Castra Novaseum map

[BrowneHawk]

This is the map with 4 main towns. The 2 times I have played Nova Becomes the main area where the king is. I started In Colone. Once I got to the point where I had Sovereign it said I couldn't go past free city.

Question is. Is it possiblge if I grow one of the smaller cities quick enough it, can it become the seat of power where the king is? Or is it always in that city?

[Septimus Omega]

That is a very interesting question! I don’t think it is possible. However I do follow your logic. Why is there no king position for London as an example? I am guessing they never got that far.
The truth is TG2 is only relevant now because THQ will launch TG3. Prior to that this title basically was kept alive by the community so there might be a mod out there or you might try your hand at it yourself… I have played over 3k hours of this title bugs and all and have never been able to do it.
I believe they simply had to define one town to hold the imperial seat of office. I think you would have a lot of game crashes with two imperial seats depending how it was all defined. You might have noticed that once you are king you can just take any property from anyone in any city.
Once TG3 comes out two things might happen. Both out comes depend on if the DEV “gets it right”.
I believe TG2 has earned its “Cult Classic” status. As such some of those fans might start to post their mods in the workshop.
or
If somehow the DEV manages to get hit by a drunk mule and fcuks it all up…Which I doubt will happen because the game concept is so sound a blind man with no fingers could smash out success. TG2 will fade into legend.
I have always personally felt that TG2 belongs to the moding community. If you do work out a way to do it, let me know.

[BrowneHawk]

I don't know man 3k hours in I would be a fool just not to take your word for it. IN my current game I got so strong I will be able to simply go to nova and be king with in the next 3 elections. I could of used the eviction thing 50 in game years ago. Had to route my enemies out the hard way.

[BrowneHawk]

ALso 3k hours in... DO you use a certain mod? I went to nexus but I'm not very good at modding other than hitting subscribe on a steamworkshop.

[ThreeOfMe]

Hi.
The two relevant mods out there are Legacy Mod by McCoy! and MegaModPack by Fajeth. For anyone just interested in trading routes I also adapted that one to work with Vanilla game. Check out http://www.gilde2.de/filebase/ for the latter two.

As for the original question. I'm not sure about the vanilla game, but I have tried it with MegaModPack. Map was Holyblood with the city of Holyblood being the obvious candidate for Imperial City. However, we (2 player MP) managed to raise the southern village of Lendorf quickly enough to actually beat Holyblood to that status. So, Lendorf was Imperial City in the end and (some assasinations later) I became King.

[RoxyRiku94]

Regarding the original question, it is quite possible that one of the smaller towns can grow to become the Imperial City of the Map. Prerequisites to become an Imperial City is a population of over 300 citizens and the more buildings you (and the AI/Shadow Dynasties) build, the more employees move in to the Worker's Houses, increasing the population in that city. If you become the Sovereign of that free city, you may purchase the Imperial City Right for a fee of 50,000 coins from the City Treasury.

I'm currently playing at the Fichtenhain Map and I raised the Fichtenhain City (which in default is the smallest starting town) to around 300-350 pop when I was able to purchase the City Right. By default the City of Hafenstaader is the largest city with 250 pop at the beginning and obviously the easiest to raise to the required population. Currently now, the City of Fichtenhain stands at 500 pop and is still raising, while the other cities are stagnating (especially Klippingen, which previously got downgraded to "Village" due to the plague).

[RoxyRiku94]

And I found out that whenever you buy the Imperial City Right, that a random pre-defined character from a shadow dynasty always becomes the King/Queen, even if they didn't fulfill the prerequisites before (In my game, a "Female Citizen" named Paula Goertz became Queen and got her title upgraded even though she actually didn't fulfill the requirements to become a ruler; during the time I bought the city right I held the title of "Baron"). I could acquire the position of "Supreme Commander" and "Cardinal", though, while still holding the position of Sovereign, so it's not of a great problem to wait until the queen kicks the bucket (she and her husband are well over 80 right now, and still don't have any children, so the dynasty might die out).

And, no, I'm not gonna kill her as I'm allied to her dynasty and I don't want to get disappropriated (a Shadow Dynasty got disappropriated and demoted to Serfs after I read a Torrent of Hatred to the Queen XD).

[BrowneHawk]

Awww man roxy I might of had to invite that pretender queen to a feast that she never returns from.

[Septimus Omega]

Originally posted by RoxyRiku94:

And I found out that whenever you buy the Imperial City Right, that a random pre-defined character from a shadow dynasty always becomes the King/Queen, even if they didn't fulfill the prerequisites before (In my game, a "Female Citizen" --Snip-

First I don’t remember on that map, but if I have it right that isn’t a Hanse Map so you don’t have the extra Kontors for trade. So yea Perhaps on a smaller map with only 2 or 3 towns it could be possible to do that. But I do not think it is possible for all maps. Though I haven’t tried everything on all maps.
My style of game play shifted when The Pirates come out I have focused mainly on the Hanse maps.

However I believe what you are saying is only valid if you can surpass the larger town in a race to get there first. I have never had the experience where once the imperial sit has be established that another town raises that far up. Ie King of England vs. The King In Hamburg…despite the fact that the Imperial Emperor Often has a problem with the King of England and Denmark and Sweden. Despite there being no King sit in London…
Ie. Once you get the country Palace you can start to entrain foreign dignitaries to improve your Imperial rank…The Emperor becomes implied so you can run off to war and to do all of the other things.

So just to be clear are you saying you have a map where you have had two imperial sits of office?

[BrowneHawk]

So Still playing on this map started a new game. I'm in Colone and tied with Nova for city rank. They have 397 pop I have 307. SO who ever hits 100k first is should get the seat. So its a race now.

[Septimus Omega]

Well I believe it is a race now, whom ever gets there first gets to be king, At least that is how I understand it.

[Septimus Omega]

I am going to play that map too now! What Fun this game is!!!! lolololol!