Thanks! Do let me know if you find something a particularly glaring issue
Also, remember to adjust the freemen/tribesmen manpower outputs accordingly to accomodate the 500 cohort size if you haven't already, otherwise you'll end up pretty starved for it, especially early game. Or forced to use fewer cohorts and thus pay less upkeep, as it is per cohort, and this might have a negative impact on the AI too.
And, yeah, so I read your earlier post wrong - if its 283k max, not 600k, then it does make sense after all, especially as Rome in year 758 haha. WE being so punishing is intended though - you're meant to care about it, and if it forces you to think whether to end wars early for less instead of escalating them into decade-long total warfare just for the sake of getting the 100% warscore deal, then all the better!
Manpower not getting depleted quickly enough in wars might just be because you're not really using as many troops as you can afford because no one can decently challenge you. I'd guess if you raised twice the number of troops, you'd run out of it pretty quickly, and I guess you'll find out if you're playing multiplayer with it, as long as its not perma-coop mode that is, because you know, player wars can be pretty challenging. Feel free to let me know how it goes!
Yeah, that's one of the problems, alongside how the AI is coded to just snipe every resource almost the moment it enters the market. Thanks for telling me anyway
two things, this mod change the manpower of freemen in 1/4 and the pop growth ration in 1/4 too?This here is what I'm playing on most of the time, and it includes all of the above + quite a lot of other balance changes, most notably a complete overhaul of settlement buildings, food production and civilization value, and QoL stuff.
Be warned though, that it has a few very minor balance problems that I haven't gotten around to fixing yet, though they're pretty much limited to the early game - Phrygia&Seleukids tend to collapse more often than in vanilla, for example. I'd recommend playing on very hard, if you want to use the mod, but if you end up not liking it, the files you'd need to edit are all in there, so you can just safely delete/edit what you don't want and use the rest.
Unpack the contents (the folder and the .mod file) into Documents/Paradox Interactive/Imperator/mod
Also, I hope you've been keeping your changes in a separate mod and not by editing the game's files directly... because in the latter case it'll end up overwritten whenever the game updates. Just a friendly tip.
