Fortuna Orbis - Description, Questions and Updates Thread

[Caligula Caesar]

I hope to study Ancient History or Classical Archaeology and Ancient History. Basically, I need to have written a 4,000 character personal statement by the 15th of October. I have been working on my personal statement, but it is persistently about 500 characters too long

As for when I will finish the mod, a mod is never genuinely finished But I had hoped to make a release by the end of September. I do not think that is going to happen, though. Things have been a bit more busy than I expected.

[Constantius]

Excellent ! I am doing classical studies

[Caligula Caesar]

I did some catching up on what is done and what needs doing, and I have decided the following:

I shall release a first custom-battle only version of Fortuna Orbis next month. It will have, at the very least, the Mauryan Empire, the Arverni, the Belgae, SPQR and Carthage, and maybe more if I manage to balance their units on time.

I currently have all units west of the Bosporus and the Dnieper in game, as well as all Hellenic units and most of the others. So it is mostly a matter of balancing them. I have the Mauryans, Arverni and Belgae all balanced on my system, and half of the Romans. That is about a sixth of the units in the mod, so it'll take a while to do all of them, but I will release the further factions in updates.

Apart from that, I just need to brush up on a few things such as sprites and loading screens and custom battle battlefields then I can compile an installer, though I will need help on that.

So I'll set a tentative release date of the 20th of October. This release will not be perfect in any way (for instance, it is fairly unlikely I'll have all the unit cards there), but it will certainly be a step in the right direction. I plan to get back into playing regular MP battles when I release it, and if enough people sign up we can do a tournament.

After the first release, updates will probably come fairly frequently as I complete more factions and address bugs which you guys find

[Caligula Caesar]

I'm continuing to make progress - 19 unit on the Roman custom battle roster (which includes local AoRs) are done, leaving another 10 or so. Of course, I was meant to be doing homework at the time

[Antiokhos Euergetes]

I am looking forward to this. I notice you have the Mauryans is that at the expense of Bakria?

[Caligula Caesar]

No, Numidia was taken out. Though actually, it would be inaccurate to say that, as the factions were pretty thoroughly shaken up. The full list is this:

-Rome
-Carthage
-Macedon
-Aetolian League
-Pergamon
-Seleucus' Dynasty
-Ptolemy's Dynasty
-Bactria
-Pontus
-Armenia
-Parthia
-Mauryan Empire of India
-Getai
-Arevaci (Celtiberi)
-Arverni
-Remi (Belgae)
-Cherusci (Germans)
-Scytho-Sarmatian Steppe Tribes (basically, the Scythians, Sarmatians, Saka etc compacted into one faction)
-Barbarian Minifaction
-Greek Minifaction
-Rebels/Independent People

[Antiokhos Euergetes]

Brilliant

[Caligula Caesar]

Thanks

[Scythii]

Why did you take out Numidia?

One of my favourite factions

Otherwise this mod sounds great, especially the Mauryan Empire.

[Caligula Caesar]

Because Numidia would either be destroyed by Carthage almost immediately or it would destroy Carthage, which would not be what I desire. It's simply too hard to make them work.

[Antiokhos Euergetes]

Please, please make the area unconquerable then. Otherwise the whole of north africa becomes Poeni.

[Caligula Caesar]

I have a few Numidian provinces, but everything south of the Atlas Mountains (ie the desert) is Terra Incognita, except for the coastal strip along modern-day Libya's coast.

[medievaldude]

So how are the units coming along, excluding Romans and Mauryans?

[Caligula Caesar]

Most are in the game, except for a few in the eastern areas (I estimate less than 20 in all). I am slowly but surely working on balancing the lot of them.

[medievaldude]

Most are in the game, except for a few in the eastern areas (I estimate less than 20 in all). I am slowly but surely working on balancing the lot of them.

So i guess alot of the old units have changed in appearance correct?

[Caligula Caesar]

The only units which have been retained from RTR6 are the Germans, and they were improved a bit for VII. I was hoping to upgrade them to the same level as the other VII units, but circumstances were against us. Boom S and I might still do it for FO, though. The other units are all good quality VII, RSII or our own creations

[Caligula Caesar]

I'm going to miss my 20th of October estimate, btw The balancing still needs a bit of work.

[Antiokhos Euergetes]

Don't despair, just keep up the good work.

[Caligula Caesar]

Thanks It won't be too long now.

[Caligula Caesar]

I've sorted many of the issues I had to fix before a release. I still have to balance the AoR troops on the Carthaginian roster, but balancing actually doesn't take too long once one gets the hang of it I also have to sort out a few sprites. So I'm nearly there. I'll have it up either this week or more likely in two weeks time (I probably won't be able to upload anything next week... uploading websites are blocked in some countries...)