Some Suggestions

[vale]

I will assume most people here like strategy game that allow both military showdown and politics as well, wouldn't it be possible that activision create a game that have more depth in both military actions and politics. Of course currently rome total war to me have the best military showdown, as the highly graphic and the soldier that have a micro program which enable them to act as a whole but aslo an individual. However, as the military action been improve dramatically the politic side slowly keeping up as well but not to the point of military action. I know it will be pretty boring spending most of my time fighting enemy and rebel, so why not have another but using the game engine of rtw to improve in the area of politic more. For example they can have more specific detail on how the citizen feel about your reign over their province instead of just a face that either show happy or angry. I would really like to see that they give more details in those areas, as now politics in rome total war is mostly comprose of assassin, spy, and diplomat. Those option only have been slightly enhance compare to what the military side. Even though the sacrify of more units in battle, in return you get better graphic and more realistic battle with the highly detail unit in rome total war.

[caesar44]

agree but what you can do ? the political system is hardcoded

[vale]

maybe expert scripter migth be able to figure out something, anyway rtw is good and live up to it name in the total war part. However, the game will be great if the diplomacy system improve as well. For another example is that they can allow the ruler to set a limit amount of how many population the province can grow to, this will reduce squalar problem. Instead of having so many people fill up the city, have a system in which reflect to how you rule over the reign. A little more calamity and show weather condition on campaign map. For example if it rain too hard then there is a flood and immediate action must be taken or the citizen will not be loyal to you and decided to revolt or something like that.