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1. Get in good graces with Nero (his quests help rise relations), and ask for a position as reward. When you are high enough you can go to the treasurer and embezzle money for a "special project". This gets you about 10-15k per week and is trivial if you are around Rome most of the time anyway. If you are RPing an unscrupulous char, this is great. And you can do it throughout the game, or until you become emperor, if you go that route.
2. When you are even higher, you can embezzle absurdly large amount of money by padding Nero and Poppeia's spending, but beware not to overdo it, as there is a punishing mechanic if you are caught, which grows based on the total you've EVER stolen. So just get enough to get your business empire off the ground and stop before you get caught.
3. Do all the scripted quests in Rome, including the one with the rich widow. Some of them pay very generously in the early stages.
4. Trade, small quests, bandit hunting, etc. Not a big source of income, but if you are bored, you might as well do some of it. There are towns that specialize in a certain good, and I find that's the only thing worth trading. e.g. iron from North Italy, Timber from France, etc. Some places in the East have cheap silk/spice, but it's not always reliable. Use common sense where you sell it. e.g. even if you get cheap oil, you won't make much profit selling it in Italy where every town makes it, but northern France might pay well.
5. Treasure hunting. There are places in the pyramids and other special locations that have valuables
6. If you are fast enough, raid enemy villages. The beef you can get this way is surprisingly profitable very early and if you are hitting enemies of Rome after the legions have wiped the floor with all their armies, you don't need a very big force to pull it off, because most their lords are too depleted to fight you. If big armies show up, just outrun them.
Investing:
1. Enterprises in towns are decent profit for low investment early on. It gets annoying when I have too many of them in the report, but it's also a fun quest to go around and establish them in every city in the empire. Can get roughly 1k for each, so 15-30k after you build a business empire.
2. Get GOOD villages and take care of them. Trade them with other lords if you have to. You might have to scheme to get them to agree. You can only have a small number of them before you get penalties to income, so make they they have good mines and are in places that are peaceful. I had a few good villages in North Africa bring in around 50k total.
3. Become a governor after building good relations with a city that has a bad governor and doing the corresponding quest for Nero or for the Senate. This can be a quick way to get fiefs in good state, unlike burnt out and constantly raided ones on the border that hate you on top of that.
Later investing:
When you have solid money coming in, start building up Latifundia. These things are expensive to fully upgrade, but you can have a lot of them, so if you channel your income from earlier stages into them for long enough the profits will keep increasing.
After having all the money you want:
Become Emperor! The imperial finances might start out sucky and you have a lot of expenses to keep this ♥♥♥♥-show of an empire in one piece, but you also have to serious economic potential. Set up trade with India and keep sending the caravans. Grow your Latifundia empire even more. Get imperial stability up and don't overexpand - maybe even shrink a bit, to keep imperial taxation and spending reasonably efficient.
After that, I don't know. Throw massive parties all the time, build temples and statues to yourself all over the place, and just generally be a high roller Nero 2.0: all the same opulence, now with 50% more competence. :)
I personally have a desire to help a faction outside of Rome. Maybe Bosphurs kingdom! Is it worth doing or will the effort be futile?
Currently they have already been conquered by Armenia but I may wait for them to revive.
Can Rome ever be destroyed?
You can help any faction you like but currently you will have the best experience if you stay with Rome (more content for other factions will come some day in the future)
The enterprice you can buy by talking with the guild master (in the mod he is called magister civium)
Latifundia are just estates you buy in villages, like manors in 1257ad mod.
'Can Rome ever be destroyed?' - Well in theory yes. You will need to turn on "curb power war goal" in camp menu, because that way Rome will be attacked from everyone. (as Rome is the most powerful faction and all kingdoms will try to curb its power)
AWESOME! Thank you for the help! Really appreciate it! Love the mod, I can't stop playing!
2. talk to minister and only give them cities, forts, take every other village
3. get a ♥♥♥♥ ton of money