Is there a "not sucking" mod for RTW yet?

[Gushnasaph]

Care to provide specifics?

Unfortunately the way the files are built a check box/radio button is not really feasible.

Yeah, well, I haven't played the latest incarnations of RTR, so claiming to know what it "is" may have been wrong.

My experience was one of little QA, frequent fixes, graphical glitches, variable quality skinning etc. This is OK, as far as I'm concerned. It's a free mod that dedicated individuals provide to those who want it. I acknowledge that a lot of effort and talent has gone into the project. From what I have gathered it's probably more polished now, but I think it's still not my ideal cup of tea, though I may check it out again soon.

My ideal mod would be "Rome: Total Gameplay". Realism is not an inherently bad thing. It just isn't my main focus in a computer game. There are limits to realism whichever way you boil your bottom, and if realism were maxed out, it would make for a tedious game of axe-grinding. I would like to be able to take a minor faction to ahistorical levels of glory and civiliwhatnot. History is a limited selection of actual events mixed with distortions and lies anyway. The Romans leeched most of their tech and culture from the Greek and others, so why shouldn't other nations be able to do the same? OK, so the Vandals and Sillygoths weren't very keen on the whole sophisticate bag when the western empire fell, but at "our" time other civs were thriving, and I guess that several of them would've been open to further advances given the opportunity.

I have ideas for buildings: All factions may (after reaching a certain point) build mutually exclusive buildings called... "Greek style democracy" "Roman style republic" "Crazed religious dictatorship" etc. They will take long to build, and each will give major + and - to law, happiness, battlefield morale, ancillaries, traits... Maybe I'll try modding it come september.

[buujin]

RTR ist he best mod currently available, but having said that its the ONLY full mod currently available to my knoledge.

What theyve done is nice, and u can bet your ass its better than vannilla rtw, but when EB and Chivalry - TW come along they will be superior.

EB ( Europa Barbarorum ) has the largest workforce of modders and a great deal of dedication and enthusiasm behind it, along with some seriously talanted skinners.

CTW ( Chivalry - Total War ) Is the one and only Medieval mod for the RTW engine in production. Atho there is not as much power pushing it along ( probly due to that fact that all the modders are working on EB ! ), Adherbal the chief modder has great talant and consistancy. You can bet when CTW finally arives it will be the greatest thing u ever played ( i speak with some bias as i am part of the dev team , but trust me it will rock ).

Other great mods in production include

BLUE LOTUS by Hoggy: a damn fine modder with great ideas who so far seems to have taken the whole project on by himself !, and is coping remarkably well.

Sengoku Jidai : The Feudal Japanese mod, something of a STW remake.
The progress of this mod has been dramaticly slowed however, by the loss of the team leader Duke John , who decided that he dislikes rtw battle ai too much and has left the mod, and the rest of the team in the lerch !


Full conversions like the ones ive mentioned require a HUGE amount of work to complete, hence none of them have been fully released and are unlikley to be for at least a few months.

The Difference with RTR is that it started of with very small changes, and continues to grow, meaning serveral public releases can be made while it developes. A good idea for a mod based on rome, sort of like a series of improvements to the original game. But this is not really wise for a project set in another time perioud like Sengoku Jidai, as you would end up with yari samurai fighting legionaries in carthage, or some-such nonsense.

IMO if a way to develop a better battle ai for the rome engine is not found by the modders, then no mod will have serious longevity unless it is made specificly for Multiplayer mode.