Corruption in Rome: Total War

[ReluctantSamurai]

You can halt both squalor & corruption dead in their tracks without modding/cheating or throwing your computer out the window...

Here's a good discussion on how to do it:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...-game%21%21%21

The discussion gets specific about post #20. Check out the screen shots. Huge and very large cities with ZPG (Zero Population Growth)---the orange population growth icon tells you you've achieved ZPG.

Here's another discussion:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...egative-Traits

Again, check out the screen shots to see the effectiveness of ZPG, even in traditionally tough cities to control like Jerusalem, Tarsus, Carthage, etc. I know that corruption itself is mostly a factor of Distance-to-Capital and several other things, but corruption and squalor are most definitely linked, and if you control squalor and find the optimal location for your capital, you effectively control corruption. And besides, as I noted there somewhere, corruption can actually have a net gain in income.....not very often, but I've had it happen. Also, corruption doesn't necessarily have to have a negative impact on general traits. Just keep them out of cities as much as possible. There's a bunch of screenies I posted there on general traits when I had ridiculous amounts of money in my treasury....