[MOD] Gladio et Sale: Forging Imperator's Future

[rivtaldm]

Version 1.12 is now available via Steam and Direct Download. Version 1.13 is tentatively slated for the 23rd of November but that may be adjusted if Paradox announces the release date for Livy in the interim.

This release included much-requested changes to make army sizes more realistic as well as fixed the too-frequent emptying of settled provinces (which was happening even in places like Greece and Mesopotamia).

==== General Changes & Fixes ====
* Rebalanced cohort sizes and manpower making army sizes much more rational
* Adjusted pop desired values and growth to fix issues with numerous empty provinces as the game progressed
* Adjusted war exhaustion values to make it more meaningful

==== Events/Missions/Flavour ====
* Mission tree for Armenia (17 missions)

 

[Jak9090]

wicked!

@rivtaldm I'm wondering what's your plans on great families update that's coming? Imo it sounds like an awful feature that will just make things feel bland and forced in terms of character interaction, i'm really curious if you've any thoughts in mind on how it will fit into GeS

 

[powershiftffs]

Don't you find the provinces getting depopulated too often? And you basically have to build a city next to it afterwards after conquering the region to be able to colonize it again, because citizens rarely remain in non-city provinces

 

[Stars_and_Bars]

This is what I'm wondering. Why does colonization require a citizen in a neighboring province? It makes colonization virtually impossible for the countries that should be colonizing.

 

[rivtaldm]

Don't you find the provinces getting depopulated too often? And you basically have to build a city next to it afterwards after conquering the region to be able to colonize it again, because citizens rarely remain in non-city provinces

This is what I'm wondering. Why does colonization require a citizen in a neighboring province? It makes colonization virtually impossible for the countries that should be colonizing.

This latest update just addressed these issues by adjusting base pop desired ratios . . .

 

[dasvira]

Hey man great progress on your mod! I will roll another GeS game as Rome and repport back my experience. Can you be more precise on how urbanization affects trade route numbers now?

 

[rivtaldm]

Hey man great progress on your mod! I will roll another GeS game as Rome and repport back my experience. Can you be more precise on how urbanization affects trade route numbers now?

At the moment, each city in a province provides an extra trade route for the province and the first metropolis provides an additional one (but no subsequent metropolis do).

 

[Jak9090]

seems like provinces still going empty with new patch

 

[Sparticulous]

Very awesome mod, just started playing this mod instead of vanilla and certainly a must have changes

 

[Jolle Roger]

Wow! Map of China! Unique mechanics for China. Amazing!

 

[Fu.Th.Sy.]

I think empty provinces are the result of AI selling all the slaves. I changed it so that one can only sell slaves from wrong culture group, and so far so good...no empty provinces

 

[rivtaldm]

I think empty provinces are the result of AI selling all the slaves. I changed it so that one can only sell slaves from wrong culture group, and so far so good...no empty provinces

Ah, good call, I sometimes forget AI will just press any button you give it. I should probably check around as there's likely other places it's doing that.

 

[Pilbur]

Dear Rivtaldm,

I am playing a lengthy Seleucid campaign and having a ton of fun, thank you!

I think that the current system for expanding ports would also work well for fortifications. It does not seem reasonable that they require a building slot.
1. It would be nice to create fortresses in settlements, maybe a max level 3 (but with a relevant upkeep cost or other downside, to provide a soft limit and force the player to build them in key locations. I do not like to be forced to establish a city in the mountains just to expand the fortifications.
2. Also in cities, expanding the fortifications should come with some positive and maybe some negative effects.

Just my two cents, maybe most people are happy with the current system.
Regards

 

[Amyntas]

Waiting till this is compatible with 1.3 to even open Imperator. Keep up the good work!

 

[rivtaldm]

Waiting till this is compatible with 1.3 to even open Imperator. Keep up the good work!

I should have it ready in the next couple of days (tentatively by the end of the day Thursday); it's taking a bit longer than I wanted because I used the opportunity of save-games breaking to make some map changes that aren't quite as ready as I wanted plus reconciling the two mission systems is taking some time.

 

[schultz]

I'm really liking the new mission system so far.
It's not just "conquer this, conquer that". There are missions to build cities, establish trade routes, etc.
Are you going to be incorporating missions like those into your updated version?

 

[rivtaldm]

I'm really liking the new mission system so far.
It's not just "conquer this, conquer that". There are missions to build cities, establish trade routes, etc.
Are you going to be incorporating missions like those into your updated version?

The first release for this version will probably not fully implement their missions or possibly only for Rome and Carthage. Then I’ll do a full conversion in the subsequent release.

 

[Tyon]

I haven't eagerly awaited the release of a new mod version in a long time.

 

[powershiftffs]

Vanilla gets crazy by the end of the game, because all those regional powers that don't really fight too much lategame; may have 20k gold by the time you meet them. That means that once you declare war on that bunch of regionals who are allied together, they will buy all the mercs on the map. And that repeats in every war. There's nowhere to dump money, neither you're punished for hoarding it. So if anything, that needs a solution

 

[rivtaldm]

I haven't eagerly awaited the release of a new mod version in a long time.

Glad people are as eager for the next version as I am to release it; unfortunately until the localization problem for mods is fixed a mod like this that uses so much unique localization is basically unplayable so hopefully they will fix that soon.

Vanilla gets crazy by the end of the game, because all those regional powers that don't really fight too much lategame; may have 20k gold by the time you meet them. That means that once you declare war on that bunch of regionals who are allied together, they will buy all the mercs on the map. And that repeats in every war. There's nowhere to dump money, neither you're punished for hoarding it. So if anything, that needs a solution

I will see what can be done about this; there's some other late game problems like population balances that I want to address coming up.