Change the legoins's recruitment regions!

[ilvhel]

Hello, guys!
i just wonder whether it is easy to change the legoins's recruitment regions(just modify some files in the /data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign folder), and i think it wiil make some strategy improvement to the MOD. And i don't mean to use it for cheat the computer. I argue that for the following reasons:
1 It will allow me to make the the total strategy on the regions that i've controled, just like the

Augustus times, when the legions are deployed on the front, and there is no army in Italy except the Rome.
2 Although it make the game a little easier, it give more possiblity to build a Iron Legoion, which have the opportunity to suffer the importang battles. Maybe you have faced this situation:when you have controled the West, you go to the East, but your best and faithful legion can NOT follow you, just because of the distance. That thing will happen in the Rome Times.
3 It is more hostorical real, because the legions go along with the Empire Expand. Their battlion changed for the purpose of the War.

SO if you agree with me, i think you may help to find how to modify/change it easy.

[lt1956]

Not going to happen, reason is simple, logistics. This is a GAME not real life, and therefore we cant show how HARD it was to train and equip a legion. By making all the legion provinces CLOSE to italy means when the player is farther out in the empire its HARDER for them to replenish the legions on the borders. Something Rome never did anyway. This makes the Legions more special and makes the player use AUXILIA more often just as Rome did.

Over all there is a VERY logical reason this was done, and yes doing it as you suggested would make the game ALOT easier. Because the player could just use legions replenishing them all the time on the front. Sometimes in a GAME we have to do things different than real life, Afterall we cant have FOOD supply in RTW.

[ilvhel]

Thanks for your answer, lt1956 :-)

I think it is that the GAME is easier if the location can be changed, so if it can be changed, it shoule have some Limits . But maybe you can just deploy the legions in a more widely scale(not just CLOSE the Italy, so to control the East which the Romans Real conqued is really HARD), like the RS is a little more easier(because of its legions deploy which is in acord with the Augusts times).

And i think a find a way to change the location of the legions, it take not so many changes to the original SPQR files. I just do the following things, and maybe you can help me to find out if it is the right way (or it will cause the crash/CTD):
1.in the descr_regions.txt change the hidden legion resourse's to other city, like legion1.
2.change the legion_shield resouse(dogs) for the display on the Campaign Map.
3.change the city name in the "my_campaign_regions_and_settlement_names.txt" file in the data/text folder, so as to let the new city have the legin's name, like new_city(Legin I).

and am i right, thanks for the help, if my poor English troubles you and there is my sorry.

[lt1956]

Should work, but remember alot of those changes can be overwritten with the new addon coming out.

BTW this mod is finished, so there arent going to be any changes, alot of the other mods are still in development but SPQR is basically Bug free and is done.

[S u l l a]

This idea would take away something of the best of SPQR, the logistics. Also, I do not understand why considering making it easier ... The way this specific issue is designed in SPQR is one of the main reasons I think it is the best mod out there.

Oh, and yeah, the only thing missing in RTW is the food supply dimension, something like "Close Combat". THAT would have made RTW really great.