Fog of War Question

**Angrychris** · May 29, 2009, 09:58 PM

Can you toggle the FOg of war or is it always on?

**Raglan** · May 30, 2009, 04:16 AM

you can toggle it - in game press the Tab button, and then type toggle_fow

**saienga** · May 30, 2009, 09:18 AM

I believe it's the tilde, button...?

"~" <---that one? Then type toggle_fow

Also, you can open the *rome installation*/preferences/preferences.txt file and find an entry there, nine lines down:

FOG_OF_WAR: TRUE

Just delete "TRUE" and type in "FALSE", save, and play away.

(always safe to save a pristine backup of the prefs file, just in case)

**Angrychris** · May 30, 2009, 11:34 AM

Cool thanks, also how do you get diplomats as parthia?

**Hesus de bodemloze** · May 30, 2009, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by Angrychris

Cool thanks, also how do you get diplomats as parthia?

Most of us probably don' t know the answer to this question as we all play as Romans.

**Raglan** · May 30, 2009, 01:04 PM

@ saiegna, yeah your right i got the button wrong

@ angry chris, now i might be wrong but i'm pretty sure i saw LT (SPQR creator) say that he removed diplomats for everyone except the roman faction

**Angrychris** · May 30, 2009, 05:35 PM

Noone would know why though? I saw my first roman diplomat (failed to assassinate) and thought i would ask.

**Hesus de bodemloze** · May 31, 2009, 03:45 AM

Originally Posted by Angrychris

Noone would know why though? I saw my first roman diplomat (failed to assassinate) and thought i would ask.

LT removed the diplomats because thy would start problems with the expanding of the factions. Parthia bribed one of the greek cities in azia minor which caused them to become a super faction. So to stop one faction from becoming a super faction lt removed the diplomats.

**saienga** · May 30, 2009, 06:35 PM

All of SPQR is built around the idea of a phenomenally challenging and engaging Roman game.
To this end the other factions have been adjusted, tweaked, and changed to provide the most dynamic gameplay for the Romans. Diplomats are absent because if they remained, the AI factions would use them to forge alliances and establish trade rights amongst themselves, thus vastly randomizing the gameplay, and destabilizing the effort put into balancing the factions as they are.