Quote Originally Posted by TheBagelmeister
Hm, how are the faction leaders going to work? The traditional family system in the game won't work now quite as well, unless Rome is starting out as a kingdom.
Well, the 3-family system was ahistorical, and Rome wasn't the only one of our factions that had something other than dynastic monarchy, but we're limited by the game itself in what we can do to portray this accurately. Rome's definitely not starting as a kingdom or an empire.


Quote Originally Posted by Divinus Arma
I see. That makes sense. So they are "on" or "off", huh? Intelligent or unintelligent, rather than: complete idiot, dull bulb, less than average, average, intelligent, gifted, genius?
No, there are actually 5-6 levels for each of those primary traits, from idiot to genius, like you describe.