Interview with Ioannis Andreas Caesar (Johan Andersson) about Imperator Rome
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Got to love Johan's laidback style. He looks very tired though. Hard/long night before that interview?
Also, I had completely missed that armies will be building roads!
Also, I had completely missed that armies will be building roads!
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Johan seems like a great guy.
I tried to talk to him at PDXCon but he wasn't very talkative then.
Then again I did disturb him during an attempt at the 30 minute Ulm challenge.
I tried to talk to him at PDXCon but he wasn't very talkative then.
Then again I did disturb him during an attempt at the 30 minute Ulm challenge.
Then we better pray for his health, and also to listening to the modding community, to
add better workflows for the coming mods.
-Alexander/Antigonids modd
-Israel/Hettite mod (etc)..
Just for an example and no more DLC:S that is a satanic intervention....
add better workflows for the coming mods.
-Alexander/Antigonids modd
-Israel/Hettite mod (etc)..
Just for an example and no more DLC:S that is a satanic intervention....
Just keeps sounding better and better. So long to wait. Gonna have to distract myself.
The information given gave me a feeling of... plain gameplay. As Stellaris was at the release and so continu to have this plain legacy.
Each times i feeled hyped about stellaris i also felt feared about thoose awesome possibilities and feature. It ended with multiple good description but not fun gameplay...
For exemple in the interview you can interact with character by briding them to increase loyalty. Or decrease it. Seem so basic... is his everything you can do to modify loyalty?
Why every example feels like nasic interaction seen everywhere?
I'm just feared that again we will have a huge full of potential game but plain... very plain until getting dlc for years
Each times i feeled hyped about stellaris i also felt feared about thoose awesome possibilities and feature. It ended with multiple good description but not fun gameplay...
For exemple in the interview you can interact with character by briding them to increase loyalty. Or decrease it. Seem so basic... is his everything you can do to modify loyalty?
Why every example feels like nasic interaction seen everywhere?
I'm just feared that again we will have a huge full of potential game but plain... very plain until getting dlc for years
Plain gameplay with:
"Very hard to say at this stage. One thing to think about is that the bigger you get, the more governors and military commanders you'll need to have. And some of them might be corrupt. Some of them might be ambitious and disloyal. Some of them might belong to conflicting factions so it's impossible to keep the governor of Britannia happy at the same time as the governor of Dacia because they want exact opposite things. We'll see how much internal pressure matters, but my impression is that it's likely to come quite a bit from characters and unhappy POPs."
"Info on characters was pretty light. Powerful generals with loyal troops can start a civil war. We also know they can belong to factions (Populist, Militarist, Religious - republics start with 5) that want you to pursue a certain agenda and will be more loyal the more you do. In terms of individual goals and how characters will pursue them, I'm not sure. Bit my impression was that since you're playing as the "Spirit of Rome", you'll have more control over it than CK2. Like, speculation here, but spending Oratory (one of the mana types) to discredit a statesman who is causing problems."
"Yes, Prominence is the stat that determines how many honors and governorships a character expects, so the patriarch of a powerful family isn't going to let you sideline him just because he's a corrupt old bastard. They mentioned it would be very difficult if not impossible to maintain a pure meritocracy."
"*Defensive leagues in particular sound like they’ll be imperative for city states and tribes dealing with foreign aggression, allowing them to band together in a massive alliance. It’s an ability exclusive to them, giving them the opportunity to stand up to powerful adversaries, even if that means siding with other foes.
“If you attack someone in a defensive league, you automatically go to war with everyone,” Andersson explains. “The idea is that you’re allowed to fight internally as much as you want, but when someone from the outside comes in, you close ranks and fight together.*
This sort of coalition-like mechanic with lot's of infighting possible, is going to greatly improve the game for greek city-states, gaullic tribes and so on. It seems to be a simply yet elegant solution, to some of the talk there's been around here of confederating etc."
Well even if vanilla is just eu rome with new interface i would be perfectly contempt. We shouldnt expect the perfect game we imagine cause no game will reach that. There is a saying in german. He who wont expect anything cant get disappointed or wer nichts erwartet kann nicht entäuscht werden
Mayhap. It depends on how these mechanics will work in practice and impact the actual gameplay.
I find the interview reassuring. Mostly because he said that although it uses many of the elements EU: Rome had, it won't be a carbon copy but expanded version of them.
If characters will be able to have their own agendas (and actively work towards them), and if there will be deeper economy system (maybe not like Victoria, but Johan did say he was co-designing Victoria I and was in charge of Victoria II, plus he "designed the politics and pops system", so I hope he will put that experience to make something cool as far as social-economy and politics are concerned), then I think we might have a really good game on our hands.
As it should
Edit: side note : for all. Who dont know what the 82 refers to. If you own more than 54 items only 54 will show up. The number then indicates the total amount of owned items
As it should
Edit: side note : for all. Who dont know what the 82 refers to. If you own more than 54 items only 54 will show up. The number then indicates the total amount of owned items
Get that number up to 5000 and you get a Triumph
Well i dont know how many icons there are but i am pretty sure i own a great number of then. I own pretty much every pds game and a couple of pdx games too
One very interesting thing he revealed for the first (I think) time: Trade wont be like in EU Rome exactly, trade one trade good for another. But an import system. Like you're gonna pay for it with real money. That's awesome. And really changes everything really.