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Started playing with the vanilla release - the graphics upgrades for the environment is really nice (buildings, trees, people, etc.)
Could make it easier for the team to focus on other areas to...

Phew, I'm tuckered out. Time for bed
:tongue:

I) I've not seen any suggestions on an ideal population, as long as it's under control then bigger is better. My goals are usually to keep growing, don't build Tax buildings since the benefit isn't...

Oh Boy, I think you're borked.
Every time you start your session - EVERY time - you need to click on one of your cities, doesn't matter which one. Then the Advisor icon in the top left appears, and...

Remember that RS2 and RSIII took man years of effort to get to it's final form, so we're not going to see a full fledged Remastered + Roma Surrectum mod by the end of May (Oh, but I wish 8^)
Those...

Ooh, nice. I'm excited to see how the base Remaster plays - but even more excited if we get a mod that approaches the lofty excellence that is RS III
I'd buy that for a dollar

What is "IFTT" ?
Could you clarify

Thanks

I usually exterminate the population -


Gives an immediate bonus of cash
Reduces the population so that it's easier to keep under control with fewer troops or mediocre governors. Allows my...

+1 for this
I learned my lesson early - NEVER have the reinforcing army have archers or a General


Archers just get destroyed by any enemy cavalry that are present since the archers are too...

I would actually simplify this to effects of trait > character acquires reputation for trait > trait appears on character's profile

If I pick a random general, regardless of any traits he has,...

I don't think you can.
You can only see the current dynasty, and select heirs from that set of people.

Other families are handled in the background but you don't have visibility of that.

If...

I've never used forced diplomacy

Not having to deal with other factions 'properly' would be another set of lessons to learn later.
Sure it can help if you're getting totally stomped - but then,...

Oh Lordy,
that is sooo fluffy I'm gonna die

Awesome work

Additional comment -
Your current processor runs at 2.7GHz (?) which is probably on the hairy edge of being workable.
Is it possible with your current set up to overclock that to 3.2+ GHz ? If so,...

I'd suggest

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Seems to take a few days to settle in, but it works great for me. I have an i7...

You didn't mention what your temperatures were previously, so I'm assuming that this is way higher than before.

Depending on how long you want to keep that CPU, you could just go ahead and live...

I've seen this as well - disk copy (not Steam) - and it seems to be a CPU limitation rather than a GPU limitation.
I can see my GPU idling with nothing to do but the CPU is maxed out trying to keep...

Just guessing, but it's probably paying for your 90 heavy cavalrymen (ie the General's bodyguards)

It looks like you've got the latest Rome release - v1.6
If your RS2 installation is from 2012 then it should run OK but there have been few updates since then.

You might want to download and...

Not sure if it's actually practical on a large scale but spies and assassins can do this -

Plague - first you need a conveniently be-plagued city :)
Then, you can use spies or assassins to carry...

Ah, I see. Then don't do that.
Attack with your main army and have all your generals in the main army.
The AI reinforcement army should have zero generals, just infantry and archers.
That way,...

No, I don't see anything obvious that you're doing wrong - well, except for trying to take Spain too soon :)

The Arveni will always come at you with a lot of troops. Best I've been able to do...

Hi Kambiz,
as always it comes down to practical economics and engineering:)

If you want to fire a 75mm shell with a more powerful charge, you will need a MUCH stronger barrel. What does that...

Indeed, there's no breakthrough in physics needed.
It's just (!) engineering and economics - it's possible to have a heavy armoured tank with a BFG on top - but it costs a lot of money.
And there...

A longer barrel allows for longer acceleration of the bullet/shell, although I would assume it's not a linear effect. So at some point the effort to make a longer barrel becomes not worth it in...

Hi Searry,
that would be from CA (not this mod) and it's not really fixable.
It's a computational, path finding problem so it's your CPU that is getting overloaded. I can see my CPU running at...

I think it's because taxes benefits/upgrades are based on a percentage of the current city income.
So, (for example) spending 10,000 to get a new tax building that gives you a 10% upgrade on the...

Nope, not a bug - a feature :)

That's how it's always worked, once a faction is reduced to 1 city they automatically gain a ceasefire with everybody.
So, if you want/need to destroy them you have...

Minor Aesthetic effect -

Taurasia starts off with the hilltop fort model. The external wooden walls and gates are half buried so only the top half are visible.
But they still get smashed down no...

Just besieged Syracuse and took the city -

lovely animations of the walls being broken down and the remains of the wall form a nice channel into the city, very pretty

Central square is...

Just do that - install Rome Total War to v1.5+1.6+alex+RS2.5+RSIII - you'll be good to go.
(Also note there are a couple of lines in the original release comments about properly setting up for...

Central Square Gate Blobbing

Rome : Arretium (for example) has a central fortified town square with 3 entrance gates.
Most of the Roman towns have this at the start.

I noticed that troops...

There have been many threads on this, so please check those - a few folks did provide some pretty comprehensive summaries and suggestions.

Additional sneaky thing that Microsoft did...
Even for...

Installation and upgrade process is very easy and smooth. Big thumbs up for that.

Campaign map looks really nice, and you can see those special cities have unique configurations even on the...

Welp, looks like I'm staying inside this summer :)

Answers are Optional, we can always figure this out on our own as we go along...

Is building up Akragas and completing the Palace there still...

Hi Kenny,
glad to hear you got it working.
Seems that getting a executable that you could 'fix' was the key to your issue.

That's a very interesting comment about having a machine that's too...

Hi Kenny,
another option is to just buy a CD for $10 to get a later build - should avoid the issue with 'secdrv' and also allow you to modify the executable to access 4G

M-M-Max

I typically run with the 'Huge' setting and have seen battles with 20k men on the battlefield.
I have a Nvidia GTX 780 and have never seen issues with being able to handle the graphics of the...

I just recently upgraded my system - same CPU and GPU but I installed an all in one CPU cooler with a new case.

Arctic 240mm Liquid Freezer + CoolLab Ultra liquid metal for thermal paste - Awesome...

Hi,
yep, that'll work. Any of the Z87 boards would be fine..

However, now you need to check if your case can physically fit the GTX 980. Your board looks like an ATX size so I'd guess that your...