Playing as the Senate

**Mikemyers64** · 11-05-2004, 05:07

it is fun but the beginning sucks

**bmolsson** · 11-05-2004, 07:01

Like a "Caesar-wanna-be" campaign.....

**sapi** · 11-05-2004, 08:00

I don't play as the senate as it is bugged - eg. if you click on the senate info screen it will ctd

**Octavius Julius** · 11-05-2004, 09:47

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.

**Silver Rusher** · 11-07-2004, 08:05

Originally Posted by Octavius Julius

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.

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)

**sapi** · 11-13-2004, 06:12

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?

No, no, no. The word 'bug' was used to describe a ctd. I never really wanted a campaign with the senate, just to see what their starting armys were ;). Since they never build (or not often), this helped me plan my civil war ;)

I can't count the number of times a reported "bug" has amazingly turned out to be an undocumented "feature"...

lol

**Vikings** · 11-13-2004, 14:05

Just go and RAZE ROME for good, maybe Pope wont be coming after all.

**Captain Fishpants** · 11-05-2004, 11:04

Originally Posted by sapi

I don't play as the senate as it is bugged - eg. if you click on the senate info screen it will ctd

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.

**hatcat** · 11-05-2004, 13:38

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.

Don't do it kids. That way lies frustration and blindness.

**barocca** · 11-05-2004, 14:05

i dont think people are complaining about a "buggy senate mod" from a "programming" point of view,
(ie it is NOT CA's fault)

I think the complaints are more along the lines of,
"while playing the senate may be amusing, the senate was not designed to BE playable and the bugs the senate mod introduces to gameplay ruin the Rome Experience"

In other words they know the game is not designed to allow the Senate to be played,
but just like papal mods in Medieval, someone will always want to make it "playable", even if it is only in a limited sense.

They are not complaining about Rome, or about anything from CA, they are merely commenting on wether they are prepared to tolerate (or not tolerate) the bugs the Senate Mod creates.

**Siris** · 11-05-2004, 15:10

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.