Roma Surrectum Dev's information thread

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We will use this thread to post important messages to our community much like the status thread we had during the late stage of RS 2.0's development.



December 11/2010:

About why we close so many threads in the forum.

Ok so some of you might wonder why we keep closing a huge amounts of threads in our forum section and often quite quickly after it has been started. There is a couple of reason why we do this.

One is that we make sure that the right answer has been given and by confirming the answer and closing it make sure the person who asked get's a correct answer and not "spammed" with different "ideas" to what could be the true answer.

Another one is that people that is actually searching (using TWC search engine) before opening up an new thread to ask for something (something we highly appreciate) get's a much easier time to find the answer as it's located in the last post (the one the moderator makes) and thus hasn't have to read through multiple pages to find it.

And a third reason is that it enables new threads to pop up on the first page of our forum instead of being pulled down by discussions in old threads with questions that has already been resolved.

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Roma Surrectum II will be featured in The German PC Games 1/11 issue in an article about Rome total war moding.
The whole mod will also be on the included dvd that comes with the magazine.

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We at the dev would like to wish you all a merry Christmas with loots of joy and many hours of RS 2.

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As you all know this year is coming to an end. Tone and the rest of our environment guys would therefore like to pass along a present to the whole RTW community in the forms of RS 2's environment.
For more details follow the link.

We would also like to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy new year, in case we wont see you (or should I say text you), and our wishes that it will turn into a year of much happiness and with many new magical and revolutionary products from apple.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=414629

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Mars 9/2011:

Ok I have seen some questions about the upcoming patch (2.2 for those that can't do the number crunching) so I decided to post some info about it here but firstly a little disclaimer.
I, apple have nearly no part in the patch work so far and might thus be wrong about some of the new features of 2.2.

Ok so let's start with one of the fixes:

- The sprites for the Polybian Republican Triarii and the allied triarii has been switched in the Rome-0 folder due as they where using each others spirits.
- Character who is an equestrian was able the be both lawyer and publican which shouldn't be the case. Fixed
- Spartan archers have been made smaller. From 60 per unit to 40.
- Evocati can form testudo now.
- A little tweaking of the descr_geography.db to make the rocky desert climate a bit less bumpy.
- Aland (Åland) is no longer the name of the Swedish island Gotland.
- All of the Hypaspists's stats has been tweaked.
- The Scythian king's name was spelled Charasphs but should have been Charaspes. Fixed.
- The missing Hanging Gardens icons has been fixed.
- The historical building tree is destructible in the Roman 0-turn and 1-turn campaigns.
- The coward trait will not be given to characters as easily as before.
- Rebellion script errors has been fixed.

So those are some of the fixes that has been made. Now to the new features:

Multiplayer launcher has been added for easy set up multiplayer.
The trait file has been more or less completely redone for some factions as to add even more immersion to the game.
A few new skins has been made by Intel and we consider to replace some of the old ones with them.
...and probably a bunch of other things.

That's all for this look behind the sceens of RS 2 patch 2.2.
I hope you got a better understanding why it's taken us such a long time to make it.
Rest assure that it will be worth the wait.

apple out.

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In an ever striding effort to enlighten the world about Roma Surrectum I hence put up a request to you.
Roma Surrectum is already on Facebook, twitter, moddb, TWC wiki and as you all know TWCenter.
Now don't you guys think we miss one of the big ones here? A certain thing called Wikipedia.
This is a site that we (the team) has neglected for a long time due to being busy working on the actual mod.
So what better way than to ask you guys, our biggest fans and supporters to help us create the best Wiki page that's possible.

Thanks in advance to those who take up the call and good luck with it.

PS: The twcwiki got some great information about us and if that's not enough don't hesitate to give us a pm about any questions.

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RS 2 mentioned in the Swedish PC gamer.
Rough translation:

Roma Surrectum 2

It's actually hard to believe that Roma Surrectum 2 is a Rome mod. It's looking more like Empire or Shogun 2!
It also contains 28 unique legions, brand new 3d models and textures, a new building trees, a new campaign map ... Yes, it's practically an entirely new game.
Plus a "modesty patch" for those who do not want to see penises for the naked barbarian troops.