Could someone tell me if the following things are possible?

[Sputty]

Rome is a great game, one of my favorite paradox games, and I've played almost all of them, that is weighed down by a bunch of stupid bugs and unfinished/poorly designed/poorly balanced features.

I'm trying to fix that, but I've run into some trouble.

Paradox games have always been amazingly moddable, and open but Rome seems to have a lot of things that simply aren't accessible.

Could someone please tell me if there's a way to do these things?

• Place units on the map, so that when the game starts at XXX date, the units are there, such as at the beginning of the game, putting Pyrrhus's elephants in southern Italy
• change relations between countries in the same way
• add new unit types into the game
• modify diplomacy in any way, either by modding the current diplo action's events or being able to add in new ones
• change the way barbarians work in any way

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[lpremus]

research some of the other threads, I believe many of these issues have been talked about in here.

 

[seboden]

Allof those are AFAIK.

• Place units on the map, so that when the game starts at XXX date, the units are there, such as at the beginning of the game, putting Pyrrhus's elephants in southern Italy

No. The game generates armies based on money, manpower, available units etc and places them where it deems them useful.

• change relations between countries in the same way

Not sure, but I don't believe it's possible.

• add new unit types into the game

That might be possible (haven't tried), depending on what you mean. Try adding a unit in the common\units folder, say another archer unit with different stats and enable them in common\technologies\land_table.txt. It might work. If you mean entirely new types like say catapults, I don't think that would be possible.

• modify diplomacy in any way, either by modding the current diplo action's events or being able to add in new ones

That wasn't possible in EU3 and I don't think it is here.

• change the way barbarians work in any way

For a start look at defines.txt

BTW Rome might perhaps not be quite as moddable as EU3 (but that can change with patches), but it is definitely much more moddable than any other Paradox game.

 

[unmerged(45632)]

..not be quite as moddable as EU3, but it is definitely much more moddable than any other Paradox game.

Huh? EU3 is a paradox game right?

 

[unmerged(48686)]

Yes he meant any other paradox game but EU3. You can change barbarian growth and barbarian power in defines.txt. I am not sure what "Barbarian Power" means though.

 

[unmerged(10086)]

Allof those are AFAIK.

No. The game generates armies based on money, manpower, available units etc and places them where it deems them useful.

Not sure, but I don't believe it's possible.

That might be possible (haven't tried), depending on what you mean. Try adding a unit in the common\units folder, say another archer unit with different stats and enable them in common\technologies\land_table.txt. It might work. If you mean entirely new types like say catapults, I don't think that would be possible.


That wasn't possible in EU3 and I don't think it is here.

For a start look at defines.txt

BTW Rome might perhaps not be quite as moddable as EU3 (but that can change with patches), but it is definitely much more moddable than any other Paradox game.

My experience so far is that you can create a new HI or Cav etc unit to come in at tech level 29, let say. It will appear in the initial armies of a country, but no further units can be raised. In the 'recruit army' dialog, the original units are listed. My problem further is that I cannot actually raise my own soldiers only ships or auxiliary army units. If I work out a solution, more will be posted.