Adjustments to counter distance to capital effects

**Biges** · February 25, 2006, 05:35 AM

These are simple adjustments I'v made to my game to counter "distance to capital" penalty a bit, especially because I consider moving the capital ahistorical.
Better communications = better connection to the capital, thus:
Roads 2 = +5% law bonus
Roads 3 = +10% law bonus

When you give people land to live and work, they are more content and happy:
Farms 3 = +5% happiness bonus
Farms 4 = +10%
Farms 5 = +15%

These bonuses are received by empires which can build these structures.
I also consider giving law bonuses to some more advanced ports, especeially when the connetion between Constantinople and it's cities were mainly through the ships.

Just an idea, no need to reaise flames

And some more:
I changed the name of Peasants to Militia.
The formation to square.
Removed "is_peasant" tag, now they have normal effectivity in making people not to steal everything they see

Raised their cost to 100 and unkeep to 50.

**Boudicca** · February 27, 2006, 03:58 PM

If they'd actually only give people those farms...and not make them into slaves working on them. :laughing:

But good (and realistic) idea to counter negative effects from distance to capital.

**Biges** · February 28, 2006, 02:40 PM

Well, I believe slavery was already abolished, because they have found out, that exploting people as farmers is more effective way

Anyway, you pay hard cash for building farms, that means you really provide them. Well, there is not much free space to work with the economy :-/

**Empedocles** · February 28, 2006, 06:23 PM

Exactly how and where do you mod such things? I'm a rookie in the modding world.....Thanks!

Diego, from Argentina

**Biges** · March 03, 2006, 07:37 AM

Originally Posted by Empedocles

Exactly how and where do you mod such things? I'm a rookie in the modding world.....Thanks!
Diego, from Argentina

OK, find export_descr_buildings.txt in Rome - Total War\bi\data\ or Rome - Total War\data\ directory (the second one is for plain RTW) and edit the file with text editor (Windows Notepad is enough). Values are pretty clear, for example, second level road:

paved_roads requires factions { franks, eastern, roman, }
{
capability
{
road_level 1
}
construction 3
cost 1200
settlement_min large_town
upgrades
{
highways
}
}

To produce law bonus for appropriate factions change it to:

paved_roads requires factions { franks, eastern, roman, }
{
capability
{
road_level 1
law_bonus bonus 1 requires factions { franks, }
law_bonus bonus 1 requires factions { eastern, }
law_bonus bonus 1 requires factions { roman, }
}
construction 3
cost 1200
settlement_min large_town
upgrades
{
highways
}
}

Enjoy

Merged double posts/Proximus

One more change I made. Instead of happiness, palaces (governor's etc.) not produce law bonuses. Maybe I'll even set it to +10% for the largest one. That way I'll may be decrease happiness bonus from farms.

**Trajan** · February 28, 2006, 06:53 PM

Moved to The Mod Workshop.

**Turbo** · March 02, 2006, 07:39 AM

Originally Posted by Biges

These are simple adjustments I'v made to my game to counter "distance to capital" penalty a bit, especially because I consider moving the capital ahistorical.
Better communications = better connection to the capital, thus:
Roads 2 = +5% law bonus
Roads 3 = +10% law bonus

When you give people land to live and work, they are more content and happy:
Farms 3 = +5% happiness bonus
Farms 4 = +10%
Farms 5 = +15%

These bonuses are received by empires which can build these structures.
I also consider giving law bonuses to some more advanced ports, especeially when the connetion between Constantinople and it's cities were mainly through the ships.

Just an idea, no need to reaise flames

And some more:
I changed the name of Peasants to Militia.
The formation to square.
Removed "is_peasant" tag, now they have normal effectivity in making people not to steal everything they see

Raised their cost to 100 and unkeep to 50.

Good ideas except for the peasants. The game plays much better without peasants.

**Biges** · March 03, 2006, 07:34 AM

Originally Posted by Turbo

Good ideas except for the peasants. The game plays much better without peasants.

It's not. Well, it depends on one's taste. Anyway, the problem if RTW is, that you can't adjust rate, for example, to "culture" or "keep order", which is usually normal in strategic games.