What difficulty are you on, I'd be wary of what you see as the player of that faction vs what the AI would see due to difficulty mods. I think the player (maybe the AI as well) for examples gets worse resources (including money) relatively at higher levels and has higher upkeep. This means the -ve m...

(been drinking wine so sorry for any tipsy typos) Been playing a campaign (well obviously, I wouldn't be here otherwise :) ), and at first I thought there was a bug in max experience, it used to be 150 yet nothing was getting over 120. I was putting that down to the Peria DLC maybe changing exp rate...

Further thoughts from my games over the last days. I should emphasise that despite the complaint here I am enjoying the game for the most part. There is a single oddity in the unit upgrades that feels bit of a design flaw, especially for new players. I think my initial problem was that I unknowingly...

My trackers didn't slip through gaps between units, they slipped around. That wall was absolutely heaving with enemies, which i assume was down to the scaling and me being down the leader branch that maxed out my supplies (army size). I can't remember the map details now, but I always deploy my trac...

Just bought the game a few days ago, and only playing on normal difficulty so maybe not a great indicator. I am playing auto scaling on and did go straight for the supply levels on the main hero so was maxed out army size; not sure that makes a difference or not, not overly sure how much the scaling...

I don't know whether I may be missing something, but I've seen it a couple of times before, an enemy army comes out of the fog of war straight into me, and I have no idea what army I'm facing beyond unit count and fairly useless army power stat. I can't select the enemy army and I seem to have no wa...

I'm going to look at putting in some config so you can tweak the maths a bit should you want, but that will come later.

Attached might work - downloading the Persian dlc added another issue, hopefully sorted. I think I've teased this apart into a standalone mods for the 2 games (so you don't get all the other crap I've been playing with). It seems to be working on my games, but I haven't tested it on clean deploys ye...

I'll try and get the files needed sorted over the next couple of days. I was hoping to get it done last night, but there is some other very experimental stuff in their I was also playing with I need to clear out and work out what files are still needed (mainly on the FOG side where the mod issue wit...

The game should reflect the diplomatic and political realities of the era not that of 1400+ years later, but never the less in none of those cases did the 'buyer' simply sit back miles away and chuck 'money' at the other side, nor was the selling side more powerful than them. Tyre and that the phoen...

Funny you say that, the India thing is what I was seeing as just being trade range and trade accumen to start with. Progressing to all war and battles as well client states etc. But not diplomacy in the sense you talk of. The bribing people to fight or the private armies of the EIC could just be mer...

We are on different pages here, ignoring the antiquity part even. That isn't remotely what I thought you were talking of - neither is what I see as the diplomacy system. Those cases involved the biggest powers of the day with both military muscle to beat down opposition directly playing off all sort...

Ancient autocracies allowed a few individuals/families/groups to control whole nations. Foreign money only had to influence these to win that control. My desire was to experiment with an extreme, but historically accurate, Small numbers of people had major influence, but they were seldom in a posit...

I've been playing around with the empires to FOG conversion and think I've more or less settled on a conversion that meets my own preferences. Part of this is based on some niggly bits that I wasn't keen on. 1) One of the things that was really starting to bug me over one game with Sparta was that m...

And a fix for supports not going in the support line at times.

Fixed a bug in migration. Changing to use properties I also switched a sign = fixed. Also stopped migration from those you are at war with, where the ethnic is the same (it didn't allow enemy ethnics, but that excluded yourself) Also tweaked the leader initiative for attack/defense to account for wh...

Following what someone else said on a thread, I played around with some simple migration. At the end of each turn every faction has a chance of some internal migration (if they have more than 1 region) and a chance of some immigration. 1. The capital has a chance of pulling a pop from another random...

I was just remembering back to playing Imperium Romanum II about 30 years ago, and how that reflected on Romes particular need to pull in food from the grain baskets of North Africa/Egypt. This game covers the period where supplying its citizens with grain was beginning to become important and ends ...

First bug fix.

I did this mainly for my own fun, but I'm putting here for anyone else who may be interested. NB I've not been able to extensively test the impact of this, either for bugs or balance etc, so caveat emptor. I think I've quashed the obvious bugs, but there are a variety of cases I haven't seen in my p...