Total War: Ancient Real Estate Scam Simulator

[Zenon]

After I saw Spiffing Brits Youtubevideo about Rome Remastered, I now preordered the game a second time.

I cannot wait to be an ancient scam artist in the field of real estate! Where some 250 years before Jesus and over 2000 years before Donald Trump I commit fraud and scammery by buying off lands and bullying my sellers afterwards.

Because this is how Empires rose and fell. You don't need thousands and thousands of legions, steel and death, no. You need Quintus Papinius Vindex and Tertius Vitruvius Eulogius who will venture out to foreign lands, instantly buy their empires by promising to settle grievances and afterwards bullying their partners to go into debt!

[General Idea]

Earl Grey. What a nice cup of tea.

[Eekhoorn]

Bugius Fixius to the rescue.

[Basil III]

i'll have what she's having.


Seriously folks . wtf are you even saying

[The Wrath of Santa]

The remaster introduces a "Compensation" diplomacy negotiation option (why?) which is utterly broken and is the Emperor of exploits. It essentially allows you win the game by exploiting diplomats by turn 10.

https://youtu.be/-FqUxeKGJ3k

[Subzero]

Compensation mechanic is what we call peace among everyone and i still cant belive he won the campgin in 12 turns

[Kinja]

I think you guys need to watch some speedruns. The AI was already hilariously exploitable in the original release if you knew what to do. There's a guy beating the game in a few minutes on short campaigns with a few auto resolves, bribes and by tricking the AI into giving away most of it's cities for a big tribute promise over multiple rounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kvl5IHZnho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13RMAjLa1yI

Just because we were used to playing the game "the right way", doesn't mean this stuff never existed before the rerelease. But yeah, the compensation mechanic needs to be completely removed because i just don't see how it can be implemented in a way that's not exploitable. How do you even calculate the value of "past grievances" without just attaching arbitrary values to every hostile action that can be taken in the game?

[BRAN MAC BORN]

the game is junk.

[DexOrion53]

Originally posted by BRAN MAC BORN:

the game is junk.

It's not even out yet dude. At least wait a day until after it's released.

[Enzo Gorlami]

Originally posted by DexOrion53:

Originally posted by BRAN MAC BORN:

the game is junk.

It's not even out yet dude. At least wait a day until after it's released.

It is junk and it has been released, since 2004.


Rome 4 is obviously the superior piece.

[Abcsam]

hhaha yea the video made me excited for the game to!