Changing Rome's Victory Conditions...

[Artannis Wolfrunner]

Ever since I downloaded EB on the day it came out, I've been happily playing my Baktria campaign and having just too much fun. Well, unfortunately that fun seems to have come to a premature end about 10 minutes ago when, while I was just 2 cities away from achieving my victory conditions, I got a message saying the Seleucid Empire is victorious (which I assume means Rome since 1) Rome takes the Seleucid slot and 2) The Seleucids in my game have about 5 cities in their control).

The problem is that Rome expands so quickly, none of their neighboring factions can stop them. They blew through all the rebel provinces, then Epirus, and then the Sweboz incredibly quickly.

Since the AI-controlled Rome can't lose any battles or cities, I think their victory conditions sohuld be made more difficult. I was looking at the Seleucid's victory conditions - NO WAY are they going to meet those before Rome meets theirs. Capture 40-ish provinces and take out 4 factions, 1 of which is the most powerful in the game at the start! Some factions just can't meet their victory conditions before Rome will. To cope with their invincibility, I think the number of cities they need to take should be increased. Really, they won the game and they haven't even captured Gaul yet - both the Aedui AND the Arverni are still going strong. They haven't even beaten Carthage yet, in fact, they never even declared war on Carthage. It doesn't make sense to me that Rome can win the game without even killing off either of the two civilizations it's most famous for conquering.

Well that's my serious ranting request.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

But look at the AI expansion thread - Rome very rarely blows through everyone else. Take a look at those - also you may have just gotten a glitch notice. If the romans don't have everything in their possession that they had in 14AD, then they haven't hit our victory conditions yet. Probably just a glitch - you should be able to keep playing I would think.

[Blizzard]

for sure it's a glitch
as far as I can remember capturing Carthage is one of the victory conditions for Rome
and he said they hadn't even captured it yet

[Artannis Wolfrunner]

Ah, it must be a glitch then. It just says that Rome has satisfied the "Imperator" victory condition from vanilla (although they don't even have 50 provinces, so I don't see how that's possible). Anyway it's probably a bug, I guess I'll see for sure once I capture this last Parthian city.

[Artannis Wolfrunner]

Hmm, it definately wasn't bugged .. I just achieved my victory condition and nothing happened. I got all the provinces it told me to, and killed off the Yuezhi and Pahlava (which it said I have to outlast/kill). Has anyone else encountered this? I can't finish my game now unfortunately.

[Lucasiewicz]

Isn't that good? Now you can choose to keep playing, even though you've met the victory conditions. If you don't want to keep playing, start a new game! Seriously, might be a bug, I don't know. Is the game supposed to stop if a faction has met its conditions?