General's stars

[181henry]

Ave!

I have now been playing RS2 for 4 days and really loved it!
Just have a quick question why does all my family members and
spawned generals have ZERO stars!!???

Is this intended (If it is how do in increase stars in RS2 beside
fighting battles) OR my RS2 install is bugged???

Thanks in advance

[Sethiiro]

I think part of it is a bug, how ever do you know about the generals career path political/ military I'll try and find a link. I'm fairly new to the scene my self but I think with RS2 military is you should leave your general outside of settlements (and fight a fair few battles with them) @ the end of a turn and vice versa for political.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=387910

the pictures under tones comment should help.

[181henry]

Thanks for quick reply

ps another question where can I find preference.txt
I am on win 7 64bit, I tryed to set autosave=FALSE
in the preference.txt file in my preferences folder in Rome
install folder but that did not work

sorry about those stupid question as I am still new to this mod

Thanks

[Sethiiro]

Thanks for quick reply

ps another question where can I find preference.txt
I am on win 7 64bit, I tryed to set autosave=FALSE
in the preference.txt file in my preferences folder in Rome
install folder but that did not work

sorry about those stupid question as I am still new to this mod

Thanks

I'm @ a loss with this one I'm afraid I wasn't even aware there was an auto save, is it in the individual factions folder?

[MarcusTullius]

I'm @ a loss with this one I'm afraid I wasn't even aware there was an auto save, is it in the individual factions folder?

Its in the Rome mod folder, that changes the preferences text for the whole mod.

[Sethiiro]

Its in the Rome mod folder, that changes the preferences text for the whole mod.

Thanks for quick reply

ps another question where can I find preference.txt
I am on win 7 64bit, I tryed to set autosave=FALSE
in the preference.txt file in my preferences folder in Rome
install folder but that did not work

sorry about those stupid question as I am still new to this mod

Thanks

Yeah but he tried that one, and I haven't got RS2 installed atm (waiting 4 the patch) so couldn't check.

[Thomius]

I've had a few 5-10 star generals in my campaigns. The only way to get them is to constantly fight, and hope they don't pick up any bad traits randomly. A lot of it is luck based unfortunately. By no means are 5+ star generals common place, so when you get one you tend to try and shelter him for the big fights, but in doing so you run the risk of increasing negative traits like 'Political General' or 'Unusual'. The Political General trait imparticular seems to have little practical use apart from making it very hard to get very good generals. But then that is realistic in that Generals like Hannibal, Scipio, Caesar etc didn't grow on trees, they were rare occurrences.

[dl_iepurasu]

. But then that is realistic in that Generals like Hannibal, Scipio, Caesar etc didn't grow on trees, they were rare occurrences.

True, they don't grow on trees, but I was playing with Rome and apparently all the nations attacking me had them

[Thomius]

True, they don't grow on trees, but I was playing with Rome and apparently all the nations attacking me had them

That is to offset the AI's copious amounts of stupid really. It makes battles more of a challenge going against better Generals.

[toluas]

Or let him enjoy a beautiful trip to lovely Germanic forests, Numidian deserts or Parthian elephants...all by himself

[Marcus Publius]

Or let him enjoy a beautiful trip to lovely Germanic forests, Numidian deserts or Parthian elephants...all by himself

That's the way to do it.With style .I also send him to fight phalanx armies and let the AI to control him and then he usually amuse me by charging into the front of phalanx and die withing a few minutes

[likeriver]

This may be a n00bish response. But I have many 5-6 and even 10 star generals in my Roman campaign simply because I exchange retinue between my family members. Whenever I recruit a new general I typically take all the local governers with command retinue (priets of mars, juno, jupiter, military engineer, etc.) and give it to a single commander. And so, without fighting a single battle, he is a 3-4 star general. Idk about you guys, but I was not aware of this until about a month ago so...

[GreatOne]

Governors tend to end up with a lot of "crap" retinue, I'm talking about things like good cook which usually causes them to have full retinue unable to get any high quality ones.Exchanging retinues between members becomes tedious and leaves some FM's to serve as dump.Also FM's tend to have huge amounts of Influence, which is in my opinion the worst of the 3.

[Alexander V. Suvorov]

Governors tend to end up with a lot of "crap" retinue, I'm talking about things like good cook which usually causes them to have full retinue unable to get any high quality ones.Exchanging retinues between members becomes tedious and leaves some FM's to serve as dump.Also FM's tend to have huge amounts of Influence, which is in my opinion the worst of the 3.

try this and I believe you will less likely see a family member catching it again:

Trigger trigger_gourmands_chef
WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd
Condition EndedInSettlement
and RemainingMPPercentage = 100
and SettlementBuildingExists >= proconsuls_palace
and IsGeneral
AcquireAncillary gourmands_chef chance 1

[likeriver]

well, you can always let your "slow" family members/generals serve as "dump". They seem to fail at everything anyways. That's what I do. Plus, influence is great for a governor to have. It makes the people happy. Better he have it than a commander.

[terzer]

How the influence effects the characters? Command - battle, management - cities governorship, influence - ?

[Valerius]

I think influence helps keep cities happy.

[GreatOne]

It makes people in the city happy and adds a number of bodyguards to the general.

EDIT:

try this and I believe you will less likely see a family member catching it again:

Trigger trigger_gourmands_chef
WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd
Condition EndedInSettlement
and RemainingMPPercentage = 100
and SettlementBuildingExists >= proconsuls_palace
and IsGeneral
AcquireAncillary gourmands_chef chance 1

Thanks, +rep

[terzer]

Aha, thanks!

[181henry]

man! after countless number of battles (including few dozen auto-resolves) I finally got a 6 star
Legatus Legionis (currently leading a full "silver" legion)!!!!! man soooo much hard work!

I am also interested to know what is the difference between proconsul and consul in the roman government (history question - not RS2 related)?