Another 1.3 Teaser..

[Johan]

The plan is to have it out sometimes during August.

Some sneakpeaks...

- Events have been added for governors and high priests, which improves the strategy of using them.

- Effects of Elections and other ruler changes have been reworked, and you can now see some interesting outcomes.

- You can now lower a characters loyalty or ruin a characters reputation by intrigue actions.

- Barbarians can now form states of their own given enough time on their occupied lands.

 

[Dragassa]

Good, I've been waiting to start playing Rome again and this sounds promising(I've been busy with the best game you ever put out, IN). Have you also added more playable factions or nations?

 

[FmrPFCBob]

This is from the previous 1.3 teaser.

We're working on a 1.3 patch, and expect it to be out sometime during August.

Some minor sneakpeaks from it.

* The Naval AI has had alot of love, and should now be performing alot better.
* Declaring wars on nations with much lower (currently 20) civilisation value should no longer required a casus belli.
* Worth of provinces when negotiating peace is now scaled depending on the size of the country, so Judea as an example may be worth 2% when demanding it off a giant Seleukid Empire, but maybe 50% of a small minor owning it.
* Britain has gained a few playable tribes.

We are also adding more events & more diplomatic/intrigue actions to do with characters.

 

[Alfred Packer]

The reworking of ruler changes is great news...does this mean I can have more of an impact on military tribal succession (ie: by giving men military or civil command?), and will the system using a degree of direct descent to prevent Guy McRandomcreated from popping in and siezing control?

 

[JakethX]

thank the gods for this peice of information, looks great

 

[unmerged(56754)]

looking good!

 

[L'Afrique]

Does the new location/title mean there's going to be some kind of Greece-themed expansion soon? If so, for shame. CK2 needs you.

Maybe the new patch combined with finally getting my computer fixed so as to play it for more than 10 consecutive minutes will change my opinion of Rome.

 

[Vladislav]

Does the new location/title mean there's going to be some kind of Greece-themed expansion soon?

They're finally renaming the game EU: Greece as they obviously originally intended. <-- (multiple smileys denotes intense sarcasm)

 

[unmerged(102116)]

Looking forward on gaming EU:Rome again with 1.3 !

Is there any news about possible changes to governor management? Worse micromanagement problem there is in EU:Rome currently imo.

 

[nachinus]

I like the sound of all the 1.3 improvements

But I miss a little bit more of diplomatic depth, with some special diplomatic rules and actions with your tributaries, like asking them to stop commercing with X country (and if they do you get a CB), or to allow you to levy units from its population, things like that.

I'd also like a Roman version of EU's diploannex procedure, something like a path from tributary state -> client state -> province.

And of course (Illirian) pirates!!!

 

[SirGrotius]

I like the rebels forming states idea!

 

[SonofWinter]

I like the rebels forming states idea!

I like the idea of a player achieving the same expansion as the real Rome, without being assassin spammed.

Unfortunately, I haven't heard anyone doing anything about it.

 

[Namm]

I'm yawning. It's not enough and it takes too long. I've paid money for this.

 

[unmerged(64529)]

I think the game is going in the right direction.

 

[Nikolai]

I like the sound of all the 1.3 improvements

But I miss a little bit more of diplomatic depth, with some special diplomatic rules and actions with your tributaries, like asking them to stop commercing with X country (and if they do you get a CB), or to allow you to levy units from its population, things like that.

I'd also like a Roman version of EU's diploannex procedure, something like a path from tributary state -> client state -> province.

And of course (Illirian) pirates!!!

What is sorely needed in Rome, is a deeper diplo system, an auto system for governors, and most important, the diploannex system you propose. As of now, Rome is shallow and tiresome to play. It's a level or two below EU3 when it came out. It desperately need a NA, or better, IN.

 

[Woody Man]

I still think an actual marriage option is very much needed, I could live without a lot of the frills if I had that..

 

[Emperor Leo]

It'd be nice if, as a leader, you could arrange marriages for your sons and daughters. You should be able to offer their hand in marriage to sons/daughters of other families. That would stop your daughters marrying the oldest, most unsuccessful wasters in the character pool.

 

[comagoosie]

this is looking good, but I don't know exactly why I would want to lower my character's loyalty...that is unless I wanted a civil war, but I don't think I want that

 

[Woody Man]

It'd be nice if, as a leader, you could arrange marriages for your sons and daughters. You should be able to offer their hand in marriage to sons/daughters of other families. That would stop your daughters marrying the oldest, most unsuccessful wasters in the character pool.

Agreed, it's incredibly annoying to see good women go to waste..

 

[unmerged(103929)]

Hopefully the next patch will solve some of the horrific technical problems the game has (e.g. massive and I mean massive slow downs as the game progresses).