Ave Patricians and Plebeians,
This a thread dedicated to a community game. It will consist of a single campaign shared by several palyers, each one will be allowed to play a few game-years and then report in here in an AAR fashion.
The players will download the save game, play, then upload it back here for the next player.
We will try to keep it as simple as possible, with very simple rules. These rules will be edited along the way, to suit our community, so refer to this first post often to keep updated.
No cheats whatsoever
The first rules i thought of are:
- every player has to have the exact same version of the game without any modification (no personal tweaking, stat altering or such) in order to avoid any CTD's while uploading the save game.
- we will be playing RS 1.5a, go here for the latest version: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=137604
- we will be playing on H/H setting
- one first cohort per legion, legion constitution is up to individual player, must have at least one General
- we will be playing Rome as a starting faction
as far as gameplay, each individual should play his/her own way, the challenge is to adapt to the previous player's style or just change everything back to your own style, which will be quite difficult if you only have a few game-years to reverse the aggressive war policies of your predecessor, so you have to do with what is readily available.
I do think, we should try to avoid spending more than half of our income in military budget, only build one structure in each city at a time (if you have 5 cities, queue up to 5 buildings total), save some money for the next player.
when the game is saved, it should be something like: Quaestors_489AUC, where 489AUC is the final year played. so if the game starts in year 450AUC, you play, let's say for 2 years (which is 4 turns), so you play 450 summer, then 450 winter, then 451 summer, then 451 winter, then you hit the new turn button and when the year is 452, you save it as Qaestors_452AUC, the next player picks it up at the first turn of 452, plays 4 turns and then saves it as Quaestors_454...etc.
if players feel there should be more than a couple of game-years, we can make it so. just let me know.
Players list:
Faridus Africanus
Nellup
Jingle_Bombs (currently playing)
Snuggans
Killer Jack