AI faction expansion in your campaigns?

**Cheexsta** · 03-11-2006, 00:25

Since this pic, Rome has taken a couple more settlements and have made the Averni a protectorate. The Ptolemies are coming very close to taking Carthage out (they have around 4 full stacks in the area, give or take), and Iberia has also taken the whole peninsula while Baktria has firmed her grip in the East, scattering the remaining Parthians. The Seleukids declared war on me and are about to lose a few more of their Asia Minor provinces, and the Getai have nearly taken the whole Balkans and have become my ally (with a little help from 200,000 mnai).

This is definately an interesting situation. Go east and face the monstrous Ptolemies or head west and take on Rome, one of the richest factions aside from myself. The recent war with the Sels (even though they were my loyal allies for 52 years!) has made me want to go east, though...

**GMT** · 03-11-2006, 08:48

Originally Posted by Cheexsta

Since this pic, Rome has taken a couple more settlements and have made the Averni a protectorate. The Ptolemies are coming very close to taking Carthage out (they have around 4 full stacks in the area, give or take), and Iberia has also taken the whole peninsula while Baktria has firmed her grip in the East, scattering the remaining Parthians. The Seleukids declared war on me and are about to lose a few more of their Asia Minor provinces, and the Getai have nearly taken the whole Balkans and have become my ally (with a little help from 200,000 mnai).

This is definately an interesting situation. Go east and face the monstrous Ptolemies or head west and take on Rome, one of the richest factions aside from myself. The recent war with the Sels (even though they were my loyal allies for 52 years!) has made me want to go east, though...

1090618 mnai?? how the hell did you get that much dough??

You've got to be using some kind of money cheat..

**Trithemius** · 03-11-2006, 14:34

Originally Posted by GMT

1090618 mnai?? how the hell did you get that much dough??

You've got to be using some kind of money cheat..

Look at all those trade routes! It's not inconceivable a person could get that much if they tried a bit and had a reasonable fiscal policy. I've got about 250k as the Romans, and my game is a couple of decades earlier and I have not been pushing trade hard in my development programs.

**QwertyMIDX** · 03-11-2006, 19:26

Mines are the really money maker, I will have to cut income from them a bit...

**Dooz** · 03-12-2006, 00:38

Originally Posted by QwertyMIDX

Mines are the really money maker, I will have to cut income from them a bit...

Nooooo, they're amazing! Playing as the Getai, I'm making enough bank to keep two very nice field armies active, maybe even another one now that I'm about to take Chresynospos(sp?) and have Nikomedia... talk about cash cow. (and I know that's the point, but hell, it's fun) I'd hate to see them go : ( As far as the huge amount of money in that posted image, it is possible protectorates or maybe cheats are involved, not just mines. But I suppose if it is solely from that... it might have to be toned down a bit, but yeah...

**Cheexsta** · 03-12-2006, 01:55

Originally Posted by GMT

1090618 mnai?? how the hell did you get that much dough??

You've got to be using some kind of money cheat..

Nope, no cheats. Just top-level mines and trading ports

Yes, I think mining income will have to be tweaked. Pella alone is making ~15,000 every turn just from mining income alone, while Byzantion and Athens are each making ~5,000 or so. I'm currently earning a good 49,000 per turn, and that's with 4 full stacks in the field (two of which are mostly levies, but still...).

I've been concentrating on trade for the past 50 years and regularly give 200,000+ to the Romans to keep them going

Good fun.

**QwertyMIDX** · 03-12-2006, 01:58

It won't all go away, mines will still be a huge source of income, just not quite so much.

**Simmons** · 03-12-2006, 04:19

Originally Posted by Cheexsta

Nope, no cheats. Just top-level mines and trading ports

Yes, I think mining income will have to be tweaked. Pella alone is making ~15,000 every turn just from mining income alone, while Byzantion and Athens are each making ~5,000 or so. I'm currently earning a good 49,000 per turn, and that's with 4 full stacks in the field (two of which are mostly levies, but still...).

I've been concentrating on trade for the past 50 years and regularly give 200,000+ to the Romans to keep them going

Good fun.

I guess the only reason I don't have such a surplus in my current Seleukid campaign I have a lot of under developed rebellious eastern provinces to dump a whole lot of cash into

**Dooz** · 03-12-2006, 08:23

Ah, well... at least I have this campaign to go wild in : )

**QwertyMIDX** · 03-12-2006, 09:45

Indeed, enjoy it while you can.

**pezhetairoi** · 03-12-2006, 15:22

Ya. Mines have become such dominant sources of income that I'm going out of my way to send expeditionary forces overseas to secure provinces with mines, with the result that I have been sucked into a three-way fight with Qarthadast and Iberia over Pallantia, Baikor and Gades, while I have been forced into a major commitment (2 field armies!) in Greece, near wiping out Makedon and getting entangled in a life-and-death struggle with their ally the Getai that has culminated in me locking up their two fullstacks in Ak-Ink and Kallatis under siege. Mines shoudln't be doing this to me...