The Will of the Senate - out of character thread

[TinCow]

With regards to Tricky Lady, how should I represent her in the Biography? Clearly we cannot assign her future husband to another player and her 'influence' will be via manipulating the man. As such, would it be appropriate for me to simply include the husband's biography with an additional note that gossip in Rome indicates that it is really Marcella who wears the... toga... in the family?

[econ21]

Yes, unless she indicates otherwise, I would present Tricky_Lady's soon-to-be husband and Senator as the public face of her character, but note the rumours.

On other business, now that some of us have avatars assigned, I think it would be good if we could use their Roman names in deliberations in the senate, e.g. "Quintus (econ21)" for clarity. There was also the idea of changing user titles to have your PBM avatar's name, so people can remember who you are roleplaying - I will put Quintus in quotation marks as my user title. If you can find your avatars picture, you can use that too although you don't have to - I won't as Org convention dictates mods keep their robes.

[Ignoramus]

I can't find Sextus Antio's avatar.

[Avicenna]

It should be under Roman_Dips.

econ, don't you mean rags?

[Ignoramus]

I've looked, but strangely Roman_Dips is not there.

[econ21]

I've looked, but strangely Roman_Dips is not there.

It's there - go to "show avatars", press the rightside arrow and RTW_Roman_Dip is one screne you can select.

I think you want: Roman Diplomat000

[Ignoramus]

Ach, I need 600 posts.

[Death the destroyer of worlds]

I must have been having premonitions by sorting out all the technical stuff yesterday, as today I will not be home before midnight due to overwork. Luckily I have tomorrow off and then I will continue my political campaign with a vengeance :)
It's not possible to upload an avatar is it ? I suspect posting 600 'Hello World' posts will get me banned :)
I conquered Corfinium yesterday with just 41 casualties, just getting in a bit of practice. The AI played pretty well, retreating back to he square with his last two spearmen units. If not for that, I'd probably have gotten him with under 20 casualties. I really have to get used to playing large size again, I keep wondering where the rest of my troops are. At least I will not have the problem with overflow at the bottom of the siege towers.
When I look at the posts I feel most people do not understand how vulnerable you are with 1.5 and metronaval. Most of your cities do not have walls and the AI WILL make naval invasions. It is quite capable of blitzing half you cities while your troops are fighting over the border. Last trial camapign I played, the greeks managed to slip past my armies and take Ancona. And while I was hanging out near Tarentum, Carthage managed to blitz the west coast and I only caught up with right next to Rome itself.
Well, I hope I have not been too off topic. Back to work.

[econ21]

I will raise the issue of avatars with the admins, but I'm not hopeful. People can be rather petty and I suspect they won't want to field queries of "how come he gets to have a cool avatar with only 25 posts" or whatever.

Ignoramus asked me about what units we can recruit, so I posted a few notes on our unit stats in RTR in the Senate library. I may update it with the stats of our enemies (e.g. the Greeks) over time.

...people do not understand how vulnerable you are with 1.5 and metronaval. Most of your cities do not have walls and the AI WILL make naval invasions. It is quite capable of blitzing half you cities while your troops are fighting over the border.

This sounds excellent! To be honest, many folk complain how easy Roma is in RTR Gold, so it will be good if we have to keep on our toes in this mod.