7 Major Feature Overhauls in Imperator ROME 1.2 Cicero Update 

Hey Republic, I like this format and didn't notice any drop in quality. It's still very noticeable that you knew what topics you wanted to cover, which puts you miles away from other youtubers who just keep jabbering for 10 minutes without actually saying anything. Keep up the good work, I really enjoy your videos!

I too encourage the method of disseminating change logs. patch 👏 review

@@0MVR_0 haha - patch 👏 review 👏

If it allows you to pop out more videos a month then the drop in quality is totally fine. You do great work!

It works for me... may depend on the context of the video some, in ones like this though where you’re just doing an informal overview (as opposed to an official review of a game), and listing your thoughts, it works well. I’ve never been one to mind if these sort of videos sound a little organic. I have noticed you haven’t seemed to be making much lately.

Wait a bit longer, it's still pretty meh.

I guess Total War 3K's success makes Paradox realize that they can't play around any longer, and they have to add would-be DLC contents to make IR finally a game..

This is Paradox. Their games might not be perfect, even terrible sometimes from the get go but they actually try to improve and (most of the time) receptive to the input from their fans. Give them time, and we will have a good Imperator game

I mean obviously it will become a good game, it’s the same as always and all you people complaining just slept in a cave the last 5 paradox games that came lol

@@samsonstone764 All Paradox games start either as shitshows or lacking and Paradox gradually adds to them, this is actually a smart move because they can rake in more money through DLC's and the polished under-developed game makes it easier to smooth out the edges, I remember that in HOI4 and Stellaris, it's just how Paradox works, and I approve of their strategy

@Mr Cloud It is but I wouldn't compare it to Paradox's games mostly because it's turn-based rather then real-time, meaning only the slower players may migrate to FoG Empires

Well, these two people groups are related.

danuk500 Just stop playing on normal difficulty

@@samsonstone764 All that does it give massive advantages to the a.i. rather than making them more aggressive

danuk500 When they are stronger as you are and you are a valid target they will attack, one leads to another here Also there is a mod that’s called *more aggressive AI* haven’t used it and don’t know if it’s up to date but there you go

yea thats the major turn off for me

I would say they are doing the opposite of what i expected. i didnt not expect the to actually realise how bad this was and completely change the core mechanics of the game based on the communities feedback its quite impressive

I agree trade is boring in this game - I think the idea is that a trade good makes money because it increases commerce. The amount you make from trade is based on how many citizens you have in the province. This would suggest the idea is that citizens are buying/selling and you're making money that way.

@@RepublicOfPlay Yes true, but that is lazy mechanic, there should be much more out of that simple select and click the trade that is free anyway im not ^putting the blame on you or anything, i really hope Paradox can listen to your feedback, everything you propose would definitly bring added value to this game. You are on the right track :)

well, not for me. not much changed. it is still below average. but i see how hard pdx fans want to believe it... let's talk again in 6 months.

@@misterbeach8826 everyone is entitled to enjoy whatever they want.

Definitely a step closer to a good game :D

Stainless Steel mod for Medieval II Total War had absolutely gorgeous interface decorations themed on each faction.

R3GARnator the decoration of the UI is an important aspect of what I mentioned, but there is more to it than just that. One key example is diplomacy in the Civ games, going all the way back to the original Civilization... in a great idea to add immersion, instead of having diplomacy consist of a dry list of countries and possible proposals for each, you actually click to initiate a diplomatic session with another nation, and the game shifts to a screen showing a rendered version of that civilization’s leader and advisors, with conversation options containing the diplomatic proposals and actions. The modern versions of Civ have the distinct 3D rendered cartoon like version of the various leaders. They also kept this from becoming cumbersome, with although it consists of a separate screen the options are clearly available and you don’t have to sit through unnecessary fluff. Other things I was thinking of include showing an image of each city on the map based on the size of the city, it’s nationality/culture group, and perhaps key buildings constructed. Graphically depicting different military units is also key for adding to immersion and making the game feel less like a spreadsheet... Paradox could have the main different units have a 3D model, and similar to Civ 6 have each army consist of four different models... in the case of Imperator the composition could be based on the proportion of troops in each army; if you have an army made of 75% infantry and 25% cavalry, show three models of the infantry unit and one of the cavalry. Equal parts infantry, artillery, cavalry, and archers? Show one model of each. Different animations for different tactics would also be nice. These are just many possible ways Paradox could add a ton of flavor and immersion to their games to make them feel less sterile and board game like. The mechanics of the game would not need to change to incorporate these changes either... ever since playing EU4 I’ve thought things like this could go a long way into making Paradox games feel and appear more mainstream and less niche.

@@briancline7349 30 years in any PDX game (except HoI4) is always so alt-history, all the faces will be randomly generated by then, meaning personalities and such will also have to be randomly generated and this makes something as comprehensive as Civ game portraits realistically impossible. Now that said, even Stellaris proves that that doesn't mean you can't have any flavour. In Stellaris, in your diplomatic actions you always see a representative of the other species and there are little dynamically created dialogue quips, based on their ethics, government type and species-archetype ("my slimesack is vibrating from laughter when just thinking of the puny Hrashk'aaz military power"). The other PDX games are rather falling short in those regards, and messages have the exact same pre-canned static phrases, no matter who is saying them to whom. Having more dynamically generated responses and personalities and some back-and-forth messaging would go a long way. In CK2 or Imperator, you could derive a character's personality based their top 2 stats (resulting in basically 16 personalities, definitely in the realm of possibilities), with some traits (lunacy, zealous, erudite etc.) overwriting that; basically the same way Stellaris does it with their ethics and some civics (fanatical purifiers etc.). And I fully agree with the visual army composition. The biggest missed opportunity for that is HoI4. There are actually a lot of different army models in HoI4, but you wouldn't realise that in game, because 80% off all units use the basic infantry model, and the other 20% are tanks; however there are super specific ones like anti-tank guns or rocket artillery (and an upcoming cosmetic DLC will add even more specialised ones like tank destroyers), but you never ever see those models, because there are no "anti-tank-gun" divisions, they're always attached to infantry. Now, if an army would be represented by 6 little dudes, having 4 models be infantry, 1 AT-guns and 1 rocket arty, that rocket arty and AT-gun model would actually see some use.

@@araxiel2051 For CK2 and Imperator, two games who have been trying to sell themselves on the fact they have characters (with CK2 succeeding), it would be very important to implement the diplomacy system you suggested, principally to CK2, where the game revolves around the characters

It is mana though, it's an abstraction of a resource. Nobody spends political influence in real life, that makes it mana. Not saying it's bad, just saying that's what it is - Influence and Unity in Stellaris are Mana, but Alloys, Minerals, Energy, Food are not for example. People could make the case that Oratory power, was the same as Political Influence, but just from one character. I don't think saying what you spend the resource on makes it mana or not. I think the concept of the resource is what does.

@@RepublicOfPlay it's as much of an abstraction as gold is for "economy"

@@darthcalanil5333 Gold is gamification of a practical currency, not the invention of something to abstract what already exists.

Gold is indeed a material representation of economic capability. Just as the ability to wield power at others' expense is a physical manifestation of political influence. When a ruler was able to chastise and embarrass his most powerful governor without fear of repercussion the social dynamics behind relations was in play. He may not be handing someone coins but an exchange is certainly being made. The definition of mana should not be whether the concept had historical use but how far removed from the mutual interplay of 'using' them is. If Stellaris said you gained minerals by the talent of your single 'industry leader' that too would be mana despite the practical tokenism of the resource.

Either best or worst comment in this section. . .

true that

It's got a pulse...

RepublicOfPlay yeah you’re right i shouldn’t be happy so soon. Btw this video was also of very good quality, if you can do more without script im not against.

Yeah kind of worried about the self promoting too. If my slaves start auto promoting then how can I make cities dedicated to generating resource surpluses? They really ought to include a feature to off-set auto promotions if they do include it.

@@danuk500 In the video i think he mentions slaves are the only ones that dont promote nor move with migration, so that would be safe, but if the rest of the pops move freely, then you can't really specialize a region at all, unless you specialize the whole province, but then again, if with time freemen promote to citizen what becomes of manpower? Thats the key we need explaining really, is each pop doing the same old thing or are they influencing something else, or is manpower working differently.

if you can't see why, then it's not a problem!

Marble font is also one problem. Black text on marble background is awful for me.

I already did!

Needs more CK2 elements imo

@@ForsakenLogitek Agreed, or any number of other things to make things more interesting. Heck, they could even take things from non-paradox games. Like say scale cost of actions based on your popularity among factions kind of like in "Democracy".

@@ForsakenLogitek Yes, will buy when its addressed

You need a mod its in the description

Can i get ur number?

@@RepublicOfPlay bruh

You can easily catch the fleeing army if you have a cavalry army at hand.

Thanks!

Same here I mean I’m not mad or anything, but I just was like yeah let’s give it time it will develop. However I had a friend share his Steam library with me so I got to make a good playthrough and it is a solid base, playthrough was fun but a bit of time into my second one and it whittles down a bit. I make sure to get the base game on sale and wait out 2-3 dlcs, game will be superb then.

Loyalty of your Government vs your rulers corruption

@@Damo2690 You are telling me what it is not how quickly you acquire it. I know what it is.

Yes it is. Costs a lot, but you can do it.

I don't have Dyslexia, I just don't care about ancient pronunciations because there's nowhere to draw the line.

Switching letters is a clear case of dyslexia and has nothing to do with pronunciation, but I did not mean to rag on you I was just stating an observation I have made that has sparked my interest, in particular how this "disability" correlates to that which drives a person to become a public figure or how it correlates to such a person becoming popular.

@@cato2906 What did I read incorrectly?

During the segment on population growth halfway in the video you repeatedly named the city of Ornoi "Oroni" even as you read it from different sources of different size and font, maybe you were tired or whatever, did'nt mean to make a big deal out of it. It's just a thing I noticed and thought I'd mention to see if it got any response.

Its a little different than just that. The aim is probably the same as the influence in Stellaris. In that game you can affect how much you gain or not gain but not by that much. Is not like in EU4 where having a leader be a 222 or a 666 is worlds apart. the idea is probably too make the influence more or less constant with more impact-full choice for where to spend it. If you use it to claim land then you cant change laws etc..

Loosing interest would mean to stop watching videos about it and commenting on it. We are often attached without realising it.

Start off with something like Stellaris - after a while of playing a game with deep systems, you don't really miss the battles. It would of course be nice to see though.

@@RepublicOfPlay yea i play stelaris and sin of a solar empire etc...but they do have somekind of battle system tho i guess its the total war player in me i been playing since original shogun so i kinda like both strat and battle combined 😒 old

Well then Paradox games are not going to be for you, they're about the bigger picture of running a nation. If they spent a lot of time (which is money) on adding ground battles it would detract from the rest of game development.

It's not slower... I don't think so anyway - you could do it with policies before gradually and that was usually fine. Now you can do it with policies and buildings combined. The assimilation/conversion speed should be pretty fast (relatively speaking) when you build up. I mean it is slower than doing it with mana of course.