Playing as the Senate
I recently started a campaign as the Senate and wiped out the other Roman factions from the get go. To me that seems to be more fun... one sole Roman faction to take on everyone else... seems like it'll be tougher. Anybody else think playing the Senate is more fun than the other Roman factions?
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it is fun but the beginning sucks
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Like a "Caesar-wanna-be" campaign.....
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I don't play as the senate as it is bugged - eg. if you click on the senate info screen it will ctd
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Has anyone attacked the Senate in the first few turns. I'm gonna try that tonight. Build up a load of hastati with my starting 5000 Dn and march on Rome.
They have a big army, but I think I'll give it a try.
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Not possible mate. You can't attack the Senate unless your people popularity is above 7 or something like that (you can't attack the other romans at the start)Originally Posted by Octavius Julius
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So. Let's get this absolutely straight: you mod the game to do something it wasn't designed to do - that is, play as the non-playable Senate - and then you come here and moan when it doesn't work after you've broken it?
The game has been advertised from the start as including the Senate as a non-playable faction. Therefore, it can hardly be a bug that the game is non-playable when the non-playable Senate are modified to be playable, now can it?
Ho hum.
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More importantly, as the good Captain will be unaware of, from a code point of view the Senate isn't a faction in the familiar sense of the word. It has a whole tranche of other control code (wot I wrote) which will be bypassed if it has no AI controller (which it won't if it's under human control). Execution degradation will probably cause crashes.
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To the Roman who wants to attack the sneate!....You cannot attack the Sneate until your popularity is high eneough. I tried and the AI God told me so....
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The only joy I find playing as the senate is, that I own Rome, the most advanced city in the game. And because I want to play isolationist for a few years I have to disband my massive army.
How does the AI upkeep it's pink horde?
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Taxes from the other roman faction of course....or maybe independantly wealthy business men? Could be church donations of course.....guided tours into the vestal virgins quarters
Roma must be destroyed
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And I believe I read somewhere that homosexuality was fairly accepted and fairly common in ancient Greece, most particularly in Sparta. So Siris, most of your Spartans are going to be gay whether you like it or not.
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I think the issue Captain and hatcat had was with the use of the word 'bug'. A bug implies something being broken/not working as intended. In the case of playing as the senate, there is no bug in the code. It's that the requesite code for the senate to be as fully playable as 'regular' playable factions are is knowingly non-existant.
Programmers tend to get a bit defensive when they get told they've done something wrong (i.e. there's a bug), when in actual fact the code is doing what it was supposed to, and it's the implimentation or interpretation of the user that's at fault.
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Who wants to play the Senate, that's gay. Play as the Spartans, their going to rule the world. But in my Empire its no the gayness, their all striaght... or they should be.
I believe it was actually encouraged, as it added to the bond of brotherhood between fellow soldiers.And I believe I read somewhere that homosexuality was fairly accepted and fairly common in ancient Greece, most particularly in Sparta. So Siris, most of your Spartans are going to be gay whether you like it or not.
I can't see it working today, somehow ;)
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There is a way to play as the senate?
Can you tell me how to do it?
I wanted to play as the senate from the start, it just seemed fun to me to defend the Respublica instead of destroying it.
When I take Rome I am usually Sulla and I sack the city.
However about the bug are there other bugs then not being able to go to the senate tab?
And about that bug is it just while playing as the senate or will it effect me when playing as the other factions?
Because if the bugs only effect playing as the senate then I would definately like to try it.
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