What happens if the senate is never destroyed?

[redblack9]

If I never capture Rome will the Game go on until the end date? And if so can I change the end date? I want to litteraly conquer the entire game map!

[Malrubius]

Yeah, the game goes on until you take Rome. If you want to conquer the world, you may want to keep the Senate around for a bit. It ends in 14 AD, and if you haven't conquered Rome by then, yet, the game tells you that you've lost. I'm not sure if it lets you continue beyond that point. I don't know if the end date can be changed. Rome:Total Realism has an end date of 1 AD, but that may just be for the purposes of the mod's focus, not a hard limit.

[redblack9]

thanks man. Thats great news,but in the data file(thats what its called right?)it has a begining date and an end date i wonder if simply changing the date will do the trick. what do you think?

[Ancient]

thanks man. Thats great news,but in the data file(thats what its called right?)it has a begining date and an end date i wonder if simply changing the date will do the trick. what do you think?

You can change the end date to whatever you like, but it's not necessary unless you don't think you'll be able to take rome and 50 regions by 14 A.D.. Remember that any protectorates you have will count towards the 50. I have a Julii game(Medium/Medium) that's gone on into 30 A.D., I took rome around 175 B.C. and hit 50 regions shortly after that. I just chose to continue the game after I won. Once I did this, the number of years remaining until I lost the game in the faction scroll was gone. I don't know if a game can just keep going on indefinitely, but it does go beyond the end date if you choose to continue a successful campaign. If you don't take Rome and control 50 regions by 14 A.D.(long campaign), the game ends and you do not have the option to continue. If you manage it anytime before the end date, you have the option to play the campaign out.

[redblack9]

Ive beaten the game and tried to continue the game afterwards and it just starts me off on the last turn i had before taking the 50th provice. Ive changed the date in the game to: begin 271bc, end 230ad.

[g3n]

If you wanted to be historically accurate you could put the end date at 364 AD, when Rome was split into the West and East Roman Empires.

But then again, you'd have to make Byzantium (Constantinople) the capital when you reached 359 AD, because thats when it became the capitol of the Roman Empire just a few years before it was split.