Arch of Vespasion

[Centurion Crastinus]

I was wondering why the arch of vespasion was in the game while looking at the battle map of Rome? I assume that it is something left over from Vanilla RTW. Has anybody else noticed it?

[CaesarAugustus]

I think that's it's just meant to represent a large triumphal arch, once the city has advanced far enough. It looks good, I say keep it.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Yes, the vanilla cities are definately romanticised late empire cities. The arches and columns in Roman cities really shouldn't be there, but the EB team is lacking in the city modelling area, so we are stuck with what vanilla gave us.

[russia almighty]

Couldn't you merc one of the few city modelers out their?

[Centurion Crastinus]

I think it looks bad ass. I was just wondering about it thats all. I am all for keeping it. Maybe you could get an option to build a triumphal arch after a general gets a triumph.

[bovi]

Couldn't you merc one of the few city modelers out their?

Not for EB1, for sure. We're not focusing on that now, and it would be bad form to get help and not follow up on it. The nomad "settlements" are also not accurate, as it jars with the very word nomad in the first place.

Besides, we may have to desensitize people to the medieval cities we may have to live with in EB2, at least until someone figures out a way to change stuff there.

[jtareb]

There were triumphal arches built in the mid-late republic. I saw a picture of one built to celebrate the conquest of coastal Gaul(Province) by Ahenobarbus in 121?bc. It was only in the imperial age that large scale construction of arches and other great buildings were done mainly to glorify the current emperor and they were built at state expense as opposed to republican buildings which were paid for by the individual, usually out of loot gained from the particular conquest(Pompey's theater etc..).

[Xurr]

Not for EB1, for sure. We're not focusing on that now, and it would be bad form to get help and not follow up on it. The nomad "settlements" are also not accurate, as it jars with the very word nomad in the first place.

Besides, we may have to desensitize people to the medieval cities we may have to live with in EB2, at least until someone figures out a way to change stuff there.

Perhaps you should talk to the PI team. The guy who did Roma for them did a pretty nice job


https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=81284

[bovi]

That one's obviously done in RTW, not M2TW.

[Xurr]

That one's obviously done in RTW, not M2TW.

Oh I know that, I was talking more about your need for people to do the work.

[Korlon]

The problem's more along the lines of nobody knowing how to exactly edit the building graphics in M2TW.

[Xurr]

The problem's more along the lines of nobody knowing how to exactly edit the building graphics in M2TW.

Yeah, I'm looking at that right now.

[Fish-got-a-Sniper]

I think it was for XGM, maybe HCS, I can't remember off the top of my head but someone made a pretty nice Athens.

[General Appo]

That´s not what we´re talking about here, we´re talking about making MTW2 city´s look like EB era ones, which as of now nobody seems capable of doing.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Work on EB1 is basically done. All future work will be done on EB2. The point here, really, is that it is too late to work on EB1. This isn't just something someone can show up and do in a couple days. Even if someone signs on and stays around, the work will take a good year and by then EB2 should be ready.

And EB has looked for help, it is just no easy to get.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

But lots of battle are siege battles. Fighting them in medieval cities would be totally ahistoric. More ahistoric than archs of Vespasian.

[bovi]

Yes. We hope someone will break this limitation.

[Barry Soteiro]

wasn't vespasian famous for his ouatèrs ?

[bovi]

[Taneda Santôka]

Yea, paying public toilets, I guess Gertrude is french, that's how they're calld back here "Vespasienne" (adjectiv)...Ouatèrs=Water(closset) in french
I thought so also, and asociate with such a creation is his quote "Money has no odour"... I have absolutly no idea if this is all true or just common belief ...