RTRVII: Fate of Empires - Bugs and Issues

[sirmic]

Illirian heavy hoplites seems to me too expensive for mantaining - 2900. Is it intentional?

Great mod, great fun!

[PatricianS]

All upkeep costs are high like that

Though I'll forward it to MCantu to see if this one might be unbalanced anyway

[Caligula Caesar]

Originally Posted by PatricianS

This isn't a bug after all. Carthage has a special building as port, so you don't need to upgrade your normal port

I saw that, but the special buiding doesn't seem to give a naval trade bonus

[PatricianS]

Why didn't you say that then?

[Caligula Caesar]

I might be wrong FOE's EDB looks quite confusing to me

[PatricianS]

And I tried so hard to make it easy to read with an index and everything

[simplemind07]

Originally Posted by Caligula Caesar

I saw that, but the special buiding doesn't seem to give a naval trade bonus

Yeah I dont see any bonuses either, it just get 1 trade bonus that's it while the military port gives all the ship 1 expericence point.

[PatricianS]

No worries... I fixed it already in the expansion

[Caligula Caesar]

I have noticed another port-related error, namely that Ostia is available both in Antium and in Roma. So there are two Ostias in my campaign

[kepper]

Is fix

[Caligula Caesar]

Oh, yes, and the Epirote generals seem to have either Autonomoi Poleis bodyguards or Epirote bodyguards, or IIRC in one case Saguntine bodyguards (but I'm not sure about the last). I assume this isn't intentional

[FriendlyFire]

The text descriptions for the Roman commercial ports (e.g. Large Harbour) still talk about constructing warships and providing their crews, even though that's only possible in War Harbours.

Also, the upkeep of the Pedites Osci infantry unit seems too high. Their stats are between those of Hastati and Principes, but their upkeep is higher than either. Am I just paying through the nose for "very good stamina"?

[Tony83]

Originally Posted by FriendlyFire

The text descriptions for the Roman commercial ports (e.g. Large Harbour) still talk about constructing warships and providing their crews, even though that's only possible in War Harbours.

Also, the upkeep of the Pedites Osci infantry unit seems too high. Their stats are between those of Hastati and Principes, but their upkeep is higher than either. Am I just paying through the nose for "very good stamina"?

Thanks for your comments. I'll tag the Harbour description for a change to be made, and we are currently reviewing the performance/cost ratios of our units, so you can expect to see results in the expansion.

[Juli]

Is it just me, or are the units in this mod EXTREMELY graphic intensive? I´ve experienced an enormous performance drop when playing FoE, compared to vanilla or other mods...

[PatricianS]

Well, yes... But there are more things... The units have 512x512 instead of 256x256 skins which indeed makes them have a bigger impact on your PC. But another thing: in FoE all vegetation GFX levels have been upped by one. So if you use what we in FoE call "low" vegetation settings, then you will actually play with what vanilla RTW calls "medium".

So if you put them (the vegetation settings) next to each other:

RTR VII: FoE         - RTW vanilla
-------------------------------------------------------------
non-existent         - Low
Low                  - Medium
Medium               - High
High                 - Very High
Very High            - non-existent

[Tony83]

I'm asking Santa for Deep Thought for Crimbo, just to play FOE!

[FriendlyFire]

What decides which of the two second-level "Romanization" options gets offered? Sometimes I capture a city and it shows I can build Civitas Sociorum, sometimes it shows I can build either that or Civitas Sine Suffragio. Is it based on city size?

Edit: PatricianS, thanks for the explanation about vegetation settings! I'm going to go turn mine down now

[PatricianS]

It depends on the area you conquered and it's native culture

[FriendlyFire]

Ahhh, that makes sense - thanks.

On a graphics note, I just noticed that the Roman captain of my Hoplomachi Etrusci (i.e. in an 81-man unit, on large unit sizes) has a hole in his middle - the texture for his stomach armor is transparent/missing. And it's spoiling the victory shot, of his unit standing over the fallen body of the the Gallic king

[The king heroically besieged a mountain fort on his own, but even 33 heavy cavalry bodyguards don't do much against a nice wall of Etruscan spears!]