The problem with making a TA 2 is the answer to what are you going to change that won't immediately make it less good than the original?

If you change the way production works = less good
If you change the way combat works = less good

You CAN improve the graphics.

You CAN improve the pathfinding and AI (already done in mods though)

Can you change any of the units? F off = less good

Can you add new units? Absolutely!

Can you add higher construction levels? Absolutely!

So basically the secret to a good TA2 is to NOT change what is already there, but to build on it.

PS: Mods copied from a patch that was made for proper TA. :)

Damn, I just realized that Wargaming bought TA along with MoO! It's very bad news indeed. These greedy idiots have already smeared and spoiled the MoO title, and I fear to think what they can do with TA...

Since then TA went to Steam too, no? Perhaps not so bad.

So what? Now it's harder NOT to be on Steam than vice versa. Steam is a monumental heap of s**t, there's no honor to be in it.