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    Uergobretos Senior Member Brennus's Avatar
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    Default Am I doing anything wrong?

    For the sake of historical accuracy (and because I really don't want a never ending war across the Sahara) I am trying to post this little fella back to the Ptolemaic lands, however for some reason it isn't working.



    Am I doing anything wrong?

    Also apologies if Ludens views this as not being an EB topic.



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    Yes, internal names can only have two names; with Seleukid and Ptolemaic ones there's no space between second and third name, and no capitalisation of the third.

    So the one there should be: move_character "Damon Kitioukypriakou" 138,69.

    With Koinon Hellenon names, ignore the third.
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    The wrong thing that you did was to build a road, without it the Ptolemaioi would have either gone east or sat down and enjoyed their sisters XD

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arjos View Post
    The wrong thing that you did was to build a road, without it the Ptolemaioi would have either gone east or sat down and enjoyed their sisters XD
    Actually, the problem was allowing them to take Kyrene. I always spawn additional troops there to prevent them taking it, regardless of what faction I'm playing. That's an effective bulwark against either side initiating an ahistorical war.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arjos View Post
    The wrong thing that you did was to build a road, without it the Ptolemaioi would have either gone east or sat down and enjoyed their sisters XD
    A few turns ago the govenor of Lepki died and I didn't notice, in the absence of a govenor the auto-manage decided to build a road.

    lol, Royal Incest... and yet they outlived the other Diadochi?!
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    The common people also regularly practised brother/sister marriages, not just the royal family. Stopped letting the neighbours get their filthy paws on your estates, the entire heritage would stay in the family as it were. ;-)

    Seems very weird to us, but it doesn't seem to have caused that much trouble. Our incest taboo mostly isn't for biological reasons, it seems.

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    Incest doesn't 'create' new defects, random mutation is just as likely between non-related as blood-related people and that 'creates' new defects in children.

    Incest increases the chance of already genetically present defects/traits in the bloodline being observed. For example if your family has a recessive defective gene it is 'never' going to show itself unless the person you have children with also has the same gene - if this is family they likely also have the same gene so the chances of the defect being displayed are increased as the possible combinations of having two recessive defective genes are increased.

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    Quote Originally Posted by QuintusSertorius View Post
    Actually, the problem was allowing them to take Kyrene. I always spawn additional troops there to prevent them taking it, regardless of what faction I'm playing. That's an effective bulwark against either side initiating an ahistorical war.
    With VH/M I've never seen the Ptolemaioi coming to Lepki when there's no road in the region...

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    Yeah, no roads will be much better, they should stay with their sisters, not trying to make mess with Baal

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cute Wolf View Post
    Yeah, no roads will be much better, they should stay with their sisters, not trying to make mess with Baal
    Yes Cute Wolf, we all realize that you switched everything from and to Jebivjetar as christmas prank. Nice try though.

    But Roads are great, give you trade and more movement for your troops...

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    That road should have never lead through the desert, but end somewhere in the sands...
    Just because something is theoretically possible does not make it realistic, imo. A part of the unreachable Eremos province could divide Carthaginians and Egyptians from each other, so the AI would not attack the player just because they share a common boarder. In RTR mod there are even unpassable mountains in between. And if a player decides to attack the AI faction because he can, then there is no way to stop him. But a D-Day on the mostly weakly defended AI coast settlements seems actually even worth than that...
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