EU: ROME expansion – Vae Victis announced

[noxx-0]

Features EU: Rome – Vae Victis:

-The dynamics of the characters that live in the Republic will come to life as the men and women have their own personal goals and agendas, which are often in conflict with each other. Will you be able to manage these willful personalities?

-As a Republic you will now need to take the Senate into the account. Characters will belong to various parties depending on their goals, values and ambition. The Senate will pass laws, which will allow or disallow certain country actions.

Making sure that the party in power backs your own goals, adds another strategic element to gameplay.

Monarchies and Tribes will have their own courts, beware of bootlickers and sycophants who will stop at nothing to replace your divinely appointed ruler with themselves.

-"Carthago Delenda Est". Senators will cry out and charge players to perform their duties. Now the Senate or a religious power can give players missions to fulfill, guiding the player through ambitions to experience a rich and rewarding history.

-Mobilize the Senate to back important laws such as 'Lex Gabinia' to fight piracy or the 'Lex Acilia Repetundarum' to reduce corruption.Players can also enact decisions at various levels, working with regional governors to grant citizenships to a region or a province.

-Completely revised military AI, particularly in the area of military campaigns. Will benefit experienced players in particular.

-An overhauled interface making the information more easily accessible for both new and advanced players.

[kronic]

Diese ständigen Erweiterungen gehen einem auch auf den Sack.

[Fürst Aragon]

Haut mich jetzt auch nicht so vom Hocker. Zumal Rome okay war, aber nicht gerade ein wirklich gutes Pdox Spiel ist.

[goethe]

außerdem gibt es das wahrscheinlich wieder nur online


Trotzdem möchte ich noxx einmal danken, dass er die Paradox-Infos uns immer so schön aufbereitet

[Der Falke]

Addon oder Enhancement Pack?

PS: Paradox announced today the Expansion for EU3 "Trash"

[Effray]

Hört sich gut an. Werd mir Rome aber nicht zulegen. Ist irgendwie EU zu ähnlich.

[Der Falke]

Heißt ja auch EU .

[Der Falke]

Heute ist es rausgekommen. 10 $ oder 10 € bei Gamersgate .

NEW YORK—November 19th, 2008— Paradox Interactive is proud to announce that Vae Victis, the eagerly anticipated expansion to the critically acclaimed Grand Strategy game Europa Universalis: Rome is released today. The expansion is available exclusively via digital download from GamersGate and Direct2Drive with a suggested retail price of $9.99. Vae Victis requires Europa Universalis: Rome to play.



Set during the golden age of the Roman Republic when the Senate ruled the Empire, Vae Victis features a massive number of additions and improvements to Europa Universalis: Rome, a game that was already one of the most prominent to depict that era in the widest scope. An overview of these key changes begins with government, which has received a lot of attention for the expansion in order to produce more fluid and balanced gameplay. The cast of historical characters of the ancient world have also had a significant overhaul across a variety of areas and with the addition of missions, decisions and laws, Vae Victis is an expansion packed with a huge amount of new content.



NEW KEY FEATURES IN VAE VICTIS

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Additions and improvements to all three government forms - Republic, Monarch and Tribal
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Central historical characters of the ancient world are now more fully realised, with players now able to interact with them on a far greater level. Each of your characters now has ambitions and you can choose to help or hinder them with the ability to imprison, banish or execute on the one hand, or promote and award titles on the other
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Much improved and streamlined User Interface at every level, along with new character overview screens, reduces micromanagement. In-game Governors being in charge of whole regions also reduces players needs to be so hands on, as well as making them a lot more powerful and interesting
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A new Mission feature rewards players for completed missions. Different missions will be available depending on the form of government
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New Decision feature - a variety of events that can be triggered by the player at their discretion instead of automatically by the game, such as being able to change the government type from a Republic to a Dictatorship.
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Completely revamped military AI in order to provide a more challenging gaming experience.

[Effray]

Wow, das ist ja mal billig fürn Addon. Ist wohl nur ein größerer Patch.

[K W]

Für Leute, die sich gerne mit Politik/Parlamentarismus auseinandersetzen, so wie mir zum Beispiel, dürfte das neue Senatsfeature interessant sein.

[Effray]

Für Leute, die das Spiel nicht haben, so wie ich, dürfte das völlig uninteressant sein.

[Spaceman]

Für Leute, die sich gerne mit Politik/Parlamentarismus auseinandersetzen, so wie mir zum Beispiel, dürfte das neue Senatsfeature interessant sein.

Oh Gott!!!

[K W]

[noxx-0]

Vae Victis

A quick briefing of some of the important changes to the game.

General
· The map has been divided into multi province regions that governors are appointed to
· Disloyal governors will consider declaring their whole region independent
· Armies can be assigned to regions. These are commanded by the region governor, may not leave the region and reduce the revolt risk and barbarian spawn chance inside that region.

Tribes
· The senior members of each family are the clan chiefs. These are the people eligible to succeed the current chief when he dies
· Clan chiefs will be upset if their family are denied top jobs

Monarchies
· There are three types of succession in monarchies. Agnatic (eldest male child), Agnatic Seniority (senior male family member) and Egyptian (the succession alternates between senior male and senior female family member)
· There is a high council, each of whom gives bonuses to the country according to their stats
· Each council member will have a preferred heir. As more council members back someone other than the primary heir (as designated by succession) there is an increasing risk of civil war
· If the primary heir is not part of your family the council is less likely to back the primary heir, increasing the risk of civil war
· Potential successors may consider spending some of their wealth to promote themselves up the succession order
· The main heir may not always wait for the previous incumbent to die

Republics
· There is now a senate of 100 members all of whom are members of one of 5 factions
· Each diplomatic and espionage action is liked or disliked by a party, although if you have more than 40% war score or less than –40% the senate will always be willing to make peace
· Each character is also affiliated to a faction
· Characters will consider switching faction according to their job
· The faction affiliation of the consul gives the country bonuses (or penalties)
· Charismatic characters in important positions will influence the composition of the senate
· Each republican government form defines how long the term of a consul last and how many years must pass until a consul can be elected again. The senate will have three likely candidates they are considering
· The conditions for holding senior jobs are much more restrictive in republics
· Each of the senior jobs has a time limit (although some of these are for life)
· When someone’s term is up the senate may recommend someone else for the job
· As the populists gain more support the risks of a populist civil war increase
· Depending on the party the consul is a member of; a republic may change ideas of that type for free. Except for Populist consuls, they pick a random idea for your country (oh those crazy populists they love having a laugh)

Characters

· There are various ambitions that a character can acquire during his or her life. Completion of these objectives earn the characters increases to their values in particular prominence
· Only the most prominent characters marry and have children. You can influence which families rise and fall in your nation by helping character complete their objective
· For some ambitions the Character may actually fulfil him/herself
· Characters may now be imprisoned, exiled or executed, these actions raise tyranny this value lowers all characters loyalty in a country. The higher the tyranny the more likely a character will be prepared for this eventually and be able to avoid it.
· Attempting to imprison, exile or execute an important character runs the risk of a civil war. There is a similar risk when attempting to remove a character from a job before their term is up.
· There are prestige titles that can be granted to characters. These give boosts to character stats and can be used to raise a characters loyalty

Countries

· There are now missions for countries, some historical and some generic. Fulfilling missions gives bonuses while failing them gives penalties
· Each country now has national decisions that can be used to steer a country
· There are now laws that influence the shape of the country. The ability to enact and revoke laws depends on the ruler in monarchies and the governing faction in republics.


Also, there have been a lot of changes and improvements to how the interface works, with more information and interactivity.

We have also spent a lot of time at improving the AI, to give you a more challenging game.

Quelle

[K W]

Patch.