We need more censorship!

[Hanomean]

Great, now that I have your attention:

I remember in the first Rome we had the senate sending you on a mission every now and... all the time. I don't know if that will be a feature in Rome 2, but if so I have a kind of neat idea. What if you can influence the senate a little bit in the form of a censor. In Roman times one of the functions of the censor was to put different citizens in different classes and so influence the senate a bit. The censor was elected every five years. So how about you get on the censorseat and choose some general course of action for the senate.

So, for example, you can choose the more economical inclined senators which will give you a mission like 'build a market there' or 'make an x amount of talents/denarii in an x amount of years'. The cultural senators would give you a mission like 'build this' or 'send your general to the university' (just making up some examples here). The militaristic senators ask you to conquer this or that or send a strong garrison to some city. The nautic senators ask you to establish trade routes via sea or build a fleet. The anti barbarian faction asks you to crush some Gauls etc. etc.

The basic idea is giving you three options but not the same options every five years (to keep some variety).

[Yomamashouse]

Based on the title I came here expecting you to be worried about dangling Celt penises. No one covers those up on my watch!

To be honest letting the player take on specific government roles is not in the spirit of the game - the player is supposed to be the faction leader, or the collective governing body depending on government style but not one specific guy in the cabinet or senate. Let one of the Roman family members be assigned the role and have traits accordingly.

I'd rather avoid this kind of gameplay element - these sorts of actions feel like something that should be left up to the traits system. And the missions themselves could be determined according to the composition of the senate.

[boxleitnerb]

But wouldn't it make sense as long as you're not emperor?

[Chris Death]

I wouldn't mind if there were no such option.

~S~ CD

[Dagon]

I would love to see a somewhat believable aproach to the republican government

[Lacedaemon]

I think an active role in the government would be more plausible, especially seeing as the senate would often make you start wars you couldn't take on at the time(I did wars in fronts, and did not like doing multiple wars simultaneously), and in general send you on wild goose chases for ports in the allotted time. I think influence should be more probability based however, depending on the senatorial positions you own(assuming it is similar to RTW1)

[Dagon]

I wonder if i wish for too much if they would include the actual number of the different offices and not only one of each.

[Petroniu]

Confusing thread title for what this is actually all about...

[Nearby]

The thread started very funny ''Great, now that I have your attention'' - I was expecting you to be worried about dangling Celt penises too !

When it comes to topic I think that it would be great to take a bigger rolle when it comes duties in the senate and think not only about my 10th legion and stinking gauls..

[Spartan198]

Aww, I was hoping this thread was about dangling Celt penises. Crap...

[General Maximus]

'dangling' LOL haha Rather unwashed and smelly, I would say, through years of **** and looting

About the government, I don't care until I am an absolute monarch like that of ETW or NTW. But, as for senators, I think there should be a reasonable group of men who are fit to rule, not to throw missions. Like in ETW-NTW, there must be a council of ministers working under your orders who can help you to rule efficiently. An alternative would be the 'assign post' system of Shogun II where you can grant several office titles to your generals and grown up male family members.