Rome II

[Staggerwing]

"I watched a guy fix a Jap-uh-nees trans-mish-ee-on"

[MengJiao]

"I watched a guy fix a Jap-uh-nees trans-mish-ee-on"

  Oh dear.  The humor is getting painfully good around here.

[mikeck]

Any idea why you would go from +23 food to -20 food after taking 2 cities? This has happened several times to me and it's very frustrating now I'm scrambling to build farms and fisheries to feed all of my starving Onies when I had plenty of food before I took these two cities but not very populous anyway

[Nefaro]

Any idea why you would go from +23 food to -20 food after taking 2 cities? This has happened several times to me and it's very frustrating now I'm scrambling to build farms and fisheries to feed all of my starving Onies when I had plenty of food before I took these two cities but not very populous anyway

Because the cities already have advanced buildings constructed that use food and none, or not enough, that make them.

I recall seeing this fairly often after taking an AI city.  Made me wonder how they managed to keep their food flow properly managed or whether the AI was given some slack.

Just tear down all the Food Consuming Buildings and build what you need (if you don't need them or they are gonna starve you).

[mikeck]

Yeah you're probably right problem is each one only had three or four buildings in it so even by turn those down I still didn't make up my food difference. really messing up my buzz man...logistics ain't my thing bro

[mikeck]

Started again from an older save I had made at the beginning of my African campaign. The problem was that right before I started the campaign I had a whole butt load of money to spend and new it wouldn't be around for very long. So I went around and upgraded all sorts of buildings particularly military buildings so I could build legions in different areas of my domain. It wasn't taking over the new cities that did it it was that all of this new construction was completed at exactly the same time about eight different buildings I got hammered.

so I redid it. the only time I will let myself do over like that is when I make a mistake just not understanding the mechanics of the game or overlooking it  I'll never redo  because I lost  a battle or something like that

[Gusington]

^I was gonna say that you must have had some serious redundancy in the cities...oh and thanks for the quote!

[mikeck]

Yeah, that quote is actually from George C. Marshall  I believe

And it wasn't so much redundancy...it was more greed. I built every building I could to make money and then a barracks for legions in every province so no matter where an army was, I could upgrade or replace.
I also wanted to duplicate the regional recruitment system. I can do it but my regions need to be bigger: as in "Italy", "North Africa" "Spain"

[Gusington]

^According to my sig line, you said it. 'Bro' doesn't sound like Marshall :)

[Nefaro]

And it wasn't so much redundancy...it was more greed. I built every building I could to make money and then a barracks for legions in every province so no matter where an army was, I could upgrade or replace.

Zoinks, yo.

Going all army.. who's gonna feed all those barracks churning out recruits?  :o


I always tended to focus on keeping my food in the black and only building extra recruitment stuff after my empire had grown quite a bit in one direction.  Plus.. some of the extra bonus culture and happiness buildings come in handy against foreigners you've just conquered.  Getting them to settle down and assimilate ASAP is a huge priority for me if I'm conquering cities, so much so that I will often tear down some of the AI's previous buildings that may be useful in the future for a more speedy pacification.  Something the Romans certainly did quite well in history. 

[mikeck]

Yeah, learned my lesson, I pick a province in each major area to recruit. Central Italy. Carthage, transalpine Gaul...I build barracks, workshops, etc.... Everything I need to build a legion. (Each legion has 2 units of "first cohort" to simulate the double sized first cohort, then 9 legion units (the other none cohorts, 3 artillery pieces, 5 cavalry and a genera...I don't use skirmishers preferring cavalry for that)

Now those also Have a lot of temples and such to bring down the Public disorder.

Other provinces concentrate in food and trade or whatever. I keep the mitary buildings and fisheries to a minimum.

[Gusington]

I'm having a hard time against Averni and other barbarian spies destroying all my infrastructure as I go rampaging through Gaul. Slowly setting up my own spy network to counter the threat but it takes a long time.

[Gusington]

Radious mod now compatible with Patch 9, allegedly.

[Martok]

So...did anyone else's patch 9 add a bunch of new playable factions (especially new Greek states)? 

And if so, did those new factions display a white square on the faction menu where their flag/insignia should be?  And did those new factions also show a different faction's territory (instead of their own) on that same menu? 

I'm more than a little confused here... 

[Gusington]

Can you post an image?