Total Realism

**Wrangel** · 01-17-2005, 21:52

Originally Posted by afrit

I played RTR 4.1 campaign on Medium/Medium and toyed around with 5.0. My biggest reason to try the mod was improved gameplay (i.e more of a challenge), not realism.

I liked the slower kill speeds in battle, although the AI is still pretty dumb. Didn't get to try the ZoR system much (I played Macedon and conquered mostly greek cities). Didn't like the idea of slower build times, new building requirements (Carpenter, stone etc.). It also felt less stable than Vanilla.

BUT, my biggest problem was that it looked like the strategic AI was totally lost with the new buildings. In 10 years (20 turns) few factions had captured anything beyond their borders. Rebels were still everywhere, while my faction was at 20+ provinces already. In Vanilla, the AI expanded better.

So I went back to Vanilla. Which was a disappointment. Now I am just praying for the patch to make the AI better; otherwise, I guess I'll have to take up making my own personal mod to suit my play style.

Well iirc the new buildings are gone in the 5.0 version.

**lancer63** · 01-25-2005, 06:42

I´m playing RTR 5.1 and has totaly erased my desire to go back to my vanilla version. No CTDs in 10 consecutive hours of playing AI is better, not by much though, but at least it doesn't send 3 unit armies against my full stacks. Loads of new provinces, which make the game more challenging, the new buildings of 4.1 are gone (hail Hares!!) and enemies are more agressive.
As unified Rome I have spent the better part of 100 years coquering and holding the italian boot which alone has about 6 more provinces, Sicily has 4 now and only the gods and the devs know how many more are in the rest of the map.
+ the skins are better than the regular ones. It's a pretty excellent mod imho.

**The Stranger** · 01-25-2005, 14:59

Originally Posted by lancer63

I´m playing RTR 5.1 and has totaly erased my desire to go back to my vanilla version. No CTDs in 10 consecutive hours of playing AI is better, not by much though, but at least it doesn't send 3 unit armies against my full stacks. Loads of new provinces, which make the game more challenging, the new buildings of 4.1 are gone (hail Hares!!) and enemies are more agressive.
As unified Rome I have spent the better part of 100 years coquering and holding the italian boot which alone has about 6 more provinces, Sicily has 4 now and only the gods and the devs know how many more are in the rest of the map.
+ the skins are better than the regular ones. It's a pretty excellent mod imho.

where can you get that mod