Dictatorship in VV

[Emperor Leo]

In the upcoming VV, if a Republic becomes a Dictatorship, will the Senate remain or will the system convert to a Court based system similar to Monarchy?

I know nobody but Paradox would know the answer to this, but still, might be worth discussing.

 

[nachinus]

That's a good question. I guess that it should work as a republic, but restricting senatorial and faction's influence. For example, they should not be able to block actions, but if the dictator acts against their wishes, they could cause some trouble.

 

[Darkrenown]

Perhaps a Dictator could override the senate's wishes, but at the cost of an increasing tyranny value?

 

[Tai-Pan]

I would think if you have a Dictatorship the senate would not even exist. I would think of something close to the Tribes situation.

 

[unmerged(91995)]

I would think if you have a Dictatorship the senate would not even exist. I would think of something close to the Tribes situation.

Well I don't think that the Senate should vanquish when you become a dictatorship, since Ceasar was a dictator too(for lifetime) and there still was a Senat. So it would be historically acurate to keep it.
Sure the dictator could have the possibility to stop the Senate once and for all, but that should lead to major unrests in your country. (stability drop to -3 for example, avoiding exploiting it: Just make it impossible to destroy the senate if your stability issnt at least +2.

But just keeping the senate would be also enough. Also a dictator in Rome was called in a major crisis, but only for 1or 2 years, then he normally laid down his privileges, which ceasar didn't do.
The Senate members should also loose loyality to you if you don't stay extremely powerful while beeing a dictator in a republic. Also the possibility for a civil war should rise heaviliy if you decide to remain a Dictator and don't return to the consul system. (Still depending on the Dictators skill, popularity, loyal units and powerful friends...)
But then again the Senate would have to be pretty powerful(while not beeing a dictatorship), to make a dictatorship useful.

Just suggestions and I would be greatly interested in what you think about it.

 

[Emperor Leo]

Like others were saying, I think the Senate should remain, but you should have the last say on matters (with rewards or consequences). I also think it'd be cool to have a National Descision to change the government type from Dictatorship to Empire. This Descision would have quite high requirements to stop Empires forming all over the map. Although, maybe the Roman Empire era will be explored more in a future expansion and wouldn't be relevant here.

 

[Qorten]

Indeed the Senate should remain. It did in RL, even though it's powers evaporated over time, in the early days of Dictatorship and Empire it still held quite some power. It wasn't until a hundred or twohundred years after game end that the Senate was nothing more then Rome's city council debating over sewers and road reparation.