Advice Needed - How to Budapest..?

I played a game on Budapest yesterday for the first time. I saw the map preview on the game found screen and saw there was closed water and thought - 'sweet, I can practice my hybrid build orders'. Queued up villagers, built 2 houses and notice I have 3 idles.. And another scout. AND ANOTHER TC. Thankfully at 1700 TG ELO, this is not a GG moment, and I barely scraped by. I had a ton of idle TC time, got housed so badly a few times in Dark Age that I dedicated a villager to houses from Feudal, messy eco balance, forgot I had 2 TCs while going to next age, did not take fish.. You get the picture.

We still lost that game as I wasn't focused and ended up adding 3 TCs in Castle Age for a total of 5, which was an overkill. I was never on top of my eco, because I honestly didn't know where my golds/stones were. I knew I was gathering them but didn't get around rebalancing my eco at all as I was helping my flank defend from a trush. The result was, I was floating too many resources, and didn't mass army/tech switch on time.

I still enjoyed the map, which was a refreshing break from Arabia/Arena/Lombardia. Looking for guidance for villager allocation in Dark Age for a FC build. Any other tips would also be very helpful.

Cheers!