex
mandosrex May 13 2013, 10:49pm replied:

A good idea but I don't know how often this happened in reality, I mean I can't even think at one example?

I thought of other things, either add the ability to ally with other Euro civs witch are not playable, like Austria or Italy. But this would require too much work and would mean to create a shitload of new units.

Or, and I might actually do this, add the ability for Euros to chose and enter in European alliances. Something we always see in European history is the constant creation, destruction and changing of alliances.
I thought of two alliances, a military one with military bonuses (The Military Coalition) and an economical one with economic bonuses (The Trade Agreement).

Like it? :)

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DalekDan
DalekDan May 15 2013, 5:23pm replied:

goddamn i got logged out... what guest said...

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mandosrex
mandosrex May 12 2013, 6:56am replied:

Go to "Options" and press the "Restore Defaults" button. This will fix all the UI problems. After that you can change the settings how you want.

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