EB 1.0 Balance

[larsbecks]

There are some things you can do if you want to balance it out a little bit. You can put a cap on factions by giving money penalties if they get over a certain number of provinces. So for the Greeks if they have 5 or more province and treasury greater than a certain amount you can give them a cash penalty. Same goes for the Ptolemies. You can also try to change the AI "mentality". So making the greeks into a "fortified" faction may make them more of a defensive faction.

[HamilcarBarca]

There are some things you can do if you want to balance it out a little bit. You can put a cap on factions by giving money penalties if they get over a certain number of provinces. So for the Greeks if they have 5 or more province and treasury greater than a certain amount you can give them a cash penalty. Same goes for the Ptolemies. You can also try to change the AI "mentality". So making the greeks into a "fortified" faction may make them more of a defensive faction.

How?

Give some practical advice on how to make it so!

I think a limitation on the Ptolemies is particularly necessary; and anything we can do to get an AI Rome interested in taras!

H.

[larsbecks]

Go into the script and go to the money adding section.
You want to add something like this:

monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionType greek_cities
and not FactionIsLocal
and Treasury > 1000
and I_NumberOfSettlements > 5
console_command add_money greek_cities, -5000 (or whatever money amount you want to reduce them by)
end_monitor

The goal is to cripple a faction if it becomes too big for your liking. If you want to really drop them into debt you can take out the treasury line.

[Laman]

About the ai stupidity in going after rebels first, in my current game as Makedonia I kicked the Epirotes out of Epeiros, leaving them with just Taras. One city, a small stack and what do they do? They proceed with smashing the Romans, expanding up to and conquering Rome, as well as expanding into Sicily, taking Messana. The Romans, or what remains of them, still attacks the Eleutheroi in northern Italy, rather then doing something about the Epirotes.

[Starforge]

I'm in a house-rule Roman campaign with 1.0 at 178BC using BI on VH / M. (first and really only atm - will try others later.)

AS got wiped by the Ptolemies
Mak got pushed back to 4 provinces but around 200BC or so had a resurgence (I hadn't even touched greece by that point and only have the Peloponnese atm.) They are now the dominant Greek faction with around 20 provinces.

At this point Baktria is pushing the Ptolemies from the east and I'm nibbling on their holdings in North Africa. It's become the blue death now.

Casse still hasn't figured out that wood floats.

I'm near the point where I'll shelve the game - it's become a sure Roman win.

Maybe Epiros next or something farther east.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

You can't really judge AI behaviour off of experience with only one faction. For one thing, nearby factions will always be more powerful.

[Empedocles]

I have played with the Sauromatae for more than 60 years now and I had a completely different experience that HamilcaBarca. (take in mind I play with BI 1.6)

1º Rome have conquered Taras in the first 15 years of my game. They are now heading north into Gaul. They have pushed the Aeudi to the north and the Averni only hold Vesontio. The new superpower in the west are the Lusotannan who hold all of Iberia and are pushing north from Aquitania.
Regarding Sicily the romans have conquered it 30 years ago.

2º I have been fighting the AS from the east and they STILL have managed to defeat the Ptolies in Syria and have managed to conquer Alexandria and Memphis!!!
Although I must say that the Karthies helped them in destroying the Ptolomies from egpyt since they now hold everything in Africa from the Nile to the west.

3º In my game the Maks have been defeated by the KH alone(And the KH have in turn destroyed the Epirus faction...). Now the maks only hold a dacian settlement, Pergamun and Lesbos.

regards.

[beatoangelico]

1 not always
2 not always, in my baktria campaign the seleukids in the east they would had destroyed the pahlavi long ago if I wasn't there to help economically and military, but in the western front they conquered Alexandria and are holding back the KH (that is a superpower in that campaign). The main strenght of the AS imho is that they can recover well after an eventual loss of Antiochiea, but the Ptolies are in much more difficult situation if they lose Alexandria
3 I agree