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    Default General's stars

    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

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    Default Re: General's stars

    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.
    Last edited by Sethiiro; October 28, 2010 at 03:38 AM.

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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by 181henry View Post
    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?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sethiiro View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MarcusTullius View Post
    Its in the Rome mod folder, that changes the preferences text for the whole mod.
    Quote Originally Posted by 181henry View Post
    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.
    Last edited by MarcusTullius; October 28, 2010 at 05:30 AM.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thomius View Post
    . 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

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    Quote Originally Posted by dl_iepurasu View Post
    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.

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by toluas View Post
    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

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    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...

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    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.


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    Quote Originally Posted by GreatOne View Post
    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





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    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.

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

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    I think influence helps keep cities happy.

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

    EDIT:
    Quote Originally Posted by Alexander V. Suvorov View Post
    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
    Last edited by GreatOne; November 01, 2010 at 07:33 AM.


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    Aha, thanks!

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    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)?
    Last edited by 181henry; November 01, 2010 at 07:57 AM.

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