Worth the switch? Gold-Platinum

**Doev** · November 22, 2009, 10:58 AM

Small question. After hearing lots of good things about RTR, I recently downloaded RTRGold. Since Gold required one less patch, I didn't go for Platinum. But, after lurking around here for a bit, I found out Gold is outdated and Platinum is recommended.
Should I re-install Rome with Platinum? I don't have long-running saves yet (20-25 years only). Or is there hardly any difference between the two to go through the trouble?

**florin80** · November 22, 2009, 11:09 AM

The biggest difference is that in RTRPE`s case there is a fix for the revolt ctd. You don`t have such a solution for RTR 6 Gold. Other than that it`s a matter of having night battles, landblocks and the said better ai for RTW v1.5/BI v1.6 which RTRPE uses.

**Doev** · November 22, 2009, 11:48 AM

Thanks, then I'll probably keep Gold. At least as long as I don't experience any CTD problems. From what info I could easily find the AI doesn't seem to have been drastically improved.

**florin80** · November 22, 2009, 12:11 PM

I forgot to mention that the save load bug was fixed in RTW v1.5. The bug refers - from what I`ve read - to the ai strategy being reset every time you reload the game so that if it was sieging a settlement saving and reloading would make it drop the siege and so on.

**Doev** · November 23, 2009, 02:20 AM

Thats a major bug indeed, it's mostly avoidable though. Experienced it yesterday for the first time (the siege thing), I'll just avoid exploiting it.

**Caesar Augustus** · November 23, 2009, 09:44 AM

I'll pass down what I've heard from around these parts.

That is, that while RTRPE is the most "official" recent "Grand Campaign" style RTR release, there has been nothing done to it in ages in it's current form. A few others worked to extend the realism further and make the campaign a bit harder, which is what the Extended Realism mod is. You could also try the Imperator mods (I've not played them, only played RTRPE and just downloaded ExRM after breaking my RTRPE).

Alternatively you could try TIC, which offers a shortish campaign following the exploits of Hasdrubal Barca in Iberia, which is supposed to be really good, or the most recent release RTR Fate of Empires which is focused on the Western Mediteranean (sp?) around the period of the Punic Wars.

Anyhow, enjoy!

**florin80** · November 23, 2009, 12:46 PM

I don`t think anything was done to Imperator in ages either. At least not since work on vanilla RTRPE also stopped. As for ExRM it`s rather misleading to present it as the next step in RTR 6 development imo. It`s a step alright, but in the direction chosen by its authors. There are alot of things changed there. One might love them, but they seriously depart from the direction of vanilla RTRPE and RTR 6 Gold. That`s why it was started and developed separately. The guy who started it was a member of RTRPE at that time. Technically speaking ExRM can be categorized as a spin off, not a RTR 6 continuation.

**Doev** · November 23, 2009, 03:53 PM

I'll just keep Gold until I want a new challenge - I like it the way it is for now. Then I'll get the mod-switches and BI to enable them.

**Caesar Augustus** · November 24, 2009, 03:58 AM

Hi Florin,

Apologies, I think I may have misunderstood ExRM. I was just explaining my (mistaken) view of ExRM.

I didn't mean to mislead anyone.

**florin80** · November 24, 2009, 07:35 AM

I wasn`t accusing you or anything. It`s a generally encountered belief. I was just trying to underline that with ExRM you get more than a few changes to vanilla RTRPE. It`s pretty much a different mod from what I see.