How would I bring back the Senate in my RS install?

**Iaius Statius Laurentius** · May 21, 2008, 05:55 PM

I've tried to bring the Senate back but I don't think I did so entirely successfully because the Roman faction will always get skipped over for offices when it shouldn't, suggesting something is wrong.

I put back the superfaction stuff in descr_strat and gave the Senate the proper starting information--armies, cities, characters, et cetera. I think I also had to change another file someplace in the data directory before the Senate would even show up again.

But something must be missing? Was there something else that RS removed in order to get rid of the Senate that I need to put back into it?

I love RS, but I'd like a working Senate for my own personal copy and it's been frustrating me for a while because I feel like I just must be overlooking something.

**Arnspac** · May 21, 2008, 09:11 PM

If you do that the game will crash. Check the stickied threads for more info.

**dvk901** · May 22, 2008, 07:52 AM

You should be able to add the Senate back in with no problem...it was once in there as an option, because I liked it too. My guess is you missed something.

In RS2, however, the Senate will be gone forever.

**Arnspac** · May 22, 2008, 06:39 PM

Okay...before the discussions said that at a certain date if the Senate was still in there the game would crash. What did you change??????

**rory o'kane** · May 23, 2008, 04:35 AM

Originally Posted by arnspac

Okay...before the discussions said that at a certain date if the Senate was still in there the game would crash. What did you change??????

we changed the date system to AUC rather than BC/AD. we start off in 500something AUC (Since the Founding of the City), the game thinks we've just gone way past it!

Originally Posted by Efe Pasha

why not just keep senate and have it assign missions to the player ?

because if we get rid of it, we can include an extra faction instead!

**Dr. Oza** · May 22, 2008, 11:03 PM

why not just keep senate and have it assign missions to the player ?

**GreatOne** · May 23, 2008, 06:36 AM

What about that calendar(AUC), will it be the same in RS2?

**rory o'kane** · May 23, 2008, 06:39 AM

yuppo. for the reason mentioned above!

**century x** · May 23, 2008, 08:22 AM

I have always found the senate to be extremely annoying. What right do they have to tell me who to conquer and who not.

I'm glad this mod doesn't have the senate in it.

**HMonk** · May 23, 2008, 08:42 AM

I think I must agree with centry x, The senate seems to get in the way

**Rovdyr** · May 24, 2008, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by HMonk

I think I must agree with centry x, The senate seems to get in the way

That is exactly what they are there for! They adds another dimension to the game making you have to please them and all, if not you could get in trouble.

Maybe you could make them a swap faction for those who would prefer them over Syracuse/Sparta/Etc.

**century x** · May 24, 2008, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by Rovdyr

That is exactly what they are there for! They adds another dimension to the game making you have to please them and all, if not you could get in trouble.

Maybe you could make them a swap faction for those who would prefer them over Syracuse/Sparta/Etc.

That will take aLOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT of work

**dvk901** · May 24, 2008, 08:52 PM

The Senate has been 'coded out' of RS2. It can never be re-added. And believe me, I can see both views. The most memorable campaign I ever fought in RTW
was playing SPQR and getting my ass handed to me by the Senate. I don't think I have ever fought such a hard campaign.

**Iaius Statius Laurentius** · May 27, 2008, 12:25 AM

Well it's still in RS1.5, certainly?

I have brought it back, and it functions perfectly except it refuses to elect any of my family members to any offices, ever. So what I'm wondering is if I missed something related to offices that was removed and that I'd now need to add back.

I understand that in RS2.0 the faction slot used by the Senate will be taken up by another faction, but as far as my 1.5 game goes I'm still using the Senate--it's just not granting any offices for some reason.

**Gaius Livius** · May 31, 2008, 10:30 AM

I played this wonderful mod but I too miss the senate i will mod RS to bring it back aswell. For the missing offices that will not work without bringing back the other roman factions. I have had the same problem. If you have all roman factions you get the offices if you have only one and the senate you will not get elected. But RS has offices traits so it should be a not a big flaw. I wish RTW is like MTW2 where you can add factions without loosing others.