Expeditions

[PROMETHEUS ts]

Hello another idea :

Roman Expeditions or state expedition from any civilized power with the resources available for it .

A kind of Civilization style achievement or wonder but that coudl serve as several purpouse like enstablishing trade routes , opening trade routes , retrive resources, enstablish contacts , cultural expansion , scientific progress enhancement , or other that could come to mind.

The ancient era was not limited to a mediterranean basin , people explored the world and under the roman empire there had been lot of expeditions to uncover the secrets of the world , wich usually brought back new informations of what lied beyond the roman borders... many expeditions where made to the south of Sahar , to the nile , to the northern coasts of baltic , to the far oer , to China , india and south asia ...
those kind of travel wonders could be managed as an achievement to build prepare and then send , working halfway of a construction building and a strat map emissary ...

when come back after much much time it could bring some wonders news , open trade routes and offer a whole set of new knowledge and eventually offer some boosts to economy , trade , politics or something else ...


You create them , and by any government ...you basically 1 create , 2 collect the right people and stuff needed , then send the expedition ,it coudl come back without anything , coudl get destroyed or it coudl come back with gold and jewells ,new stuff random items or trade routes or whatever eelse , perhaps even a tribe from the distant lands that will join ur cause as a special unit of horsemen for example .... it could bring lot of spice new ideas and things ... of course it woudl require some resources on it the more you put the higher the changes of positive news ... and it woudl be nice to have a sort of minimovie like the ninja ones when you do get them back ...


Just an idea ...

[MasterBigAb]

I really like that idea, there is some great potential in it I think :

[Lord Baal]

You mean, like missions? From the senate?

[PROMETHEUS ts]

no you create them , and by any government ...you basically 1 create , 2 collect the right people and stuff needed , then send the expedition ,it coudl come back without anything , coudl get destroyed or it coudl come back with gold and jewells ,new stuff random items or trade routes or whatever eelse , perhaps even a tribe from the distant lands that will join ur cause as a special unit of horsemen for example .... it could bring lot of spice new ideas and things ... of course it woudl require some resources on it the more you put the higher the changes of positive news ... and it woudl be nice to have a sort of minimovie like the ninja ones when you do get them back ...

[Lord Baal]

Ummmm.... Me like this idea.

[Nearby]

From expeditions we could het new map information about the far east or something like that ..

[Xerrop]

Seems a nice concept. But where do you send these expeditions. Into territories located on the campaign map or beyond?

Some historical examples I can think of would be:
The journey of Megasthenes as Seleucid Ambassador to Pataliutra or the Buddhist Missionaries Ashoka has sent to Macedon or Alexandria.
Carthagian expeditions to Britain and west Africa maybe even til the Gulf of Guinea.
And the establishment of Egyptian trade stations along the Red Sea Coast or the expeditions into southern Nubia to collect Elephants and other things.

[Ichon]

So you are saying an event that you pay x amount and have a chance of x reward? I don't understand what you mean by, "1 create , 2 collect the right people and stuff needed" so do you mean form a small army or merge agents together into an expedition? So if you send a spy/diplomat/merchant or whatever RTW has on an "expedition" they are removed from the game for a period and have a chance to die, but unsuccessful, or be very successful and gain wealth and prestige for the faction which sent them?

[RexImperator]

So you are saying an event that you pay x amount and have a chance of x reward? I don't understand what you mean by, "1 create , 2 collect the right people and stuff needed" so do you mean form a small army or merge agents together into an expedition? So if you send a spy/diplomat/merchant or whatever RTW has on an "expedition" they are removed from the game for a period and have a chance to die, but unsuccessful, or be very successful and gain wealth and prestige for the faction which sent them?

This is a good point. I'd hate for it to be a basic coin toss of reward or nothing. Perhaps while the expedition is away you occasionally get random events like a diplomatic negotiation with some far away nation or perhaps a battle with some form of non faction aligned army from Sub-Saharan Africa, India, the Steppe or whatnot. Which would really make the player send a significant force to on expeditions or risk losing everything.

[oppaiO_O]

hmmm... nice i see it like you can recruit a special unit called explorers or an agent or something but it'll cost you a bunch and the upkeep will be huge and then you could get that unit and send them of on expeditions into whatever territory you want it to and if they are successful you'll get back what you invested in them and more like money,jewels,info about far away lands and exotic warriors and such...

[zg0301zg]

I like the idea, it would certainly add more to the game

[PROMETHEUS ts]

Nor really random but pseudorandom , with events, , conditions and actual influence played by the political situations of the region crossed etc ...

Also it woudl be interesting to create the expeditions like using retainers and people you get for other tasks usually , perhaps you can combine a diplomat , a soldier , a trader or whatever other kind of people together and this coudl influence the results and the chances , like if you add a military it could help for protection , a trader woudl favor trades etc , two traders woudl cost more but provide also more and so on .. perhaps a expedition could be made from a minimum of 1 man to a maximum of 100 men ... eventually different expedition types coudl require a minimum of a speciffic type for example an enstablish an embassy to china could require at least 5 diplomats to be put together ... a expedition to uncover the Nile origins could require severall military people , some cartographers etc et c...

[PROMETHEUS ts]

I dropped this Idea to the main forum , on their post for sugestions ... perhaps they will notice it ...

[Wowwars]

Idea adds more flavour to the campaign map so hell yeah!

[Ultra123]

sounds good. adds diversity to game map and also optional - cant be bothered, dont do it.

[snarst]

Discovering the source of the Nile in the era of Rome?

Trying to make formal contact with china?

These would be very interesting and really feel like we are changing history. They should be filled with danger, from natives and incompetent guides getting the party lost. Failures from cartographers messing up their mapping despite finding their target and making it back just fine, making the expedition only partially successful and off map factions messing up your expedition because they don't want you making contact with another off map faction they don't like.

However just one success could prove to be groundbreaking or help fill your coffers.

[PROMETHEUS ts]

Well in History , Romans really did make many expeditions and made contact with China ,During Nero Rule an Expedition was sent to find the Roots of the Nile .

[Medina]

Thats great, I really love that idea! I hope they will implement this!

[daelin4]

So this would be like a Rome2 version of MTW2's crusader armies?

[-Joker-]

Would certainly add more depth to the game, I like the idea