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RTR 0.5 Imperial Campaign / Re: Progress, News, Updates

« on: January 26, 2014, 05:04:27 PM »

Tharacian campaign report:

*Very nice to have the tharcians in this game !! DO NOT GET RID OF THEM please...
* They look ok, a bit hard to play, being caught between  Macedons and Greeks but that is ok. It should not be easy.. They can hower own the east -part of balcan for themselves and that can be nice. A treatment with the dacians will make the Macedons crumble and you'll have a fair chance to  build a campain. Other way the Macedons and greeks will hunt you down..
* Geography and city names are a disaster. That can be improved.
* Not knowing more what to say, the Thracians should not have hoplity or falxmen, although their own made infantry. I can keep an eye on them and the dacians as you progress your development of the game..   

Ah one more thing.. The fish symbol should despiser from the map. Or you have to make it smaller a lot smaller cos it's annoying..

 

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RTR 0.5 Imperial Campaign / Re: Progress, News, Updates

« on: January 20, 2014, 09:06:59 PM »

I've been a bit lazy latly, but i will report soon ...........

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RTR 0.5 Imperial Campaign / Re: Introduce Yourself!

« on: January 18, 2014, 11:34:29 AM »

Hi guys!

My name is Cosmin and I'm raised in the dark forests of Transylvania, Romania! I'm a RTR fan cos it represents my fighting instincts and trust me most of us here have lived the RTR reality in our past lifes. We are all warriors on one way or another.   
At this moment i live in Stockholm Sweden, I'm 32 years old, and i work as a engineer on the cities electricity network.  I play rugby on my spare time and like to collect latest electronic junk models out there. Just recently i purchases some floor speakers that have ruin my income for the next 2 years.  I'm also into history a lot, (mostly my peoples ancient knowledge, the Dacians) i meditate and I'm a spiritual seeker. How all this is connected i let you put it together.

Playing RTR for some time i got very disappointed of the ROME II game witch i bought a special edition packaged by the way and want to improve the old Rome games because they are more fun playing. I believe the best mode out there is Rome platinum edition 1.9 because is kept simple and i believe this is very important to this game. RS II is maybe the best all-round but there are to many fighting units for each faction and that ruins the reality of the game. For exemple i believed a barbarian faction should be made of a war band unit (basic short spears ) an infantry unit (swords), a special unit (like falxmen as tracians) and an elite unit+ 1 archer unit + 1 or 2 missile units and 2 different cavely units. Thats a total of max 9 units and the game will be more fun in my opinion. No special design for units or something like that. a spear, a shield and a armour to the elite units.

Well i hope i can help Andy (ahowl11) with something and wherever he ask I will try to do it. I don't have time programming and stuff but i can put together already made puzzle and give feedbacks. I wish him all the best in this, and a big HI to you all ROME TR family.  Where is heart there is joy and fun, and a lot of people is putting all their hearts in this game!

Cosmin (alias Cozmicus)

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RTR 0.5 Imperial Campaign / Re: RTR Project 'Grand Campaign' BETA Testing

« on: January 11, 2014, 06:29:18 PM »

So my good friend, I've tested the Dacians like 50 years or so.

you have done an amazing job, but there still a lot of work ahead of you. Now i will only write the bigger details of what is most important:
I've played hard/hard

As a faction the Dacians starts good. They are balanced and the game is easy in the binging. you can conquer very easy a lot of cities nearby because they are very poorly defended (most of them has only 3 ilyrians mercenarys units and you can conquer almost all the cities nearby  with only recruiting a few mercenaries. SO that has to be improve a lot..
* The capital (sarmizegetusa) is perfectly placed on the map but the other city Porolissum is a disaster. In the history that city did not exist it was a Roman name for a camp they build after the Dacins war 107 AD. So that we have to change
*The dacians family tree should improve, the faction leader should be at least 15 years younger because of the age of his sons and he has to have a daughter as well.. 3 sons and a daughter..
* On the minimap there are 2 dacians provinces, One you start with witch is correct but the other one to the est is a rebel faction called dacia as well. The minimap is a disaster by the way.
* Government building , I believe the barbarians faction should stop growing after reaching a minor city. (Just like RTR platinum 1.9 witch is the best out there mode i belive ) Other ways you have to change the in game pictures for the bigger barbarian city's. and the building should take alot longer to construct. A lot longer. now after 4 turns you can get all the units witch is making the game very boring...
* The city names around Dacia are horrible. As a very passionate historian I can tell you that 90% of them did not even exits and are places total scrappy on the map. For example the city near the black sea is called Tomi ? There was a greek city called Tomis around there so many names have to changed. Luckily i might help you with that.....

So the campaign map looks ok. The dacians gets strong quickly and there only danger are the macedonians so stay away from them... I like that actually. The Thracians are far inferior and they don't really bother you. They have problems of their owns with other factions...

I will test them later, but they looked ok as well from the AI point of view (me playing the dacians).

A big bug in on the map is a little lake between dacians and ilyrians (todays hungary) where there is a rebel naval ship going nowhere. It's actually quite funny:  the war fleet caught in a little lake for no reason at all.
Ah one more thing: the rebel factions is quite aggressive, there are a lot rebels showing up almost every year, witch can be funny sometimes.. The diplomacy between faction needs a change.  Every diplomat offers you their map in exchanged for money. and they all ask for alliances witch is stupid. a diplomat should not be able to talk to a city, i believe, if there is no governor with diplomacy skills.or with a army without a leader with diplomacy skills, they should only be able to bribe them or not.   that will make the game more interesting.
 
There should only be 1 Roman faction.. They are just in the way of each otherwise. and they should have it hard from the start, fighting rebels, greek and gauls other way they conquer everything to easy

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RTR 0.5 Imperial Campaign / Re: RTR Project 'Grand Campaign' BETA Testing

« on: January 06, 2014, 10:50:29 PM »

Hi!

I can do thrace and Getai/Dacia!