@ray243 but i doubt you will ever have the income to have 20 legions all operational at once i reckon you will have big difficulties to do so!
@ray243 but i doubt you will ever have the income to have 20 legions all operational at once i reckon you will have big difficulties to do so!
i love that its will be hard to the end
i never completed campaign couz if its get too easy i drop it and start new one
Carthage in RSII will be my first completed campaign
For gods sake, don't go anywhere near Hard/Very Hard...As beastwithin has said, it certainly won't be easy playing as Rome, and we are taking steps to ensure that the challenge remains high to end. The last thing we want to hear is complaints that it's all too easy...if there are complaints of it being too hard, well, people can always play on easy or medium.
ye you definitely made that mistake ibram haha
Yep and he has been whining all since.
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wel guys, I think that about the economics, it have a lot to do with the kind of experience you're looking for when you're campaigning. One of the greatnesses of RTW is the amount of different approaches it permits for the gamer. Personally, when I have a little bit of time to play (allways find some), and I start a new campaing, the first thing I do is use the well known cheats to charge money on my "account" and build everything there is to build, with both campaign and battle levels in "Very Hard" That way I prevent myself of spending an entire afternoon changing turns in order that profits return. In the lower dificulty levels, the money may be easier, but the game is soooo boring in what concerns to military activity. Of course you lose something of the game when you use cheats, but the economic system in RTW, specially in what concerns to the barbarian factions (my favourites), is made in such ways that turns any serious entertainment impossible. My objective in the game is never to reach the game objectives or finish campaings, but to play with my imagination or recreate historical situations. In my opinion, to finish my statement, the only game in the TW series that have's a good playerfriendly economic system is Empire. But I'm looking foward to try this.
Friendly might not be the right word. Amazing, tense, breathtaking falls closer.
Look at poor Ibram. He never knew what would happen to him by setting everything on H/VH... and now? Truly, the RSII team's goal is to give everything into your hands, let you command a living, breathing empire; but you will have to feel the pains of a crisis on your own skin, you will have to shout at your treasurers where your money is disappearing, you will have to ask yourself where all those enemy armies are coming from. A few major and minor heart-attacks per battle are common. Always play privately, so that you can cry for hours when you lost your most loyal legion.......
And meanwhile... try and enjoy the beautiful units, the awesome environment, the epic music, the interesting animations; laugh a bit at your general's well thought out traits, learn history through descriptions, and much much more! All in all, get ready to live through one of the best gaming experiences you have encountered.
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Lol, a thousand militia/levy hoplites is only a single turns' worth ^__^ Macedon and the Selucids must think the same way of their levy pikemen grr, why does a stack have 15 units of those? I actually run out of arrows to kill them with, grr.
And every militia hoplite ever is the same across the empire. And losing them cost-wise isn't too big a deal, since recruitment cost is ~3x upkeep. It's also a quick and easy way to cut your costs Go grind some romans to dust and unload 10 units worth of hoplites (though losses are rarely this high). I must say, however, I am very unhappy whenever I lose the nice city hoplites. They're too pretty to die to javelins.
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I certainly hope it is ^__^ I'm pretty sure the revolt unit will still be universal though.
Don't like Romans, though. Something about them just doesn't work for me.
Last edited by Alavaria; September 24, 2009 at 12:50 AM.
You have never known dispair until you have played on Hard/Very HardYep and he has been whining all since.
will these changes be by scripting that only affects the player or will it be base changes to the game itself? If the latter, won't the AI factions collapse almost imediately? the whole idea is to make the economy a challenging aspect of the game as well as battle etc but I don't think the AI will fare too well.
^___^ Heh. I'll take that as a challenge to do when RS2 comes out, then. Can I pick the faction? Syracuse or Pergamum would probably be my pick, unless other factions have prettier units (I kind of like the hoplite "look")
I must say though, I still don't quite understand about the borrowing from the future thing, since it isn't as though you're a government that's able to borrow ... then maybe I've done too much economics. Definitely as it applies to blitzing, I was of the idea is that grabbing settlements adds more and more income, so if you're capable of not taking many losses (when constantly assaulting settlements), you essentially constantly add more incoming cashflows - in this case, it would mean growing your income in a linear manner rather than exponential, since settlements are supposed to grow slowly. In principle, it's safer too, since building up might not work if you're at 0 net income and out of cash - while your army doesn't disappear.
That and tax income bonus can't go below 0. Similarly with trade bonuses. You'll always at least get the minimum, which (thanks to Chiv*) I am pretty sure you can expand on. Unless you start off with a faction that's losing money. But if the bonuses for building are small, as promised, then best choice is still to expand in as rapid a fashion as possible, rather than slowly try to build up your economy and get stomped when the AI next door inevitably realizes you don't have massive armies. In fact, the rate of return on expansion/blitzing might be higher, since each settlement is mostly a guaranteed chunk of cashflow (at minimum, taxes and, lol, farming - though apparently base farming is going down. Still, farm upgrades might turn into a better better investment, money-wise, than actual market buildings or this tax-line.).
Better yet, if happiness buildings "cost" you in terms of tax income bonus, then in a settlement which has a very low TIB, once you get down to zero bonus, and can no further, might as well go wild. Because the tax thing you set in the settlement screen is a multiplier, and not actually a TIB, if you get to VH taxes, that's 150% of your base (0% TIB) tax, which is quite nice.
* No starting tax income bonuses on your "homeland" and everything else (in some factions, certainly my favorite) has -50%, which most settlements won't break through for many-many turns. The main difference is that it also affects the AI factions.
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Do you know if its possible to import the economic system from Empire Total War and to adapt it for your mod ? Or its too complex and we need wait a futur Roma Surrectum III for ETW ? lol
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