Requesting Advice

[PSEUDO ROMANUS]

Hello everybody, my warmest greetings to all RTR fans and developers. I'm PSEUDO ROMANUS, a hardcore fan of the Late Roman era. So, my affiliation to the Invasio Barbarorum team shouldn't surprise anyone . Quinctus Cincinatus, a good friend of mine, is a developer here and made me curious on trying this mod. I'm a completely newbee on it, so I'd really appreciate any tip on what of the several RTR versions that I see in this forum should be the best for a beginner like myself. Do all of them have their own folder?
Thank you in advance for any advice you could give me.

[kepper]

Hey, welcome if are friend of QC you are also friend of all RTR Dev team
For you better star in Rome Total Realism Platinum Edition, like you said, you don't have many experience it RTR.
If you what a hard battle go in to TIC the mini-campaign for RTR VII is for BI.
The team is working in FOE a bigger campaign, there lot of preview around the forum, and more will came .
You can also take a look at my mod for TIC. QC as maybe a new intro for it. I have add three new region, two more playable faction´s, and a horde

[Clearchus of Sparta]

As Kepper has said, if you want a full campaign try RTR PE (Platinum Edition). TIC is a short campaign designed to be completed in one evening, but this showcases some features which we are planning for our Grand Campaign. Before that is attempted, there will be FOE (Fate of Empires).

RTR PE is available as a modswitch and TIC is definately a modswitch

[pannonian]

I wrote a summary of the current versions of RTR here. There are also various variants or submods around.

RTR 6 was released in 2005, using RTW on the 1.2 patch, which was then the latest update for the game. It went through a number of versions, reaching its final release as RTR 6.0 Gold.

RTR Platinum Edition was a conversion of 6.0 Gold for the RTW 1.5 patch, which came out after 6.0 Gold. Among many features of 1.5, the most important was the fixing of the save-reload bug, which meant factions no longer abandon their previous plans whenever the game was reloaded. For that alone, Platinum became the default choice of RTR 6. Platinum reached its final release as RTR PE 1.9, as its developers were called away to work on RTR VII.

RTR VII is the current in-progress version of RTR being worked on. After the RTR 7 team drifted away, MarcusCorneliusMarcellus got a new team together to begin work afresh. Since it had been some time since the last release of RTR, it was decided to give fans a taster of their work, and also to focus the developers on producing something they could see and play. Thus mini-campaigns, focusing on limited areas of the map, were produced. The Iberian Conflict was the first such, portraying the Carthaginian conquest of Iberia under Hamilcar and Hannibal. Fate of Empires is currently being previewed, which will look at the Second Punic War. There are overlaps between TIC and FOE, showing how the mini-campaign concept works.

RTR TIC is the first mini-campaign released for RTR VII, which is made for the RTW 1.6 patch (using BI.exe). It uses mod switch, meaning it installs to its own folder, and doesn't touch your vanilla installation. Most newer mods, including newer versions of RTR PE, also use mod switch, so as to allow multiple mods on the same PC. It is a standalone mod, that only requires the correct version of RTW to play.

[PSEUDO ROMANUS]

Thanks for the tips, guys. Really appreciate it. RTR Platinum edition will be then. At least until I become familiar with the mod. Thank you again .

[Gromovnik]

Enjoy RTR man! I'm just starting to play IB... and it's awesome! Now I can play something from late antiquity other than vanilla BI.

[PSEUDO ROMANUS]

Enjoy RTR man! I'm just starting to play IB... and it's awesome! Now I can play something from late antiquity other than vanilla BI.

Glad that you're enjoying IB, Pannonius. I hope I'll be able to enjoy RTR soon. Right now I've been unable to even DL it, as we're very busy in our forum working on the next releases. Anyway, as soon as I finish my work over there, I'll start a RTR campaign .