Ledo, sure, a good way of looking at it, I think I've only seen Macedonia take a Rome player out in my multiplayer games.

Thats the problem with Rome, need to play it cool early on and get some alliances or deals struck.

Yeah, in another game im playing the Roman player has been quite threatening to me as Averni (RP not real, I hope) but they are also at war with Carthage. I've found that until Rome has a sizeable chunk of Italy under its control it's very vunlerable to gang up. In a way it's a shame that with our p...

Ah right, that manpower explanation makes sense from recruiting point of view.

Although, that doesnt deal with the eternal elite units that the thread creator mentioned.

Hey Pocus,

Thanks for the interest, sadly my game is a multiplayer game and I think 2 turns have since passed.

I assume that means I cant send the save.

What's the reason it says in the message when you move your mouse over the Pirate ship icon? (you'd be better to put a screenshot of that) EDIT: fixed my grammar (sorry i'm not native english speaker). Thanks Marvin :) :D No problem and I'm certain that your english grammer is much better than mine...

lostangelonline wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:56 am

(you'd better put a screenshot of that)

You best do as he says!

I'm just teasing, I'm sure he meant to say you'd be better to put a screenshot...

I wouldn't rely on traits for commanders to add in game mechanics as the quality of commanders can be quite random.

I do find the supply of ships unnecessarily fiddley, although that might be the games aim?

Yes, I agree. It's easier to model the game the way it is but a more, dare I say it, realistic model would have unit experience degrading over time and battle casualties. From what I know and have experienced I have the impression that veterans/higher ranks quite often take heavy casualties if the f...

Sounds good to me and I'm glad to hear it wasn't just me that found the mechanic odd.

From a game perspective it makes life easier but immersion wise it makes little sense to me. Surely my army would be in the province and not just give up the territory they had been fighting over? Contested, I get but my army gets teleported out of the region and they have control of it. Wouldn't a ...

So, I attack an independent region, have fought 2 rounds of combat against the garrison and then a AI faction moves I to the province, I assume they beat the garrison and then takes the province. Now, as a game mechanic I think that's not a particularly enjoyable way to deal with this situation but ...

Morbio, sadly that isn't happening and I doubt it ever will.

Sure, I get people go away etc, I recently did, 2-3 weeks but if you set it to auto kick them at 20 turns that would probably give them 15-20 days at the fastest speed.

I can and will most likely do that but it just feels like a poor way to end a game, i.e. it didnt end, I just stopped playing, especially when you play 100+ turns. It feels a bit unfinished to me.

Of interest, without an active player do the games still play or do they end?

I think the game cannot end until everyone has left, or so that is the impression I have. I'm in a game that started with 6 players, 2 must have used the surrender option, 2 just stopped playing and are classed as idle, I spoke to the otehr who decided that as he was the client of one of the idle pl...

Possibly, we all get that people miss turns but I think its fair to say that a fair chunk of those idle are long term idle and are not coming back yet they will never officially leave and the game will continue on and on. A combination of the simple/limited chat system and players not bothering to s...

I was correct, out of the 14 players in that game, 10 are idle, now, I think after 20 or so turns of idle a players should be permanently kicked from the game as it creates an unrealistic view of how many people are playing.

I think when you look at the game in the various rooms in the multiplayer area it tells you who is idle and who isn't, I'm playing a game with 14 players but the turns are turning around far too fast, I think it's more like 4 active players.

In multiplayer games I wouldn't recommend a turn limit greater than 3 days, 48 hours seems like a good compromise.

1-In my experience it doesnt take very long, a few turns. My 20 turn example was to ask of it would be possible to permanently kick the player from the game. 2-The AI will play the nation. 3-Yes, they can become active again, the longer they have been out of the game will result in the chances that ...

No, that player will never be kicked, they will just be tagged as idle. After a few turns of idle I think the game will auto end the turn once all non idle players have done their turn, I.e. it won't wait the entire 7 days. My orginial issue is that even though they get tagged as idle they never lea...