Tech Choices

[Blastaz]

In my new habbit of asking inane questions what do you guys think of the tech choices?

Buildings: It seems that Form is better than Function. It gives some loyalty boosts whereas the cheaper cost of buildings is basically irellevant as you are rolling in money.

Noblity: I looked quite hard but couldn't see any advantage to having a closed noblity, sacrificing loyalty for rivals seems a poor decison and open noblity seems the only choice.

Ships: Big ships seem slightly better.

Armies: Here I'm not so sure as to what the pros and cons are. I use armies that are mostly heavy infantry so Roman seems the way to go.

Pretty Buildings
Open Nobility
Big Ships
Roman Armies

How do you play and why?

 

[y1kdcb5au9rqw]

My choices and reasoning behind them are exactly the same as yours

 

[Wave]

I have been wondering this too for a moment, as the Big ship/small ship thing for example doesn't show any effects in the choosing, or the beautiful/cheap houses thing.

I don't think any of my tech choices have ruined my game but it would be nice to know what they do so you could plan the game a bit..

 

[Blastaz]

Go to your Rome\common\technologies folder and then have a look at the various invention files to see what the difference is the relevant inventions will have amongst their trigger conditions something like "has_country_flag = closed_nobility".

 

[Caewil]

How much money are you rolling in exactly? The function tree keeps getting cheaper all the time whereas the form tree actually ends up making buildings more expensive - but gives some nice bonuses to religious prestige. If you're an expanding republic like Rome, you want function to build buildings as quickly as possible to keep the populists down. Monarchies can go for form, especially the despotic ones which have cheaper buildings. Still, the benefits of function increase with empire size, so I almost always go for that.

Open nobility is always better. It leads to better paths later on as well. Roman style armies end up being very good for spam - but you will need the manpower to cover them. If you're short on freedmen, go for Greek armies and use cavalry - they're more expensive, but you'll keep from using too much manpower and you'll gain less war exhaustion.

 

[Wave]

Roman style armies end up being very good for spam - but you will need the manpower to cover them. If you're short on freedmen, go for Greek armies and use cavalry - they're more expensive, but you'll keep from using too much manpower and you'll gain less war exhaustion.

Wut? Cavalry uses less manpower or do you mean they don't die as easily as other?

 

[y1kdcb5au9rqw]

Everything is explained in detail here though I am not entirely sure whether it is completely up to date...

 

[Achab]

Open Nobility? Don't even think about pushing that button when playing republic.

Annoyed of half of your characters having the "Death of Rival" ambition, smear each other on daily basis and watching your best characters killed or exiled by rivals or see them dying trying?

That's with two available rival slots only ... and now double it to get the image what happens when you open the nobility.

Even in monarchies with a lot less become rival events you can feel the difference.

Imperium is the only goverment safe from the rival menace, because of the unfortunate omission to apply 80% of the existing monarchical events to this ultimate form of monarchy.

At least with Closed Nobility you get better tribute and higher intrique chance at least, along with the higher revolt risk

 

[Caewil]

True, and republics do get those decisions that drop corruption. So closed nobility isn't such a big deal.