The Will of the Senate - out of character thread

[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.

[Avicenna]

Start visiting the Entrance Hall and Frontroom. Also post in the forum games. Rome must have a civilised diplomat!

[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.

[Braden]

Displaying a given Avatar doesn’t worry me by the way, we’ll just deal with it. As long as we remember to use our Avatar’s given name in our In Character postings (I can’t yet, haven’t got one).

As to the vulnerability – I’m playing purely to Character….as a archetypal, scheming, arrogant, Roman senator of the Upper House…..as such I couldn’t even consider that the greatness that is Rome could be vulnerable, even if I could consider such an ignoble act as a marine landing!

…..landing troops by ship! Unheard of!

[Death the destroyer of worlds]

This is an intersting post about what playing with (almost) the same config is like :
http://forums.rometotalrealism.org/i...howtopic=20310

[econ21]

I've been wondering about the mechanics of a mid-term session of the Senate. Given how well the current session is going, I definitely want to insist that we have a compulsory mid-term one.

However, I don't want it to slow down the campaign unduly. So I am wondering about:
(a) after 10 turns of play, the First Consul suspends play;
(b) before that, he gives two days advance notice of when his mid-term report will be submitted;
(c) as soon as the report is posted, the Senate will open for one day (24 hours) for the tabling of emergency motions;
and (d) it will remain open for another one day (24 hours) for voting on those emergency motions.

So basically, the incumbent will only have to take a 48 hours "time-out" from the game. That seems to strike a reasonable balance between the need to keep momentum going and giving the Senate a (small) window to intervene in the reign.

I don't want to put this to a vote, Senate-style, but would welcome reactions and hope we can come to a consensus.

I should also say that the Senate will always remain open for debate, but to avoid over-legislating, I want to restrict the tabling of motions to interregnums but with the safety valve of emergency motions in mid-term.

I was also wondering about some kind of "opinion poll" option, to rate the First Consul's performance in the first term. But on balance, I think that would be out of character for the Senate (too much like modern day opinion poll dominated politics) and anyway Senators can always propose motions of acclaim or censure if they want to.

PS: The admins initial response over Org avatars was encouraging - I'll keep you posted.

[Death the destroyer of worlds]

I was going to write it thought it was a bad idea, but halfway through I decided it was a pretty good idea actually. I'm with you. 24 hours is not much, but the debate should have been continuous since day one, so more time isn't necessary/