Quote Originally Posted by waldoa
The best solution to the 3 families problem is to cripple two of them from expansion, and either 1) As someone said above, make them Samnites and Etruscans, or if you want to start the mod really far back, Sabines and Etruscans. The third faction would be the Roman Magistrates who, if possible, would start without a province and have to conquer the other two. This would simulate in some way the Roman imperial system of administration by a group of magistrates. The third family would obviously have to have many different surnames.
or 2) You could have one faction of Roman magistrates, and the others could be the pacified Latin states, one in Campania and one in Veii. If crippled to not expand, these would nicely demonstrate the allied status of these city states. The civil war would still be short, but if the Senate can demand provinces, it could be a force in its own right. This would be somewhat equivalent to the civil wars in which one faction always received the support of the Senate against the other (Pompey against Caesar, Augustus against Antony)
This mod looks and sounds incredible, but a botched family system that leaves three competing factions will make that facet as unrealistic as the vanilla version trying to be replace.
Frankly: buzz off. You can't imagine the sweat and tears that have been taking place over this issue internally here with serious modders and scholars trying to figure out the best solution. So for future reference when stumbling onto a new board, you and your little mad red face emoticon might be best served to make your initial post a little less irritable. Your interest is appreciated, but your demeanor and demands ("the best solution is..." made me laugh out loud) are not.