The March of Time Question

[Zett]

that is of Roman culture.

No, every culture is fine, you can upgrade it yourself (as long as you can upgrade to huge city) and give it back to the Romani, the culture of the "Huge City Building" doesent matter.

Ceterum censeo Romam esse delendam.

[Blxz]

No, every culture is fine, you can upgrade it yourself (as long as you can upgrade to huge city) and give it back to the Romani, the culture of the "Huge City Building" doesent matter.

Ceterum censeo Romam esse delendam.

See, thats what I don't really understand. Coz the 'Romans' in the mod are for all intents and purposes just the seleucids as far as the game files go. So why is it only limited to Rome then? Shouldn't Baktria then be able enabled to activate it? They are romans_brutii I think. In vanilla any of the 3 roman factions could enable the reforms, suddenly its limited to 1 faction only in the new mod.

If my reasoning is correct I can't see why it can't be tied to any faction that holds a huge city in an Italian province. Or at the very least tied to Epirotes and Carthage as well as they are mostly likely to invade Rome early on as a human player.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

romans_brutii is faction name and not culture name. You can add what ever culture to faction. Of course, within the hardcoded limits of RTW.

There is only 1 faction with Roman culture and that is Romani( "seleucid" is their faction name).

So, that means that AS, Bactria and Pahlava(or was it Hayasdan?) can't trigger March of Time event because their culture is different although their faction names in the game files have "romans_" in it.

[Blxz]

So you are saying only a single culture can trigger MOT; pity. I wonder though that the game designers wouldn't make a more common culture such as 'western greek' the trigger for the reforms.

Like you pointed out, 'roman' is only an internal name. In that case Italy can just be an internal location. I wonder if a huge city in greece with any culture of the 'western greek' variety would be an effective trigger instead. Most of the factions that vie for greece in the early to midgame are western greek. This lessens the chances of the required culture being totally wiped out before the reforms trigger.

Is there anything fundamentally wrong with my thinking?